One of the people I’ve connected
with through Twitter is Bas de Baar.
He’s The Project Shrink and in his
own words he makes ‘complex people stuff
less complex’. I like the way Bas writes and I particularly like the way he
uses hand drawn images to simplify difficult problems without trivialising
their importance. In a recent post The
Project Story Circle. Talking About Transitions he’s used a simple yet
very effective drawing. A circle as the cycle of a project and through the
centre of it a horizontal line representing the project itself. The two halves can
then be viewed as project and non-project time. Read his post
for all the details because here I’m picking up on one particular bullet
point he makes:
This will focus attention on the
transitions organization-project
and project-organization.
What Bas suggests is that the shape
can be used when discussing projects and where in the circle people join,
become active, and where they expect problems to occur. As a delivery
specialist I see companies and their people struggle repeatedly with transition from project to organisation and believe the struggle can be simplified
by using this drawing. Let’s take a look at an approach to change
management and transition that most will be familiar with then see how this simple drawing could help.
