Megaprojects in Latvia

It is a big challenge for a small country like Latvia to perform megaprojects and thus needs to build-up specific competences. Latvia is a democratic and developed country and member of the European Union, NATO, the Council of Europe, the United Nation (and other institutions).  Latvia was invited to join the OECD in 2016. For 2014, Latvia was […]

Governance models for Non for Profit Organisation: From theory to Practice

IPMA is in the process of implementing its 2020 strategy. This implies finding and putting in place the right governance model to do so. In this context and bearing in mind the upcoming board elections IPMA, turning to theory may help to meet the practical challenges of that endeavor. Indeed, social constructivist theory argues that […]

APMA joins IPMA on March 2016 in Riga

 The Algerian Project Management Association « APMA » has finally joined the IPMA confederation to become a transitional association member since the 20th of March 2016 during the Council delegates meeting at Riga. It is a significant step for APMA which aims in the near future to become one of the most recognized national referent institution in […]

How to bring researchers and practitioners in project management closer together?

I believe that closer cooperation between researchers and practitioners in the project management field is essential for the development of the field. The closer, the better. Each side has something of value to offer. Practitioners have loads of practical experience that researchers cannot even dream about. But researchers have plenty of tools to interpret information […]

Increase competence mobility and how to share it with people’s country of origin: the case of Algeria

While Algerian Project Management Association is applying for IPMA membership, the French think tank Cread (Centre de recherche en études appliquées pour le développement) in collaboration with the ILO (International Labour Organisation) in Geneva has recently published a book with the title “From brain drain to competence mobility’. The book gives an interesting analysis on […]

Doing the right projects and doing them right

Most of the organisations worldwide recognise the increasing importance of projects. For example, the private enterprises struggle for a competitive advantage through projects, public administration needs to deliver more with less (financial) resources and even the Not-for-profit organisations need to demonstrate their donors the sustainability of their spending. Thus, more of the same, using the […]

New IPMA ICB, PEB and OCB ready for download

The International Project Management Association (IPMA) announced the release of three standards for immediate download and web viewing today. The three standards are the IPMA Individual Competence Baseline (IPMA ICB), version 4.0, the IPMA Project Excellence Baseline (IPMA PEB), version 1.0, and the IPMA Organisational Competence Baseline (IPMA OCB), version 1.1. The IPMA Individual Competence […]

Projects and project management in Morocco

The Executive Board of IPMA started into 2016 with a meeting at Casablanca, dedicated to an exchange of experiences with board members of the Moroccan Project Management Association (MPMA). The association was formed last year  and is moving forward to start activities in 2016 and beyond. The Kingdom of Morocco is a country of the […]

Project Leadership – Becoming ‘that’ Project Manager

Over the years I’ve witnessed what I consider to be truly outstanding, motivational and inspirational project leadership.  I’ve also witnessed what I’ve considered to be the polar opposite; project leadership that has left project teams feeling deflated, undervalued and unwanted.  And the difference between the two in my opinion was simply this; the ability of […]

Sharing and Learning through Megaprojects: Building bridges on knowledge and competence

The project world that we live in is becoming megaproject world. Megaprojects are big investment projects whose purpose is to make the “mega” for client and contractors, from one side, but also for the community itself from the other side. In the megaproject world megaprojects experts explore their performance, why they fail often and what […]