I have been working on two books: The first was about the PMBOK Guide (and ISO 21500) but mostly about how to apply these guides in the real world, and The second book is a re-write of a book we self-published two years ago (Redefining the Basics of Project Management), which focus on The Customizable and...
I cannot help it seeing the PMI huge focus in recent months on benefits realization and benefit management. It is like PMI discovered a way to go to Mars and back in one week.
What do you think, is project management becoming a commodity? I am a member on numerous online groups related to project management. There is a huge focus on certifications, PMP being the most popular but others as well like ACP, Agile, PRINCE2, RMP and numerous others. We see advertisement such as:
Following up on the previous post, this is another chapter that we deleted from an upcoming book.
I have been using the PMBOK Guide since 1996 and I used the original consolidated version to prepare for the PMP in the days where there were no real exam prep books. I became a PMP in 1998 and since that time, I had been contributing to the updates of the guide. However, in recent...
This will be a very short post and maybe more on the light side Technically, in the new sixth edition of the PMBOK Guide, per the exposure draft, there are only four process groups not five. Well – let us agree first on the definition of a group. Would you agree that a group of...
Earlier today I saw a post from a colleague that triggered this short post. What my colleague had posted is guidelines about how to complete the “first” document on a project. In the view of person posting the message, that first document is the project charter. This is not a correct statement. Yes, developing a charter...
A few weeks ago, PMI had released the draft for the Project Management Standard that is published in the PMBOK Guide. At that time, we published a blog post on the main points with the updated – draft standard. A week or so ago, PMI published the exposure draft for the guide part of the...
This blog post is by my colleague, Mr. Luc A.E. Bauwmans, PMP Optimizing construction project performance using the New Engineering Contract Third Edition (NEC3) Part 1 Part 2 is next About partnering contracts Partnering contracts between supplier and customer have probably always existed, in some form or other. In fact they come in so many...
This blog post is by my colleague, Mr. Luc A.E. Bauwmans, PMP Optimizing construction project performance using the New Engineering Contract Third Edition (NEC3) Executive summary Part 1: Partnering in construction contracting is still the subject of much debate. The simplest form of partnering occurs when two parties to a contract have aligned (some of)...
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