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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

So what is my concern and why am I mentioning PMI? Well I’m not just focusing on PMI but the behaviour I am concerned about seems to be rather more prevalent within PMI and PMI Congresses than others. PMI’s global membership currently exceeds 500,000, impressive of course. Let me explain.

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The 9 Biggest Project Management Trends in 2022

Inloox

PMI's Pulse of the Profession Report 2021 makes it clear that "Gymnastic Enterprises", i.e. organizations that are flexible and agile, are more successful. the cloud-based version of our software, in 2011, cloud or software-as-a-service (SaaS) was still relatively unknown and many organizations were very skeptical about it.

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Time Estimation for Project Managers: Tips & Techniques

ProjectManager.com

A 2018 study by the Project Management Institute (PMI), in its Pulse of the Profession report, stated that poor time estimating is the root cause for 25 percent of failed projects. There can be a range of information, here, from press releases to financial reports, log files and project and product documentation.

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Picking a Project Management Methodology

MPUG

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) Sixth Edition was published in 2017 by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Since there is an emphasis on documentation, knowledge is not lost for replacement team members and potentially becomes useful for future projects. Projects drive change!

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Establishing the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB) , AACE Workshop, Denver, Colorado, April 16, 2011. Project Breathalyzer.

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Disciplined Agile & SAFe

International Institute for Learning

DA was developed in 2011 by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines and is based on Scott’s work at Rational Software and IBM. They are comprehensive—with hundreds of pages of detailed documentation—to support teams addressing complex problems. They emerged about a decade after the Agile Manifesto. This is a nuanced yet critical distinction.

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Making the Move from Business Analyst to Product Owner

International Institute for Learning

Many of the skills honed and developed by the business analyst are applicable to being a good product owner: gathering information, analyzing the information, documenting the information, discovering and defining business problems, coming up with creative solutions, and so forth. There are no business requirement documents in Scrum.

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