True Value of Certification

The attached picture about a PMP just came across my social media channels today. I don’t want to miss to congratulate to the successful pass of the PMP exam. When you go into the picture you can read ’success guaranteed’. Of course, this is just a bad marketing gag where many learners just trap in. […]

Martin Sedlmayer: Make the ICB 4.0 your permanent companion and never stop learning

This material was originally published in the Chinese Magazine PM Review PM Review: Why did IPMA introduce ICB 4.0? In what context was ICB 4.0 introduced? What is the significance and necessity of publishing ICB 4.0? Martin Sedlmayer:The IPMA Individual Competence Baseline is a global standard which describes distinct competences required to successfully deliver projects, […]

IPMA MarComm Specialists Team Meeting, 8-10 February, Warsaw, Poland

For the first time ever, the IPMA invited its’ Member Associations to delegate their marketing and communications specialists to a global meeting. Participants from 30 countries, 5 continents, met to discuss improvements – on both local sides as well as on the IPMA side. Among them we welcomed those developed and large Member Associations (like […]

Project Management and the Five Traits of Leadership

Not too long ago, Jack Welch formulated and posted on LinkedIn five essential traits a real leader needs to demonstrate (LinkedIn, May 15, 2016). In his opinion, main factors that differentiate a leader from the crowd are: positive energy — the capacity to go-go-go with healthy vigour and an upbeat attitude through good times and […]

Programmes are not just big projects

Nowadays, in many organisations, the term programme is used to mark the top of the project hierarchy: small project, normal project, big project, programme. It is often used to promote good senior project managers, after a while in business, they become a programme manager. But this approach is like: a small apple, a normal apple, […]

What exactly is competence?

When interested in the question of what exactly is competence, having a look at the OECD definition of competence is of course a must: they describe competence as “personal attributes or underlining characteristics, which combined with technical or professional skills, enable the delivery of a role / job”. http://www.dictionary.com takes another route and defines competence […]