Project cancellations are among the most challenging moments a project manager can face—both professionally and emotionally. This article explores how to lead with clarity, integrity and emotional intelligence when a project must end before its completion.
What would you do if a routine Saturday night ended in an accident on a dimly lit street, with concerned bystanders, an injured motorbike rider, and no ride-hailing service in sight? This practitioner relied on his PM skills to navigate the crisis.
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We start the new decade with a bang as we present the 13th edition of our annual virtual conference and exhibition! Whether you’re a seasoned PM or new to the field, PMXPO provides an excellent opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and broaden your perspective on project management. This year’s show is headlined by keynote speaker Cara Brookins, a bestselling author who rebuilt her broken family by building her own house watching “how-to” videos on YouTube.
Love project scheduling? Or just want to learn what’s new in the world of project scheduling? Attend the PMI Scheduling Conference – exclusively for PMI Members. Learn the latest in scheduling best practices not available anywhere outside of PMI. We’ll share tips and tools from real-life projects and programs.
This all-day virtual event featured expertise to assist practitioners with Building Your Defense Against Chaos in the world of project scheduling. Two concurrent tracks of content featured 1. Education and Training Track: Learn best practices in project scheduling methods, techniques and approaches (topics include: applied schedule management and scheduling for programs and portfolios); and 2. Case Studies and New Advances Track: Pick up valuable case studies and/or lessons learned in project, program and portfolio scheduling. This includes presentations on scheduling theories and techniques from real projects and programs (topics: risk analysis and scenario-based program scheduling).
Explore sponsorship, organizational influence, and legacy leadership while learning practical strategies to create opportunities and support future project leaders..
In a globalized workforce, professional labels such as job titles and age often act as barriers to genuine connection. This one-hour panel discussion explores how to peel back these identities to build human-centric collaboration and achieve project success across all borders.
Burnout has long been framed as a personal issue. We encourage professionals to build resilience, manage their time better, and take care of their mental health. These tools matter—but they are not enough.
To help you create lessons learned that will not get stuffed in a folder never to see the light of day, use this simple Excel template in your organization. The template should be used across initiatives so you have a single source of the truth on lessons learned in one file versus having to hunt through multiple files. Use in conjunction with the article Capturing Lessons Learned That Actually Get Used.
This Final Project Report provides a snapshot of your project and provides an outline to help you surfaces relevant information on milestones, budget, time, lessons learned, and more! Adapt it to fit your needs.
This Excel workbook provides eight logs and registers to help your project. It includes a Changes Log, a Lessons Learned Log, an Assumptions-Constraints Log, an Issues Log, a Risk Register (with accompanying risk guide and list), a Customer Promise Log, a Project Task Tracker, and an RFI Tracker. It's perfect for new and seasoned PMs alike.
We all know we are supposed to do a “lessons learned” exercise as part of our projects. Some of us even take the time to go through the motions. The challenge is that lessons learned rarely get paid attention to, and organizational practices rarely change as a result. If we really want to learn from our projects, we need to change how we think about lessons learned.
このテンプレートは、プロジェクトの結果に焦点を当て、理解するのに役立ちます：技術的な成功、ビジネス上の利点、学んだ教訓。 調査結果は、最終的な調整と調整を行い、プロジェクトを効果的に閉じ、将来のプロジェクトを効果的に実施する組織の能力に貢献するのに役立ちます。
Planning a family camping trip takes full advantage of this practitioner's PMP accreditation and decades of experience. Read how project management can improve your next vacation!
Retrospectives can be one of the most impactful parts of agile delivery, identifying and addressing problems quickly and in a way that has a good chance of success. If you aren’t fully leveraging the process, then you are undoubtedly leaving opportunity on the table.
As our series concludes, a practitioner recounts her experiences as a medical professional on a team that responded to a major 2001 earthquake—and how she helped save lives through effective stakeholder management, communication, and resilience during disaster management.
An accidental administration of paint thinner led to a rare blood disorder with a 6-year-old child, forcing medical staff to act quickly—and led to a wider hospital-wide project to improve emergency preparedness.
What does running have in common with project management? This practitioner talks about her journey training for marathons—and how it correlates to the discipline needed as a project manager.
Organizations are always looking to improve strategic decision-making, but that can be a very difficult thing to achieve. However, there are ways to gain an advantage—and recognizing that decision-making is a team sport is one of them.
When a relative needed help finding a missing dog, this practitioner jumped into action and relied on her project management skills to lead the search. Read about the valuable lessons learned from this “real life” project.
AI can’t replace human interaction or discussion, but several easy-to-use tools can help surface issues and synthesizing data that require a project team’s attention, discussion and action. This can be particularly helpful when it comes to making the most of agile retrospectives.
Midway through the year is a good time to review business and project results in a constructive, positive manner. Rather than dwell on disappointments, the main purpose should be to prioritize, refocus, and commit to improving the work for the remainder of the year.
While painful, spectacular failures are also worthwhile nuggets to help both yourself and others learn from mistakes. Instead of being stubborn, consider the following tips so you can help others and avoid a repeat performance.
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