We all feel knocked down. How can we strengthen ourselves, and each other? Here are some tips on how to find the resilience needed to bounce back and be better than ever.
Your managers might think that agile approaches make everything faster. Instead, help them reframe their thinking: because the team members collaborate and learn together, the team can focus on fewer items at once.
Developing a project team that is ready and able to handle adversity as it arises is the only way to consistently produce results and achieve remarkable outcomes in these challenging, uncertain times. Here are tips and principles to help you build resilient teams.
What are the must-have tools and techniques for project managers in 2021, and which deserve an honorable mention? This checklist will help you choose the tools and techniques to apply to your organization and industry to stay on the cutting edge.
An uncertain business environment is an ideal environment for agile delivery practices—the flexibility and adaptability encouraged by prototypes, continuous feedback and refinements. But there still needs to be clarity about needs, goals, and what ultimately constitutes success.
Join three of our Center Stage podcast guests and moderator Tammy Ashraf as they explore how young entrepreneurs make reality by adapting traditional approaches to value delivery with new ways of working, leveraging evolving technologies, customer-centered design, sustainability and social impact. Somachi Chris-Asoluka, Tony Elumelu Foundation Head of Policy and Partnerships joins with ENACTUS U.K. team member Lili Csorba and project management coach Gavin Henderson to share insights and thoughts on young entrepreneurs; mentorship and knowledge transfer; societal impact; and enabling the future by making ideas reality. Tammy is a PMI member and volunteer and represents the voice of the profession in this exploration of the future of work.
by Yasmina Khelifi, PMI-ACP, PMI-PBA, PMP Having an innovative mindset isn’t not as simple as having good ideas. It takes strong project leaders who create an empathic culture in which people ...
I would like some input / advice on creating a program that is a sub-set subordinate program to a larger program. I've been managing projects that a part of a program, but my immediate leadership ...
Many of us would agree that when you are trying to implement a large change, start small. Just as it is easier to swallow a small pill than a huge one, the ability to adopt and sustain change is often ...
Hello: I am interested in becoming PMP certified. I believe that I meet most requirements to sit for the exam, as I have a masters degree and a minimal of 3 years leading projects. Can someone explain ...
In the 1983 movie Mr. Mom, Michael Keaton’s character Jack Butler has been furloughed from his job as an automotive engineer, but after some time is invited to re-interview for it with his forme ...
X3.1 - Why the paragraph doesn't include predictive projects in its definition for life cycle and development life cycle? It seems to imply only applicable in adaptive projects. Are I missing somethin ...
The last column (tilted "Alignment to the Old ECO") of the table of the following PMI document maps the topics of the new exam content outline with the sections of the PMBOK (6th edition). Question: W ...
In this next installment of "Creating the PMO of the Future," Adam Selverian, Assistant Vice President of Project Management & Governance at ESIS, Inc., walks us through the fu ...
Hello everyone, I am working on assisting with Scoping a New eComm site. I am new to eComm for the most part and I am just looking for any experience you have had with eComm sites, mostly looking ...
In his Conversations series, Ron Immink explores citizen development with Mario Trentim, an original thinker in the fields of transformation, innovation, project management and citizen development.
This article shares how some major risks were handled and what lessons were learned from an oil refinery’s mega-turnaround in the Middle East region in 2020.
PMI CEO Sunil Prashara and Sovan Shatpathy, SVP and Chief Technology Officer at Navy Federal Credit Union, discuss his experience in implementing citizen development across various industries—and the potential of citizen development moving forward.
Read a weekly digest of highlights and a selection of articles being published about Citizen Development from around the world. Check in every week for new insights!
Curious about what other organizations are doing in the low-code/no-code space? Be inspired by these examples from a wide variety of sectors, from energy to retail.
Stakeholders are not all created equal, but that’s often how project management is taught. If you are a stakeholder supporting a new project manager, there are a number of things you can do to make life easier.
You have a wealth of expertise and attributes. Take these steps to select the best topic and prepare an interesting and valuable presentation for other project managers who can benefit from what makes you unique!
Project managers are expected to set an example for their teams, and 2021 will test that to the limit. Resilience is about showing your team a positive but realistic attitude. Use these tips to help.
We start our project management journey as a search for tools to get organized and structured, to get things done, to organize and structure our work. It is a focus outward, looking for answers and solutions to questions and problems. At some point, we transition to a consuming of project management as defined and practiced. We learn structure and order, sequence and steps. There are boundaries, and within those boundaries there are espoused and recommended (dare we call them “best”?) practices. Eventually, we hit a point where we need to reconcile these perspectives. We recognize that the universal definition doesn’t suit all situations. We also come to appreciate the value of our own viewpoint and perspectives. We need to reconnect with where we started, and understand how all the pieces fit together for us.
Our “Getting Under the Hood” series continues with a webinar that will explore how different organizational stakeholders will benefit from the forthcoming PMBOK® Guide –Seventh Edition. Specifically, we will address the value it will provide to organizations in their journeys towards organizational agility and as they navigate through complexity and uncertainty. Join us to learn how various organizational stakeholders can contribute to the value stream of the organization.
The webinar will cover the methods and techniques used in EPC organization for Supplier Selection, Qualification and Evaluation for avoiding risk during Project Execution.
This webinar centers on how the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master successfully leads one or more agile teams and effectively takes on complex and key initiatives inside the organization. Together we explore: - How a DASSM starts by looking inwardly and intelligently lead themselves. - What tools a DASSM uses to lead teams to high performance. - How a DASSM creates organizational alliances enabling the development team to deliver value to customers early and often. - How a DASSM successfully leads the team inside the organization navigating common requests for planning, reporting, and metrics.
Do you know how the future Project Management will looks like? Are you afraid of the transformations? So, this webinar is for you! We will discuss the future of work in our role. The transformations brought about by AI and Robotization can be seen in different ways, depending on the lens with which professionals see the challenges and changes underway. Let's talk about these two big trends of the moment and how they can be considered allies in generating efficiency and not just as an additional source of anxiety and how they reflect on the impact in the future of work.
Scaling Agile has been a hot topic in the last 3 to 5 years. Organizations that have successful software deliveries are trying to spread the success of the Scrum Team(s) beyond technology departments. On the other hand, laggards, teams and organizations that didn't embrace Agile when it became clear that it is the future, are cutting corners and launching mammoth programs to "do" Agile. Scrum, the core of the most recent "scaled" frameworks, was designed for teams of less than 10 people developing software products. Even at that size, it is "difficult to master", according to its authors. This webinar takes a look at Agile scaling from both perspectives: agile software development created for small homogenous teams AND agile manufacturing conceived in the last century for large companies as a replacement to Lean. The webinar is based on the author's 30+ years’ of experience as a practitioner. From manufacturing to software development and then to projects, this webinar is an analysis of the famous mindset change and the challenges and lessons learned while doing it and helping others to do it.
Have you been wondering about what Agile Estimating and Planning looks like? How it is different from traditional methods and why you would even consider using agile estimation methods? If you're looking for a closer look at how we estimate, what story points are, how to use velocity for planning, dealing with fixed date and fixed scope projects, maintaining product backlog using scrum boards for daily standups then this webinar is for you!
For some, Agile started in 2002 as a revolution against "waterfall" with both (Agile and "waterfall") wrongly considered Project Management methodologies. While the Manifesto for Agile Software Development (aka THE "Agile Manifesto") was an important step in agile adoption, the reality is that most concepts considered "Agile" were in use for decades. Incremental and iterative software development had more than 3 decades of documented use, and the dreaded "waterfall" was more Agile than many modern frameworks. This webinar is a retrospective of Agile and Lean practices that were rediscovered when teams wanted to scale Agile towards the Enterprise level with the aim of learning from mistakes already made by others.
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