How can you give leaders enough confidence to make the decision to proceed with a project? One of the shortest lines in 'Top Gun: Maverick' represents something every project manager should recognize.
Organizations often try to automate processes that don’t really work. Simplify first, then automate, and you’ll get more value out of artificial intelligence. Here's how...
Experienced project managers continue learning new methodologies, but they stop treating them as competing philosophies. Instead, they begin collecting useful ideas and select the practices that made the most sense for the project in front of them.
Ambiguous situations can be difficult enough, but when someone is actively working against your efforts to get clarity, it's even worse. Do you complicate versus clarify? Here are some warning signs to look out for—and tips to help.
How do we future-proof a workforce? More importantly, what would it take to build workforce readiness not just for today, but for the decade ahead? This practitioner shares how a project helped illustrate the answer.
Stakeholder influence mapping is always a touchy subject, because in my experience, no one really likes to call out the people who don’t have influence…However, we have to have an understanding of sta ...
Think of a time when things just clicked. What specific conditions, behaviors, or decisions made it possible? How might we intentionally replicate those patterns elsewhere? ...
Validating and checking outputs is critical when working with AI systems like Generative AI. Such validation approaches may include establishing clear criteria, implementing strong testing protocols, ...
In the runup to the decisive World War II battle of Midway, there was sharp disagreement between the Hawaii-based U.S. Naval cryptologists, headed by Joseph Rochefort, and the Washington D.C.-based in ...
Separating the Function from the RolePhase 1 established that leadership, decision authority and management responsibilities can be distributed without removing the material interdependencies among th ...
With Generative AI, iteratively refining and optimizing prompts can lead to better AI-generated results. This may involve adjusting the specificity or clarity of the prompt to increase relevance and a ...
Questioning the assumptions hidden inside familiar project constructsThe first phase of THE AWAKENING began with a question.What changes when project leadership becomes increasingly distributed?Five r ...
Hi PMI Community! I’m Sarah Philbrick, and I work as a Product Manager at PMI with a focus on our learning offerings. As we go on this skill-building journey together, I’m excited to engag ...
Curated with Agile Alliance, this resource path connects the why, what, and how of agile project professionals can move from mindset to momentum.
There has been significant growth in continuous and adaptive planning in recent years. That’s a good thing, but it has its limitations. How can we ensure that our initial plans are as accurate as possible?
As part of today's agile-focused content spotlight on ProjectManagement.com, we've gathered a selection of articles and webinars that explore agile from multiple perspectives, including team collaboration, delivery practices, leadership, enterprise agility, and continuous improvement.
Successful change is not about defining the right solution, but about ensuring it is understood, trusted and adopted. Because when communication is handled with intention, buzzwords don’t just float—they land.
The next time a kick-off opens with “we just want out of the box, no customizations at all,” hear it for what it usually is: a sign that the conversation about how work actually gets done has not happened yet.
Do you find yourself at times being a broadcaster when there’s ambiguity? Here are a few questions to help you identify when you’re exhibiting broadcaster traits...and steps you can take to improve.
One of the major AI engines just announced that it was embedding a watermark into every piece of content that it produces. This is very good news for project managers and the world at large, a step toward responsible AI.
Youth leadership showed this student that leading is not always loud, perfect or fully planned. Valuable lessons came from school projects, student groups, volunteering, doing research, and being part of professional communities.
While generative AI tools promise unprecedented developer velocity, enterprise delivery leaders face a growing paradox: localized coding speedups rarely translate into predictable product delivery or bottom-line business value. Without structural governance, unchecked code generation pushes bottlenecks downstream into integration testing, security compliance, and uncontrolled multi-cloud infrastructure costs.
Artificial intelligence is changing the way projects are delivered, but many project managers are still applying traditional acceptance criteria to systems that produce probabilistic rather than deterministic outcomes.
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Project managers already possess one of the most powerful leadership toolkits available — yet many underestimate its application beyond the project itself. This webinar explores how core PM principles including stakeholder management, risk planning, scope definition, and change management translate directly into personal leadership development and career advancement strategies.
Project sponsors can make or break outcomes. Explore how stronger sponsorship, governance, decision-making, and sustainability can set projects up for success.
Understanding how things work involves getting a rapid appreciation for the real dynamics of the organization. The power structures, cultural influences, emergent expectations and interpersonal dynamics are fundamental. Ways of learning and getting comfortable with those forces require thought, diligence, attentiveness and care.
PM's are no longer just project managers. Hear how project professionals are integrating sustainability, equity, and ethical impact in their projects, driving outcomes that matter.
***This is a PMI Led Webinar*** This webinar shares why inter-organizational relationships are vital for infrastructure project success and shares the key recommendations that help deliver project success. Based on a research collaboration between PMI, University College London and MIGSO-PCUBED.
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