{"id":1008,"date":"2013-06-18T14:41:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2024-02-29T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:15:39","slug":"lean-project-management-isnt-that-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/lean-project-management-isnt-that-the-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean project management \u2013 isn\u2019t that the point?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/the-future.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-549 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/the-future.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When an organisation needs to make a strategic improvement, it needs to flex its project management muscles.\u00a0 Good project managers get to work defining and planning the project \u2013<strong> identifying key deliverables<\/strong>.\u00a0 The deliverables are the benefits that will be derived from the successful implementation of the project.<br \/>\nNow I am certain that, at this crucial scoping point of the project, no-one takes the opposing view to the Lean principles and says: \u201clet\u2019s make this project as expensive as possible, take up huge amounts of time and not deliver the value to the organisation and its customers\u201d.\u00a0 Surely, every organisation wants to deliver projects as efficiently as possible with excellent results???<\/p>\n<p>Herein lies the problem.\u00a0 Every organisation wants to do this, but most do not usually know how.\u00a0 It requires creativity.\u00a0 There, we said it.\u00a0 The discipline of project management, which is often perceived as a \u2018hard skill\u2019 and filled with templates and Gantt charts, needs creativity to be delivered with a lean approach.\u00a0 <strong>Does your organisation know how to take creativity seriously and come up with new ideas?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-lateral-thinking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edward de Bono\u2019s Simplicity<\/a><\/strong> workshop applies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigobusiness.co.uk\/Workshop\/de-bonos-lateral-thinking\">Lateral Thinking<\/a> tools to come up with new ideas to streamline process and projects.\u00a0 It\u2019s a value-based model that delivers not just a \u2018lean philosophy\u2019, but also systematic methods for turning this into a <strong>workable solution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Stop just talking lean, and get your organisation down the gym.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When an organisation needs to make a strategic improvement, it needs to flex its project management muscles.\u00a0 Good project managers get to work defining and planning the project \u2013 identifying key deliverables.\u00a0 The deliverables are the benefits that will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wpblog.indigobusiness.co.uk\/lean-project-management-isnt-that-the-point\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,8,86],"tags":[11,112,111,148,35],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-edward-de-bono","category-project-and-programme-management","category-project-management","tag-lateral-thinking","tag-lean-project-management","tag-lean-thinking","tag-project-management","tag-simplicity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lean project management \u2013 isn\u2019t that the point? 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