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Dear friends and readers of this blog site: We would like your opinion and help. If we were to develop online courses, short courses or a series of courses on a given project management topic, What would be the topics that you would like to learn about? What do you think are some of the...

How does SUKAD differentiate a project from a program?

This post includes excerpts from a Case Study that we will be publishing later this year. The post is from Chapter 1. The Case Study, let us call it MLP, or ML Program for now. Project or Program The question of project or program (project management or program management) often confuses practitioners of project management....

Do we need agile or Agile?

Four days ago, I started the following discussion on LinkedIn We keep hearing about the PMBOK Guide sixth edition and that Agile is in every knowledge area. That brings two questions:

A few years back, a colleague sent me the following request: “A friend of mine is studying MSc for Construction Project Management. As part of his dissertation, he wants to conduct a research to about —- Construction companies to find their maturity in project management.  He is thinking to use OPM3. What would you advise him...

Over the next few days, we will publish a few short articles under the label, The Number Series. The idea is simple: in each post, we will explain a concept with a link to a number, like the Four Dimensions of Project Success, The Three Project Phases, Three Principles for Building a Methodology, etc.

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 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)...

In this blog post we present a chapter from a 2-book series (e-books) that we are working on, PMBOK® Guide – Part 1 – Current Reality. This post focus on the historical perspective.