Project Versus Routine

Podcast that Ricardo presents and discuss in 5 minutes the main concepts and differences of projects and routine, talking in a practical way the limits that discriminate the routine work and project work.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five minutes PM podcast. This week, I will talk about the feline that separates the projects from the root In. Sometimes there is a misunderstanding about what is Routine and what is Project. So let's suppose I'm a construction company and I have hundreds of homes, our, our building's to build am I doing rooting work or project work?

So it's very hard. If your goal built a wall to separate Routine and projects from the white to the black, there is the grade in the middle that are a lot of things that would can veal as a project or views as a Routine. Let me give you Phil examples or a restaurant, a restaurant let's suppose that I have fixed set menu of plenty, a different kind of, of dishes, and now will not change this mini for ears.

So I don't have any do that. So I we'll do a project to create this menu. And Dan it's a routine work like the movie, modern times of shoplifting, the shopping used the screwdriver all the time and the, he became an actor excellent using this kind of tool. So a became a good because of the Routine, but nowadays we are facing something different. The Routine work is usually made buy machines.

The people is dune. Most of the time is innovation work projects. So the same restaurant doing a different many every single week, completely different kinds of food every single week. So it's different because inside each week I will check the resources that are, we need to run my restaurant next week, the people, the talent, the receipts, everything, and this is a product every week is a different challenge.

If we return back to the construction field, it's the same. It's the same let's suppose I'm a constructor for luxury homes. Every single home is a different project. Let's suppose that I have a construction company. In the other hand, that deal tome for the poor people, Poplar Holmes, the 10 Brits hundreds of that, the first one will be a project may be the second one, but after a 100 Hello with the same project, same pipelines, same wire's the same boars the same Windells this one will start to becoming the Routine, but now what is happening the world, the word is given much more Valley too.

The innovation then usually too. The Routine because of that, that the field have project management is growing very, very fast in, in different many, many different line of businesses bank, a bulk Ken ripped organize its clients as a project. So I don't have a fixed rate system to tax you to charge for the feasts, the banking fees. No, every single plant will be considered a different part, but if I can do that, but with a low cost builds will build a strong or a huge differential for my bed.

The projects is a very good way for doing that, but the word is not drive a car by only brothers. Routine in very good Routine work can deliver value. Also, let me give you, do you an example, fast food chain travel very much. And for me, is the heaven while traveling usually for a different, very different place. And when I see the logo of this kind of huge mega fast food, why is exactly because of the Routine because in that place, I am sure that the sandwich for the pizza that I will eat is exactly the same pizza that they serve in Brazil or that they serve in United States.

Our U K our Hong Kong. So the Routine is a major driver for Valley for this kind of chain. So the have recognition because of the Routine work, because the sandwich that you eat, they're, it's the same sandwich, one word Y, and I'd like to finish this, Podcast explaining to you that you can see the work is a project and as a Routine in a good project manager and a good manager will be recognize when it's better to address this as a Project or when it's better to address this is a Routine.

There is no rule four that there is no spreadsheet. Is it with 10 questions that you can submit an ask to your project or your wife to say, Oh, this is a Project. Yeah, this is Routine no, again, between the white and the black, you can find the gray and there's a lot of things on the gray area. Sometimes it's better for you to see this as a Project. Sometimes it's much medic to see this as a Routine you need that.

We have the sight, and this will be billed your differential as a manager to understand when it's better to do each of this way. I hope you enjoyed this podcast. See you next week with another five minutes BM. Podcast see you.

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