How Art can help PM to analyze and accurately describe their problems & tasks.

There's a prevailing attitude but art doesn't matter in the real world but the study of art can enhance our perception and our ability to translate to others what we see those skills are useful because can be used by engineers in the process of defining a project request , using a painting, sculpture and photography as tools to improve their visual acuity and communication skills, which are critical during investigations and development of project or stablish contingencies scenarios of emergencies.

If you're treating an injury investigating a crime scene, or trying to describe either of those things to a colleague, art can make you better and help you to learn how to describe scenarios and details with more precision. The same like an engineer would require to formulate a description of a new system, a new process that requires to be implemented. So, let’s imagine, you're at a museum and let's look at this painting :

Rene Magritte's Time transfixed of 1938 .

Depicts a mysterious and complex interior that invites analysis, so let´s describe this scene like if it were a scene of a crime

Description:

"A miniature train ,whose origin and destination are unknown, is emerging from a fireplace and the smoke from the locomotive appears to flow up the chimney, as if from the fire that is conspicuously absent below the eeriness of the scene is echoed in the empty living room enhanced. By woodgrain floors and decorative wall moldings, to the right of the fireplace perched a top the mantelpiece, are two candlesticks, and a clock behind these objects is a large mirror that reveals an empty interior, and only a partial reflection of the objects before it the juxtaposition of the objects surrounding, the moving train raises numerous questions for which there seemed to be no apparent answers".

Did I summarise the painting accurately? or leave any details out it's no big deal

Exercises in Art, or a more closely study of Art can defentely help to trainning engineers and technical specialists viewers to study thoroughly, analyse the elements observed, articulate them succinctly, and formulate questions to address the seeming inconsistencies, scrutinising the details of an unfamiliar scene, in this case the work of art, and accurately conveying any observable contradictions is a critically important skill, for both people, clients and vendors, IT Head or Teams, engineers and integrators, who ever requires to look with x-rays to a project and see ways to implemented and to those who interrogate because will become the users. Art can help them to develop that acuty to discover paths and make the right question, like if we were interrogating this painting.

Where is the train going?,

Why the rain is coming out of the chimney?

Why is the room empty?

etc…

Art , definitely can help to develop talents, and technical professionals can develop an asset if they would develop interest in Art. Some they do, but some others, do not realize the incredible tool they can have in if they develop an Art interest. Making the right questions, and observing the scenario, Could help them to hold the answers of all related to their projects, and this would be an asset, an attribute that would improve immensely their work and their results.