I raise this question “Is the Project Management Institute (PMI) changing direction?” to generate some discussions on whether PMI is indeed changing its direction of it is being a follower or a leader for project management? Initially, we posted this article without offering much of our opinion in order to generate discussions, which it did...
The Project Management Institute (PMI) has just published Implementing Organizational Project Management: Practice Standard. In this – just published standard – it emphasize the importance of tailoring a project management methodology. However, the main focus is on implementing an organizational system. We are happy to see this publication especially that we have been advocating the need for...
In this post we address two important concepts about project management, which are: How to manage projects in organizations, and How to manage projects successfully. We split these topics since the first deals with the organizational system – policies – procedures – processes – methodology, among other factors. The other topic, deals with offering a...
In this blog we will also do something different – post a presentation from slide share. However, this presentation is in Arabic for the Arabic readers of this blog! [slideshare id=32499536&doc=strategicvalueofprojectmanagementarabic-140319122237-phpapp02]
This is part 4 of a 4-part series on project change management. This topic is a chapter in our upcoming book, Redefining the Basics of Project Management, scheduled for second quarter 2014. Project Change Management Closing Comments In the previous discussions, specifically the scope creep, air condition example, we had: Natural growth due to design...
This is part 3 of a 4-part series on project change management. This topic is a chapter in our upcoming book, Redefining the Basics of Project Management, scheduled for second quarter 2014. Project Change Management Change Management in the Fog ‘Project change management in the fog’, is a term we use to refer to the...
This is part 2 of a 4-part series on project change management. This topic is a chapter in our upcoming book, Redefining the Basics of Project Management, scheduled for second quarter 2014. Project Change Management The Hidden Changes – Scope Creep
This is part 1 of a 4-part series on project change management. This topic is a chapter in our upcoming book, Redefining the Basics of Project Management, scheduled for second quarter 2014. Project Change Management Introduction to Project Change Management Project change management is integrated with project control and the four control reference points apply...
Today we continue with our series on “_________ Life Cycle” with a focus on the Service Provider perspective. The following text is from our upcoming Redefining the Basics of Project Management book.
Since our post on why project planning is not a project phase, and the question from a reader about “_______ Life Cycle” we have been writing about this subject. We wrote about: the difference between project management life cycle and project life cycle, How to take a project from idea to closure, explained via a...
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