In particular for Large, Complex Projects involving hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of people, organizations tend to rely excessively on processes and ‘sound principles of management’. They forget how these endeavors remain human adventures, where leadership, emotions, suffering and team spirit have also their part to shape the success of the adventure. These factors actually will often make the success – or the failure – of these projects.

This is why to celebrate our first year of operation at Project Value Delivery we have decided to write a Manifesto: Projects are First of All a Human Adventure: Why You Can’t Manufacture Projects on a Standardized Assembly Line (White Paper 2013-01).

Those successful project companies will be those that overcome the Industrial Age mindset of conformity and standard processes to leverage on what makes the world of project execution so attractive to today’s adventurers: it remains one of those areas where the term ‘human adventure’ has a true meaning. It remains one of those areas where individuals can easily make a difference.

What makes projects successful are people who take initiative, who lead; teams that work together to realize incredible feats.

In project-based organizations, systems and process standardization should be primarily about knowledge management and communication, not compliance. Those project organizations that will be successful will be those that will leverage on the human adventure concept.

Project organizations that will be successful on the longer term will be leveraging the human and the emotional connections, create a dense network of communication and knowledge sharing, letting a collection of adventurers successfully deliver the most amazing realizations that we need.

Read our Manifesto: Projects are First of All a Human Adventure: Why You Can’t Manufacture Projects on a Standardized Assembly Line (White Paper 2013-01). And change forever your understanding of what projects are all about!