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24 May 2017 | 6:47
Reinhard Wagner
Performing virtual project meetings
Many project teams are nowadays spread across the globe and therefore cannot not (regularly) meet physically. Most of their meetings are performed virtually, usually by means of a web conference or a collaboration tool. The participants can see each other, establish a dialogue and chat via the online tool, they can work on documents, perform […]
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17 May 2017 | 6:39
Reinhard Wagner
The interrelations between projects, programmes and change
This week the ISO/TC258/WG4 finishes its work on a new standard, the ISO 21503 “Guidance on Programme Management”. The core team of about twenty international experts and many more in national mirror committees explored the topic of programme management over more than three years. One of the key points of the discussion was to clearly […]
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15 May 2017 | 7:25
Helgi Thor Ingason
Are you a candidate for the IPMA Research Awards?
Research is one of the basic building blocks of every profession. IPMA promotes and acknowledges outstanding research world-wide and thereby encourages academics and practitioners to develop the profession through rigourus research. The annual IPMA Research Awards is an important part of this strategy and the goal of IPMA Research Awards is to promote excellence within […]
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05 May 2017 | 5:07
Reinhard Wagner
Management 4.0 – Handbook for Agile Practices
A recently released Handbook is worth mentioning on this Blog, because it addresses a topic, which is a „hot topic“ in the world of projects, and the way it was developed is even more remarkable. But one after the other. Nowadays, all conferences, publications and seminars need to address the topic of „Agility, Agile or […]
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03 May 2017 | 8:36
Reinhard Wagner
Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Alexander von Humboldt
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 […]
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01 May 2017 | 11:14
Reinhard Wagner
Projects and project management in Ecuador
The Federal Republic of Ecuador, which is literally the “Republic of the Equator” is located in the Northwest of South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the East and South, and the Pacific Ocean to the West. It also includes the famous Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres to the […]
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26 April 2017 | 9:46
Yvonne Schoper
1. IPMA Conference on Diversity in Project Management Conference
As a common initiative both from IPMA together with its member associations in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland the first Diversity in Project Management Conference took place from April 10 to 11 2017 in s-´Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. The conference was a great success for all participants. The diversity of the themes around […]
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20 April 2017 | 7:04
Reinhard Wagner
The RASIC-Chart – a key tool for collaboration in projects
One of the key factors for successful collaboration in projects is having clear roles and responsibilities assigned. Otherwise work is maybe done twice, or nobody feels responsible for doing certain work packages, team members feel uncertain whether they are supposed to do work packages or others are doing it, or uncertainties ultimately increase the need […]
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18 April 2017 | 7:04
Reinhard Wagner
Managing collaboration in virtual project teams
Due to global workshare many projects are performed through teams scattered all over the world. Collaboration between the team members in such a setting is difficult because of geographical distance, different time and climate zones, diverse cultures, beliefs, habits and languages, divergent understanding of project management and other work styles. Sometimes those teams are called […]
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10 April 2017 | 5:56
Reinhard Wagner
Overcoming „projectitis“ in organisations
During the past fifty years projects became quite popular in organisations. Research indicates that in some countries more than one third of the GDP is performed through projects, with some organisations running more than fifty percent of their turnover through projects. And that´s not taking into account the vast number of internal projects, e.g. for […]
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