Project management could go a long way toward being better understood—and better appreciated—if it just shared more information in a way people could interpret.
As project work shifts and evolves to meet the changing needs of the business, what are the implications for our teams—and how do we manage them?
Agile provides us the opportunity to measure what has actually occurred: empirical data. Given the observations, agile program managers don’t need too many measurements. Here are three that will help you see the program’s progress.
India has been a focal point of the IT revolution in the last two decades. This overview frames the IT landscape and evolution; and what organizations, start-ups and workers can do in this era of confusion and transition to create more jobs, sustain jobs and try to maintain India’s edge on the industry overall.
A key component to project success is the project manager’s ability to facilitate diverse groups toward discovery or consensus decision making through effective meeting management. Keep these tips in mind to keep your audience engaged.
Agile teams are all about high bandwidth, cross-functional communication. But, we can get really jumpy about conflict. Creative conflict is where the good stuff is in product development and innovation. Come learn about how effective conflict engagement deepens consciousness and what we mean when we talk about consciousness and software development. Jean’s style is dialogic, so expect to interact!
by Christian Bisson, PMP A scrum master is an essential part of an agile team. However, it seems their role is often underestimated or misunderstood. In this article I’m hoping I can shed som ...
Have you taken the exam? Passed? Failed? Failed and then passed? Help out a fellow project manager and post your tip on studying for and taking the exam. Here are some we''ve gathered from members ...
Hi I have a 3 year bachelor degree plus 2 year MBA degree from distance education. I am also in the process of getting my 35 PDUs Total professional experience I have is 11 years. Now my question is s ...
You are managing a large residential complex construction project.Your company's management has decided to build each building as a separate project phase. When will the Develop Project Charter proces ...
Darren Petersen is a Senior Technical Project Manager at Lullabot. He’s also incredibly knowledgeable about Agile. In this interview Darren and I discuss how Agile has been implemented at Lullab ...
I enjoy blogging about the intersection of project management and sustainability, and sometimes people think this is ‘only’ about project management applied to ‘green’ projects ...
I have heard of a potential PMI chapter in Mauritius, but cannot find details of what stage this is at. I've presented at numerous PMI Chapters and Congresses in Africa, Europe, North America and Aust ...
I had to smile when I saw that the ProjectManagement.com theme for August was virtual project management. Back in my PMNetwork columnist days I actually wrote a piece by that very title, and it was fu ...
At Agile 2017, Johanna Rothman and Mike Griffiths sat down with Dave to talk about the work they've been doing on the PMI Agile Practice Guide. Their work was part of a joint effort between the Ag ...
While there are many governance data points that can be gathered and analyzed to help make go/no-go decisions, there are three in this writer's experience that stand out as being the most important.
Are we on track? Every team gets asked this, sooner or later, again and again. On agile projects, a key input for answering the question is the product backlog. But it is only as good as the “health” of the stories in it. Here are five key areas to consider when measuring the health of your product backlog.
We are often trying to do more with less, but when complexity creeps into your organization or your world, you may need to flip the script and do less with more.
It can sometimes get lost that there are a great number of projects initiated every day that will never have a formal budget associated to them. It is important that PMs and management not lose sight that even internal projects can benefit from the rigor of cost management processes and EVM principles.
Our webinar Lean-Driven Project Management shared some lean principles and practices and gave examples of how they could be used in a large variety of projects. Here, the presenter continues the conversation with this Q&A session that followed his presentation.
In recent years, business intelligence solutions have become more important in many aspects of business. What can they do for project management?
All projects have proponents—but also those who don’t want the project to move forward for various reasons. This article offers some practical techniques to address and resolve tense situations so your project can move ahead.
Given that more and more companies need to be data-driven, data science is one of the most sought-after fields of expertise today. But while data science is a relatively new field, its best practices reveal how much it depends on strong project management.
Given the fact that millennials will comprise more than one in three adult Americans by 2020, smart organizations are investing time and energy not just learning about their oftentimes unique workplace preferences/work styles, but also determining how to best leverage their strengths to benefit all.
Professionals working in the field of project management are often exposed to stressful situations and frustrations caused by a wide variety of challenges ranging from unrealistic expectations, stakeholder resistance, or constantly changing priorities. The reactions to these challenges depends greatly on the individual, their experience, and capabilities.
The gist of the matter is to manage "Collective Commitment" of an individual member, team, and an organization. This webinar will cover how that happens, managing certain prerequisites while forming a team and inducting a new team member, certain areas of leadership to help the team perform at their best, and certain behaviors to avoid.
In this session, you will learn how to conduct a structured Debrief to assure your team can scale successes and eliminate the failures that may have occurred during the length of the project.
Bad projects abound, and research by Project Management Institute and others has provided useful insight into the underlying causes of bad projects. This webinar looks beyond why projects go bad and explores why bad projects are so hard to kill.
This webinar is designed to explore the pathways and options available in realizing project management mastery. It explores the development strategies available to us, and outlines their essential role in building effective project management skills. Most importantly, it is designed to provide you with the insights to plan your personal journey towards your career goals.
This presentation explores the concept of bounded rationality & its impact on project management decisions. Different bounds have been identified & discussed which impacts critical decisions during different phases of the project life-cycle. A bound free model of decision making has been discussed as part of this webinar.
Lean practices have revolutionized the manufacturing industry; the application of lean principles have also had a big impact in construction, IT, services and health care. In this webinar we will share some of those principles and practices and give examples how they can be used in a large variety of projects.
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