Beyond Agile (or Actually Beyond Anything Most of You Have Read about Project Management)

When traveling back home from a consulting project, my colleague used the time spent on the train, translating manual of quite unusual project design methodology. Dragon Dreaming is devised to support activities of NGOs and various non-mainstream organizations. You may be too scared to try this?in practice, but its well worth?reading. Inspiration guaranteed :-)

A short excerpt to grasp your attention.?Arguably the most extreme part of the methodology, but still ...

Dragon Dreaming Project budgets are done in a very unconventional manner.

Conventionally, budget process is done by one or two persons over many hours and days, using a lot of analysis processes. But for a Dragon Dreaming budget process you use the group’s collective intuition: a much quicker process that is much more fun. (this might be scary, but try it anyhow!). The whole group gathers in front of the Karabirrdt. One acts as speaker. The whole group starts creating a rhythm, i.e. By clapping or

drumming. The speaker starts reading out loud task by task. For each task the members of the team shout the first figure that comes to mind, money and time wise. They do so along with the rhythm. The speaker writes down the figures. The whole thing should take 20 minutes, no longer!

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Practice has shown that this way of creating a budget is pretty accurate. However it might be wise to add an extra 15 percent in time and money to whatever result you get. Because another very important law in Dragon Dreaming says – Everything takes longer. So it is good to add a little extra for unforeseen events...

Go for the whole thing here, at ebook download section: https://dragondreaming.org/