Dec
28
Everything is a project, even this | Scott Berkun
Love this. It starts:
As often happens in life, when I meet people at a party or some work thing and they ask what I do, I tell them I write books. They ask what kind of books, and when I mention I wrote a book about project management they get all condescending. Why would you write a book about something as boring as project management? They ask.To which, I often say. Everything is a project.
And they say, what?
And I say, again, Everything is a project.
How did you get to this party? I ask. Well, that’s a project. How did you plan and deliver the last party you threw for others? That was a project too. The making of your home, the delivery of electricity and water to it, and the earning of wages to pay for all these things are all various forms of projects, or consist of activities roughly comparable to any definition of a project.
Then I say the kicker, project management is only as boring as the thing being managed.
