Our company has a long history of lack of knowledge about project management. Many of the stories that are legend here harken back to a time when we were 1) much smaller, 2) most of our clients didn’t care about project management, and 3) for those clients who did, the stories embody late nights and weekends getting things out the door for those awful people who didn’t respect how much careful thought our work really took.
Having just read some advice about helping cultural change by emphasizing stories that feature the values and practices you’d like staff to adopt going forward, I’m at a loss as to how to make good project management exciting. Now we do have a number of projects here in any year that are in trouble, and have had some very successful “interventions,” but those interventions aren’t necessarily ones the project staff would like made public - “this project was really headed down the tubes until they started paying attention to project management!”
Read more at: http://weblog.infoworld.com/lewis/archives/2006/06/how_to_promote.html