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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

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. Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers.

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Meeting Management Techniques for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Meeting management skills are no longer part of the Exam Content Outline (ECO), which you can download from the PMI website. Instead, the ECO talks about communication, knowledge transfer, engaging the team, governance and a whole lot more that you would often use meetings to accomplish. The AV equipment didn’t work.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

This can include: Project Management Institute (PMI ® ) publications. Proceedings from seminars and symposiums on general project management concepts. Proceedings from seminars and symposiums specializing in project management best practices. Identification of governance and leadership effectiveness.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Governance. 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 , PMI, Northen Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012.

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Project Executing: A "How to" Guide

Project Pulse Journal

Effective execution, rooted in the guidelines of the Project Management Institute's (PMI's) - Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK, 6e, 2017) Executing Process Group, is paramount to ensure the project stays on track, mitigates risks, addresses issues, and ensures stakeholder satisfaction. Maintaining stakeholder engagement.

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Webinar Recap: SIPOC Workshop Facilitation – Part 1: Overview of SIPOC and Systems

MPUG

The session is eligible for one PMI, PDU in the strategic category and the MPUG activity code for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now, that’s mpug031721. We’ve got to put these headers and footers on all of our documents because of say, like a data governance policy or something like that. What are the needs?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Wakshull, Proceedings of the Project Management Institute Annual Seminars & Symposium , November 1?10, Use a Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS) to Understand Your Risks,” Davis Hillson, Proceedings of the Project Management Institute Annual Seminars & Symposium October 3?10, Causes of Risk Taking by Project Managers,” Michel N.