Project-based learning for a changing world of work – Part 4

Written by Dr. Jesus Martinez-Almela and Reinhard Wagner Training and assessment offerings of professional organizations – with special focus on IPMA Training and educational assessment is the systematic process of documenting and using empirical data on the knowledge, skill, attitudes, and beliefs to refine programmes and improve student learning. Assessment data can be obtained from […]

Ludvig Holberg – The Underground Travels of Niels Klim (1741)

Niels Klim’s Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum in 1741, is a satirical fantasy novel written by the Norwegian-Danish author Ludvig Holberg. It describes a utopian society from an outsider’s point of view, and often pokes fun at diverse cultural and social topics such as morality, science, sexual equality, religion, […]

This is Africa ! 2nd Pan-African Project Management Conference

402 delegates attended the 2nd Pan-African project management conference,  from 23. to 25.05.2018 in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. Having the Ministry of Economy, Planning, and development as a strategic partner of the conference showed the growing importance of project management in Cameroun which counts 24 million inhabitants and which aims at becoming an emerging […]

Interview with Reinhard Wagner: People Outweighs Methods and Tools

Journalist: Yu Yanjuan(Spring), Source: PMR Journalist’s Words:  For more than three decades, he has been dancing with projects and walking in pace with management. Having participated in the development of project, programme and portfolio management standards, he always stands in the frontier of project management and follows the footsteps of change. His footprints spread across […]

Project-based learning for a changing world of work – Part 2

Written by Dr. Jesus Martinez-Almela and Reinhard Wagner Which competences are needed for the people engaged in projects? That typically depends on the context, content and complexity of the particular project. Competence required can be divided into those needed for managing projects and those that are specific to the individual project type, content or context. […]

Projects and project management in Turkey

The Republic of Turkey is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, comprising mainly Anatolia in Western Asia and a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries with Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, the Azerbaijan and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria […]

International Workshop in Ankara: New perspective in Project Management

Written by Sandra Mišić and Amin Saidoun On 9th of May 2018 Turkish Project Management Association in collaboration with IPMA and Gazi University organized an international workshop. The topic with the title: “New perspective in Project Management” attracted over 150 attendees from private but mainly academic sector. Both national and international speakers were invited to […]

Projectors in Denmark – A comedy from the 17th Century

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez (1580 – 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the 17thCentury [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Quevedo]. He produced a vast quantity of poetry, ranging from satirical and mythological subjects to love poetry and philosophical pieces. In his “Dreams” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Sue%C3%B1os], the somewhat misanthropic Quevedo showcased his […]

Handbook for Agile Practices – Release 2.0

In one of my previous blogposts I recommended the Handbook for Agile Practices “Management 4.0” edited by Dr. Alfred Oswald and Wolfram Müller [http://blog.ipma.world/management-4-0-handbook-agile-practices/]. Both are engaged and facilitating the Special Interest Group “Agile Management” of GPM, the German Project Management Association. The handbook was written by various experts with academic, practice, social and technical […]

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Nikolai F. Fyodorov

You are all encouraged to write about great projectors out of your context so we may learn from them and improve our way of performing projects. “Projector” is a term introduced by Daniel Defoe in “An Essay upon Projects” (1697). It refers to people that “project” into the future and thus make them real. A […]