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Bruce's Blog: Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 6
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Tuesday, 17 December 2013. Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 6. We have finally reached System 5 in our survey of the Viable Systems Model and how it applies to project management. As noted in the previous article. System 5 is responsible for top-level decisions. The role of System 5: Policy and strategic direction. How does System 5 work?
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Bruce's Blog: Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 4
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Tuesday, 29 October 2013. Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 4. In Stafford Beer's VSM systems, Systems 1 and 2 are concerned with the operations of the system (see previous posts. The role of System 3: Synergy Centre. So System 3 is responsible for:. Ensuring resource allocation between each Operational unit is appropriate. Leading on from the ...
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Bruce's Blog: November 2013
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Friday, 22 November 2013. Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 5. You can divide project management into three very broad areas of activity: governance, management and work stream activity. If you’ve followed this series on VSM. Posted by Bruce Levitan. Links to this post. Tuesday, 19 November 2013. Flow and bottleneck game. Posted by Bruce Levitan.
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Bruce's Blog: Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 3
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Tuesday, 22 October 2013. Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 3. Explained how the first of Stafford Beer’s VSM systems, System 1, can be applied to project management. Now we continue with looking at System 2. For a reminder of the whole VSM model see my overview post. The role of System 2: Regulatory Centre. System 2 also regulates variety....
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Bruce's Blog: Flow and bottleneck game
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Tuesday, 19 November 2013. Flow and bottleneck game. Each workstation has an in-box, which is where incoming items/tasks are stored and a processing unit which is the person throwing a dice to see how many items they can process and pass along the chain. At the beginning of the simulation the workstations each have 3 items in their in boxes. Each workstation cann...
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Bruce's Blog: Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 5
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Friday, 22 November 2013. Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 5. You can divide project management into three very broad areas of activity: governance, management and work stream activity. If you’ve followed this series on VSM. The role of System 4: The “big switch”. This means that System 4 is responsible for:. Keeping tabs on what’s going...
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Bruce's Blog: October 2013
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Tuesday, 29 October 2013. Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 4. In Stafford Beers VSM systems, Systems 1 and 2 are concerned with the operations of the system (see previous posts. Posted by Bruce Levitan. Links to this post. Tuesday, 22 October 2013. Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 3. Posted by Bruce Levitan. I launched this...
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Bruce's Blog: September 2013
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Thursday, 26 September 2013. Why I hate project management. I hate the term project management and Im a project manager! Project management implies that projects can somehow be managed, and derives from the traditional command and control. Mindset that (still) pervades too many organisations. Posted by Bruce Levitan. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Bruce's Blog: Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 1
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Thursday, 3 October 2013. Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 1. In my previous post. Further posts will explore VSM’s sub-systems in more detail, with relation to project management. For those who wish to follow up on VSM in more detail, there are some references at the end of this post. Systems (the S of VSM). In project management terms, a pro...
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Bruce's Blog: January 2014
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A blog about the uses of Social Networking, Project Management and Systems Thinking in the public sector, plus other stuff that takes my fancy. Monday, 13 January 2014. Viable Systems Modelling for Project Management part 7. If you have followed this series so far. You’ll know that we have looked at each of Stafford Beers 5 Systems within the Viable Systems Model, relating them to project management. What more is there? Well Beer’s model is recursive, or fractal, and this is what this article covers.
