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Which is the correct term: Project Life Cycle or Project Life Span? We really do not know! In a recent LinkedIn group, we debated these terms and at the end of the day we decided to agree to disagree, which is often common in these groups since it is not easy to have a unified language, and maybe we should not?

We recently had the honor to have Mr. R. Max Wideman[1] publish a guest paper for us with the title, Redefining Project Management. Mr. Wideman also took the time to edit our paper, which we greatly appreciate. We will publish this paper through a series of blog articles. This is first article in the series....

This is the fourth article of our series on Project Risk Management. Background Over the last few years SUKAD has conducted numerous risk management courses, some of them were about organizational risk management and others specific to project risk management. This article summarizes some of the comments from the participants of these classes; edited by...

This is the third article of our series on Project Risk Management. Click here for the first or second article. We are publishing these articles based on our observations in the market place in regard to the practices of project risk management and the gaps that exist.

This is the first of a series of articles on Project Risk Management. In this series we will discuss various topics related to project risk management with an emphasis on organizational systems. Since this the first article in a series we dedicate it to major definitions or positions that are necessary to set the scenes.

Introduction Over the last 2 to 3 weeks we have published 5 articles about project management, project management office, and failure in implementing project management. These five articles build on each others leading to this sixth article in the series.

What are the gaps in project management, specifically in PMO implementation? How to close these gaps? These are a couple of the key questions that we have been addressing in this series of articles on PMO Implementation, OPM, and the project management office in general. Over the last few days (these are old articles that...

In the last few posts, we have focused on PMO (project management office) and PMO Implementation. Here is what we published so far: What is a PMO and how to differentiate between PMOs? Eight possible functions of a PMO: the PMO Continuum Why some PMO fails or are challenged? In today’s article, we share a...

Why some (or maybe many) Project Management Offices, PMO fails? What are the gaps in PMO implementation that could be contributing to their failures? What is the organizational impact? Why a failed PMO might damage project management in the organization or at least dilute its value? Many questions we are posing here to open the discussion. For...