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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

In 1969, in Philadelphia, Jim Snyder, of Smith, Kline & French Laboratories, and Gordon Davis, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, were having dinner and decided there was a need for an organization that offered project managers a forum to share information and discuss their industry. Currently, Mark Langley is the president of PMI.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). Budget position. Action updates. Key decisions.

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Project Manager or Project Leader? What’s the Difference?

Online PM Courses

One way I like to think of the difference between Project Management and Project Leadership is that: Project Management gets things done. Project Leadership makes changes happen. If you’re a PMI member, you need to hoe your craft in three dimensions: Technical: the core skills of Project Management. Leadership is not easy.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management Briefings and Presentations. Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Business, Technical, Systems, Risk, and Project Management. Table of Contents (Click the Name to go to Section).

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

When I first learned about Agile methods in 2002, the principles seemed to offer an ideal solution to many organizational issues common at the time. How can the same principle be a good idea in 2002 and a bad idea in 2019? As a result, the organization never benefited from the full potential of the technical staff. Stable Team.

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