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Why There’s No Such Thing as an IT Project

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Business transformation should be led by strategy because it’s the vision for the future of the organization that defines what you should be working on. 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.

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What Makes Organisations Fail to Execute Their Strategy?

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

After some tapping on their laptop, they proudly showed me their new corporate webpages, proclaiming their ‘strategy’, ‘vision’ and ‘mission’ statements. [1] All we need to do now is execute that strategy! Presumably, it will just happen now that senior management have expressed the strategic direction? How will we get there?

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Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: The First Step

The IIL Blog

For example, by identifying relationships and trends in data, the system can remove excessive information and ‘white noise’, enabling management to focus solely on the most relevant and important information to derive actionable insights and strategies. Risk Management. Effective risk management has to be proactive.

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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. Overall Changes. Change #2 Percentage of Questions. Change # 3: Tasks. Important Dates.

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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? ].

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The PMP® Exam is Changing: Here’s What You Need to Know

International Institute for Learning

The current Outline [iii] , published in June 2015, includes the five domains of Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and Controlling, and Closing. PMI also identified forty-two tasks across all five domains that competent project managers perform. This is why it is such an important document. v] [link]. [vi]

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Agile Unplugged EP04 | Mike Cottmeyer and Matt Van Vleet

Leading Agile

But if you’re not doing it with like executive support and with an integrated strategy from beginning to end, it’s really difficult to sustain momentum. Back in, we’ve actually had studios on our website since about 2015, right before we did our Collective Soul Concert in Atlanta. – Yeah, very cool.