How can we better understand the nature and characteristics of wicked problems? And how can that learning be utilized to avoid risk and create value in organizations? Read about nine wickedness attributes—and get help measuring just how wicked your problems are.
As our four-part series comes to a close, we draw a number of parallels between the project lifecycle and the phases of a project management career. What phase are you in, and what have you learned through your experiences?
Increasingly, project managers are being asked to understand both traditional and agile delivery approaches. But does it matter which order you learn them in? Be very careful about the stereotypes you perpetuate to new project managers.
The election is now open to fill four vacancies on PMI's global Board of Directors for the 2022-2024 term. Learn more about the nine candidates by reading their bios and watching their videos. PMI members check your email for your personalized ballot to cast your vote before 5 p.m. EDT on 2 August.
Many project practitioners focus on execution and think their responsibilities start with the kickoff meeting. But before then, a good intake process can ensure a project is truly ready to begin. And, yes, it should involve not just portfolio or program leaders, but also project managers and teams.
Being invited to pitch an idea to senior executives can be both a blessing and a curse. On the upside, it provides an opportunity to showcase expertise before individuals with influence and strategic decision making within an organization. On the downside, a poor presentation can cast a negative shadow over the perception of someone's capability. This session will demonstrate how to design and deliver information more effectively at the senior level and enhance preparedness for leadership.
Lynda Bourne To paraphrase Gen. George S. Patton, “A good plan, enthusiastically executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.” The objective of this post is to sugges ...
Good afternoon. What's the best approach to the establishment of a PMO. Looking for tips ...
Brent was having a routine one-on-one with his boss Gail in her office. Over the six months since joining her organization, Brent noticed something different about Gail compared to his past bosses. ...
Hi everyone! I recently earned my PMP and currently in my first role as a marketing PM (leading 6 different teams). We are fully remote and it can feel challenging engaging my teams, making sure I'm p ...
Hello! I'm working on putting together a survey to send to key stakeholders in my organization to get their feedback on project management. When I joined the organization this Feb, project managemen ...
Any discussion of problem solving/wicked problems (ProjectManagement.com’s theme for June) should probably proceed from a very basic question: does the Project Team, particularly its PM, really ...
The PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (pmi.org/about/ethics/code) affirms four key values. These include responsibility, respect, fairness and honesty. The code says “we set high standards ...
New Jersey-based program manager Dianna Belluscio—aka “Data Queen”—manages validations, documentation and changes to life insurance models at financial services giant USAA&rsqu ...
Who are the stakeholders in your research project and why is it important to engage with them? How can you keep your project team and people outside interested in your project? How important is commun ...
We held a special online event all about Citizen Development at Work with a number of different citizen development industry experts. Read the key takeaways from their discussions!
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!
Companies love to tout how they are using artificial intelligence solutions in their products. But these days, it seems that the definition of AI—along with “robots” and “robotics”—is getting redefined. Are things getting out of hand?
There continues to be opportunity for project leaders with stellar communication and organizational skills to make a difference in the legal sector, beginning with helping legal departments prioritize their work and risks.
Want to see an example of citizen development in action? Check out this informative walk-through of building an app!
Most organizations have limited resources to invest in improvement initiatives. And a significant percentage of those resources don’t deliver results. That’s a huge problem. To begin to fix it, we have to understand where and why this waste is occurring.
Lagan Homes built a digital mobile app in a single day using no-code to prepare workers and ensure employee safety for returning to work at construction sites post-pandemic lockdown.
Project managers and teams are used to solving problems, but sometimes the better approach is to not even try. Unfortunately, not many PMs are embracing that approach yet.
This webinar is a survey of some of the more common (if we can think of them that way) real-world challenges that project managers encounter, and what we might do with them. Whether you are a new project manager or you already have the scars of real-world experience, you will find content of value and ideas you can use.
The complexity faced by organizations today requires teams of people working and learning together so that we may address the dynamically evolving demand of our customers. Yet our organizations are struggling to attract, grow, and retain the right people with the right skills at the right time. To address this dynamic situation we must embrace an agile approach to HR.
Enterprise architecture (EA) can potentially promote a common business vision within your organization, provide guidance to improve both business and IT decision making, and improve IT efficiencies. Unfortunately many EA teams struggle to provide these benefits, often because they are perceived as ivory tower or being too difficult to work with.
Business agility – being an adaptive, lean, responsive, and learning organization – is the race that enterprises need to win today. Yet there is no quick fix, no silver bullet, to attain business agility. This is a multi-year journey requiring hard work, experimentation, and most importantly a willingness to improve.
The book "Choose Your WoW! A Disciplined Agile Delivery Handbook for Choosing Your Way of Working (WoW)", was released January 2019. It represents a significant new release of the Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) portion of Disciplined Agile and, more importantly, describes how a team can take a streamlined, guided approach to process improvement.
Disciplined DevOps is an enterprise-class approach to DevOps that shows how mainstream DevOps, DevSecOps, DataDevOps, release management, and support fit together in a seamless and streamlined manner.
This presentation explores disciplined agile strategies to avoid technical debt in the first place, to remove existing technical debt, and how to fund the removal of technical debt. Industry data regarding technical debt will be shared.
Data Management is a critical component of both your DevOps and IT strategies. We work through the Disciplined Agile mindset for Data Management as well as a collection of strategies that enables you to take an evolutionary and collaborative approach to Data Management that provides the right data at the right time to the right people.
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