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Solving The Project Communication Problem

March 22, 09 //
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Andrew Sparks wrote last year a great post about the use of OODA loops in Project Management. The article itself will keep your mind busy for a while, but wait until you read the comments from Andrew and Christian Salmon:

“Here is (roughly), the project management problem I am trying to solve. Say that you have a software development project with coders in multiple countries, time zones, and cultures. How does the project manager direct and control a project without lengthy status meetings at ungodly hours? We need a system that does not require direct communication or direction – this is where OODA helps. Next we need clear ground rules for team participants. This is the theory I am working out. My draft nickname for this system is “Two Yeses”.”

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I am drafting a response for a couple of days now :) It will not fit in the comment box.

I will need a series of blog posts instead.

“The Project Shrink Information Flow”-series… or if someone knows a more hyped, over-the-top title, drop me a comment.

1. Two Ways Of Communicating: Broadcast And Peer To Peer
2. You Can Decide How You Communicate: Rules Of Engagement
3. Does Transparency Lead To More Ethical Behavior?
4. Purpose Of Communication: What Is It Good For?
5. Filtering Information: Why You Cannot See Everything
6. Quality Of Information: Do You Trust Your Cousin Vinnie?

Before I start, i hope you check out the interesting discussion over at Project Lifestyle.

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Introducing The Fish Pond

March 23, 08 //
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The world is changing dramatically, fast and beyond everything we have seen. Globalization and technology have introduced more diversity, more dynamics and more interdependencies than ever before. This provides project management, and management in general, with a challenge. How to survive in this environment? Together with dr Ali Anani, I am taking on this challenge with an attempt to provide some structure and some answers for management practitioners.

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Swimming Upstream The Information Flow

March 22, 08 //
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by Ali Anani and Bas de Baar

In Fish And OODA Loops we introduced fish schooling as an important part of the Fish Pond Metaphor. Schooling mimics human tendency to organize and view our selves in groups of people. This leaves the question of how individual fish operate within a school resulting in one organic adaptive entity? Our preliminary answer is the topic of this posting.

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Fish And OODA Loops

March 16, 08 //
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By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar

After reading about OODA loops and Social OODA some of you (yes you!) might have had one big question: What the heck has this to do with fish? In this post we will go back to the Fish Pond and explain the connection. Well, we’ll try.

Fish do not simply float around in a tank. Although they once in a while bump into glass walls, they are able to find food, detect other fish and perform other cases of interacting with their environment. Fish in general can sense changes in the environment either by vision, by smell, sound and by the sensitivity of the skin (changes in water pressure, acidity and temperature). Yes, if fish want to communicate, they blow bubbles.

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Social OODA Super Speedway

March 9, 08 //
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By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar

In our previous article we painted the image of people walking on the OODA highway, continuously performing OODA loops, interacting with the environment, in the search for information packages that help them adapt to changes. In this posting we want to extend this notion to the use of social OODA loops.

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Humans are social. A group of people interacting with each other has to be viewed in a social context. (Human) needs are all expressed in comparison of other members of the globe. That is why they are considered social. In this context we also consider the concept of group affiliation. Group affiliation is what it is all about in our lives. During your life you are a member of a lot of social groups, by default, by choice or by force (…) The group memberships determine how we see ourselves in the whole of society, it determines our identity. (source)
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