APM Workshop, Milan, September 28, 2007

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“APM Workshop, September 28, 2007”

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Practice: Light TouchGroup …

APM Workshop, Milan, September 28, 2007

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Participants

• Michela Ruffa

• Laura Zampieri

• Gianmarco Antonelli

• Alessandro Marvaldi

• Chiara Bartolozzi

• Barbara Vasi

• Paolo Stefan

• Andrea Caccamese

• Monica Persello

• Barbara Barone

• Valter Galli

• Anna Tullia Piccinini

• Marco Lattanzio

• Luca Boschetto

• David Corbucci

APM Workshop, Milan, September 28, 2007

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Practice: “Light Touch”

• Emergence and self-organization

• Intelligent control

• Whole-person recognition

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Referring to the “Light Touch” practice,

what APM activities do you already perform?

• Decentralize control

• Fit style to situation

• Build on personal strengths

• Establish a pull task management system

• Doubt is useful, has value

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What other APM activities do you suggest to

perform in order to better implement the practice?

• Manage the flow, means also

• Project cohesion

• Align team members on business value

• Use action sprints

• Support roving leadership

• Public reward for project’s merits

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What APM activities suggested by APM model, do you consider really outside your mental model

and your project environment?

• Maintain quality of work life:

• Dedicated teams

• Schedule defined by the organization

• Not omogeneous composition of team or not-collocated teams can make alignment very difficult

• Management of personal weaknesses

• APM in “external” projects (i.e. which involve client and provider)