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A few years back, a colleague sent me the following request: “A friend of mine is studying MSc for Construction Project Management. As part of his dissertation, he wants to conduct a research to about —- Construction companies to find their maturity in project management.  He is thinking to use OPM3. What would you advise him...

Starting with the next post, we will be posting a series under the label IMHO, Ajam’s PM Thoughts. IMHO, Ajam’s PM Thoughts IMHO = In my humble opinion. These will be videos, recorded casually and without a script. Some topics will be educational Others will be to raise awareness about a certain concept or association or …...

Is making a cup of coffee a project? How about a sandwich? Taking a shower? Grocery shopping? Years ago, we had published an article on the difference between tasks and projects and to answer the above questions, it would be good to update and re-publish that articles. What triggered the current article is a recent...

There is a discussion going on on Facebook about WBS and what would be the use of the WBS. Like many PMP questions, the real world answer might be slightly different than the PMP exam. Here is the question posted without editing. What is WBS used for : 1- only for complex project 2-used for...

This text is also from our upcoming book and is a continuation of the previous article. As mentioned already, for some of the knowledge areas, such as scope, time, cost, and risk there is a definite split between management planning processes and detailed planning processes. The earlier discussions on scope elaborated on this concept in...

Although this article is independent of the previous one, it would be useful to read the last article first. This article is also part of a book that is currently with the publisher and likely to be released to the market before the summer. The following discussion is for the planning processes, within a phase....

We know, the title may sound awkward or missing a few words, this is why we need to read on. What are we talking about? Maybe the question should be what is (1) a process and (2) a PMBOK Guide process? In the context of this article,