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Today (9 March 2013) I have experienced a situation with a global organization, This global organization has a LinkedIn group for a specific program that the organization runs. This group is restricted to those who pay to be part of this program. I am not naming names at this point in order to give this...

This is a follow-up article to the last one on project success. Background We did write in the past a few articles on the PMBOK Guide – what is good about it, what is missing, its inconsistencies, its gaps, and practitioners misunderstandings. A few weeks ago, PMI officially released the fifth edition of the PMBOK...

As we said before, we have usually kept this blog site for project management and related articles only and not to use it for any announcement except where there is value to the community or news of high importance.

It has been our observations that estimating is still more of guesswork rather than using proper techniques and leading practices. Estimating is also directly related to the project management maturity of an organization. In the general context, estimating refer to process of developing cost and time estimates – a time estimate is also called a...

Introduction “Certification is a must!” “Certification is valuable!” “Certification nice but does not add significant value!” “Eliminate the accidental project manager – certify them” “Certification is required” There are too many arguments and positions on the value of certifications so what is reality, if there is one? The reality is limited to one fact: there...

This is the fourth and last article in a four-article series on the subject of project success. Article 1 was mostly an introduction to the subject; article 2 was explaining the four dimensions; article 3 provided an example, real case study, and this article, compares the application of this concept to PMBOK® Guide. Background In...