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It is time again, time to change the PMP exam. It is time again, where organizations who thrive on exam preparation classes, to start intensifying their marketing. “Last chance”, “Hurry”, “the exam is changing so why wait”, and comments like this. This is an effort to drive business and we understand that. Our post is...

How do we measure project success? Is meeting requirements enough? How about delivering the project within the established cost and schedule parameters? In this article we (www.sukad.com) share four, yes four (4) dimensions of success that we can use to assess the success and failures of projects.

Introduction In today’s post, we will discuss an important concept that is at the heart of project management process and we will discuss its origin. It is recognized that the PMBOK® Guide (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge®), published by PMI, is quite popular and used globally. Many project management practitioners know...

This article is a follow up to our series on the PMBOK Guide and is for a colleague that we have met many years ago at a PMI Congress. Mr. Crispin (“Kik”) Piney. His bio is at the end of this post. We are honored to have Mr. Piney as a guest author on our...

Introduction This is the last article on our current series on the PMBOK® Guide. In this series, we published three articles on 14, 16, and 19 November 2012. In this article, we write about topics that are included in the PMBOK® Guide, yet many practitioners and project management professionals (PMP) do not fully understand; or...

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.