Have you ever wondered why projects at work often run late while wedding projects—with all their intricate logistics, high stakes, and emotional intensity—always come off without a hitch? What can we learn from these personal projects?
A good self-review should go beyond a bulleted list of project deliveries. It should be a comprehensive look at everything achieved, challenges overcome, lessons learned, and what the future holds. These tips can help.
We tend to think of volunteering as a one-way endeavor, but that's a mistake. There also has to be a "getting" aspect for philanthropy to work. What drives you to give of your time?
Before you can properly communicate and address artificial intelligence risks in your projects, you need to understand what concerns key stakeholders have. Here are some examples to get you started.
The importance of wellness and its impact to your leadership
Are you thinking about year-end project audits? Perhaps your PMO is thinking about how to learn from the past year. Perhaps you want to set a good foundation for projects next year. Perhaps you just h ...
The start of a new year can bring intense pressure to get projects up and running quickly – have you felt that? There is often new budget available, new expectations and just the natural sense o ...
Sometimes, I look at management today and think about how much has changed. We have AI helping us make decisions, remote teams working across time zones, and entire industries transforming overnigh ...
What are effective presentation techniques for delivering the closure report of a failed project to project stakeholders? ...
Worry not, GTIM Nation. I’m not trying to influence our beloved PMI® away from serious academic discussions on the management sciences and towards the tawdry. But I do think that there are s ...
When forming a new Scrum team, it’s crucial to look beyond the foundational aspects of Scrum and consider the broader ecosystem of practices, mindsets, and collaborative tools that contribute to ...
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 ...
<>Background: Legal concerns isolate open collaboration across organizational, project, and discipline lines. Yet, the productive system for results requires such. Cheers, Bill ...
When The Standard for Program Management – Fifth Edition will be followed for exam? ...
Project managers must be action oriented and task focused, and must build and train their project team to follow these principles. These PM fundamentals are good reminders on how to keep your project on track.
Your job as a project manager is to help your customer’s overall success. To help you along in your customer-centric journey, here are four tips to consider.
While the headlines might be that AI can start producing thought leadership and replace human writers, the reality is that there are many more—and more realistic—use cases that we can leverage almost immediately to help our projects.
When a PMO isn’t functioning effectively, it can become an obstacle rather than a support system. Here are five critical questions that can help identify if a PMO might be dysfunctional, with examples from both public and private sectors.
PMOs have to adjust to hit whatever problem sticks its head up next. If they are operational focused, they are constantly hitting the same problem regardless of whether it's currently an issue. How can PMOs better adapt in the future?
Most of you have experience working with a chronic canceler. Or even worse, you yourself may be a chronic canceler: sending those last-minute declines because something else came up. Here's why you need to change your behavior.
After leaving the grind of corporate America, this PM learned to return to how we are meant to live as human beings: focusing on the present instead of stumbling over it while being distracted by both the past and future. Now he's using PM skills in their rawest form.
Program managers have been adrift. No one has really been focusing on them, and it has become viewed as a less attractive career option. With strategic portfolio management, that’s stating to change.
Communication is a key to stakeholder management. Effective communication harnesses new opportunities for Leaders.
Fonterra has taken another step towards its low carbon transition with its Waitoa site in the Waikato (North Island NZ) installing a 30 megawatt wood biomass boiler to replace a coal boiler. The new boiler has reduced the site’s annual emissions by a forecast 48,000 tonnes of CO2e, the equivalent of taking approximately 20,000 cars off New Zealand’s roads. The Project Team worked as a “Community of People” with a strong focus on Health, Safety, and Wellbeing, as well as demonstrating effective Project and Programme Management to deliver Decarbonisation at scale, resulting in a hugely successful project.
To equip student leaders with practical strategies for networking, sustainability, and application, enabling them to create a thriving, resilient community within their clubs that fosters personal and professional growth.
In this engaging session, Dacia Donohue, Senior Director and Program Manager, PMP and PMI Mile High Chapter Volunteer, shares her unique insights on how project management skills can be transformative for children.
While procurement processes should be fair, that doesn’t mean that they can’t be efficient. The challenge is designing procurements with that outcome in mind. Good and effective procurements are indeed possible, but they need to be consciously planned to proceed smoothly and well. If you struggle with how to procure efficiently and effectively, this is a webinar that you won’t want to miss.
What is business analysis and who is a business analyst? - How does business analysis support project management? - What are the traits and characteristics that are effective?
The session also covers data privacy, stakeholder engagement, and maintaining resilience in the face of technological disruptions.
Understanding and measuring the impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives is crucial for project management professionals striving to create inclusive and equitable work environments. This webinar will offer a comprehensive overview of how to quantify DEI efforts within project teams and processes.
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