2021 is International Year of Responsible Project Management

Responsible Project Management is a call to action for all project professionals to advocate for projects to deliver better outcomes for society and the environment, as well as for financial investors.  Projects drive change around the globe.  In the face of the range of grand challenges facing humanity, it is time for project management to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Launching the IPMA Megaprojects Book Club – A Journey of Challenging ‘so what?’ Questions

Have you ever wanted to ask some challenging questions directly to the author after reading a book? I’m very pleased to launch the IPMA Megaprojects Book Club, a forum for the ‘so what?’ burning questions that will trigger disruptive thinking and be a catalyst for change. The platform will connect leading authors to our community […]

Projects as arena for self-organizing

How timely the topic of this year’s IPMA Research Conference has only become clear over the past months. The COVID19 pandemic has challenged conventional strategies, structures and forms of cooperation. Proven but in many organisations forgotten forms of work and organisation have become useful again, especially during the crisis, including above all self-initiative, self-organisation, community […]