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Why There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Portfolio managers don’t need to be told that all projects and programs should align to strategy. A strategy without the projects to deliver it is just a plan. That is where the future of project management is going. Change ‘science’ is not that difficult to understand but it is difficult to get right.

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2017 Project Management Trends To Watch

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The biggest challenge facing project management today is that project-related work and jobs are growing too quickly for our approaches to professionalism to keep up. Project management and change management have collided. To be a good project manager you need to be doing change management too.

2017 150
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What Should You Know about the PMP Exam 2019 Changes

MPUG

The last time such a study was conducted was in 2015. It resulted in changes to the exam in 2016. The current year’s study has resulted in the new ECO, and hence the PMP exam from December 2019 onward will change. However, if you plan to take the exam on December 16, 2019 or after, you have to follow the new ECO of 2019.

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The 20-Percent Startup Solution

MPUG

Most baselined project plans are inaccurate because they have unrealistic start dates, finish dates, work hours, costs, and/or durations. The following are examples of this age old problem and how the 20% startup solution can be applied to build more accuracy and creditability into your project plans. Buffer Insurance Protection.

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Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: The First Step

The IIL Blog

It is able to (with proper prompting) write poetry, generate code, plan vacations, translate languages and do much more. Rich is the co-founder of EarthPM, LLC, a company devoted to integrating sustainability thinking into project management. International Project Management Day goes live on November 2, 2023.

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How to Fix a Troubled Project by Falling Back on the Fundamentals

LiquidPlanner

According to the Standish Group’s 2015 Chaos Report , I have a 64-percent chance of guessing you’ve been on a challenged or failed software project. If this is an Agile project, build the release plan and start mapping features into sprints. Assess the Management Style. Every project needs a project management plan.

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What is the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act?

Moira Alexander

1550 -- the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 (PMIAA) into law. This piece of legislation was fully supported by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and garnered staggering bi-partisan support. Related story: What’s difference between project management and change management? ].