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COMMENTARY Lennart Svensson and Göran Brulin Linköping University Sweden ________________________________________________________________________ Innovative projects and programmes are difficult to...
View ArticleTransformation Manager and Programme Manager: Are they really different?
COMMENTARY By Laurence Nicholson United Kingdom ________________________________________________________________________ What exactly are a Transformation and a Programme, and how do they differ in...
View ArticleDid Oswald Have a Chance to Kill The President?: A Project Risk Analysis...
COMMENTARY Lev Virine, Ph.D., P.Eng Michael Trumper Eugenia Virine, PMP Intaver Institute Inc. Alberta, Canada ________________________________________________________________________ Project...
View ArticlePerformers on the Project Stage
COMMENTARY Charles Smith United Kingdom ________________________________________________________________________ Identity and Performance In this article I will propose that people engaged in the...
View ArticleWhat gets measured gets done
COMMENTARY Successfully leading profitable business change in the Oil and Gas Project Work Environment in Nigeria By Lucky Enajite Edjenekpo, CCP, PMP Warri, Nigeria...
View ArticleWhy PMP Certification and how it helps the business
COMMENTARY By Dr. T D Jainendrakumar Kerala, India ________________________________________________________________________ The PMP certification is the most widely recognized and respected...
View ArticleProjects and Programs are two different animals, don’t underestimate the gap
COMMENTARY By Thomas Walenta, PMP, PMI Fellow Germany ________________________________________________________________________ Lions are the ‘king of the animals’ and quick killers. They are living in...
View ArticleTrends in Real-Time Strategic Execution
COMMENTARY By Tim Wasserman California, USA ________________________________________________________________________ Real-time isn’t a trend; it’s a reality. No matter how fast – or slow – a business...
View ArticleThe New Face of Project Management: Are Specialized PMOs and Mobile Tech the...
COMMENTARY By Mike Sicilia Senior Vice President and General Manager Primavera Global Business Unit, Oracle USA ________________________________________________________________________ The face of...
View ArticleHow Project Start-up occurred internationally as a key issue of Project...
COMMENTARY By Morten Fangel Copenhagen, Denmark ________________________________________________________________________ As project manager for the IPMA World Congress in Copenhagen in 1982, I had the...
View ArticleThe Essence of the PMBOK: (Project Management is the way of life)
COMMENTARY By Dr. T D Jainendrakumar Madhyapradesh, India ________________________________________________________________________ Through this article I am striving to drive the basic project concepts...
View ArticleManaging International Development Projects: Lessons Learned
COMMENTARY Robert Youker (Formerly of the World Bank Institute) Maryland, USA ________________________________________________________________________ This article will discuss lessons learned in...
View ArticleCritical Success Factors for Projects
COMMENTARY Crispin (“Kik”) Piney, B.Sc., PfMP kik@project-benefits.com South of France ________________________________________________________________________ Abstract There is no lack of papers...
View ArticleIs it Time to Rethink Project Management Theory?
COMMENTARY Bob Prieto Princeton, NJ, USA ________________________________________________________________________ Consider this a transition point in my various thinking and writings about program...
View ArticleWhy do Projects fail? The Nigerian Government insensitivity to project Failure
COMMENTARY By Eyitayo Ogunmola Nigeria ________________________________________________________________________ Nigerian projects have been experiencing failure throughout the country’s period of...
View ArticleStandard and Heroic Project Management – impact on perceived success
COMMENTARY By Tom Taylor London, UK ________________________________________________________________________ For some time I have been interested in and studying apparent differences between standard...
View ArticleProject Management Outsourcing
COMMENTARY By Rüdiger Geist Zurich, Switzerland And Prof Gerhard Ortner Vienna, Austria ________________________________________________________________________ Starting somewhere in the 1980’s...
View ArticleThe Contribution of Communication to IT Project Success
COMMENTARY By Ann Pilkington United Kingdom ________________________________________________________________________ There is a specific set of communication challenges that come with an IT led change...
View ArticleUsing Special Purpose Schedule …. INTERNATIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
COMMENTARY By Anil Seth India ________________________________________________________________________ Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. ~Frederick...
View ArticleLearning from my Consultant Colleague
COMMENTARY By Chandan Lal Patary Bangalore, India ________________________________________________________________________ I have spent time with my colleague who has worked with us as an agile...
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