Project Management

Models for *** Decision Making in Projects

From the PMI Global Insights Blog
by ,
Whether it’s in-person or virtual, PMI events give you the right skills to complete amazing projects. In this blog, whether it be our Virtual Experience Series, PMI Training (formerly Seminars World) or PMI® Global Summit, experienced event presenters past, present and future from the entire PMI event family share their knowledge on a wide range of issues important to project managers.

About this Blog

RSS

View Posts By:

Cameron McGaughy
James Turchick

Past Contributors:

Kimberly Whitby
Johanna Rusly
April Birchmeier
Nikki Evans
Dalibor Ninkovic
Dr. Deepa Bhide
Morten Sorensen
Tao Chun Liu
Jonathan Spiteri
Chris DiBella
Nic Jain
Tyler Norman
Nicholas Sonnenberg
Tam Abaku
Klaus Nielsen, MBA, PMI-ACP, PMP
Karen Chovan
Jack Duggal
Catalin Dogaru
Priya Patra
Josh Parrott
Scott Lesnick-CSP
Antonio Nieto
Dimitrios Zaires
Ahmed Zouhair
Carmine Paragano
Te Wu
Scott Bain
Katie Mcconochie
Fabiola Maisonnier
Erik Agudelo
Paul A Capello
Kiron Bondale
Jamie Champagne
Esra Tepeli
Renaldi Gondosubroto
Joseph Musiitwa
Mel Ross
Laura Lazzerini
Yonela Mfeya
Kim Essendrup
Geetha Gopal
David Summers
Carol Martinez
Lisa DiTullio
Tai Cochran
Fabio Rigamonti
Archana Shetty
Geneviève Bouchard
Teresa Lawrence, PhD, PMP, CSM
Randall Englund
Kristy Tan Neckowicz
Moritz Sprenger
Mike Frenette
O. Chima Okereke
David Maynard
Nancie Celini
Brantlee Underhill
Claudia Alcelay
Sandra MacGillivray
Vibha Tripathi
Sharmila Das
Michelle Brown
Gina Abudi
Greg Githens
Joy Beatty
Sarah Mersereau
Lawrence Cooper
Donna Gregorio
Seth Greenwald
Bruce Gay
Michele Mattera
Wael Ramadan
Fiona Lin
Somnath Ghosh
Yasmina Khelifi
Erik Rueter
Joe Shi
Michel Thiry
Erika Kiely
Heather van Wyk
Jennifer Donahue
Barbara Trautlein
Julie Ho
Steve Salisbury
Jill Diffendal
Yves Cavarec
Rose James
Drew Craig
Vinay Babu Tarala
Stephanie Jaeger
Diana Robertson
Zahid Khan
Benjamin C. Anyacho
Nadia Vincent
Carlos Javier Pampliega García
Norma Lynch
Heather McLarnon, CSPO
Lissette Indhira Pimentel Sosa
Emily Luijbregts
Susan Coleman
Aneliya Chervenova
Michelle Stronach
Sydni Neptune
Louise Fournier
Quincy Wright
Peace Opuruiche Echeonwu
Nesrin Christine Aykac
Ming Yeung
Laura Samsó
Lily Woi
Jill Almaguer
Mayte Mata Sivera
Prof. Éamonn Kelly
Marcos Arias
Karthik Ramamurthy
Michelle Venezia
Yoram Solomon
Cheryl Lee
Kelly George
Dan Furlong
Kristin Jones
Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin
Olivia Montgomery
Carlene Szostak
Hilary Kinney
Annmarie Curley
Dave Davis

Recent Posts

Presentation Recap: Sustainability in Project Management

Presentation Recap: Measuring and Managing Enterprise Portfolio Health

Elevating Leadership Through Community: Reflections from the PMI Global Summit 2025

Why the PMI Global Summit Series Africa Is a Classroom of Urgency

Presentation Recap: Women in Project Management - Breaking the Glass Ceiling

Categories

Agile, Agility, alignment, Ask the Expert, Benefits Realization, Best Practices, Bonding, Business Analysis, Calculating Project Value, Capital Projects, Career Development, Change Management, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, collaboration, Communications Management, Complexity, Congress 2016 Ask an Expert, Construction, Curiosity, Digital Transformation, digital transformation, Documentation, Earned Value Management, Education, EMEA, EMEA Congress Reflections, Engagement, engagement, Ethics, Events, Extra Info, Facilitation, forecasting, future, Generational PM, Global Congress 2016, Global Congress 2016 - North America, Global Summit, Global Summit 2023, Global Summit Series, Good News, Government, Healthcare, Human Aspects of PM, Human Resources, Identity, Information Technology, Innovation, Kickoff, Leadership, Lessons Learned, Mentoring, Metrics, Networking, New Practitioners, Nontraditional Project Management, organisations, Organizational Risk, PM & the Economy, PM Think About It, PMI, PMI Congress, PMI Congress NA 2016, PMI EMEA Congress 2018, PMI Global Conference, PMI Global Conference 2017, PMI Global Conference 2019, PMI Global Congress - 2016, PMI Global Congress 2012 - North America, PMI Global Congress 2013 - EMEA, PMI Global Congress 2014 - North America, Pmi global congress 2014 - North America, PMI Global Congress 2015, PMI Global Congress 2015 - Ask the Expert, PMI Global Congress 2016 - EMEA, PMI Hours for Impact, PMI PMO Symposium 2013, PMI Pulse of the Profession, PMI Training, PMI Virtual Experience Series, PMIEMEA17, PMIEMEA19, PMO, PMO, PMXPO, Portfolio Management, Procurement Management, Professional Development, Program Management, Project Delivery, Project Failure, project kickoff, Project Planning, Project Requirements, Reflections on the PM Life, Risk Management, Risk Management, ROI, Roundtable, Scheduling, SeminarsWorld, Social Impact, Social Responsibility, SoftSkills, Stakeholder Management, Strategy, Sustainability, Teams, Techniques, test, The Moon, Tools, Training, Translations, Videos, Virtual Experience Series, Virtual Teams, Volunteering, war

Date

linkedin twitter facebook Request to reuse this  

Categories: EMEA, Ethics


Presenters: N. Clarke and M. Higgs

 

First of all, let me tell you that the hidden word on the title is "ethical". I on purpose decided not to show it because I noticed that people tend to think "ethics is boring" or "I know it all".

Actually, there's an increasing interest in ethics due to an increase corporates scandals, so we should be much more aware of the impact of decision making.

Taking decision isn't always as easy, and we're moving from "normative" frames (we tell what is good and right) to a "descriptive" one (describe situation and scenarios).

What would you do - the presenters asked us- in the Trolley Problem (click here for the video): it isn't that easy to come to a decision, uh?

The presenters were sharing two extremely interesting studies, but I want to make sure you are aware that PMI has already provided an Ethical Decision-Making Framework (EDMF) available in 12 languages here.

The EDMF was created by PMI "to guide an individual in the project management profession through a process to make a decision when confronted with an ethical dilemma".

The presentation ended with a question I share with you start a pro-active discussion:

  • Project managers need to think about how their behaviours can build high-quality relationships with stakeholders. How do you currently do this?

... and I hope next time you will see the word ethics you wouldn't run away!


Posted by Fabio Rigamonti on: May 04, 2017 03:37 PM | Permalink

Comments (11)

Please login or join to subscribe to this item
avatar
Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Thanks Fabio.

avatar
Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Thanks for sharing Fabio

avatar
Eduin Fernando Valdes Alvarado Project Manager| F y F Fabricamos Futuro Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia
Very good thanks

avatar
Fabio Rigamonti Project Director| Centric Software Milan, Italy
Andrew, Vincent, Eduin, thanks:
- did you like the Trolley Problem video? It's a tough scenario
- where you aware of PMI EDMF? Have you ever checked it/ used it?
- how do you build high-quality relationships with stakeholders? What behaviours do you use?

avatar
Luiz Henrique Urbano Project management| Project engineer São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Thank you Mr. Fabio!

avatar
Karthik T Senior Engineering Manager| Nike Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Thanks for sharing.

avatar
Diogo Simoes Entroncamento, Santarém, Portugal
What a great post.
Very surprising!
Although I don't think ethics to be boring, to be honest the ***** caught my curiosity and "ethical" probably wouldn't

avatar
Fabio Rigamonti Project Director| Centric Software Milan, Italy
;-) Thanks Diogo!

avatar
Diogo Simoes Entroncamento, Santarém, Portugal
Hi Fabio,
It was a well deserved compliment.
I achieve more with a short post than long posts.
(Of course it doesn't mean that long post are not great or useful)

avatar
Diogo Simoes Entroncamento, Santarém, Portugal
Correction: not "I achieved" I meant "YOU achieved"

avatar
Fabio Rigamonti Project Director| Centric Software Milan, Italy
LOL.
I hope we both achieve a goal with this post.

Please Login/Register to leave a comment.

ADVERTISEMENTS

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not."

- Mark Twain

ADVERTISEMENT

Sponsors