Project Management and Parenting!
Friday, February 26th, 2010
If you are not a parent, do not leave this little analogy on how project management and parenting have real elements of similarity- this is all still relevant to you.
Project management begins when a concept is to be taken from an idea into a reality.
Parenting begins in a similar way. Certainly for the first child, the parents have only a vague notion of what it will be like. Then they hear those famous words from the mid-wife or doctor saying “it’s a boy or it’s a girl or it’s triplets (ahem!)” and it brings them firmly into the world of parenting.
In business parlance, parenting would be a program of work to deliver a well-rounded individual out into the world.
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