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How to make the PMBOK Guide works for you?

Every once in a while we run into discussions and statements like: The PMBOK Guide is not real world, or The PMBOK Guide does not work Are these correct or realistic statements?  Well, the best answer in project management always start with “it depends.” Let us elaborate.

Once again, what is the project life cycle? Why this question? Because it is our belief that the most common misunderstanding in project management today, especially among those who follow PMI and learned project management through the PMBOK Guide. Notice, we used the term misunderstanding because 

How to lead large and complex (mega) projects to success?

This post is specific to Executives, especially those leading Project Owners’s Organizations. How to lead large and complex (mega) projects to success? How you can minimize the chance of delays and overruns and maximizing value to your shareholders? In a recent article, we wrote and recorded video on why project owners organizations are afraid of project management....

In the previous video, we discussed the concept of project phases and stages in a generic context. In this video, we focus on the SUKAD Customizable and Adaptable Methodology for Managing Projects and its three phases.

With this post, we will start re-publishing some old articles and update them. Of course, we will continue to publish new articles. Project management is a serious business, but it does not hurt to have some fun with this interesting domain. In this post, we decided to play on words and learn the language of...