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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

During the 1990s, PMI tripled its membership to 90,000 in 120 countries, under the leadership of then president Virgil R. Following Carter, Gregory Balestrero directed PMI for a decade, starting in 2002. To earn PMP certification, there is a 200-question, multiple-choice test that requires reviewing the PMP handbook.

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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). Action review and next steps. Budget position.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

During the last two decades there has been the emergence of a number of software development methods as a response to the inefficiency of existing software development methods in rapidly changing environments (Highsmith, 2004). 2009), include eXtreme Programming (XP) (Beck and Fowler, 2001) and Scrum (Schwaber and Beedle, 2002).

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Top Solutions to Project Failure – Epicflow Research Part 2

Epicflow Blog

Give due consideration to the power of effective communication and take the necessary measures to improve its quality. Develop Your Leadership Skills. Effective leadership is also about strong time management, taking charge of the delivery of tasks, and planning them in advance.

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The 23 Best Project Management Books For Upgrading Your Career in 2020

Planio

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. The best books for crafting your leadership qualities. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Each chapter ends with quick reviews making this a useful “PMBOK for Dummies”. Author: Brett Harned.

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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? When I applied those principles in real-world situations, they worked remarkably well. What has changed?

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Here's a collection of presentations, briefings, papers, essays, book content used to increase the Probability of Project Success (PoPS) I've written and applied over my career in the software-intensive system of systems and other domains. Agile Software Development (#ASD). Enterprise IT and Embedded Systems (#EIT).