Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) for the Lean Enterprise

A few weeks ago I participated in a training “Leading SAFe” because some of our customers already use agile project management for  their development activities. Now they need to scale up and prepare their organisation for large-scale system developments. SAFe is mainly talking the language of software development, nevertheless, as all businesses are significantly affected […]

What we can learn from ancient cultures about sustainable project organizing

Last week I was fortunate to visit Anchor Wat, the remainders of the old Khmer Empire. About thousand years ago, it stretched from the tip of the Indochinese Peninsula northward to modern Yunnan province, China, and from Vietnam westward to Myanmar. The region of Anchor Wat and Anchor Thom was home of more than a […]

The interrelations between product and project management

This series continues with the interrelations between product and project management. Products are created through projects. It may start with a sketch or design of the product, continue with a prototype of the product to the delivery of a ready to go product. Whilst products of a project could be a physical object, a service […]

P’elfies (project selfies): Can they be useful for project management?

Selfie-storm has gripped the world in recent times. From nobles to nomads, from officials to ordinary folks; everyone seems to be lovin’ the idea to capture and share the life moments on-the-go. Even the robotic rovers have caught-up with the trend, regularly sharing ‘mars moments‘ and ‘moon moments‘ of their life from extraterrestrial habitat – […]

Medical sector and cancer treatment communities along with IPMA

The 14th International Project Management Conference was held on February 24th, 2019 in Razi International Convention Center in Tehran. During this conference, more than 500 topics were presented in the form of different lectures, workshops, research papers and case studies. MAHAK- the Society to Support Children Suffering from Cancer, in collaboration with the International Project […]

Change Management Office (CMO) – Enabling change readiness in organisations

There is a lot of research on Project Management Offices (PMOs). A PMO enables an organisation, or parts of it, in managing projects and programmes by creating standards, training and coaching people in applying those standards, planning and controlling the portfolio of activities in a respective part or all of the enterprise (Enterprise PMO). Finally, […]

Women in Project Management Iran (WIPMI)

During 14th Tehran International Project Management Conference (24th & 25th of Feb 2019) attended by more than 1000 professionals, there was a panel dedicated to “Women in Project Management”. An interactive workshop was held before the panel time slot, to test the field and see how the audience looks to a series of competencies among […]

Martina Huemann: With Projects We Create the Future

Martina Huemann is Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Project Management, Professor, Head of Project Management Group and Academic Director of the Professional MBA Project Management, WU – Vienna University of Business and Economics (WU Vienna), board member of project management Austria, Human Resource & Project Management Expert / Coach / Consultant, Founder and Manager of […]

The interrelations between process and project management

Project orientation has experienced a similar upswing in recent years as process orientation. Both concepts are so popular because they promise better fulfilment of customer wishes while simultaneously improving effectiveness and efficiency. Projects and processes complement each other. On the one hand, projects can be described by a multitude of processes with the help of […]

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: James Watt

With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors out of your context so we may learn from them and improve our way of performing projects. “Projector” is a term introduced by Daniel Defoe in “An Essay upon Projects” (1697). It […]