Have your voice be heard! Both The Standard for Business Analysis and The PMI Guide to Business Analysis are open for public comment now through 5 pm (EST) 28 March 2017. The standard and guide will be published together in one document entitled The PMI Guide to Business Analysis (includes the Standard for Business Analysis) in Q4 2017. To participate, visit the Standards Update page.
resident Barack Obama has signed into law S.1550, the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 (PMIAA), which will enhance accountability and best practices in project and program management throughout the federal government. The legislation, strongly endorsed by the Project Management Institute (PMI), was approved by both chambers of Congress with overwhelming bi-partisan support. President Obama signed it into law on Wednesday, December 14.
President Barack Obama has signed into law S.1550, the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 (PMIAA), which will enhance accountability and best practices in project and program management throughout the federal government. The legislation, strongly endorsed by the Project Management Institute (PMI), was approved by both chambers of Congress with overwhelming bi-partisan support. The President signed it into law on Dec. 14.
The U.S. Senate has unanimously re-approved S.1550,the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 (PMIAA), which will enhance accountability and best practices in project and program management throughout the federal government. The legislation, strongly endorsed by the Project Management Institute (PMI), has now cleared both chambers of Congress with bi-partisan support and will go to President Barack Obama for his signature.
Ethics is about making the best possible decisions concerning people, resources and the environment. Ethical choices diminish risk, advance positive results, increase trust, determine long term success and build reputations. Leadership is absolutely dependent on ethical choices. In this video, PMI President and CEO Mark A. Langley talks about the importance of ethics to the project management profession and PMI.
It's not only the IT industry that lives in "beta." Increasingly, the construction industry is using agile techniques to deliver projects on time and on budget.
Agility crept into the management discourse without most of us knowing what it meant. On the surface, of course, it seems quite simple and an attractive concept. But how do we achieve it? Indeed, what exactly are we pursuing?
More and more companies are turning to Agile to improve their project success rates, and Scrum is the most popular method. Yet it's a challenge to find candidates with a legitimate Scrum background. How do you find people who are going to move your company forward?
Virtual Scrum boards can be useful for teams, and maybe even absolutely essential for distributed teams. That aside, this post is about giving the physical Scrum board its 15 minutes of fame and outlining why I prefer using one.
One practitioner's family has been a Scrum team since long before the word "Scrum" first entered her vocabulary. No, they don't play rugby or build websites. It's how they work as a team that makes them a Scrum family.