Unlock the Value of Artificial Intelligence
By Peter Tarhanidis Artificial intelligence is no longer a tool we’ll use on projects in the future. Right now, many organizations are formalizing the use of advanced data analytics from innovative...
View ArticleFollow These 3 Steps to Validate a Variance
By Lynda Bourne As you may know, any monitoring and control process has three components. The first is establishing a baseline that you plan to achieve, the second is comparing actual progress to the...
View Article3 Project Management Lessons From a 70.3 Ironman
By Conrado Morlan I’ve been running for eight-plus years—ever since my son suggested I do a half marathon in San Antonio, Texas, USA. So when a friend suggested I try a triathlon, I was ready for it....
View ArticleWhy Employees Leave Culture
by Jen Skrabak, PfMP, PMP Most people leave organizational cultures, not managers. Organizational culture is defined as the collective behaviors, thoughts, norms and language of the people in the...
View ArticleThe Hunt for the Disagreeable Giver
By Cyndee Miller “Don’t bring me problems. Bring me solutions.” This seriously ranks as one of the world’s worst management dictates. And finally—to my eternal appreciation—someone is calling out all...
View ArticleEmbraer Reaches New Heights: Lessons From a Record-Setting Jetsetter
by Cyndee Miller It’s one thing to deal with disruption. But it’s a whole other to disrupt yourself—and put your self-proclaimed cash cow on the line. With its new E190-E2 line, Brazilian aviation...
View ArticleWelcome to The Project Economy
by Cyndee Miller Pretty much every pundit out there has a theory about the future of work—and how things will actually get done. For a while, it was all about the gig economy. Now perhaps I’m horribly...
View ArticleUrbanization and the High Price of Human Progress
By Cyndee Miller I’m a city person—no ifs, ands or buts. I may have been stuck in the suburbs growing up, but I literally packed up and moved out the day I got a part-time job. I’m not alone, of...
View Article50 Most Influential Projects: What Made the List?
By Cyndee Miller Talk about ending with a bang. On top of the amazing Ted Talks (read about those here), PMI closed out Global Conference unveiling its ranking of the 50 most influential projects of...
View ArticleLessons Learned From 3 Decades in Project Management
By Wanda Curlee PMI is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, an occasion that has led me to reflect on projects from my past. While I don’t have 50 years of experience, I do have 30. Over those...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn From the Movies
By Ramiro Rodrigues I'm 50 years old, which means I was born the same year PMI was founded. The last half century has seen a lot of interesting projects across industries, but today I’m going to...
View ArticleReflections on a Personally Influential Project
My interest in project management started long ago. When I was a kid my family would visit Kolkata, where my grandparents lived, on holidays. It was a busy city and a big change for someone growing up...
View ArticleMy Three Most Influential Projects
By Kevin Korterud It’s quite possible that, if asked to remember every project I led over the years, I would be hard-pressed to do so. Our typical project management journey takes us down a new...
View ArticleReflections on My Favorite Projects
by Dave Wakeman Happy birthday, PMI! You gave us 50 years of projects, and all I’m giving you is this column with three of my favorite projects of all time? I kid. But reflecting on the impact of PMI...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn From the Movies?
By Ramiro Rodrigues I'm 50 years old, which means I was born the same year PMI was founded. The last half century has seen a lot of interesting projects across industries, but today I’m going to...
View ArticleAre You Delivering Tangible Results?
by Cyndee Miller George Lucas was a project manager. And the Star Wars production team? A PMO. So declared Bob Safian, former editor of Fast Company, at the start of PMO Symposium. Sure, Star Wars may...
View ArticleIndulge Your Audacious Curiosity-Even if It Means Failing
by Cyndee Miller A quantum physicist and a self-proclaimed mad scientist walk onto the stage at PMO Symposium. Now some of you are bound to be wondering what the heck they could possibly teach us...
View ArticleA Home for Transformation: Lessons From Fannie Mae's PMO
by Cyndee Miller How did Fannie Mae go from bailout to business transformation? In part through an extraordinary enterprise project management office, 2019’s PMO of the Year. In the wake of the U.S....
View ArticleSeek Better Questions, Not Answers
by Cyndee Miller It’s not often I’m told to act like a 4-year-old—and by the executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, nonetheless. But stick with me, there’s actually a sound business case...
View ArticleThe Project Initiatives That Influenced My Career
By Peter Tarhanidis, PhD I’ve been fortunate to have a career that constantly challenges me and my team to apply new approaches to achieve an organization’s mission. I believe that adapting these...
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