Five Lessons from PM Forum 2026: Why Project Management Needs to Rethink Leadership, AI and Uncertainty

What happens when artificial intelligence becomes a team member, geopolitical uncertainty challenges long-term planning, and the pursuit of ambitious goals requires the courage to change direction? At PM Forum 2026 in Munich, project professionals explored a changing profession and discovered that its future may depend more on human capabilities than ever before. On October 8–9, […]

From Governance to Energy Transition: Global Perspectives on the Future of Project Management at the IPMA World Congress 2026

The 35th IPMA World Congress in Hiroshima brought together international experts, industry leaders, and project management professionals to explore some of the most pressing challenges shaping the future of the profession. Through a series of individual presentations, speakers examined the role of ethical governance, professional standards, energy transition, technological innovation, and competence development in creating […]

Sustainability in Project Management: Turning Ambition into Action

At the 35th IPMA World Congress in Hiroshima, international experts explored how sustainability can move beyond strategic commitments and become an integral part of project management practices, creating long-term value across projects, programmes, and portfolios. The panel discussion, “Sustainability in Project Management,” was moderated by Prof. Dr. Antonio Calabrese, Ethics Committee, IPMA (Italy), and featured […]

New Trends in Project Management: AI, Skills and the Human Side of Projects

Project management is entering a period of significant change. Artificial intelligence, digitalization, sustainability and new expectations from project professionals are reshaping the way projects are planned, managed and delivered – and the skills needed to lead them successfully. These changes were at the center of the panel “New Trends in Project Management” at the IPMA […]

Skills are strategy: takeaways from the EIF’s “Got Skills? Level Up!” event

On September 23, 2026, in Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg City, I joined more than 260 people at the European Investment Fund’s Got Skills? Level Up! event. The room brought together the representatives of EIF, EIB, European Commission, investors, education providers, edu-tech, fin-tech, and lifelong-learning organisations. We came from very different sectors, but the conclusion […]

IPMA Events: Why They Matter for the Future of Project Management

Since its establishment in 1965 as the world’s first non-profit global body for the project profession, IPMA has brought together project professionals from around the world, fostering the development of project management across various sectors—business, academia, and society. Events play a key role in IPMA’s global outreach and advocacy efforts. But why do events matter […]

Complexity as a Strength: Why Project Managers Cannot – and Should Not – Plan Everything

Project management has never had access to more sophisticated tools, data and methodologies than it does today. Yet, paradoxically, projects are becoming increasingly difficult to predict. Digital transformation, artificial intelligence, geopolitical uncertainty, changing regulations and rapidly evolving stakeholder expectations are creating environments in which traditional planning approaches are reaching their limits. At the PM Forum 2026, […]

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement e. V. (GPM), 40 years membership anniversary with IPMA!

The children’s challenge of Algerian Project Management Association in Tipasa (28.01.2023)

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lays an invincible summer.” Albert Camus wrote this sentence in the early 1950s in the city of Tipasa located 70 km from Algiers, the capital of Algeria. The coastal city of Tipasa was first a Carthaginian trading centre, whose necropolis is one of […]

Entropy and Project Management

Project management is a well-architected, deliberate approach with well-defined moves and routines to accomplish the set objectives (at least, that is the predominant view of how project management is conceptualized). The idea is to simplify things, make work visible to people assigned to the project, and provide a sense of direction to get the job […]