How might project management change once it’s a completely digital discipline? Here are some thoughts that are going to happen, might happen, should happen, and will never happen (but we can dream, right?!).
PMI is announcing its call for volunteers for those who would like to participate in the development of the PMBOK® Guide—Seventh Edition. We are now looking for volunteers to be part of both the Development Team and Review Team for the latest edition.
Flexible and responsive strategic planning is the key to sustainable organizational success. But adaptive planning can't deliver on its promised benefits until organizations commit to a top-down, lightweight approach; otherwise it's just traditional planning rushing to go nowhere.
The article is devoted to the underlying mathematical concepts of earned value: linear function, Cartesian coordinates and tangent. The EV visualization named “budget square” is derived from these concepts—and helps us master the earned value concept for both certification and practical needs.
Project leaders should seek feedback from their teams, and soon they'll be seeking it from you. When it's done with positive intentions, the full potential of teams can be unleashed, and projects prosper.
In this webinar you will learn the purpose and use of standards, and how they form the basis of the profession and practice of project, program, and portfolio management. Standards are used to codify professional knowledge, to normalize practices in the field, and to provide practitioners with a toolbox of processes and approaches that can be applied to the project. Standards are developed by credible, recognized bodies, in particular by ISO and by PMI. This presentation will discuss the process by which standards are developed in an open, consensus-based manner, and you will learn how you can get involved in the development of standards at PMI and at the national and international level.
by Christian Bisson, PMP, PSPO, PSM In agile, users are everything. So it only makes sense that users—anyone who will use or interact with your product—should be a team’s main foc ...
A recent question on Quora prompted me to spend 20 minutes writing an answer because I believe it to be a critically important question. The question was "How is strategic management used in p ...
Over the last couple of months, I have had the pleasure of offering two webinars exploring the use of character strengths as project managers. In the second webinar we moved onto the topic of seeing s ...
Why do we need Project Management Plan in Close Project or Phase? ...
Dear fellow consultants, I would like make aware our trainer community about this fraud and fictious company called 'Graspskills' approaching many senior consultants to provide training but they nev ...
When the first scenes of the planet Coruscant appeared in the Star Wars movie The Phantom Menace (to you purists out there, the clip of Coruscant that appears near the end of The Return of the Jedi wa ...
Is there a gap between what you do and what you are perceived as doing in your role as a project manager within your company/client? What are the consequences of this gap, and what are you doing (or w ...
Just an update on an original and wonderful post regarding CSM vs PSM by Andrew Craig: https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog-post/33212/Journey---Professional-Scrum-Master--PSM- I completed both th ...
I'm looking for a scheduling tool that provides a bit more capability than just Gantt charts. Ideally, it would support durations, dependencies, and be able to (re)calculate critical paths, slack/flo ...
Larger projects bring more human complexities, taking people management to a new scale. The use of the no-collar workforce for routine project management jobs actually frees up the time—and can increase the involvement—for project managers and PMO team members to focus on team management.
Ethics violations and dishonesty have led to the downfall of a number of mighty companies and their high-profile leaders. What are the nuances of the highest ethical standards?
The webinar How to be a Chameleon in Your Project: Changing Your Management Style to Lead a Successful Project received so much feedback, we didn’t have time to cover everything! The discussion continued afterward, and here Emily covers some additional questions and answers that came out of her presentation.
What does disruption mean for project managers? Without your input and leadership, your career and organization are going to suffer from disruption. Use these tips to take advantage of this opportunity.
Project managers sometimes feel they have to hide problems or challenges. That is never the right approach. When project managers try to mask or hide issues, they expose the project to a number of additional risks.
Project managers are regularly called on to coordinate event projects. The list provided here includes some tips from event management experts, who share some best practices.
It’s no surprise to hear that technology continues to shape the future of business, but what does that mean for project management? It’s time to embrace our digital future.
Although it’s true that not every attribute can be quantitatively measured, leveraging PMI’s three processes makes sense when defining a quality project manager.
Agile is a continuous improvement process in itself, but at the enterprise level, most of the Agile frameworks can’t be used for process improvement because the business area has very limited room for agility due to strong governance requirements or because of the culture and strong resistance to change. Process Improvement is a very well defined discipline that has tools and metrics that can easily be used to measure the benefits delivered by transition to Agile. This webinar presents some options for improving processes that have an Agile component but are not entirely Agile.
Less than half of organizations consistently report high strategic alignment in their project management practices despite established research linking business success to strategic alignment in projects. Regulatory implementation programs, in particular, are susceptible to being operationally (as opposed to strategically) managed with the sole focus on “getting the job done”.
Change is necessary because organizations are struggling with the new demands and challenges of complexity. This webinar looks at how Project Management can be the engine of change.
The world is becoming a difficult place to work as a Project Manager. We're working globally, across time zones and cultures, with new technology, and industries and projects are losing money at a staggering rate. We need to adapt.
Graf von Moltke was a Prussian Field Marshal who developed a rather genius, and simple, method to stack up his generals based on intelligence and initiative (or lack thereof.) The smart & lazy rose to the top because they made the right thing happen, at the right time and found the easiest way to do so. Marshal your projects (pun intended) and take control of your life!
“A bruise is a lesson and each lesson makes us better” – Arya Stark The HBO series, Game of Thrones, provides a project manager with lots of insights and lessons to consider.
Phileas Fogg is the protagonist in Jules Verne's novel, "Around the World in 80 Days," and proves that the project management process works in a voyage to beat all other voyages! Listen to how Phileas used the project management processes that we use every day to navigate various (and dangerous) risks in order to get what he thought would be the greatest reward - a successful trip around the world.
Virtually everyone agrees that projects benefit significantly when team members and key stakeholders speak up to ask questions, voice concerns (early!), and provide honest feedback. It’s that candid feedback that helps teams arrive at better decisions and sometimes avoid all-out calamity, but the truth is that oftentimes team members (even PMs) don’t feel free to speak up.
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