2023 in Retrospective - Part 1
Welcome to the new old normal
As 2023 draws to a close, it's time again to reflect on the year from a project management viewpoint.
We're kicking off this retrospective with an intriguing topic: the growing backlash against remote working.
What's truly driving this trend?
The Great Remote Work Reversal
You have sure seen stuff like this…
The CEO of Company XYZ has just announced that all their employees must revert to 100% in office.
A study published by this and that consultancy shows that productivity dropped by (a massive % rate) during the lockdowns. It has slowly recovered after people started to go back to office, but never really returned to pre-pandemic levels.
Individual opinions, surveys with an unknown statistic sample, but all pointing in the same direction.
Are casual meetings in the office really a vessel for innovation?
Does productivity really have a massive drop because your dog might be requesting your attention?
Or is there something else?
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Scope creep
In project management, “scope creep” is the uncontrolled expansion of a project's scope. Here, it represents the expanding scope of a project manager's knowledge and interests into diverse fields like culture and art.
Perhaps we just need more time to fully adapt to a hybrid work organization, before we fully realize the benefits. When you're too close, you risk missing the perspective, as beautifully summed up by Alfredo, the projectionist in "Cinema Paradiso".
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In the last newsletter, I promised templates.
Let’s begin with a simple one. A very simple, basic one: reporting project progress.
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Instructions for using the template are on the demystifying projects website.