12 Pillars of Project Management

12 Pillars of Project Management
12 Pillars of Project Management
  • Stewardship: Act with integrity, care, trustworthiness, and strict compliance to responsibly manage assets, finance, and social impacts.
  • Team: Foster a highly collaborative, respectful, and trusting project team environment to optimize productivity and collective learning.
  • Stakeholders: Engage proactively and effectively with all impacted individuals or groups to advance value delivery and counter opposition.
  • Value: Maintain a continuous focus on outcomes and intended business benefits rather than tracking empty operational outputs.
  • Systems Thinking: Evaluate and respond dynamically to internal and external system interactions to recognize how different project parts interconnect.
  • Leadership: Demonstrate adaptable, ethical leadership behaviors across all team members, regardless of formal titles or authority status.
  • Tailoring: Adapt the management framework iteratively based on context, unique project objectives, scope, governance, and environmental constraints.
  • Quality: Embed rigorous evaluation and acceptance criteria directly into project processes and deliverables to satisfy required expectations.
  • Complexity: Continuously identify, evaluate, and navigate project complexities arising from erratic human behaviors, system interactions, or ambiguity.
  • Risk: Optimize response mechanisms to systematically mitigate negative threats while proactively capturing positive project opportunities.
  • Adaptability & Resilience: Build structural flexibility into plans to rapidly recover from sudden setbacks and accommodate shifting environments.
  • Change: Prepare and support stakeholders for the targeted future state to avoid change fatigue and successfully implement new behaviors.

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Author: Mark Whitfield

Welcome to my site! After graduating in Computing in 1990, I accepted a position as a programmer at a Runcorn based software house specialising in electronic banking software, namely sp/ARCHITECT-BANK on Tandem Computers (now HPE NonStop). This was before the internet became more prevalent and so the notion of enabling desktop access to company accounts for inter-account transfers and book keeping was still quite a cutting edge idea (and smartphones only ever hinted at in Space 1999). The company was called The Software Partnership (which was taken over by Deluxe Data in 1994). I spent 5 years in Runcorn developing code for SP/ARCHITECT for various banks like TSB, Bank of Scotland, Rabobank and Girofon (Denmark) to name but a few. I then moved onto a software house in Salford Quays for further bank facing projects. After a further 23 years in the IT industry and now a Senior IT Project Manager (both Agile and Waterfall delivery), I thought I would echo out my Career Profile in this corner of the internet for quick and easy access.

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