In today’s chaotic organizational environments, project specifications, resources, and sponsorship change at the drop of a stock price. In times like this, it’s tempting to curse our projects as wicked or blame ourselves for not being able to tame these unpredictable and uncontrollable “beasts.” In wild times, our projects are better served by accepting their real nature and by embracing techniques to deal with our projects’ essentially unpredictable and uncontrollable dispositions. In this audiobook, we distinguish project wickedness from project fuzziness and introduce more effective strategies for embracing your fuzzy projects.
About the Author
Amy Schwab is a master facilitator, consultant, and teacher. Amy has over twenty years of experience as a project manager and consultant. Her project experience ranges from leading the design and implementation of software systems, core business process reengineering, and strategic marketing intiative projects within a Fortune 200 company to facilitating the training, envisioning and planning of scientific research projects with computational physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is the president of True North pgs Inc., a strategic consultancy dedicated to improving innovation, effectiveness, and satisfaction in high demand organizations.