German Project Excellence Award 2015: Four finalists announced

Examples for outstanding project management Four projects are announced as finalists of this years German Project Excellence Award. They could not be more different, however, they have one thing in common: All four projects had to go beyond of what was usual or even possible in their fields. In the end they not only delivered […]

Cycle Up Your Career With the ICB4

At IPMA, we see project management deeply rooted in the real world around us. From Mars rovers and nano engineering, to the development of faster trains, safer digital encryption protocols and insightful health care analytics. Projects are at the forefront of most new development. And project, programme, and portfolio managers carry the weight of these […]

Victor A. F. Lamme – Keynote speaker at pma focus 2015 in Vienna

Under the title “projects/sales – selling projects: richtig erfolgreich”  the pma focus 2015 conference (15th October in Vienna, Austria) will take a closer look at possible tensions between these two different fields and at the great importance of sales skills for project managers. Because the fact is: Being a project manager always means being a […]

GeCCo – PRACTICE AND LEARN HOW TO WORK IN INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL TEAMS

Global eCollaboration Competition (GeCCo) event organized by IPMA Young Crew enables young project management professionals to get competences and skills that will help them in their future career to work in virtual international teams. Virtual project teams are usual part of project management in economy nowadays. Striving for lower costs and performance optimisation drive companies […]

Project managers can change the world

GpmFirst is raring to go after the brief lull of the summer vacation, and our Guest Editor this month is setting the bar high by encouraging all project managers to get out there and change the world! Reinhard Wagner – our Guest Editor, and President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) – talks ‘projectification‘ and […]

Projects and project management in Canada

After the IPMA CoD in 2014 this year´s meeting of ISO/TC258 brought me a second time into Canada. Another reason for writing on the IPMA Blog about Canada. With 10 million square kilometre it is the second-largest country of the world, reaching from the Pacific Ocean to the North Atlantic. Canada is a modern country, […]

6th INTERNET World Congress on Project Management 1979

At the end of the 5th Congress on Project Management 1976 at Birmingham, UK, Roland Gutsch, one of the founders of INTERNET (now IPMA) promised to his board members that the 6th congress would be in 1979 in Germany. It was proposed that the conference should take place at Munich, Germany, during the time of […]

ISO/TC258 Project, programme and portfolio management met in Toronto

The Technical Committee (TC) 258 of ISO that is concerned with standards in the field of project, programme and portfolio management held its annual meeting in Toronto. More than 60 delegates from about 20 countries discussed the actual status of their work programme, future activities and further advanced the current projects. After publication of ISO21500 […]

The Art of Project Management – Past, Present, Future

This year IPMA celebrates its 50th Anniversary, a great point in time for elaborating on the past, present and future of our profession. The reason for starting the IPMA, formerly known as INTERNET, was the idea of having an exchange on network planning techniques. Project management took off in the United States of America, mainly […]

Different stages of organisational development during projectification

The increasing number of projects (“projectification”) has great impact on organisations, they transform. This transformation can be observed through six stages, which I will explain shortly. – Stage 0: This might be the starting point for a transformation. No projects being performed. The organisation is a typical line organisation, shaped by functional departments running the […]