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Developing Coursework: Know What Your Students Need

by Lynn Shannon May 10, 2017

Getting the right students in the right class will help both you and them. Do you understand the skill sets and experience of your students?

Disciplined Agile and The Standard for Risk Management

by Mike Griffiths October 14, 2020

Initially, there may not seem like much overlap between Disciplined Agile (DA) and the PMI Standard for Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects. After all, DA promotes lightweight, agile-inspired guidance, and risk management information can be prescriptive and documentation-heavy. Yet, they are surprisingly aligned and compatible.

Do We Need Brand Name Methods?

by Andy Jordan May 20, 2013

Life gets really interesting when we start to extrapolate the brand identity concept into our project methodologies. What drives the decisions about what different organizations use? And is there any tangible benefit to choosing a “brand label” project execution approach?

Do You Really Know What You Think You Know?

by Andy Jordan September 16, 2013

It’s inevitable that we tend to take things that we are familiar with for granted. Let's look at how each of us can recognize those areas of our knowledge that are stagnating--and what we can do to avoid losing that knowledge altogether.

Does Certification Limit Learning?

by Mike Griffiths March 10, 2016

It seems ironic, but this practitioner wonders if the process of creating a curriculum and multiple choice-based testing procedure leads to an over-simplification of the subject matter and inhibits learning. Maybe it is the process of creating a credential or people’s inbuilt desire to simplify ideas, but we seem to have lost practical project management guidance on dealing with uncertainty.