Project Portfolio-Program Management

Lets start with a story, Once upon a time there was a herd of tiny elephants. who gathered for a competition. The goal was to reach to the top of a very high peak . A big crowd had gathered around the peak to see the race and cheer on the participants... The race began... Honestly, No one in herd really believed that the tiny elephants would reach to the top of the peak. Crowd yelled statements such as: "Oh, NO WAY, too difficult!! They will NEVER make it to the top." "Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!" The tiny elephants began collapsing. One by one...... Except for those who in a fresh tempo were climbing higher and higher... The crowd continued to yell "It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!" More tiny elephants got tired and gave up......But ONE continued higher and higher and higher... And he had made to the top ................ Can you guess why he is able to make it to the top...... All of the ot...

Games People Play in context to Projects: Contextually life and projects full of games, work on  dynamics of human relationships by   Dr. Eric Berne guides us not only in many social but relationship situations in corporate world also. In Todays concurrent world where we are living in a global village with Orkut, Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and other social media leads to discounts of information in social network, where more of transactional games played knowingly(conscious) or unknowingly(unconscious). Precede to this let us understand game, A game full of transactions played with different roles by players changing their roles for a outcome in different ego states like Parent, Adult and Child ego states that will payoff.  Continuing with Payoff, specifically in context to Project teams where transactions happen at concrete or transformational levels where people not necessarily behaving rationally and motivat...