Chapter 6. The RAP Process | Radical Project Management

"If there is something I can do for you, you come, we'll talk."

” Don Corleone (Robert DeNiro) ^[1]

^[1] Godfather Part II, Frances Ford Coppola, Director and Writer, 1974.

The process of participative planning or RAP sessions is the key to eXtreme project management. As a tool, it encapsulates all the behaviors mentioned in Chapter 3, "eXtreme Concepts." Just to remind you, they are as follows :

Participative: The management of projects is based on meaningful participation of stakeholders.
Proactive: Project management is a creative and proactive problem-solving process.
Open : Everything about the project is shared openly with all stakeholders.
Outward-oriented: The focus of the project manager is outward toward the stake holders.
Trusting: The project team is treated as professionals who are to be trusted.

In more than 500 RAP sessions for many clients , we have also proven, even to the most skeptical people, that RAPing a project is the most effective and efficient technique for planning and managing a project.