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.
Building on the business acumen foundations of financial literacy, strategic thinking, and data-driven decision-making, this article turns to four dimensions of business acumen that are often underappreciated yet equally transformative.
The most effective project managers don’t avoid conflict; they get skilled at it. They treat every stakeholder disagreement not as a threat to the project, but as information about where the real risks are hiding.
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Join us for PMI Business Analysis Virtual Conference 2019! This virtual event will explore the latest trends in business analysis and provide you with the insights, resources, and tools to advance your career and enhance project success.
Join award-winning leaders from PMI as they discuss how project managers can drive meaningful outcomes through inclusive collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and strategic influence. Explore practical ways to build trust, encourage diverse perspectives, and expand access to the project management profession.
Learn how storytelling enables project professionals to do — and why narrative is a core project leadership skill, not a soft one.
In an era where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly commoditizing technical logic and data processing, Emotional Intelligence (EI) has evolved from a workplace advantage into the definitive "Human Edge."
Inclusive leadership is often framed as a value, yet many project and volunteer leaders struggle to translate good intentions into behaviors that sustain engagement. In complex, fast-moving environments, this gap can quietly lead to disengagement, reduced ownership, and eventual attrition long before leaders recognize a problem.
The purpose of this Project Outline template is to clearly explain the reason for starting the project and ensure alignment among stakeholders. It acts as a high-level communication tool to share essential information with both leadership and project teams, helping to initiate the project smoothly—especially when team members are spread across different locations.
If you have friction in your sponsor relationships, there are guidelines you should consider—and then decide where you and your sponsor have the most room to improve. To help, check out this assessment template to identify areas to improve the sponsor/PM partnership health. Use in conjunction with the article 12 Guidelines to Build a Sustainable Sponsor/PM Partnership.
This Stakeholder Engagement Register helps to identify project stakeholders, along with their roles and influence; along with the communication mediums, tools and technology that will be needed to keep them engaged on a project.
The Project Canvas framework, which covers the basic principles and fundamentals of projects that everyone should know, is practical and easy to implement. It is a proven tool that will assist you in leading projects more successfully and in making your dreams a reality.
Protecting your customers' personal data should be job one. If you don't have a privacy policy in place, you need to do that five minutes ago. This checklist will help ensure that your privacy policy will be successfully put together, rolled out to the troops and followed.
Managing a MIPS project is not just a compliance exercise. It is a complex, high-stakes project that demands strategic foresight, adaptability, and exceptional stakeholder engagement. And the lessons these practitioners learned extend beyond just the healthcare industry.
Great PMs don’t sound like executives. They sound like customers. Not because they ignore strategy or business needs, but because strategy only works when it’s anchored in the lived experience of the people using your product.
The first step in project management is finding out which features are needed, which are nice to have, and which are insane and unrealistic. And those skills come in handy in one of the most nerve-racking "real life" projects we can face.
PM processes, tools, and techniques invaded this practitioner's daily existence, whether he liked it or not…turning him into a slightly neurotic, but oddly efficient, human being.
You may think you’ve mastered all forms of difficult personalities, but will your PM skills be put to the test when you face the toughest stakeholder of them all: the toddler. What can we learn from these bundles of joy?
Every one of us is a project manager in daily life, whether we recognize it or not. Here's how one practitioner put on his PM hat for an anniversary vacation to Portugal.
Community stakeholders in infrastructure projects are often not effectively engaged, leading to issues such as project delays. There is a lack of guidance for engaging external stakeholders in the context of social media availability. New PMI-funded research address this need.
How can you create influence without authority? Connecting that creates influence comes from who you know, what you know, and the trust you build. Influence is the result of connecting, not titles.
The maritime world shows us that preparation, adaptability, and respect for people are the foundation for delivering value—no matter what industry you're in. Read how six lessons from the sea can apply to your projects.
Building strong connections with your internal team and external clients is the secret sauce that makes everything better. Here are five reasons why building those relationships is not just a “nice to have,” but a “must have” in project management.
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