Do Your Commitments Make Sense? How to Improve Your Happiness
As a new year approaches, set some time aside to think about your approach to giving and volunteering. It’s time to question your commitments to see if they still make sense.
As a new year approaches, set some time aside to think about your approach to giving and volunteering. It’s time to question your commitments to see if they still make sense.
Trying to "tough it out" at the expense of your health and well-being not only doesn’t make good sense, but can be harmful to your work, your colleagues, your loved ones, and yourself. Get help recognizing the warning signs.
In honor of the community, we've curated webinars from the PMI Educational Foundation and volunteer groups at PMI that showcase how PMI volunteers and project professionals are making a difference worldwide.
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 ...
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 ...
Automated Pentesting has its place and is here to improve and stay. But Pentesting is like programming or building an app. It depends on the person's creativity in pen testing, particularly for mi ...
Hello PMI Community, I’m planning to pursue the CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) certification soon and would really appreciate your guidance on how to prepare effectively. Wh ...
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 ...
Some of you might have noticed that sometime over the past few months, references to Disciplined Agile including the whole microsite containing the DA online resources had disappeared from PMI's w ...
The development of virtual assistants and large language models (LLMs) provides the foundation for ubiquitous project management. I define this term as the ability of a project manager to manage a pro ...
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 ...
I have been in Canada (Calgary) for a year now. I have been trying to enter the construction industry as a Project Manager. I have over 10 years in the industry but I can't seem to get my foot in. ...
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.
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.
Question: We are a relatively new organization, but we’ve been successful enough and expanded for two years. Now my boss has asked me to set up a PMO. But I don’t really understand who reports to whom and how the structure of this should be set up to make it the most appropriate, and the most beneficial, for my workplace. Is there a model I should follow, or should I just make up my own?
Is it possible that your PMO exists somewhere between two common polar extremes? If that is you, this article may hold a strategy that provides entry to the navigational helm,...but its cost may be more than you’re willing to pay.
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.
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.
Join us for an engaging conversation with Khrystyna Velychko, hosted by Vinod Paidakula, a Professional Awards Insight Team member.
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