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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’ve read, I’m guessing, over 150 management books in my career, and you can read my book reviews if you want to trawl through the archives. Books that cover ways of working, technical project management, leadership , power skills, soft skills for the workplace, business acumen and also strategic and business management topics count.

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Managing Virtual Teams: Strategies for Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

Virtual project teams have become common due to technology advancements, globalization, and the rise of remote work practices. By embracing these communication technologies, virtual project managers can enhance collaboration and cohesion among virtual team members, ensuring project success in the digital realm.

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The 2021 Project Management Report

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Arras People Project Management Benchmark report for 2020 says that around 50% of UK employees joined their current organization in 2016 or earlier and that 22% of project professionals changed employment in 2019. My company offers the world to customers, then expects me to deliver a technical solution that isn’t ready!

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Project Management Statistics: 45 Stats You Can't Ignore

Workamajig

Project Management Office (PMO) Statistics. As we wrote earlier, creating a project management office (PMO) can drastically improve productivity and bring greater clarity to your PM processes. PMO and EPMO: 80% of high-performance organizations - Champions - have a PMO. The value contributed by PMOs is on the up.

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Part II: A Simplified Approach to Determine IT Project Complexity

PM Times

Most companies now seek project managers who follow the PMO processes like Waterfall or Agile and many C-Level executives support the PMO process. However, a formally adopted PMO process to implement and closely monitor projects and portfolios does not account for everything occurring in IT. 2016)” as explained by Chapman.

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Success in Disruptive Times: PMI’s 2018 Pulse of the Profession

Online PM Courses

And, as we have done with the 2016 and 2017 Pulse of the Profession reports, we will take a selective look at the aspects that catch our attention, and encourage you to read the full report for yourself. You can find our previous reviews at: Good News from the PMI Pulse of the Profession 2017 Report. It’s very subtle.

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PMI Are some more equal than others?

The Lazy Project Manager

It also seems that there is a preference to have talks with broad appeal, this, I feel, has led to a reduced number of more technical talks on advanced topics. If you just check the 2016 EMEA agenda you can easily find more than one person who has spoken at the same event in the last three years for example. What do you think?

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