This event will be taking place in the Orla Gough Lecture Theatre at the University of Westminster, Baker Street Campus, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
For decades, project professionals have known they need to fight for their project’s survival against organisation cultures that are toxic to projects – even without trying to be. Such toxic cultures ensure the persistent 40-70% failure rates. Organisations that create AND sustain cultures in which projects can thrive, not surprisingly have high success rates.
In this session Adrian will outline the results of a semi-academic research paper into project failure. He will describe the Two Geographies of Projects – the Internal project one, and the External organisational landscape. And how they impact project success.
Adrian will also use his Organisational PM Framework™ to show how to create AND sustain landscapes for project success.
By the way, this goes WAY beyond anything in PM BoK 8.
Speaker
Adrian is pretty old. In an awfully long career he has led or rescued Transformations, and has built and advised on project delivery organisations in 12 industries and in both commercial and public sectors. Working in the UK and internationally. In the last 15 years Adrian has focussed and consulted on Project and organisational Agility, creating and sustaining project friendly organisations and advising start-ups. Since the early 1990s, he has contributed to and co-authored UK PM standards, Association of Project Management Guides, plus the Gower Handbook of Programme Management (1st Ed.). In 2022 his own book: Agile Beyond IT, a Business Book Awards Finalist, was published (now also in Chinese), written he says, partly out of deep rage at so many organisations wasting investment by getting Agility badly wrong. He has been on PM research steering committees, including into AI. Adrian remains a frequent writer and blogger, sometime grumpy old project manager, visiting lecturer and a regular webinar panel member, and is he says, still learning. In September he presented a paper at the British Academy of Management Conference which will for the basis of his presentation. He is a Trustee of MyMelanoma, a cancer research charity, and lives in semi-retirement in Dorset with his partner, a retired RIBA award winning architect.
