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This year’s event focuses on creating a healthy project management ecosystem. So first let’s define a project management ecosystem. An ecosystem is the environment in which a project lives. While it includes the methodologies and life cycles, tools, and other mechanisms, it also focuses on the other 90% of a project’s environment, which are the emotional attitudes, stakeholder education, and non-process/procedures maturity of the organization. It is how projects actually function within the organization. The retreat will have five workshops that will focus on the five ecosystem commandments: Community, Awareness, Purpose, Pride, and Earnestness.
Here we define the five commandments:
The first workshop will be on creating and maintaining a community to facilitate the ecosystem. "Community," in the context of a project, program, or ecosystem, is a unit of sociopolitical and economic organization consisting of a number of people, groups, departments, and divisions who share a common language, culture, and opportunity. Community leadership is typically formalized but casual, and permanent but fluid. Membership, as well as the power structure, in the community is also very dynamic.
The second workshop is on creating and maintaining awareness. "Awareness" is the condition of being aware, informed, educated, and/or curious about the project and stakeholder goals, directions, details, issues, and opportunities. It is the state or level of consciousness where the sense of the project’s direction and progress can be confirmed by observation, information, and attitude.
The third workshop is instilling a sense of purpose. "Purpose" is the feeling or emotion that propels the stakeholders to participate in the project, program, or ecosystem. Purpose is the determination and resolution toward which the project members and stakeholders strive. Purpose is the driver that provides the aim or goal of the project with its intended or desired outcome.
On day two we begin the first workshop with the sense of pride. "Pride" is the sense of satisfaction taken in an achievement, possession, or association with a project, program, or ecosystem. Pride is the feeling and emotion of one's own proper dignity, value, and self-respect within a project, program, or ecosystem community. Pride is the joy of successfully participating in the progress, direction, and ultimate success of a project, program, or ecosystem.
The final workshop is on earnestness. "Earnestness" is a strong desire to execute the tasks and work within a project, program, or ecosystem. Showing deep caring, sincerity, and/or seriousness for a project, program, or ecosystem symbolizes earnestness. Earnestness is the ardent and zealous pursuit of the project, program, or ecosystem goals or objectives.
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