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Top Influencers

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Mark Zessin Senior Project Manager| Weitz Company Porter, Tx, USA
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Sean Whitaker Project Management Consultant| Crystal Consulting Christchurch, New Zealand
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Grant Hawksworth General Manager Public Sector Australia| Dimension Data Australia
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Debra Miersma Projects - Standards - Development - English Tutor| Various civic and non-profit organizations Massachusetts, USA
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Joy Beatty Vice President of Operations| ArgonDigital (formerly Seilevel) Austin, Tx, USA
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Tolitha Lewis Sr. Project Manager| Eli Lilly & Company Fishers, In, USA
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Luis Alberto Caceres Villota Top project management influencer, accredited Change Management trainer| Improving Performance Academy Ltd Sao Paulo, Sp, Brazil
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Lavagnon Ika Professor of Project Management| University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Kimberly Johnson Principal| KAJ Consulting Inc. Scandia, Mn, USA
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Sam Huffman Author and Speaker| Sam Huffman, PMP (Ret) Bothell, Wa, USA

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On-demand Webinars

Entre un biais pour l’espoir et un biais pour le désespoir : une lecture comportementale de la performance des projets

by Lavagnon Ika 
November 08, 2023 | 61:20 | Views: 9,512 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.63 / 5

La performance des grands projets défraie souvent la chronique le plus souvent à cause des dépassements de coût et des retombées en deçà des attentes. En effet, les projets ont tendance à avoir un « comportement » compliqué voire « une vie » difficile. Dans une perspective de systèmes complexes, le comportement d'un projet est l'étude de la manière dont les projets prennent des tournures différentes et complexes entre leur lancement et leur exécution, ou connaissent des déviations systématiques par rapport au plan. Cet exposé met en scène deux personnages clés du récit du comportement des projets. Les Pollyanna ont un penchant pour l'espoir et considèrent que les projets peuvent, contre toute attente, réussir malgré les défis auxquels ils sont confrontés. Ils associent la dérive des projets à des erreurs de gestion plutôt honnêtes, mettent de l’avant « l’erreur » comme la source du mal c’est-à-dire des facteurs tels que les changements à l’envergure, la complexité et l'incertitude. Pour contrer l’erreur, ces sur-optimistes se tournent vers les « best practices » ou les bonnes pratiques de gestion. Les Cassandre ont plutôt un penchant pour le désespoir et avancent que les projets sont voués à la contreperformance. Ils lient la dérive des projets à une distorsion systématique de la pensée logique, pointent du doigt « le biais » comme la source du mal, notamment le sur-optimisme et le mensonge stratégique. Pour en finir avec ce trouble du comportement, ces sur-pessimistes recommandent de « débiaiser » les prévisions des projets. Qui a raison ? Qui a tort ? Dans cet exposé, nous nous basons sur des études de cas de projets pour dépeindre leur performance à travers ces deux lectures comportementales.

Closing the Charter Gap

by Mark Zessin
September 14, 2022 | 59:48 | Views: 18,529 | PDUs: 1.00 | Rating: 4.63 / 5

As certified PMPs, one of our hallmarks is to be able to control scope, manage the schedule, and deliver project requirements on budget. But it is far too often that, although a project is successful in meeting scope, its projected benefits are lacking. The gap between charter and scope can result in significant unforeseen covert constraints to project impact. This leads to a variety of impact issues, ranging from the need for additional sub projects, funding, and configuration change to project management creditability and stakeholder management drama. Closing the Charter Gap is the validation of requirements against benefits and the business case to ensure that the end-product will deliver the financial, service, and cultural result it was envisioned to achieve.

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Save Time With Tools + Templates

Monthly Project Status Report

PREMIUM deliverable
by Mark Mullaly, Ph.D., PMP

The monthly status report template has been designed to be a comprehensive review of project progress. It is intended to provide a detailed understanding of the project, what has occurred to date, and its trajectory in moving forward.

At-a-Glance Weekly Project Status Report

PREMIUM deliverable
by Mark Mullaly, Ph.D., PMP

UPDATED TEMPLATE! The at-a-glance weekly status report is a means of providing a quick, simple and clear reflection of project status on a regular basis. It focusses attention on the essential information that is necessary to know where a project is and whether there are any concerns or areas requiring attention.

Project Purpose Communication Template

PREMIUM deliverable
by Andy Jordan

This template provides a framework to communicate your project's purpose (with some supporting information) to the project team. It should be completed as soon as the project is approved and should be led by the sponsor. It will require input from multiple stakeholders (including the project manager), and should be walked through with the team as part of project initiation.

Overview of the Project Management Process

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by John Galyon

While actively participating in mentorship during a project with a local design/build firm, this practitioner compiled an overview of the project management process as detailed in PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Use this overview with other project managers as a tool to reference in your day-to-day PM activities (as well as share with new project managers).

Project Definition Checklist

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This checklist is designed to help you ask and answer the tough questions about what defines your project and its mission. Before you start any work, take a quick look to make sure you haven't forgotten something important. (Hint: This document is excellent material for putting together your project plan!)

Learn From Others

This PM Approach is Getting RAVES

by T. Scott Gainer, PMP

Get to know RAVES, a value-based, stakeholder-focused, iterative approach to project management that drives efficiently toward prioritized outcomes—while simultaneously seeking to gain improved stakeholder engagement, build relationships, and enhance value of the projects.

Pit Happens: 7 Ways to Navigate Out of Project Despair

by Lonnie Pacelli

You can’t completely avoid pits of despair when projects start to go south, but you can control how you manage through them. Ensure you are the one steady at the stick so you can help everyone navigate through the pit with these tips.

Defined vs. Empirical Process Control: Choosing the Best Approach

by Barry Milteer

This article draws on well-known, basic project management concepts to introduce the high-level project management concepts of defined and empirical process control. It also attempts to contrast them and suggest how they might be used by PMPs in practice.

Auditing Projects Through Process Groups

by Faizy S. Mansoury, PMP®, CISA, CPA, MA. M&E, Bacc. BAF

The project audit gives stakeholders confidence that governance is working, and that the project is being managed properly and producing its intended objectives. In this article, an auditor for the Office of the Controller and Auditor General of Tanzania shares the importance of utilizing the process groups from the PMBOK® Guide in his work.

How to Conduct Successful Project Discovery Sessions

by Shamli Nikam

One of the most valuable things to do after project closing is conduct a lessons-learned session. But for that to be successful, you must involve all of the key players early on—and keep them involved throughout project execution. And that brings us to the discovery session.

The Triple Constraint, 2022 Style

by Andy Jordan

The growth of agile and the increasing pace of all forms of project delivery have meant that the triple constraint is no longer the thing we all have to tattoo on our brains. But it is still important, and it is still heavily misunderstood. If it’s not helping, then it needs to adapt—and a new variable can help.

Don’t Replace the Triple Constraint!

by Andy Jordan

Organizations are recognizing that they need to go beyond the traditional metrics of scope, schedule and budget to determine project success—but those metrics still matter as indicators of how effective and efficient a company’s planning approach is.

How To Use Measurement Throughout the Project Lifecycle

by Bruce Harpham

Measurement has always been an essential part of project management success. The discipline has recently achieved even greater prominence as a project performance domain. Use these tips to refresh your measurement skills and increase performance.

Are You Effectively Measuring the Right Success Metrics?

by Michael Wood

As we move away from our focus on knowledge areas, what metrics is your organization using to monitor some of the new performance domains in the latest edition of the PMBOK® Guide? Here are some ways we can measure success.

Project Scope Creep: How To Take Control and Get Back on Track

by Karine O'Donnell

Scope creep is one of the greatest challenges you’ll face in delivering a successful project. In this article, we look at what scope creep is, why it happens, how to get a project that’s experiencing scope creep back on track, and how to prevent scope creep in the first place.

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