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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

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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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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. At a PMI® conference I attended later in the 1970s, almost 80% of the papers were presented by engineers or people working for engineering companies.

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Agile. Creativity. Innovation.

International Institute for Learning

This family of methods are now commonly known as Agile , and it has been through the formation of the Agile Alliance and the publication of the Agile Manifesto (Fowler and Highsmith 2001). We can say the Agile methods have well-interpreted the so-called Copernican Revolution in management.

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WBS and Product Backlog: Siblings or Distant Cousins?

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However, they did not use the term “work breakdown structure” or WBS until 1962 when DoD, NASA and the aerospace industry published a document about PERT that described the WBS approach. These ideas became the concepts embodied in backlogs by today’s agile approaches and frameworks. Then in section 2.3.1.1 Again, that seems reasonable.

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Artificial Intelligence and Project Management: The First Step

The IIL Blog

Gupta, “Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and Agile: Transforming Project Management in the 21st Century”, International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE) ISSN: 2277-3878 (Online), Volume-11 Issue-1, May 2022. is an Aerospace Engineer and Project Manager working in the Aircraft Industry in Germany. Maltzman, J.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

This can include: Project Management Institute (PMI ® ) publications. As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. Then, they decided to benchmark against best-in-class companies in project management, all of which were in different industries other than aerospace.

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How Did I Get Here: A Career Profile of David Lewis, PMP

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Holding the CAPM credential tells a potential employer you have that training and that you have been tested on that knowledge by PMI. Many are free, available on demand, and PDUs are available and automatically loaded to your PMI account. Any final advice? Even as a PMP you should keep learning.