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A History of PMI & Its Role in Project Management

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Every trade has its trade association, an organization that represents the industry and offers training or networking. 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.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. Outside of the world of PMI, I’m not sure that the term is widely used at all, but let’s put that aside for a moment and consider what they are and how to use them. They influence how we do the work.

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Reasons to Attend PMO Metrics: What They Are and introducing Them to Your PMO 

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Are you ready to take your PMO into the future? Join Bill Dow, PMP (2023 PMO Influencer of the Year Winner), as he takes you through the step-by-step process of introducing metrics into your PMO. Many PMO Managers struggle when understanding what metrics to create in their PMOs for a variety of reasons.

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. PMI reports an expected global need for 25 million new project professionals by 2030. Is this true?

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Why is it a project manager’s job to fix companies?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Projects are the future, a good portfolio office can influence and shape strategy and project management is the only way to holistically deliver improvements. If you have sat through any project management conference presentations or talked to someone evangelizing about the role of the PMO then you will have heard this stuff before.

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One Year on Terra Firma

The Lazy Project Manager

It was (and I still can’t quite believe this) one year ago that I last stepped off a plane after a visit to Geneva and Zurich to deliver a series of presentations and workshops for CERN and PMI Switzerland. Virtual training courses built from the ground up to be truly effective remotely delivered. And then came lockdown 2.0 (and

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Now is the time to invest in learning and so I offer you six ways to develop your personal or team skills

The Lazy Project Manager

Three great options from myself are also open to you and your teams: The Lazy Project Manager: Productive Laziness in Project Management hosted by PMO Leader. And hosted by PMI Budapest, Hungarian Chapter (but open to all). PMO Influencer of the Year 2020 (PMO Global Alliance). Peter Taylor. Peter Taylor.