Ba in Projects and Programs: Creating the Habitat That Nurtures Knowledge

Abstract

By their nature, projects and programs are temporary and innovative initiatives, crowded by knowledge workers who are called to interact, discuss, collaborate, in an ad-hoc way of working due the uniqueness of the projectized environment. Because of this, one of the main challenges for project and program managers is “how to address the knowledge dimension”. In other word “how to create the habitat that nurtures knowledge, mainly the tacit one”. Creating the right Ba is the turning point. Of course, during the project/program life cycle, many and different Ba must be created and lived. This paper is aimed at discussing in a very practical way a collection of projectized Ba. They are: Ba for project risks identification according to a predictive approach; Ba for project sprint retrospective according to an agile approach; Ba for organizational change readiness in a large program; Ba for moving from project delivery to business value. Each Ba fosters the engagement of knowledge workers in sharing their tacit knowledge towards the common goal of the project/program. Is your project at risk of colliding with the iceberg of knowledge? Does the tacit knowledge remain in the deep layers of the iceberg? Doesn’t the register of lessons learned tell the true life of the project? Aren't project key people engaged in sharing knowledge? This paper can help you.