Coaching and Mentoring for YC development

Its 6 am. I wake up, and my first steps lead to the bathroom. I pick up the toothbrush, toothpaste and the process of “making my smile my best accessory” begins. But, it was not always like that. Honestly speaking, I was always forced by my mother to do so. She made me clean my […]

Building Disruptive Future States – Innovation and Change Blog

BYLINE: For many project managers, innovation begins with ideation – the knee-jerk reaction to come up with ideas. However, we must resist this temptation to solve the problem until we clearly understand the context and mandates for innovation. That is the first step in building a Future State.  We Need Stronger Solutions! Project management offers […]

Young Crews Success Stories – Wrap-up

Highlighting achievements of the local Young Crews, showcasing efforts of volunteers, and inspiring other Young Crews to follow best examples – all this through sharing stories of success – these were the main objectives of the Success Stories, a new initiative launched at the beginning of this year.   IPMA Young Crew is grateful for […]

Healthy competences

The avocado is unique. It is an incredibly healthy food, loaded with many essential nutrients. Avocados are weight loss friendly, heart-healthy, and, last but not least, taste incredible. No matter how much I am passionate about avocados, I am sure that there are still some people who don’t know that avocados do exist.  Some do […]

Why do we need more diverse project managers? A report from the 3rd Diversity in Project Management Conference by IPMA in October 2019 in Helsinki, Finland

Today we see that formerly male-dominated professions like project management become more diverse. Why is this so? The reason is that every project is different, and therefore there is a need for more different, diverse project managers. This is the basic assumption of the Project Manager – Project Fit Theory. It is a relatively new […]

Pursue Project Excellence Based on Project Excellence Principles

Thoughts on Applying for and Assessing for the IPMA Global Project Excellence Award Written by Ann Zhang, BD manager, Wood, China My Understanding of IPMA In 2013, I participated in the application of the 27th IPMA Project Excellence Award for the 10 mta refinery project from PetroChina Guangxi Petrochemical and attended the award ceremony held […]

Year 2020 Pledges for PM progress: Proposed list of 10

Time-book will turn to page number 2020 in a couple of weeks’ time. This kick-start a seasonal trend of making pledges about how and what one will do to make things better or improve in the coming year(s). Project management (PM) is no exception to such needs to identify and make pledges for future progress. […]

Project management shapes the future

40 years of GPM: Trend topics and prominent speakers at the 36th PM Forum 2019 Nuremberg, October 24, 2019 – “Project management today is a modern management tool that is vital to society, business and science,” said Prof. Dr. Helmut Klausing, President of the GPM Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement.e. V. (German association for project management), […]

Using Collective intelligence in PM: Time to take the leap?

Knowledge-poverty is fading. The ever-increasing connectivity to the internet and social media is enabling corresponding increased access to information of all sorts (often in a real-time manner), empowering people with knowledge and creating communities of knowledge reserves. The people and communities are thus becoming potent sources of knowledge, well beyond traditionally known boundaries. This situation […]

Teams of tomorrow

The human side of Project Management Let’s be visionary for a while. Let us and imagine what we will have to say about the definition of work in five years time. Work is not about “getting things done”. Today, it is increasingly becoming rather a set of performed tasks, under different legal, functional, and geographic […]