July Fairview Park Luncheon - John E. Freeman - "PM in the Brave New World of the Knowledge Revolution"
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This event was held on Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Project Management in the Brave New World of the Knowledge Revolution
Where the Customer is treated as a Co-Producer with Evolving Needs and the Project is Never Done
featuring
John E. Freeman
Agile Team Effectiveness Coach
Independent Consultant
Location and Date
11:30 am: Networking
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Program
Costs and Attendance Requirements
There is no charge for attending this event, but preregistration is required.
The Noblis cafeteria, on the same floor, will be open and available for you to purchase lunch and bring into the auditorium.
Note for Non-US Citizens:
Please note that due to facility requirements, the Fairview Park Luncheon coordinators must complete some advance preparations for non-US citizens to attend these luncheons.
Non-US citizens are welcome to attend, but must request an escort on the registration form.
About the Program
Project Management in the Brave New World of the Knowledge Revolution: Where the Customer is treated as a Co-Producer with Evolving Needs and the Project is Never Done
Modern project management has its roots in the industrial revolution. The profound victory of the industrial revolution was driving down the cost of the replication of goods (mass production). But the cost of reconfiguration (changing the product) often remained high, and the economics of manufacturing physical goods therefore argued for a heavy emphasis on up-front design to minimize the need for reconfiguration.
Project management, as widely practiced today, continues to emphasize big-design-up-front strategies, even though, in the knowledge revolution, the economics of manufacturing are very different. Because knowledge products are so much easier to replicate, the economic benefits of conveyer-belt mass production are almost totally lost. Additionally, reconfiguration is not inherently a major constraint for knowledge products like it is for physical goods.
Successful project managers of knowledge work take advantage of the fact that reconfiguration is easy to do. The benefits that derive from this, taken to their full potential, have ramifications that are far-reaching and profound for both how knowledge work gets done and how knowledge work gets managed. Adopting an emergent, collaborative, iterative, and adaptive agile approach can be what saves your project’s life, but only if the project’s ecology makes such a strategy possible.
About the Speaker
John E. Freeman
Agile Team Effectiveness Coach
Independent Consultant
John E. Freeman comes to project management through his extensive software development and leadership experience over the full project life cycle. His leadership roles have included technical lead and team facilitator for software teams, with emphasis on agile and lean practices and team and organizational effectiveness. He is currently in the process of expanding his offerings to provide coaching across a range of business areas initially focusing on team effectiveness for technical and non-technical teams. John can be reached at john.e.freeman@cox.net
Past Fairview Park Programs
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Questions?
For additional information, please contact Mary Beth Howe
