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Dr. Aaron Shenhar's perspective on the Half Double methodology and how innovation could make or break your project.

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welcome back did you have a good lunch

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I'm very happy to talk after lunch you

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know why because they say the only way

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to stay awake during after lunch speech

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is to deliver it and the best definition

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I had about what is a professor

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they say professor somebody who speaks

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with other people sleep so today this

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section I am going to address two topics

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that based on the background that I

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presented in the earlier we set the

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stage actually for how to change how to

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improve so the first part of my

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presentation I will talk about the

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health double project what is my

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perspective we spent yesterday the whole

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day to talk about it with the team and

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we mentioned to very high tips so I'll

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give you a very high level over you but

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I'll give you the major impression and I

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think the major impression know where

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that finds another place it's not from

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the beginning ok go to the slide where

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it says the questions all right so I'm

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going to start by saying that it is a

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system that is walking that is they the

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good thing about it ok and I was very

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impressed because in the short time you

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have shown something that they're really

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good and creating value so I would

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actually try to break it down and self

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impressions and I was quite open with

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the team and I told them my impression

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so I will share with you my general

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overview ok overall it's the step in the

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right there

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there's no question about it and I've

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been waiting for other people to join me

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and my team and my colleagues in this

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direction the world is huge we can find

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many many ways to improve this what

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everyone this way and I'm coming to

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distil is the project it's the correct

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concept first of all and I support the

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elements of the message so these are the

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three major points that are at the

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background of what I think about it and

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that's why I came here very very hopeful

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and open to really help and happy to be

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part of it but we have to remember it

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still new we cannot deny it and like

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everything new is still experimental in

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a way and I just want to say one warning

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world there's no magic bullet there's no

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perfect solution there's no one best way

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never been never will be and all of us

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have to realize this and we have to look

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at it with hope is optimism but yet with

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you know critical eyes and say good

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maybe will you to go on fix things okay

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and how do you think it will change it's

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not the end it's not this knowing of the

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next methodology of project management

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and you know there are a lot of open

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questions still we shouldn't deny them

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for example does this fit all kinds of

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projects everywhere in the world I don't

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have an answer I don't know

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it needs proof needs to be part of a

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discussion okay so let me go into more

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specifics

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okay the major components I like the

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ideas of the three components the impact

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here is the most critical the most

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important idea because we work on

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project to deliver value and doesn't

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matter how you call it you call it

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impact I call

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it's the same thing and another sense

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I'll show you in the minute I call it

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business success you know what's wrong

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with admitting we are working for

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business success but once you identify

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the major objective of this as in fact

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it's good it's good

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gotta go into the elements and I will do

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it in a minute but that is what drives

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the whole method the flow idea I must

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say really impressed me it's a very

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Scandinavian thing by the way it is a

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collaboration the people the flow we've

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been struggling with this for a long

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time because you got to make projects

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move on dynamic and by bringing it out

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to a level of awareness one of the major

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components of what we do is flow you're

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doing the right thing so I totally

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support the ideal flow and I can see

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that it is being done in your way which

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is collaboration which is sharing which

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is fantastic I am curious to see how it

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works in other cultures but the idea

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should stay the same project should feel

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forward and the subcomponents may change

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as I said but this is great the

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leadership is also very Scandinavian and

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I want to say about here there's more

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for leadership I'll show you later how I

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address the question of leadership and

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there's movement to leadership so that

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concept I believe needs more again

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important and important elements in this

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world leaders makes things happen

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leaders make sense not leadership

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there's a first leadership his assistant

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bad assistant its people really people

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who lead and we need to create these

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leaders and I will discuss it later but

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again leadership is a very very

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important concept so the three elements

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for me walks okay now I want to talk

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about specific elements in my reaction

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colocation I love the idea of colocation

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it's not new it's nothing here it hasn't

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been said before

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colocation walks when you are able to

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bring all the teams together 60 percent

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says matter prick people talk to get the

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same room magic happens so you did

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invent Hill any new wheel but

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emphasizing look for colocation is a

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good idea

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but it's not always possible you know

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I've been working on projects that are

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all over the world and India and China

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with our team and colocation what does

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it mean contest on the same screen so

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that's not always possible so making it

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a real a condition is possible so we

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have to remember that but colocation is

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a good idea

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the written I like the word it sounds

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good it sounds right it's timely but

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again it expands the concept of agility

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again it's not new but I prefer written

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to agility you know because agility is

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not a common world it's not about that

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we use in the daily language each other

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I don't I didn't use the word except for

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project management but written yes boom

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boom boom boom boom good okay but it's

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again it's not you it is the ideal

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sprints and cetera excellent all right

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visualization once again not a new idea

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but by putting it as a conveyor

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the fretboard is a good idea which means

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okay you communicate give me a visual

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you only want to tell me story and

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create a visual with this policy in mind

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there's a book years ago said a

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visualizing project management

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I've seen many projects that don't use

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visualization there's a big difference

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so go ahead visualize everything and

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this this will walk and expand and you

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know be creative visualization can be

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very very creative

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okay leadership here's where I have a

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little hesitation I said it's your way

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collaboration but I said already more

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now for me leadership is much much much

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bigger than leaders make you know forget

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everything forget everything if you have

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a great leader he or she will make

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things work you don't need the framework

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you don't need the methodology he's only

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the plan I've seen a huge project

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managed by a great leader who is never

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posted notes for himself everywhere he

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went the practicals and he replaced a

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failing project man he brought the

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project to life went into production

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fantastic so let's believe us and this

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is something that we need to expand ok

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I'll show you what I mean by leaders

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collaboration and ball this is key for

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the future now you have put the

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customization inside leadership and I

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would take it out and I will show you

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what I mean in my coming presentation I

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think it shouldn't be there because it's

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people before systems that how it all

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starts I agree with this concept

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fantastic but remember in complex

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projects you need systems you cannot

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manage a complex project can a small

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project

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sister but you cannot manage and when

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they buy you say all right the people

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will figured out in complex situations

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as a walk and the situation that I

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imagined before okay

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and the impact case has the planning and

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tracking they're there and the past said

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which is good I would continue walking

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and discuss it further I looked at the

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state and stations here I was quite

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impressed by the intentions by the ideas

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but it it requires some work ok so

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that's very briefly my opinion about the

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half-double methodology I encourage you

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to continue I'm very supportive for what

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you do and I can help if you want it is

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a good joy ok good so now the second

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part which I will share with you my view

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and my view is based as I said on 20

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years of studies since 1995 the first

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time we introduced so we introduced a

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concept called strategic project

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leadership and it came out of the

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realization and many many studies

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including my own experience that there

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are three important elements for project

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success also 3 it's interesting the

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strategy part of the business value is

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similar to what you call the impact

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that's critical and this has to be

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forward it must become a formal way to

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manage a project the leadership part is

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what I said the people side dealing with

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the team and I call it the team spirit

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ok and the last one we started with the

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uncertainty complexity went to

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innovation and now we're calling it the

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challenge and I'll explain what I mean

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by challenge because have you seen from

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my list earlier projects failed because

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they don't address the challenge the

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business may be ok

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people may be ok but the challenge is

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not understood

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and if you don't make it part of you

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whole system and understanding of this

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challenge and managing and planning to

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overcome the challenge you fail and it's

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more than risk management as I said now

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we have developed tools and they already

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have three tools using the concept of

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less is more a tool for the business and

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third for the leadership and the tool

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for the challenge and I'll show you

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these tools briefly and we have tried

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this already with many companies this is

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a list of clients past clients we have

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many more now and major corporations and

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with high satisfaction I can say it's

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working on small and large projects and

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you see the similarity how similar

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things are and how things Merton how we

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we really address the same issues a

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little different but it doesn't matter

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so as I said to work together for me is

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a great experience and I want to go and

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describe these tools one by one I would

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spend on the first two tools their

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business and the leadership very short

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and the last one was the challenge we

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titled this how innovation can make

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awake make a break your project I spent

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a little okay so we start with the plan

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how do we address the whole thing look

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at this this is the classical project

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phases how do we fit all this new

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methodology inside it's complicated

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people get used to this and I said and

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he also said we are not touching the

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traditional way we're not so I find I

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found a way together with my teams after

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a long alone elaboration to say we need

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another phase believe it or not we need

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the fifth says gate project Mellon have

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recorded strategic planning before the

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planning okay and that will prepare the

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project correctly for the delivery for

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the traditional way by the way I've

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shared these slides that you can have

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access to these slides from implement

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consulting I don't know how my website

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though you have a copy of the slides

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okay so I don't need to take picture

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photograph me instead so we're adding

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strategic planning to project management

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believe it or not let's show you what

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this plan is and we have all the

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traditional ways if it's a big book

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manage the traditional processes and if

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it's a company process same thing okay

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and what is this fifteen now you guess

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we have the three tools then the

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strategy the adaptive to innovation and

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challenge leadership spin three tools

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okay but look this is not the whole

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picture

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let's not forget that in project

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management we are building a product so

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there is a project lifecycle but there's

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also product lifecycle and you know all

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it fits very nicely with the project

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lifecycle and here's the life cycle of

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the product we're starting with an idea

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a concept requirements only the

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strategic planning design development of

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the river and there's a interaction all

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the time and you know how much time

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people spend on the product on the

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design on the testing and in the books

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of project management they don't talk

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about it product lifecycle product

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building lifecycle okay good so now

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let's go to the strategy what is

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strategy I wanna start with a little

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story about the responsibility and we

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look at it as a little different

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perspective what the responsibilities of

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a project manager I want to share with

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you a short story a

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two cars in 1986 Ford Motor Company

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introduced Ford Taurus Dallas that car

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was the best-selling car in America

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revolution why because a project manager

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took a long time to create focus groups

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with customers and create

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cross-functional teams and figure out

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exactly what the market needs to do but

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when the project was completed he was

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fired you know why he was fired because

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the project was late three months on

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schedule and then it became the

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best-selling car for America in 2000 in

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the 1990 they lost this position to

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Toyota Camry they started a second

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generation the project manager of the

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second generation thought was to learn

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the lesson took a guess his lesson was

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what scheduled he's medicated he drove

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the project as a dictator he eliminated

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focus it doesn't mean he just need to

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meet time he met schedule believe it or

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not but never became the best selling

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car in America so what does it mean what

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I'm saying is not you all right people

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know some people understand that

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projects are not made to do business so

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I'm suggesting a little change in how we

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look at project management so far we

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looked at project management is an input

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process output output is a product okay

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what will the product do in the market

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what will it bring money will it make

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happy customers we need to deal with

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this not just deliver a product with a

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specification and we have the top of the

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pyramid again we don't change anything

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that we do so far the top of the pyramid

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says we are focusing on business and

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outcomes from output to outcome that is

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the change and that's the basis for the

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methodology that we call a spin outcome

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that support what will happen and when

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we manage the project when they think

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about it you get a planet with a little

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things that

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make sure that the customers are using

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it we make money okay so I want to

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introduce was because the SPLA of

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managing project we changed the paradigm

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in terms of the responsibility

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I started what so I say we make the

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project manager or project leader

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responsible to build the business leader

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of the project can be responsible for

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the responsibility they're still at

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owner they're still a sponsor they are

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accountable

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they definitely to know responsibility

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and accountability is quite clear if the

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project failed if it loses money the

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project manager doesn't pay the cost the

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company pays and if it succeed the

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project members it doesn't get very with

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the profits but he's responsible and

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that's the change

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so we don't struggle with their you know

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who's responsible you know why because

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the project owner doesn't have time the

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only person who's really involved in the

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project day in day out is the project

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manager and he or she gets up in the

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morning thinks about the project goes to

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sleep it's his baby and that's what

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you're making mister so we expand the

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responsibility and you know what it's

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working we're protein is smoking and

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we're giving them the tools to do that

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that is the change okay so I'm gonna

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share with you a little story before I

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move on

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in 2007 Motorola I was working on the

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best cell phone in the market

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q4 it was actually I in my university

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class I used to do team exercises comes

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a team that presents the Motorola

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fantastic but at this time Steve Jobs

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already said we are coming out with an

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iPhone a few months okay good so they

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finish a presentation did a great job I

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asked them fantastic job nice nice

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present

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nice project but what are you gonna do

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and I pull this out you know what they

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said we didn't think of that

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iPhone was out and Motorola was dead

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okay so my argument is if they have

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managed this project within myself of

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SPL or any other business focus mindset

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that would not happen because they will

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know at the whole world knew that I for

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this coming they just kept going they

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disrespect that somebody wrote years ago

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okay so that's the change all right so I

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wanted to use what is strategy I like to

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do a discussion for the strategy and

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people say strategy is the way to go go

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from A to B a plan the vision I don't

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know no strategy is only one thing where

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the strategy comes from military right

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in the military strategy means only one

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thing winning so take a strategy to our

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ward and I say in business we also need

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to win we need to win or who's the enemy

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the competitors right so we need to make

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that song so strategy how to create the

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web so it comes from the military goes

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to sports and everything is focused on

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winning your project has to win for your

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company and that's why you need a clear

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tool that we call strategy okay strategy

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is critical for success and strategy and

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business is creating competitive

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advantage because if I do this product

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and my competitors doing this product

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it's not enough that my product is

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meeting with clients it has to be better

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better means competitive advantage miss

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me you job as a project manager is to

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create competitive advantage

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that's all you don't need to deliver

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specifications on time that's obvious

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you need to create better product and

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then this the whole shift the whole path

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project focus shift now thing

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shifts so we have something called the

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project strategy we focus the project on

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winning and there's a document I'll show

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you briefly what it is it has five

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elements which I will not the sky are

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described in great lengths but we focus

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on the lie with the customer bind which

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is the competitive advantage we have

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manlier but let's well - okay and at the

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end we have all the team members

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everybody on the team's thinks about

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what will create more value it's like a

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kite share an environmental project

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lands but not on quality on competitive

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advantage okay

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the next level is the leadership the

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leadership path is the soft path but I

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want to say something about leaders from

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my own experience my own environment my

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own observation leanness make things

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head people who are leaders create magic

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and that's why ok

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that's why you gotta be learn to lead

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it's very difficult to them to lead and

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you cannot be a loser over time but

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let's focus on the things that really

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make a change project why you need to

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lead because great projects are not the

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great leaders and most people can do

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twice as much and as a leader your job

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is to get the most with your people and

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out of your people what life people

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would like the team and that is the key

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so I will suggest the tool believe it or

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not a leadership tool ok I want to deal

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with the team's culture I can create the

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teams cut the beatings feeling in a

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little realistic read a little

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analytical way believe it or not it's

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personal ok so spirit is the tool spirit

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creates energy deprive the excitement

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and project spirit is something very

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unique because the project

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spirit is focused on something very

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specific a vision a vision statement

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that excites people when we say we're

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going to put a man on the moon and bring

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it back in ten years the whole world was

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excited in every project you did

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something new articulate the new world

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that you are creating in an emotional

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way that will touch people's heart

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you understand and that's what I mean by

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a vision okay

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we have great examples so vision is a

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short description of the outcome we can

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throw moto and you have a few examples

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and just one on the three two kids

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here that there are real projects free

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to kiss confirmed project that was

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developing a vaccine vaccine for

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meningitis pear disease no cure if you

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get infected you die in 24 hours if you

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don't get treatment

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they lock you and this company is

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building a vaccine now the vaccine is

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going to universities the same first

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customer and you can get meningitis by

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body and fluids like AIDS so the project

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manager a PhD in chemical biology came

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up with this uses free to kiss

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understand the project changes the

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project looks different the project gets

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a new life with a nice vision statement

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okay so we are the four elements of the

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spirit they are vision they are values

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they are simples and the social

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activities okay so here they are the

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values is behavior what the kind of

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behavior you guys are really into

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behavior things you will emphasize to

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behave a new project that fits your

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competitive advantage and your vision if

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your project is about cost cutting the

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values and your project is led to

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catechol everybody finds a way is a hero

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if your project pushes the tail

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technology everybody was innovative

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zero social activities I don't need to

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tell you

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Danish people about social activities

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create more and more and more and more

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it's not in every culture and the last

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one is actually very nice the symbolic

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part the logos the flags the the dishes

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the project name names mean mean a lot I

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have in our studies we even started

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studied the impact of naval project

28:00

success

28:02

we found the correlation but it's not

28:05

because the name makes a change it's

28:07

because they leave them chooses a good

28:10

name it's part of leadership okay

28:12

alright so I want to share an example

28:17

this comes from a real project in the

28:18

pharmaceutical industry and these people

28:21

are building a cure for house heart

28:26

failure they came up with lending break

28:30

broken hearts

28:32

that's the motto the logo you see that

28:35

she shares and see how happy they are is

28:38

the cake okay so now I'm coming to the

28:43

last element and that is the innovation

28:46

path and the challenge and I spent a

28:48

little more time with that okay what's

28:52

innovation how do you define innovation

28:55

many people said innovation is something

28:58

new I disagree not everything new is an

29:02

innovation innovation is something new

29:04

that really makes it innovation to me i

29:07

define it as a commercialization of an

29:10

idea you have an idea where it's not an

29:13

innovation only if you make it work in

29:16

the market people buy it use it improve

29:19

their life they are needed innovation

29:22

for this myself believe it or not you

29:26

need a project so innovation a project

29:31

management are strongly linked

29:34

unfortunately unfortunately the research

29:37

people have not

29:38

binder we have to research communities

29:41

project managers and innovation they

29:43

don't talk to each other not the same

29:46

conference not the same Jonas I go to

29:48

both but if this different words we can

29:52

combine these words we are walking now

29:54

and very handsome established company

29:57

these words now if every project is

30:00

actually an innovation okay we gotta

30:09

remember one size does not fit over

30:13

here's a picture see these guys it's the

30:18

same suit but you need do you need the

30:26

tailor so you need to learn how to

30:30

tailor your project management to your

30:33

projects and that's a tough thing

30:35

because it's not that it's not intuitive

30:38

it's not just think about it how do we

30:41

do the experience people know it but

30:43

young people it's difficult so we need a

30:46

framer we need a model to do the tailor

30:48

with a part and for this I wanted to

30:51

find it would use the concept of

30:52

challenge

30:54

what difference between project is the

30:56

word challenge challenge is something

30:59

difficult it's not that we cannot solve

31:02

it we can't that we have difficult and

31:05

this is a theoretical model that's a

31:07

challenge in those three parts you see

31:10

see uncertainty complexity and

31:13

constraint okay

31:16

at the beginning we call that UCP

31:20

constraint maybe within pace but pace is

31:23

one of the constraint so we are taking

31:27

this further we say okay how do we do it

31:29

project project man

31:31

here's the month when traduce a model

31:34

that is called the diamond we found a

31:39

nice name we call it the diamond of

31:41

innovation it's a really catchy name but

31:44

it's more than innovation as I said it's

31:46

a challenge of diamond and we have two

31:49

dimensions of uncertainty the novelty

31:51

and the technology I will define them in

31:54

the moment we have one complexity and we

31:57

have one dimension of constraint the

32:01

major constrain is usually time but we

32:04

shouldn't forget that there are other

32:05

constraints under the concept of

32:08

simplicity we didn't want to increase

32:14

the model and I keep getting four years

32:16

this model has been around for first

32:19

time we published it in 1990 and then it

32:24

evolved in a group and then our book

32:26

came out in 2007 by Harvard and the book

32:31

is about the entire mountain okay so

32:34

it's been around longer than SPN has

32:36

been used by many people it evolved but

32:40

I keep getting the same request

32:41

look we need more dimensions and I hold

32:44

on the no no no no we don't need

32:46

motivations you know why because it's

32:48

big too complex so if you have a

32:50

specific situation and another dimension

32:53

for your situation don't confuse the

32:55

model and we keep it at 4-under the less

32:59

is more idea so the things can be added

33:02

reckon so we're just walking with a huge

33:04

project and intent and have you

33:06

challenges and as well they work and

33:09

they work with the westcoast 10 hours

33:12

difference that's a challenge the

33:15

project keeps changing because then they

33:17

woken up under the technology that is

33:19

not developed yet customization is not

33:22

normal and specifications are tough

33:26

though can you believe eight billion

33:28

dollar project so they have a challenge

33:31

that nobody has so in addition to the

33:34

four dimensions of the time of day

33:36

edit other dimensions are the challenges

33:39

and that's good enough

33:40

so for walks fine okay so now let's

33:45

define what's happening no dirty is what

33:47

you call the newness of the product in

33:50

the market for customers do customers

33:54

know what to do with this product if I

33:58

make a small change in this bottle

34:01

everybody will recognize that it is a

34:03

bottle a different shape and everybody

34:05

will know

34:06

you gotta drink from it but if I have to

34:09

do some something that nobody saw before

34:11

a new product doesn't matter like

34:13

technology by the way its new its new to

34:17

the world that you to the customer so we

34:19

have a scale novelty is innovation in

34:22

the market and on this dimension you can

34:26

you can be sure we have four levels on

34:30

these burgers okay so on the novelty

34:34

market innovation we have derivative

34:36

which is small change platform is a next

34:39

generation in the existing product line

34:41

and you come is a platform a new

34:44

generation and your cell phone today

34:46

you know iPhone 5 iPhone 6 iPhone

34:49

whatever is a new generation but the

34:53

first one is different I'll show you how

34:55

it goes phones are new to the market the

35:00

product that is existing lanta in one

35:02

market and is adapted to another market

35:04

for example the first pc was new to the

35:08

mark there were computers in the world

35:10

before huge big expensive when we first

35:13

started to sell to sell the computers to

35:16

consumers it was new to the Mac recently

35:20

GPS where the GPS come from military you

35:27

know militant irrigation systems no way

35:29

adopted this for consumers it was new to

35:31

the market now it becomes platforms and

35:34

derivatives so there's a level a new to

35:37

the world is something there's nobody so

35:39

before the first post did not nobody

35:43

wanted to buy the company wanted to kill

35:46

the project because they did not get

35:49

and customers say I don't need this once

35:51

you give it to them they can't live

35:53

without it but that is the effect of new

35:57

to the world you cannot do market

35:59

research you see Club resonate but for

36:01

project management don't do market

36:04

research of the high level of knowledge

36:05

the next level is technology for levels

36:09

low tech medium tech high tech super

36:11

high tech low tech is a project that

36:17

uses existing technology nothing new

36:20

construction medium tech is a project

36:22

that is using well-known technology but

36:25

some new design and new car is medium

36:28

that high tech is a project that is

36:31

using a new technology but existing

36:33

technology military project has

36:35

developed the technology before this and

36:37

then I integrate this in the project for

36:40

the first time that's heightened and

36:42

super high tech is a project that needs

36:44

technology that doesn't exist listen to

36:48

this I need to develop a technology

36:51

during the project's effort going to the

36:57

moon

36:57

there was no technology the mission was

37:00

very clear the moon were there everybody

37:02

know where it is

37:03

nobody knew have the realistic knowledge

37:06

to be needed to develop this technology

37:07

it's a different project each one of

37:10

them requires in different projects and

37:13

coming to tailoring because we need to

37:15

tailor the project manner to the

37:18

specific a little specific specific

37:20

diamond now complexity is another

37:24

dimension we found a way to

37:27

conceptualize it again in a simple way

37:30

the level of complexity of their product

37:32

so there is a component like this light

37:36

bulb is a component assembly is doing

37:39

one function this laser pointer is an

37:42

assembly the overhead projectors are

37:44

simply doing one function a system

37:47

complex collection of subsystems

37:50

doing multiple function a car is a

37:52

system a building is a system Computers

37:55

assistant and the array is a system

37:58

systems production of many systems

38:00

working together for combination imagine

38:03

the public transportation system in

38:05

Copenhagen terrible by the way I got

38:10

stuck in traffic every day but you have

38:13

public transportation system so impose

38:15

it and it passes and metros and stuff

38:18

and you gonna do something about it

38:20

I think it knows right and the stylist

38:24

nobody reacts am i right the road okay

38:32

good so forgive me it is a large

38:37

collection of sisters walking together

38:39

like the traffic in control in the

38:43

country it was radar so communication

38:47

channels and Celtic culture largely

38:50

walking through sets their very look the

38:51

complexity goes up now it's a complexity

38:54

of the product and it's also the

38:56

complexity of the organization that is

38:58

doing the product okay and the last one

39:01

is pace that is the constraint of pace

39:06

how much time do I have and I have four

39:11

levels again regulars no no big deal no

39:14

pressure

39:14

fast competitive is a project that needs

39:17

to be in the market before competitors

39:21

most projects are fast competitive time

39:25

critical is a project that has a

39:27

definite deadline if you miss the

39:29

deadline

39:30

project fails y2k think about that you

39:36

have a deadline but never deathly ill

39:39

you know Christmas season you got to be

39:41

in the stores before black five-lane

39:43

opening the the academic years

39:47

university has to be ready with all the

39:50

systems working on a certain day its

39:52

time critical if you miss the deadline

39:54

no good and the last level is what we

39:58

called bits blitz is a project that

40:01

involves crisis something happened you

40:05

better respond right away again look at

40:08

these four types each one of them is a

40:10

different

40:11

kind of project now the question is what

40:13

do we tell them I'm coming to this but

40:15

this creates the framework for

40:18

classifying finding your project

40:21

uniqueness okay so I want to give a few

40:25

examples of diamonds and how do we use

40:28

them

40:29

okay then forever I mentioned it in the

40:32

morning it's a construction project that

40:35

was late it was late because of one

40:39

sister the sister was called the

40:42

automatic baggage system this system was

40:45

new

40:46

nobody did something like this before on

40:48

such a large scale and I used the time

40:51

on to explain the delay because the

40:54

project itself was construction and as

40:58

we know a construction is low-tech but

41:01

that project was hectic okay so we have

41:07

two diamonds the blue that world is the

41:09

airport it was a platform another

41:13

generation we've done airports before it

41:16

was fast competitive it was low tech

41:19

technology and it was in the rain the

41:21

boat is huge but the baggage system was

41:24

a different project it was new to the

41:27

market pretty random like this game it

41:32

was fast competitive it was a citizen of

41:35

the race much smaller when it was

41:38

hydrated the develop this project was

41:45

okay mass component and the template is

41:48

telling your story they even started

41:51

this late after the construction started

41:53

they started the project much later a

41:55

baggage system much later and it wasn't

41:58

finished

41:59

so his design Montana game you gotta do

42:02

more walk and I'm gonna talk about the

42:04

implications of the John Montone project

42:07

management okay here's another example I

42:12

thought there's this in the morning I've

42:14

used as a boy in case Boeing 787 was

42:18

laid because of similar reasons they

42:21

used a new technology they use composite

42:24

materials to build the airframe instead

42:27

of aluminum so I'm showing two diamonds

42:30

in okay the blue diamond there 777 the

42:34

very successful project it's part of our

42:36

study on the great projects fantastic

42:39

project fantastic product and that was a

42:43

platform and your generation it was

42:45

medium tank because the technology was

42:47

well known it was a system it was a

42:49

system and fast competitor but 787 had

42:53

two new six to new challenges one of

42:56

them was the technology was new the

42:58

composite materials and the other one

43:00

was they outsourced the design because

43:05

they fired so many people during the

43:07

downturn they didn't have enough

43:09

engineers to do the design they had no

43:11

choice they also stew 700 subcontractors

43:15

worldwide subcode concepts they used to

43:18

do manufacturing to will require santa

43:20

to design and development R&D

43:23

they failed this was a complete failure

43:26

it turned the project they worked a

43:28

regular system project into in the way

43:30

project they had to bring all the work

43:33

back

43:33

big big chaos we just published a paper

43:37

the challenge of innovation in highly

43:40

complex projects that we analyzed the

43:42

story we have followed the starter story

43:44

for years and we came with the

43:47

conclusion they could do better that's

43:51

the point they could do better

43:53

just analyzed it upfront the difficulty

43:56

of the challenge okay so come back to

44:00

our friend iPhone I have here three

44:03

generations I have iPhone one iPhone 6

44:06

and iPhone 6s all right so iPhone one is

44:14

new to the market it was high tech

44:17

technology was really of you it was fast

44:20

competitive

44:21

let's be there and it was a system ok

44:25

iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s iphone 6 was the

44:29

red one it was a platform a larger

44:33

generation it was made you tech no

44:36

longer high tech system and time

44:39

competitive because they said we're

44:41

going to be in the market on that day

44:43

that was a definite that way and iPhone

44:47

success is only a derivative so you see

44:50

how the time goes explains each project

44:53

very clearly design what is telling a

44:55

story you have visualization in your

44:59

system which is fantastic this

45:00

visualizes your problem and when the

45:03

team goes into discussion of that great

45:06

seems have all been wow I see it in a

45:09

new way now I understand that my project

45:11

is not medium tech it's new to the mall

45:14

it's not a platform it's new to the

45:16

market and I don't need to do market

45:18

research because the answer will be

45:20

negative so I guess - I got a rush the

45:23

market create a process of that customer

45:26

let's customers try and give me feedback

45:28

then I will freeze requirements so this

45:31

brings me to the impact this is the

45:35

regular waterfall that you will know and

45:37

these are the regular project phases

45:40

what's wrong with this picture

45:43

something wrong with this picture

45:45

there's four simple faces you know

45:48

what's wrong it's never one way street

45:51

this is reality right you got to go back

45:58

you know the revise you design the

45:59

requirements the question is

46:02

how much you work together go back and

46:04

how many times and that is determined by

46:08

the dimensions of the diamond okay so

46:13

instead of this we're actually adding

46:17

this these are the cycles that we are

46:20

adding okay we keep going both in the

46:23

requirements and in the technology and

46:25

the question how much and how long is a

46:30

very critical question for project

46:32

planning planners need to know this and

46:36

if you put it in the plan you know I am

46:37

it three cycles that happened in Boeing

46:40

they only did plant life cycle they have

46:43

to open the design because it failed

46:44

this test and they ended up with three

46:48

to four cycles you know again and again

46:51

I could tell them disobey at the

46:52

beginning because based on the research

46:54

we know it as high tech needs recycles

46:57

at least okay they didn't have it in the

47:00

plan so they kept over rounding over

47:03

angle a five project manager one after

47:05

the other why let's figure out the fruit

47:08

the challenge let's understand the

47:09

challenge in an analytical way okay

47:13

so here is a summary of how the diamond

47:16

dimensions impacts project management

47:19

okay the novelty has an impact on market

47:24

research as I mentioned the higher

47:26

novelty less marketers forget 30 we

47:30

tried the trouble is that management

47:32

always wants you to do market research

47:34

give me a proof that the market wants it

47:37

he got a pushback if you are the high

47:40

level of novelty resist market research

47:43

will not help okay show them the model

47:46

and that is approved

47:49

you gotta adapt the project to your

47:52

unique characteristic for challenge okay

47:56

and then you need later requirement

47:59

freeze the to too important moment in

48:02

ever

48:02

project a quad let's freeze and design

48:05

freeze these moments are part of your

48:07

plan and you add you identify them up

48:10

front Duke the plan this is what my

48:13

freeze requirement

48:14

this will only freeze the design firstly

48:17

first requirement then if we design

48:19

based on the level of uncertainty in the

48:21

market and in the technology and you

48:24

need more requirement cycles the

48:26

technology safe story later designs

48:29

raise more design cycles and you need

48:33

strong technical functions and very very

48:36

high projects and high

48:37

you know you need managers and good

48:41

technical people it's rare and difficult

48:43

to find but that's what you need you

48:45

know and you need experience this

48:48

technical project manager behind I taken

48:51

high super-high fakers very difficult

48:54

because you don't know okay and then

48:57

complexity the organization becomes more

49:00

complex you got to put systems in place

49:02

you got to be bureaucratized although

49:05

you don't like you want people in for

49:06

systems I said before you need systems

49:10

for hiker for small projects you don't

49:11

need systems for high priority you need

49:13

and you got a ability to integrate all

49:17

the sub component you need good

49:19

formality good organizational skills and

49:23

big picture leader okay so I will have

49:28

met what we are doing right now in the

49:32

map that shows where we are stand we are

49:35

adding SPL to the traditional project

49:38

management everything on the bottom

49:40

exists today scoping scheduling and we

49:43

have the tools so we talk about my set

49:46

skill set and told it and for creating

49:48

the business value we are adding three

49:51

new tools the skills are skills of

49:53

tailoring inspiring and strategizing

49:57

skills and we have the suite tools

50:00

coming with that which is the diamond of

50:02

innovation for tailoring the spirit of

50:05

leadership and the project strategy okay

50:10

once again these are customers and

50:12

finally we have shown success

50:15

our customers have provided us written

50:20

statements about success one company

50:23

seriously the name the train company is

50:26

doing commercial air a commercial air

50:28

conditioning they have increased market

50:31

share by 50 percent whatever left after

50:34

seven years working with them after five

50:37

years will be working there were seven

50:39

years and then last year they gave us a

50:42

new letter they're so excited it's still

50:45

alive we don't walk with them anymore

50:47

but they got used to the concept and

50:49

still alive and they keep being the

50:52

market leader service provider and

50:55

create name is confidential they

50:57

increased the saves from 100 million to

51:00

1 billion in 10 years and the stock from

51:03

100 to 2000 was 2100 we promoted in the

51:08

government city government it became the

51:11

best city in my state in new jersey a

51:14

farm a compliance project that they have

51:17

started with a small project one hundred

51:19

dollars because of the method increase

51:22

the order for three hundred twenty hours

51:25

and new existing customers are in turn

51:30

America Vale and some others so I want

51:34

to say something again coming back to a

51:36

half-double for me how the other is a

51:38

fantastic step no question about this or

51:42

not

51:43

there's no competition here by the way I

51:45

don't see it as a competition I think

51:48

honestly that in the half-double we you

51:50

need to expand the challenge part and I

51:54

think we need to expand the flow part so

51:58

here's what we the way we have used a

52:00

diamond to express our system it's the

52:04

SPL diamond we have the traditional

52:08

project management plan we have the

52:10

business strategy the leadership

52:12

and innovation and that's where we are

52:16

today and I'm looking forward to really

52:18

helping the project and working on this

52:21

together because it's the same world

52:23

it's now it's not a competitor now or

52:28

there's no much competition because so

52:30

huge okay so the synergy the

52:33

collaboration is clearly important

52:36

here's my email address if you want to

52:38

call me or send me an email I will be

52:41

happy and we stay here if you want to

52:43

talk to me okay