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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit organization for those working in project management across the globe. If you have even a passing interest in the field, then you’ve bumped up against PMI. Given its vast influence, it’s important to have a basic understanding of PMI and its history. A History of PMI.

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Suitability Filters – Team Discussion Tools

Leading Answers

This is why I created PMillustrated.com to explain project management to visual learners, and I am a fan of the PMI product Wicked Problem Solving (WPS). This comprehensive list post dates from 2007. You can read more about the Beyond Agile Model here and here and here and here , or just get the book for all the info.

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Inspiring Women in Project Management: Amy Hamilton

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I decided in 2007 to obtain my PMP® and that is when I really become serious about formal project management. I have been a Board Member in several professional organizations including my local PMI Chapters. I have been in the IT field since I graduated from Eastern Michigan University and was commissioned in the US Army. Find out how.

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Project Management Worker Engagement

The IIL Blog

The new types of projects required the use of more flexible methodologies, such as Agile and Scrum, or hybrid approaches that combine the best features of several approaches. He is a charter member of the Northeast Ohio PMI Chapter. He delivered a keynote speech at a PMI Global Congress on the future of project management.

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#PMOT – Who are the Project Managers on Twitter to Follow?

Online PM Courses

And we mustn’t forget that there are other widely used hashtags in the #PMOT community, like #Agile, #PMO, and #PMP. We make Agile teams become amazing, check out our free online masterclass: agilesumo.com. Chris’s Article at Online PM Courses: Why You can No longer Ignore Agile Methodologies. PMI: @ PMInstitute.

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Reading List for the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Project Management Institute (PMI) [8] presents similar results about uncertainty, except that their results introduce an asymmetric cone where initial estimates vary between +75% and –25%, budgetary estimate between +25% and -10%, and the final estimate between +10% and -5%. 37–48, 2007. Quantifying IT Forecast Quality,” J.

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Embracing an Innovative Mindset

Tony Adams

of project investment through delivering outcomes over budget, behind schedule and without meeting business expectations (PMI, 2017). Globally, companies waste approximately 9.7% The “way we’ve always done things” doesn’t work anymore. Something needs to change.