Transcript - The Half Double Journey
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let me take you back to the
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14th of may in 2013.
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um as you can see uh this is this was a
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current picture
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back then my hair has changed a little
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so that's that's how half double also
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have grown along the way
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but at that day actually nils who's
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sitting here who's the managing partner
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of implement and me we joined forces
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together with one of our
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very good clients at that point
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christina pillerson
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christina was working in coloplast and
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we've been helping christina to build up
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a
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development muscle a project
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organization with
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with lots of strength so she said to us
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all right guys we've done the project
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management training we've done the
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steering committee training
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we've done the project model and the
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flow with that we're doing portfolio
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management
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so we're doing all the right things and
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even though we're doing all the right
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things
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you know it seems like we're trying to
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fit
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rationality which might be kind of a
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squared thing
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with with reality that might be kind of
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a circular thing
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and we're trying to make these two
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things fit together
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and even though that we've been working
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together on this it still seems like
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we're
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trying to make the right match every
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time and we can't make it work
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so so actually for us it seems like only
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30
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of our projects seems to really succeed
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so so guys how should we cope with this
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what should we do now
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because we still need to do more and
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nils and i looked at each other and uh
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to be honest with you we were uh we we
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didn't have that many words
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at that exact moment so we kind of got a
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little silent
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and uh and i think that we realized we
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couldn't solve this right there
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at that point so so we needed to do
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something else
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and and christina actually said i i
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think that we should
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do something bigger with this and nil
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said do something bigger
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uh you know like you know figure out
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what the problem is and then we kind of
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talked about
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what is the problem and and this number
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actually derived out of
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some of this discussion we we figured
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out that
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uh 34.7 of the german
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national economy actually consists of
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projects so one-third
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of the project of of the economy today
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is actually based on
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project leadership and doing projects
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and
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so so you know one third of the economy
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would be just like doing
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kind of a project factory so so most
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organizations today
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are really more like not product
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factories but project factories
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so we're into a modern age where we can
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actually
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make a huge change if we do something
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about this
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so so that was the discussion we had at
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that point and and and we
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we all agreed that there's a hidden
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potential here
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which is even bigger than you know other
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things that we
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that we're concerned about at this point
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um and
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and then nil said i read a book recently
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it was about how to create
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great management concepts and
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uh and i have a good idea for how we can
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make rationality to fit with reality
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i think i think i have a good idea and
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and i think it's about creating a
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concept
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that would kind of help us to do that
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i'm not sure what the concept is but i
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think i know how the
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how to approach it and and he said so so
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i read in this book that you need to
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to have a catchy name for it then then
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you should figure out
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a narrative related to that name some
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you know
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a bigger narrative a bigger why that
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everyone can kind of tap into
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and then you just need to credentialize
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it let's
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maybe we should do that and christina
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and i looked at each other and i thought
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yeah maybe and then we brainstormed on
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you know what could be the name and we
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came up with a great name
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project 2-0 that's where we started
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right so we were really you know
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at the top of our peak there thinking
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creatively and then then we figured out
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okay
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what happens when project 3-0 arrives
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then project 2-0 probably will be
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absolutely so maybe that's not
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the best name so this is of course a
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process over a few weeks and
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then we gave it another name so we gave
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it a project half double we we
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actually invented project half double
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and and and
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the idea behind that was really to to
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link it to the narrative that
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maybe we could create double the impact
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in half the time in some of our projects
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because we've actually
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we've we've tried that in some of the
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projects and we thought that that could
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be a provoking statement that could be
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something
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that the project management worlds
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probably haven't heard about before
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maybe that could kind of wake people up
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to see the challenge but also to see the
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potential
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because we could together we could
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develop a new and radical project
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paradigm to increase the competitiveness
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of the danish industry that was kind of
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the narrative
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that we made there and then we said okay
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so you know how can we then
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gain traction with it so we gathered the
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25 best people that we knew of
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at that point uh people like christina
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people who work with projects in reality
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and and
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and these are some of the sessions that
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we had and we discussed you know how can
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we gain traction with this
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uh do they even would they even like to
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contribute in this
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and out of the 25 that we invited that
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day
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21 of them said yes we would like to
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join let's do something more
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and today this number have grown into 2
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300 people
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uh so so that was the the passionate
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start of it
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and then we made at that session here we
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made 10 moonshots
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for project management 10 moonshots for
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how project management could change
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and those moonshots became an
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application to the danish industry
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foundation
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who actually saw the potential in this
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who wanted to support this and fund it
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going forward and that was the first
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credentialization that we gained
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with half double and then then what we
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did was that we actually
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contacted oahu's university we contacted
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ps5e who was
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already in the business of creating
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something within reinventing project
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management
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and we contacted cbs and danish
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technical university
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and together with them we joined forces
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and with some of the 21 practitioners
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who soon became 100 and then 200
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then we started actually doing real live
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projects trying to make this methodology
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while we were you know doing the real
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projects we were developing the
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methodology
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with impact flow and leadership trying
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to figure out what would these projects
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need to succeed
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so the first seven projects were
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actually experiments so
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one of the the first seven was for
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instance landman unipeak
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which was the place where christina at
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that point were working
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so we tried it out and tried to develop
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this methodology on real life projects
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but also to create
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some kind of impact so we were really
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you know
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rigid on the impact generation and then
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we had always university and technical
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university at that point
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to evaluate some of those projects so
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the idea
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have now matured into a thing that we
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have tested
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a thing that we have proved actually
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works a thing that we have developed
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again and again so to make it as fit as
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possible for projects
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and we think that the idea is now mature
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enough to
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actually create an institute and this
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institute
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will have the same vision as half double
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hat when
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project half double hat when it started
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the vision is still to increase the
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success rate of projects
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and we also would like to increase the
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competitiveness of private and public
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organizations in denmark
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but we also would like to expand this to
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the world
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because we think that world might need
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this we think that sustainability
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projects could need this we think that
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product development projects could need
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this because we've actually proved that
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it works
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so so that's where we are and we're
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trying to create
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an ecosystem an independent and
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self-sustaining ecosystem
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where half-double practitioners will
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seek help from consultants and take
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education uh within half double being
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educated
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leverage their competences within this
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and in order to do that we need a
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certain standard
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we need partners who can make sure that
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this is
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a valid trustworthy standard and that it
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will be done in the same
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great way with all partners associated
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to the institute
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we've also about to start with software
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partners who will make
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kind of a software version of half
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double for
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for us to use it in in for instance
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portfolio management and project
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management
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and we still want to keep research very
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close to half double because we think it
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really gives half double an
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edge so these are some of the
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organizations that have joined in and
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said yes we would like to be part of
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this
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yes we would like to develop and defuse
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this concept even more
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in this self-sustaining fund that will
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give donations back
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to to project management so that is the
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whole idea
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that the institute will be an unwilling
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inpartial
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entity that will help create this
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ecosystem and that's what we're trying
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to create here
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in the third wave of half double which
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have gained another 15 million
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in in support from the danish industry
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foundation so in order to do that we're
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creating this certification standard
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which will be one of the things that you
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will hear more about today
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so we have actually invited some of the
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partners here
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to help us to to get closer to these
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ambitions that we have for the institute
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so by the end of 2022
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we're hoping that we will have at least
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a thousand
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organizations using the half double
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concept
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out of those thousand we are hoping to
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have at least
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50 small growth organizations who have
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proved that they are using half double
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and that it works in their context as
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well
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and also have a thousand certified half
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double practitioners
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so that's what we're striving towards
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and that's why we need to be more people
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that's why we need to be more passionate
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people to
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get this great idea diffused into even
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more
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organizations so the
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half double wave 3 also contains quite
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some
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marketing quite some spreading the word
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activities
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so for the 15 million million that we
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have achieved
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from the danish industry foundation
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right now they will be used
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in order to spread the word over the
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next three years about half double so we
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will do more thought leader conferences
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like this
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we will do regional community meetings
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we will do
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we'll develop a guide to start half
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double in smaller growth
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organizations we'll do social media
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campaigns we'll do half double films and
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guides
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and we'll also do a gamification version
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of half double to make it easy
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fun and rewarding to start working with
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this concept
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then we will do quite some education
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we'll do education of executive teams
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education of project teams and also
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create this standard
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so to make sure that the education is
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done in a proper
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and high quality way that actually
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ensures that the projects that we do
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with half double do create impact
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because that's the idea with half double
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we're trying to create double the impact
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in half the time
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and if projects you know do not succeed
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with that then we have an issue
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that's why we need a standard
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so that is also the reason why we're
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today are launching
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the new website halfdoubleinstitute.org
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and at that website we will kind of
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develop and
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and add more and more content to content
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as we move along and this will also be
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the platform
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where practitioners consultants
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certification partners researchers meet
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and have online debates so that is the
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vision for the half double website that
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that will kind of be
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the virtual uh meeting point for half
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double
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passionate people
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[Applause]
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you
Find out more information about The Half Double Story and The Half Double Methodology and see other Half Double Videos on Double the impact in half the time, New Project Methodology by Managing Partner Niels Ahrengot, Project Half Double - A proven concept and The Half Double Certification.
