Report: More than half of project management professionals see the adoption of Artificial Intelligence in their profession in the next 5 years

The current context, influenced also by the COVID-19 pandemic, has forced the rapid adoption of new technologies and innovations have gone beyond the boundaries of research laboratories and are now being implemented in everyday processes. For example, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is evolving and is being used in more and more fields, from […]

Project-based cooperation at global level as a condition for mastering current and future challenges

This year I can proudly look back on 20 years of voluntary commitment serving the German Association for Project Management (GPM) and the International Project Management Association (IPMA). What fills me with joy is the increase in importance that both associations have experienced during this time. In the beginning, both were rather a “nice family […]

Year 2021 Pledges of PM progress: List of five

Time book is set to turn to page number 2021 in the next couple of weeks’ time. With it comes the seasonal ritual of setting objectives and making pledges for the new year and onwards. In last one year, life has changed in many ways and that requires a change of focus for project management […]

Insights into our hackdays no. 2: Let us discuss the evaluation of our team mindset, culture and atmosphere during the hackdays

We participated in the hackdays or hackathon that was organized during the 8th IPMA Research Conference in September 2020. Following the conference, our team conducted a retrospective on our hackathon-experience, in which we collected and discussed our learnings and experiences. During the hackdays, we shared these experiences, our “Ups” and “Downs”, our “Do’s” and “Don’ts“, […]

Return on Relationships (RoR): Proposing a PM focused formula

Networkization of societies has contributed to an exponential increase in the number of relationships, both, face-to-face and virtual. This relationships abundance has made people think of how they can build and maintain value-added relationships? How can they decide the intensity and closeness of relationships? The tendency has led to developments in the concept of Return […]

Kintsugi: Can its philosophy be used to heal the broken projects?

The broken projects are an unending battle resulting in staggering losses to organizations across the globe (Lim, 2020). Some recent examples such as BBC incurring £7million loss on abandoned license fee project (Singh, 2020) or the three years delay in implementation of 3DEXPERIENCE PLM platform at Ericcson (Ogewell, 2020) are just the tip of the […]

True Value of Certification

The attached picture about a PMP just came across my social media channels today. I don’t want to miss to congratulate to the successful pass of the PMP exam. When you go into the picture you can read ’success guaranteed’. Of course, this is just a bad marketing gag where many learners just trap in. […]

3rd Pan-African Project Management Conference – 28th to 30th October 2020, in Yaoundé/Cameroon: How to organize projects successfully in Africa

Around 300 delegates attended the 3rd Pan-African project management conference that took place from 28th to 30th of October in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. It is one of the largest conferences on project management in Africa with 420 delegates from over 20 countries and it takes place every second year with IPMA attendance. The […]

Insight Curve: How to harness its power for PM effectiveness?

Clarity is power and a priceless asset. Developing a deeper and clearer understanding of a phenomenon, a situation, a problem, or a concept is often the difference between gloom and glory. Having a clear, deep and “sometimes sudden understanding of a complicated problem or situation” is called as insight (Cambridge dictionary, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/insight). Kiefer and Constable, […]

Gaining experience on the topic of self-organization through practical application

Last week the 8th IPMA Research Conference took place with the topic “Projects as arenas for self-organizing”. Due to the pandemic, it was not held in beautiful Berlin as planned, but as a virtual event. Even though this was a daring venture, it proved to be an excellent one in view of the topic. The […]