Remember when you were in school and your teacher announced that your class would be working on group projects?

If you went to a typical school as a child, here’s how such things usually went:

1. Dismayed students groaned in agony.

2. The teacher would purposefully throw mismatched classmates into the same groups together, in the spirit of “mixing it up.”

“Any questions?”

The phrase is uttered in millions of offices and conference rooms around the world.

Typically the person who says it is a project lead or manager who has just presented information on how something will be done or what the other people in the room will be expected to do.

If you’ve ever been in a meeting when someone says it, you know the drill:

Effective project management is all about doing things right:

• First, someone decides that something has to be done.
• Then, someone else assembles a team and designs an effective project execution plan.
• After that, the team members do their best to execute the project.
• Lastly, someone evaluates whether the project solved the problem it was meant to solve.

We are Qvest.

Qvest, pronounced 'quest', is named for exactly that: a journey with a purpose. Imagine the Quest for the Holy Grail. In that quest, and in most quests, a collection of individuals are driven to reach a goal.

There are unknown challenges, and individual skills and perspectives are revealed along the way. While there might be a leader on the quest, all members of the journey are responsible for the accomplishments and goals reached. Through the process of a quest, individuals are impacted and changed for the better.