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As one of the organizers of the wbnaeir, I'm really happy to see so much critical thought around the topic. My take on this is that there is no static solution here. For purposes of this discussion, let me refer to the two schools of thought as standardization and craftsmanship. Standardization being the collection, organization and dissemination of a set of information and skills around some domain, in our case project management. Craftsmanship would be the personal journey of experience, discovery and innovation a professional goes through as they apply their craft and grow their own skills.To better explore this, let me offer the field of physics. On one hand, we have standardized knowledge. Most all of us have experiences going through high school physics where you need to apply numerous formulas to determine the correct velocity, force, mass or some other characteristic of whatever it is you're studying. We acquired hard skills in a domain in which there is a right and a wrong answer. Overall, we were consuming a lot of standardized knowledge.Now there are two specific benefits to this approach. First of all, the standardization of knowledge allowed the massive dissemination of skills and insights that took lifetimes to learn. A high school graduate today stands upon the shoulders of numerous geniuses with more knowledge than could have been discovered by one person in several lifetimes. But of course they are not scientists.No, eventually they must put his craft into practice and begin to see what happens. They must conduct their own experiments and develop their own theories to test. Indeed, this is where our standardized training can become a liability. For example, Einstein had to challenge Newton's three laws of motion when he developed his own theory of relativity. The more establishment knowledge we have, the harder it can be at times to discard it when we find something new.Thus, in a healthy field we need people who are building up standardized knowledge to capitalize on insights discovered by a few, as well as individuals to question that very knowledge, tear it down, and establish new ideas to be standardized by others.Neither alone will work sufficiently. Without standardization on some level we can not get the scale or dissemination for an idea to become widely adopted. Without craftmanship, we won't be able to purge the body of knowledge of incorrect ideas or those that have outlived their usefulness.The day we stop having this discussion and embrace either position wholly will be when we get in serious trouble
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(VISITOR) AUTHOR'S NAME
Denise
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18 december 2014, 08:50:16
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