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Accepting the Moniker of Subject Matter Expert: The Onus of Expertise
COMMENTARY By Rebecca Winston, JD, PMI Fellow Idaho, USA ________________________________________________________________________ Over the years the entitling by others or oneself by the title “Subject...
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Great Project Managers Look for More Leaders, Not More Followers
COMMENTARY By Ron Taylor Virginia, USA ________________________________________________________________________ Leaders are everywhere. All you need is the patience and skill to find them. Few of us...
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Theory behind Engineering Tables in Proposal
COMMENTARY By Anil Seth Faridabad, India ________________________________________________________________________ The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while...
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Project work and line-of-business work – the power of candid conversation
COMMENTARY By Martin Price Northampton, UK ________________________________________________________________________ Many if not most project organisations serve line-of-business organisations....
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Reflection on How to Achieve Global Project Success
COMMENTARY By Alexander Matthey Abu Dhabi, UAE ________________________________________________________________________ Benjamin Disraeli stated: “The secret of success in life is for man to be ready...
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Change Management Struggles in Post-Revolution Egypt
COMMENTARY Rania Al-Maghraby, OPM3, PMP, ITIL Management Consultant, OneWayForward Inc. Egypt ________________________________________________________________________ It’s been relatively long, and...
View ArticleVenturesome Behaviour …venture capital for today’s projects
COMMENTARY By Martin Price UK ________________________________________________________________________ I recall a recent project meeting where the participants reached a point when they were unable to...
View ArticleDangers of micro-managing projects
COMMENTARY By Abid Mustafa UAE ________________________________________________________________________ It is common for the term ‘micromanagement’ to be associated with managers aggressively...
View ArticleThe Top Reasons Projects Are Unsuccessful
COMMENTARY By Richard Morreale USA ________________________________________________________________________ Over the years, I have been asked to review and audit many projects—projects showing signs of...
View ArticleAgile Methods and the Need for Speed
COMMENTARY By Kevin Aguanno, PMP, MAPM, IPMA-B, Cert.APM, CSM, CSP Canada ________________________________________________________________________ When asking people why they want to use agile delivery...
View ArticleHow do Service, Product, and Project Relate Together?
COMMENTARY Rania Al-Maghraby, OPM3, PMP, ITIL Management Consultant, the OneWayForward Inc. Egypt ________________________________________________________________________ Service, Product, and Project...
View ArticleAre we being Duped by the Experts? Selling Current Knowledge as Breaking News
COMMENTARY by Harvey A. Levine California, USA ________________________________________________________________________ During the past few months I have been astounded by information imparted by two...
View ArticleWhen failure to plan project portfolios is a good thing
COMMENTARY By Dr. Dirk Jungnickel and Abid Mustafa UAE Winston Churchill once remarked: “He who fails to plan is planning to fail.” There are number of other variations of this famous saying, and all...
View ArticleManaging Projects In Three Dimensions
COMMENTARY By Ed Fern California, USA ________________________________________________________________________ The most common cause of project failure is the failure to properly initiate the...
View ArticleExpansion of Remote Teams: What Drives It Forward, and How Is It Shaping the...
COMMENTARY By Andrew Filev California, USA ________________________________________________________________________ Today, as many as 83 percent of workers in organizations from SMBs to Fortune 500...
View ArticleAgile vs. Traditional: an Unnecessary War
COMMENTARY By Jeff Oltmann Portland, Oregon, USA ________________________________________________________________________ There’s a War On There’s a war raging. On one side are ardent agilists, who...
View ArticleWhy Become a Certified Green Project Manager® (GPM®)
COMMENTARY By Mónica González, MBA, PMP, GPM Argentina ________________________________________________________________________ When in early 2010 I got engaged with the PMI Global Sustainability...
View ArticleWhere did the Misuse of the names Gantt and PERT Originate?
COMMENTARY By Patrick Weaver Melbourne, Australia ________________________________________________________________________ Following on from the publication of my paper Henry L Gantt, 1861 – 1919:...
View ArticleAgile in Project Management
COMMENTARY A Brief Overview By Laurence Nicholson, PMP, MBCS, FPMA, ACQI UK ________________________________________________________________________ 1. History Incremental Development Methodologies...
View ArticleProject Management Education in Latin America
COMMENTARY By Ana María Rodríguez, MSE, PMP Senior Contributing Editor Rosario, Argentina Latin America is a growing region, and during times of international economic crisis it has shown that...
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