Abstract: Gagaku vs Orchestral type Project Team Building Strategies
Gagaku is a traditional form of Japanese Court Music. Gagagu performers play their instruments without an external conductor to lead the music. Each performer plays their part according to what is expected, whereas in a traditional orchestra, a conductor plays an important role to coordinate and direct the players.
Traditionally, Japanese project teams perform tasks with ambiguous roles and responsibilities. The Japanese Culture values conformance to group norms of behavior. Working in teams, Japanese people act to synchronize their efforts with other team members in very spontaneous ways. If managed properly, this type of team could produce tremendous outcomes. The presentation touches basis on a type of Gagaku team building strategy with its merits and demerits in comparison with Orchestral type of team building and its leadership style.
This presentation is from the research paper submitted to “ProMac 2008”, written by Hiroko Nagaya (main author) and Hisato Hama (co-author). Participants will learn about cultural environment of Japanese Projects.
Hiroko Nagaya MBA PMP
Secretary General
PMI Tokyo Chapter
Abstract: Global Social Project Management
Projects are about people. Specifically, Projects in the Asia Pacific region have a very diverse cultural mix of team members. The problem for Project Managers is the diversity creates communication complexity. It is essential for project managers to construct a project environment where people trust each other. We have to connect team members. The Key Point is to think “Global Social Project Management”. The three topics we will discuss are: Knowledge Transfer, Connectivity, and Freemium Social Networking Platforms.
Attendees to this presentation will learn about the contemporary Social networking tools that are available for Global Project Managers to facilitate virtual team building and trust among Global Project Team Members.
Robert Higgins PMP
Project Manager
East Asia Portal, Ltd.
Abstract: Global Project Management
In today’s global economy, the globalization of project management is increasingly seen as key to the success of many multinational organizations. This is true for all industries, whether it be manufacturers that assemble components and parts in many countries around the world to engineering firms executing small construction initiatives through enormous development projects.
Through this presentation, we would like to share a client success story to briefly explore several of the challenges of managing global projects as well as how these challenges were addressed through a solution which encompassed the people, the processes and the technology to support their project environment.
In particular we’ll focus our presentation around how the client gained visibility and raised productivity through better managed project creation and selection (so-called project portfolio management). We would also like to touch upon how global team management evolved from pre-to-post solution implementation. The technology utilized for this solution was based around Microsoft Project Portfolio Server 2007 (which has recently been integrated with Project Server 2007 for the new Project Server 2010 solution.)
Takeaways from this presentation include a deeper understanding for the role of technology in supporting people and processes as well as the importance of ensuring that you not only do projects right but that you’re doing the right projects!
Trevor Warner
Senior Consultant
Arbutus Solutions KK
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