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This article is a follow-up to our last post on “Is the PMBOK Guide enough to manage projects effectively?” Introduction Many would agree that A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge®, PMBOK® Guide, is a leading standard document in project management with possibly more than 1,000,000 copies in circulation. More than 500,000 people...

We trust that our readers will go through this article with a fresh perspective, open to possibilities, and reserve their judgement until they read and reflect on what we present here. This question, is the PMBOK® Guide[1] good enough to manage project effectively, has been on our mind for a long time. We have been...

We recently had the honor to have Mr. R. Max Wideman publish a guest paper for us with the title, Redefining Project Management; which we are re-publishing as a series of blog articles. This is fourth article in the series.

Those of us in project management often think that we ‘speak-PM,’ meaning we have a shared terminology. However, we believe that we have common words, but we do not necessarily have standard definitions of those same words. Therefore, project management terminology is tricky and includes confusing terms that are often used out of context. Today,...

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.