New Practitioners Community PM Basics - Executing Phase
Dr. Vijay Kanabar continues his series of webinars on PM Basics with a discussion on the Excuting phase of the project management lifecycle
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Dr. Vijay Kanabar continues his series of webinars on PM Basics with a discussion on the Excuting phase of the project management lifecycle
In this series, we’re exploring the implications of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey[1], by following the story of a fictitious change practitioner named Sara. In my last post, w ...
After three-and-a-half decades of being a professional change practitioner, I’ve seen my share of successful and unsuccessful attempts to generate enough commitment to reach full realization. If ...
Communication is a core competency that significantly impacts the outcome of a project. But mastering communication skills has been one of the toughest tasks I have faced as a project practitioner bec ...
New ScrumMasters may understand the “what” and the “how” of their new practices, but they often don’t understand the “why”. Here we look at two common problems: project managers not creating the sprint burndown charts and teams not participating in the daily standup meetings.
By Conrado Morlan, PMP, PgMP, PfMP “Everyone can be my teacher.” —Alfonso Bucero, PMI-RMP, PMP, PMI Fellow After a two-year absence from PMI® Global Congress&mdas ...
“Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.” ~Thomas Kuhn “Paradigm shift.” How many times have y ...
“A true voyage of discovery does not consist of seeking new landscapes but rather of seeing with new eyes.” —Marcel Proust As change professionals, we often say that we want to ...
In this series, I’ve been describing the skills required (there are five of them) to reframe a person’s mindset during a change initiative. In this post, I’ll talk about the final sk ...
This session provides straightforward, experience-based advice on how to build a career in project management, in light of the typical opportunities in the profession and the realities of current economic circumstances globally. The session will be of value both to people new to the field, and to very experienced practitioners as well.
Ten years ago, a new way of working was branded Agile. At that time, many of the practitioners were living on the edge, challenging people and process in ways that were sometimes good but other times overly extreme. Ten years later, agile methods and agile practices are less radical and even more able to provide a competitive advantages if applied pragmatically. In this session, David Hussman will share experience and techniques for introducing agile methods into high governance and high criticality environments. David has successfully introduced agility in medical devices development, aerospace, defense and many government funded projects. The session will explain techniques used to select practices, introduce them and measure their success. Please sign in armed with an open mind and a pile of questions and healthy skepticism