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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

What does it take to reach excellence in projects?

Tapping into experience of well over a hundred excellent projects assessed worldwide by hundreds of professionals over a period of 13 years was an exciting journey that took us almost two years. What we have discovered is not about “leading standards” or “best practices”, but about ways to reach beyond them. And now we are […]

IPMA investigates new journal

International Project Management Association (IPMA) is considering launching a new project management journal for the benefit of the global project management community. The new IPMA journal is expected to be positioned between the International Journal of Project Management (IJPM)...

International PM-Community will meet in Panama for the 29th IPMA World Congress

End of September the international Project Management Community will meet in Panama for the 29th IPMA World Congress

Projects and project management in Spain

I have been many times in Spain, a beautiful country in the south-west of Europe. After a visit to Granada I try to wrap-up things and write this short report about projects and project management in Spain. The country [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain] covers the major part of the Iberian Peninsula and was influenced by various cultures, e.g. […]

Insights into the fascinating world of research projects

Friday, September 4 at Saint-Paul-les-Durance in southern France you can gain insights in one of the most fascinating research projects of mankind, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). ITER is an international project to design and build an experimental fusion reactor. The seven international project members are China, EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the […]

IPMA will launch a Megaprojects Special Interest Group in September

Megaprojects are extremely large-scale investment projects that typically cost more than 1 billion USD. Megaprojects are united by their extreme complexity, both in technical and organisational terms. Globally, 20% of the total global gross domestic product (GDP) is invested in capital projects/megaprojects. Their purpose is to make the “mega” change important not only for the […]