Archive for November, 2009
Nehemiah’s Project Management Skills
November 25th, 2009 | 
Author: Project management professionals like to break down their expertise into knowledge areas and process groups. The knowledge areas are:
- Integration management
- Scope management
- Time management
- Cost management
- Quality management
- Human resources management
- Communication management
- Risk management
- Procurement management
The process groups are:
- Initiating
- Planning
- Executing
- Monitoring and controlling
- Closing
Read the book of Nehemiah and pick the knowledge areas and processes that Nehemiah used. Further blogs will cover the ones that I think he used – I’m not a pm btw.
- Who were the stakeholders?
- Who was Nehemiah trying to please?
- Who was the Sponsor?
- What was the scope?
- What was his budget?
- What was his schedule?
- What (or who) were the risks?
- Who made up his team?
- How was communication maintained? (internal and external)
- Where did each team start and stop?
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Nehemiah – Project Manager Extraordinary
Nehemiah was a cup bearer to one of the Media-Persian kings and he had a special self-prescribed mission to restore Jerusalem’s gates and walls that had been broken during the Babylonian reign. Nehemiah was given permission, authority and provisions by the king to carry out his mission. The book of Nehemiah describes Jerusalem’s gates and walls and it also mentions the names of the people who repaired each part. No project is ever without its opponents, detractors and distractions – Nehemiah describes these also. Nehemiah was an extraordinary project manager.
Jerusalem holds some significance for the Jewish, Christian and Moslem faiths. They’ve been fighting over it for over a thousand years. Conquerors come and go – Babylonian, Greek, Egyptian, Roman and whoever else since. But that’s the big picture only. It’s when you look at the parts that make up the whole that things get more interesting. Among the little things there is a common theme that reappears, that if you respect Jerusalem and treat it right, you will be blessed.
Further blogs will make some attempt to expound on the significance behind the objects, names and events.