Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e. V. (GPM), 40 years membership anniversary with IPMA!

Data analytics: new superpowers for project managers

Forward-thinking project teams recognise the need for decision-making to be supported by accurate data. Here are five superpowers that data analytics can give project managers. Have you managed a project and wished data from previous initiatives were at your fingertips to help you understand and predict the success of your current work? Maybe to help […]

IPMA CCT: Show the world you are a Recognised Consultant, Coach, or Trainer in Project Management (part4)

Let us present: Markku Aarni, IPMA® Level A Certified Executive Consultant & Coach. Markku is a Master of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki and Finland’s first IPMA® Level A Certified Executive Consultant & Coach. “I’m originally just an ordinary boy from northern Finland, in the small City of Pudasjärvi. Enjoying the wilderness and relaxing […]

Helsinki, the “White City of the North” – developing with IPMA Delta

Capital of Finland, The City of Helsinki, provides services to its nearly 666,000 citizens in many different areas of life. From healthcare to urban planning, from schools to urban transportation and housing to metropolitan infrastructure, not forgetting the ever-growing range of digital services. Many of these duties are the responsibility of the Urban Development Division […]

ChatGPT, NLP and Project Management

❝ If the tide of opportunity flows for a prolonged period in a direction you did not find appealing.. it is time to repurpose your talents and thoughts to flow in rhythm with the tide. ❞  The launch of ChatGPT has created a buzz and a sense of interest among various sections of society with […]

The power of organisational intelligence within project teams

Organisational intelligence, or the combined brain power of a team to respond to new information in pursuit of goals, requires effective communication, the right culture, and delegated decision-making.    For any business crafting a high-performing project team, it’s important to have intellectually intelligent (IQ), emotionally intelligent (EQ), and technically competent project professionals. That takes care […]

IPMA CCT: Show the world you are a Recognised Consultant, Coach, or Trainer in Project Management (part3)

An interview with Andrzej Gajewski, Trainer certified at IPMA level B and Consultant&Coach certified at IPMA level C. Andrzej Gajewski has been involved in Project Management for over 20 years. In various roles, from Project Manager through Programme Manager to Head of Project Management and management of strategic projects and programmes. He has delivered over […]

The children’s challenge of Algerian Project Management Association in Tipasa (28.01.2023)

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lays an invincible summer.” Albert Camus wrote this sentence in the early 1950s in the city of Tipasa located 70 km from Algiers, the capital of Algeria. The coastal city of Tipasa was first a Carthaginian trading centre, whose necropolis is one of […]

Project Governance

Project governance is a mechanism to set objectives, exercise control, and establish a framework for decision-making, authority and compliance. Projects being temporary structures raises the question of whether governance in projects is a matter of strategy or just an operational routine activity. Project governance is also described through an umbrella term, Enterprise management and linked […]

Why become an individual member of IPMA’s Member Association?

On new year´s day, I read the following quote by Melody Beattie: “The new year stands before us like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.” I like this thought because it fits well with our idea of a project manager: we are the […]