What does it take to be awesome? Being extraordinary at what you do starts with a couple of essential hurdles. Follow these practical strategies for standing out—without self-aggrandizement.
Make your voice heard! 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.
If collaborative leadership is going to be the preferred style across organizations, then it requires top leaders to practice it themselves—and to encourage it in each of their areas. Here are four ways PMs can ensure they are able to effectively contribute on each occasion they are invited to collaborate.
If you have been thinking of getting started with no-code tools but you’re just not sure where to start, then this first video in our three-part series is for you. Max Mirho shares his tips for getting started with no-code.
How can organizations, teams and individuals be more innovative? Here we explore how project and program managers can develop and leverage a better strategic understanding of innovation to produce the outcomes that their specific organization needs.
The world is changing faster than ever, and the next disruption is just around the corner. Many companies are therefore well on their way on an agile transformation to become more adaptive and resilient, but many experience that the transformation does not provide the business value they had imagined in advance and new challenges emerge.
By Yasmina Khelifi, PMI-ACP, PMI-PBA, PMP Are you a micromanager in your projects? Of course not! (Who would answer “yes” to this question?) However, after 20 years of work experienc ...
Introducción En esta serie de artículos trataré de ser lo más sintético posible para no aburrir con la lectura. Voy a escribir sobre hechos que he vivido y per ...
Hi Looking for the abbreviation of "CAR"?This is done prior to the commencement of a project budget. Would appreciate it if someone could explain too? ...
By Yasmina Khelifi, PMI-ACP, PMI-PBA, PMP Are you a micromanager in your projects? Of course not! (Who would answer “yes” to this question?) However, after 20 years of work experienc ...
Where can I find more information related to types of Change Management? I was asked on types of Change Management in an interview, and was unsure about it. ...
GTIM Nation knows of my fondness for Thomas Kuhn’s seminal work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press, 1962), where he points out that our perception that science ...
How is Project Management Process Groups different than SDLC phases? Project Management Process Groups - Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, Closing SDLC Phases - plann ...
Not quite ready to scale? Don’t worry Before we get into scaling citizen development, it’s worth remembering that relatively few organizations have reached this stage. With citize ...
Please help make my chapter the best and share your thoughts on: How a local PMI chapter can reach out to the business? What could the business gain from the chapter? I am interested in ideas tha ...
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!
Low-code and no-code platforms are proliferating, but are people using them? Find out in our latest infographic on Citizen Development and the Adoption of LCNC.
We asked our community members to give us their views on using no-code in their job. Find out what they told us in our recent survey results and insights!
In this Conversations series, Arjun Jamnadass explores citizen development with Matt Hubbard.
We have put together our first list of low-code/no-code platforms that offer free trials. Download our list to help you get started on your citizen development project.
Project leaders have a key role to play in innovation. It starts with giving teams the flexibility to be creative and develop unexpected results. Facilitating customer interaction helps teams explore what is actually needed and get in the mindset to deliver it. And stakeholders must be prepared for change and ambiguity, instead of predictability.
There are many ways that citizen development can improve reporting. Here are six practical examples from companies worldwide to inspire you.
The last element of a high-performing project team isn’t a title or a skillset. It’s culture. But the right culture doesn’t happen by chance. Here, the author of a guide to leading digital initiatives shares five core values for building winning teams.
Agile found its way into project delivery with many certifications attempting to define various agile roles, some of them project-related. Although the Manifesto for Agile Software Development is against specialization in an Agile Team, all the traditional roles have become "Agile" by sticking the "Agile" label to the old job title: for example, Agile Project Manager, Agile Tester, Agile Business Analyst, "Agile" Scrum Master and the "Agile" Coach. Most Agile frameworks, like Scrum, Crystal, and XP, were conceived by developers for a small team of software developers, and the Project Manager role is usually omitted. Unlike 'specialized' Agile Project Manager certifications, PMI's Project Management Professional (PMP)® remains the industry benchmark for the Project Manager role, providing an increased focus on Agile and Hybrid practices without compromising the knowledge required to manage projects that can't or won't use Agile practices. This webinar is a comparative analysis of various roles in a project that uses agile practices and how various project roles should change to adapt to a new way of delivering projects.
Citizen development is gaining traction and many organizations are using low-code or no-code software to build apps and solve business problems. So how should organizations go about implementing citizen development? In this session Trevor will share his experience in implementing a successful citizen development project using a low-code platform.
As organizations become aware of the need to achieve business agility more are also becoming aware of the need to manage value streams to achieve it. This webinar discusses how managing the value streams of an organization lays the groundwork for improvement in value delivery.
As a Coach, Is our mandate only to Coach & Transform our Development Teams? Or should we also coach our Product teams. Many Agile transformations do not succeed as they fail to address the Coaching needs of the Product Ownership teams. It is important that we as coaches focus on our product owners and coach them the right way of product development. This webinar looks at product development from an Agile coaches perspective.
Soft skills, such as they are, are amongst the hardest things that you will learn to apply as a project manager. Excelling at these skills is the product of a lifetime of learning, and even then you will learn things that surprise you and catch you off guard. There are still strategies you can employ and insights you can realize to engage with the messy human dimension of projects. They don’t necessarily work the way you think, but they are there. This webinar will provide you with insights on how to learn them and use them.
Have you ever lost sleep because of a difficult stakeholder? Maybe it was a boss, peer, or someone on the other side of the business. Perhaps it was worry about having to deal with them in an upcoming meeting. Or ruminating about how they are an obstacle to progress on a project. So much of our success leading and directing projects and change initiatives comes down to our ability to influence our project stakeholders. Experience teaches us that managing their expectations and building rapport with our key stakeholders can make an enormous difference in our ability to successfully deliver. But the truth is some of our stakeholders are difficult. And though you can unfriend people on social media, you can't unfriend a stakeholder--you have to learn how to deal with them. In this session, Andy Kaufman shares six strategies for dealing with difficult stakeholders. There are no simple answers, but these are strategies that Andy has shared with clients around the world, and you're invited to see which ones you can put into place. After all, you deserve a better night of sleep!
Since the term, agile, grew popularity in the second decade of the 21st century, Risk Management was one of the strong selling points of various agile frameworks. According to agile surveys, reducing risk is one of the main reasons for agile adoption. However, none of the agile frameworks provide guidance on Risk Management. Most of them are limited to a simplistic view that by delivering in small increments risk is limited to the value of a single sprint. The reality is far more complex, and it is not limited to coding or technical skills. A project is dependent on context, on organizational culture, and last but not least, on people's desire to work as a team and succeed. This webinar is a brief introduction to how important Risk Management is, how it can be done in agile, and why risk, especially in Agile, should not have a negative connotation. Real-life examples will be used to illustrate how the Project Manager, Scrum Master, and the whole project team can take advantage of Risk.
Every project has multiple work streams that project manager must ensure are ready to help deliver the promised benefits of the initiative. A managed OCM workstream is the most effective means of ensuring successful adoption of the work. However, there are OCM specific tools and techniques the project manager can use to effectively deliver this workstream. This presentation will explore those technical details and also discuss a communication strategy, so all stakeholders are aware of the workstream and the value it adds to the project.
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