Australia – The state of play in Project Management

Like many other countries, Australia is also witnessing an increasing utilisation of project management to drive business prosperity, deliver investment into public infrastructure, and introducing new products and services to the markets. Together with KPMG, the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) conducted the Australian Project Management Survey 2018. Both partners strongly believe that improving […]

From ‘Control’ to ‘Engage’: Is ‘Engaged Control’ a better solution?

Over the last five decades, project management (PM) has grown to become a formidable knowledge-intensive profession. PM processes, methods, tools, and techniques, mainly designed to achieve efficiency and effectiveness of project-based work, have been documented to enable better use and re-use. However, as organizations are moving towards a business model where human resources are considered […]

Legal Project Management – a new kid on the block

Projects and project management are increasingly popular in many sectors. In product development or the service industry projects are the new normal. However, project management for legal departments or firms is “the new kid on the block”. In response to economic and regulatory ramifications during the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, the legal profession (particularly […]

Project, Program, Change – Handbook for Intrapreneurs in Project-Oriented Organizations

Through my blogpost “The interrelations between projects, programmes and change” I already outlined, how important the relationship between projects, programmes and change is in the VUCA world. In this blogpost I also mentioned a new book written by Roland Gareis and his son Lorenz Gareis, which is now available in English language. The book “Project, […]

Trusting the future to overcome economic challenges!

by Jesus Martinez-Almela and Amin Saidoun The present challenging economic situation which the strongest economy of the Middle-East is facing is characterized by a devaluation of 36 cents of the Turkish lira in 2018, with all the impact this has on Turkish’ people power of purchase. Yet this has not prevented the Turkish member association […]

PMA India’s Project Managers Global Summit 2018 on Powering India’s Breakthrough Growth – New Dimension in Project Management

India is a fast emerging economic power and is likely to be the third largest world economy by 2030. In order to maintain the growth trajectory of the country, the Government of India has launched several flagship Programs including Smart Cities Mission, Make in India, Bharatmala, and others. In this socioeconomic context, PMA-India organized its […]

Projects and project management in Belarus

 The Republic of Belarus is a country in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia to the East, Ukraine to the South, Poland to the West, and Lithuania and Latvia to the North. In literature there are many interpretations why Belarus is called “White Russia”, none of them can be proven. During 1917, in the aftermath of […]

The Norwegian Association of Project Management (NFP) celebrates 50 years

Blog post by Tom Haugstad/NFP History Projects have always been accomplished by organisations dealing with complexities and high level of uncertainties like for instance the Pyramids in Egypt. The notion “project” stems from the Latin “projects” which means something like “throw forward”. In daily words, this means to make a plan, a proposal or draft. […]

How to influence people – the art of persuasion

The American psychologist, Dr. Robert Cialdini (https://www.influenceatwork.com/principles-of-persuasion/) has focused much of his work on the question: how to make people say yes to something? He identified six universal principles that explain how you can persuade someone (let´s say stakeholders with a negative attitude towards your project) to accept your suggestion (and buy in to the […]

The IPMA Agile Leadership Expedition

You can’ t have missed it, but the Agile development has had an indelible impact on project management. You may have wondered why IPMA has remained silent for so long? Maybe you’re questioning yourself whether an association for project managers has anything to say about Agile at all. Well, we kept silent until we really […]