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Two years of project management blogs

After more than two years of project management blogging, we decided to revisit our old project management articles, update them and republish them. We hope they will be of value to you. We also want to take this opportunity and invite guest authors.

In this article we discuss a situation that is somewhat representative of the project management training – in particular PMP training. This case reflects some of the bad situations out in the market but we must stress this is not about all providers. Like everything else in life there are good, bad, and ugly situations....

This article is the third of a series that we published in a regional magazine a few years back. The concepts that we discussed then and the message of these articles are still applicable today, hence the republication here! In another article we posed this question: with the construction boom in the Region[1] how effective...

It is a common belief that project outcomes contain a degree of uniqueness. They may be highly unique, such as in space exploration projects, or only very slightly unique, such as in the construction of a number of identical buildings in an office park, where uniqueness may reside simply in a set of user requirements...

A while ago we published a blog called “performance and state of mind, lessons learned from sports”. In it we discussed how a focused mind could overcome big challenges and push people beyond their limits, while staying in control, and how relentless preparation and training can help achieve this state of mind. In this blog...

In this post, we slightly sidetrack from Project Management, so we hope you see this as a nice distraction. I once read a quote that said: “All I ever needed to know in life, I learned from sports”. At the time, I categorized it as “interesting but for no immediate use”. However, in light of...

Happy New Year – Year End Statistics

Dear Friends For our subscribers, we say thank you. For all, if you have been reading this blog, we thought to share with you the blog Year End statistics. We (SUKAD) did re-launch this (Redefining Project Management) blog in September of 2012, since that time here is what we have as of New Year Eve.