Dear team,
Do you perhaps have any information relating to the benefits and/or challenges for integrated vs a centralized maintenance function? Also, have you seen artisans (Fitters, electricans and millwrights) being placed in Technical operator roles? What are the lessons learned in this regard?
Regards
Hi Christo,
Thanks for getting in touch. I think the benefits would probably be similar to that of the advantages of a pmo. Namely, economies of scale and a consistent coordinated way of working. It would likely share the disadvantages too. Some of the information is here, otherwise just do a search on “pmo benefits”.
I’m afraid I don’t understand the 2nd question so can’t help you there.
Best,
Denis
Hi Denis,
Thank you very much for this useful post. I am trying to run a similar exercise, and though I really like the format you lay out, I am having difficulity, as my lessons learned session pertains to a very long-term project (2+ years). For this reason, when you ask participants to outline the “key events of the project, both good and bad and place them on the timeline” I am worried that events will either be too high level, or too detailed (and clustered towards the latter end of the project where memory better serves). Do you have any advice or best practice as to what “defines” an “event” per se in longer projects?
Also, did you “prime” your participants in any way to all think of “events” along the same lines (e.g. if some people assign more emotional events, it will negate the 4-color approach of assigning emotions to events in the second step). I would be keen to hear your advice on this as well.
Many thanks in advance Denis, greatly appreciate your help,
Harriet
A very brief response but I would simply create a long timeline on a wall and ask them to put the key events on it – although you might want to jog their memory by walking through the milestones and big decisions of the journey.
I don’t understand your second point, but I don’t see the need to prime people, as you’re trying to elicit their true feelings about the project and not restrict them in any way. If there are different emotions attached to events then just capture the range or let the facilitator agree a consensus with the group.
Hope this helps.
Denis
Hi Denis,
Many thanks for your response, I really appreciate your time with this. I may again take an opportunity to pick your brain with a couple more questions, if I may.
The reason I ask about “priming” participants to all think about events in the same way, is because I am wondering if you have ever been in the scenario where some people choose very emotional or personal events (e.g. “the workshop I ran independently was awful because I felt the participants were disengaged”) where others may choose very high level events (e.g. “the project planning was poor”). Would this not make it very difficult in the “colored sticker” phase because people wouldn’t be able to relate to other people’s defined events? So people would only put their stickers on their own events?
Perhaps it would be helpful to me if you provided an example: When you use the word “event” here, can you give me an example or two of what you have seen in the past?
Many thanks Denis – again I am very appreciative of your help and insight here,
Kind regards,
Harriet