Japanese Best Practices

Japan has a long history of Culture? Projects have been completed in Japan for thousands of years.? Today, Japanese Companies are leading the world in terms of bringing new products to market.? Many of the concepts of Project Management have been imported from Japanese Business? For Example Kaizen, Ishikawa Diagrams, Affinity Diagramming, Scrum, Lean and Kanban.? The Third PMBOK Cafe is going to explore the unique nature of performing Project Management in Japan.

Participants shared their knowledge, and experiences.? The PMBOK was used as a base to compare what is different in Japan.? For Example; Project Charter, Project Plan, Earned Value Management, Risk Management etc.? What kind of Cultural Differences in Japan impact Project Management?

Scenario

In the future 2010 April, you are managing a large global project.? Most of the Project Team will be Japanese.? The Head Office is in Tokyo.? The Tokyo Office will conduct the majority of the planning/controlling/monitoring.? The customers will be global. There will be a manufacturing team in China. There will be an Information Technology Team in India. The Marketing Team will be from the USA.? The Project Managers from each team will come to Tokyo for training in Japanese Project Management Methods.? All the Project Managers are Project Management Professionals, with technical experience in their domains.

Before the planning begins, you are the activity owner for Team building activities.? Since most of the project will be planned/managed/controlled from Japan, the methods will be Japanese? The goal of the team building activity is to teach the offshore Project Managers about Japanese Business Culture and Project Management methods.