PMI Training: Mastering Project Management Principles
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By: Klaus Nielsen, MBA, PMI-ACP, PMP
Last year, I presented a one-day course several times for PMI Training that focused on Project Management Principles, which resulted in various reflections, feedback, and discussions that this year's participants have benefitted from.
For those of you who have not yet experienced the course, it is a full day focused on only project management principles. My journey started when I was on the core development team for the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition, whereas by now you know project management principles play a significant part.
Project management principles are a bit of a paradox, explaining the why or, “principles can be understood as fundamental truths or propositions that serve as the foundation for a system of behavior or reasoning,” but also complex to truly master. Let me illustrate what some of our discussions from the courses are all about.
Firstly, we need to have a mutual understanding on what is a project management principle. Yes, we can do that, but which project management principles to use (sorry, it is not just the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition principles) and where are they derived from? This is trickier.
What if some are working agile or others are working predictive, are the project management principles the same? Then add a framework like Scrum, SAFe, Disciplined Agile, or similar and those sets of principles. Wait, beside the PMBOK® Guide – Seventh Edition, do we not also have universal project management principles? Yes, we do. As you can see from these cases, this is complicated. Most participants state they would like to follow some of the project management principles which are relevant to their context. However, how would they really know (think compliance) that they are following the project management principles stated? And if so, what are the benefits of doing so or disbenefits of not doing so?
These are just some of the related questions we discussed, and more are included, as the wisdom of many others is included in the course.
This was an enjoyable and invigorating course and I look forward to offering Mastering Project Management Principles with Klaus Nielsen again on November 20. Visit the PMI Training website for more details.
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Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your straightness in stating this
Diego Diez
Operations Manager| Petropipe
Veracruz, Mexico
Great article. Thanks for sharing Klaus!
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