THE IMPORTANCE OF MODELING THE PROJECTS

Good training flows from good models; it manifests those models in its

approach to teaching as well as its content. If models were not important, you could

learn everything you need regarding Project Management (PM) from books.

Good training flows from good models; it manifests those models in its

approach to teaching as well as its content. If models were not important, you could

learn everything you need regarding Project Management (PM) from books.

• Would you rather learn a collection of techniques, or have the same abilities

as those  used in creating the models that gave PM its start?

Having that kind of skill would mean that you could discover and invent

techniques endlessly and according to the needs of the individual client. This is why

I wrote the Path of Mastery article that delves more deeply into the spirit of PM. It

points out that PM is primarily a model, and that this is more important than any

theories or philosophy attached to it.

• That model is the meta-model that tells us about modeling.

You might say that it is the how of how. It takes the birds eye view of creating

excellence. Modeling is the foundation of PM, it is how PM got started, and it is

the source of the theories and patterns of PM.

Let's get deeper with what modeling is. The key to modeling is being very

observant--Iooking for and observing subtleties. That's the yin of modeling. The

yang of modeling is being willing to experiment and to seek the "acti ve ingredients"

of what you are observing; why does it get the results it gets?

This yin and yang can streamline your approach to getting results or producing

excellence, because you are coming into the situation with an eye for these active

ingredients. You may find that many of the things the model  thinks are important are not actually the active ingredients.

This discovery allows you to eliminate some of the behaviors and ideas that

make the person less efficient.