Join IPMA´s Smart Cities Symposium in Berlin

The number of people is steadily growing. By 2050 the world population is expected to reach nearly 10 billion people of which approximately 80% will be living in cities. This is a huge task for all governments and leaders worldwide. Already nowadays 60% of the energy consumed and 70% of waste and greenhouse gas emissions […]

2nd Diversity in Project Management conference in Croatia

Since the mid 1960’s, IPMA is one of the leading worldwide congress organizer on project, programme and portfolio management, bringing together business professionals, practitioners, managers and representatives of companies, leading scientists, educators, professors, and students, representatives of various sectors and occupations, NGO’s and the media. Now for the 2nd time IPMA organizes in cooperation with […]

Stakeholders Optimization Strategy (SOS): A 3D-R approach

It is an established fact that stakeholders exercise significant influence on the outcome of projects. Optimizing Stakeholders influence would mean enhancing their positive and minimizing their negative influences; and achieving a state where the sum total of their positive influences is greater than the sum total of their negative influences. To achieve such a scenario, […]

Competences – an update for the digital era

Digitalization is a trend which influences our life in all regards. Waking up in the morning, we´ll get a full update on what has happened during the night and what we can expect during the following hours. An App provides all information for today, the shortest route to our office considering relevant traffic jams and […]

It has been a real honour to represent the profession during the last five years

In a few days my term as President of IPMA will come to an end and Dr Jesus Martinez-Almela will take over the office. It has been an incredible period of my life, with many exciting but also challenging experiences. As Vice-President for Standards, Research and Awards I had the opportunity during the years 2013 […]

IPMA® Professionals Driving Transformation

Bord na Móna was established 80 years ago to develop Ireland’s peat resources for the economic benefit of Ireland. Today, it is comprised of 6 business units Powergen, Biomass, Peat, Fuels, Waste and Recovery, and Horticulture and is an integral part of the economic, social and environmental fabric of Ireland and Irish life. Due to […]

One-Point Lessons: A knowledge transfer driven Lean project management technique

Projects are knowledge-intensive entities and the knowledge bandwidth of teams affects their ability to solve problems and deal with emerging challenges during project delivery. Such dynamics require ongoing learning and augmentation of knowledge bandwidth. However, time-bound project environments are not ideally suited to introducing and managing long term learning and training programs to improve that […]

4 Fallacies of Typical Project Management Thinking (Part 3)

Written by Ryan Downing Part 3 – Providing a Very Detailed Schedule As this series continues, we will explore another area of managing projects that many deem to be an essential element.  However, my purpose for writing this is to make project managers aware that they do not always have to manage their projects in […]

The real value of IPMA Certification

The 4-Level-Certification-System of IPMA is a unique service for individuals pursuing a career in project management. Through the certificate of IPMA they can provide evidence of their competence to an employer or project sponsor. And competence is much more than knowledge. According to the IPMA ICB 4.0  competence is “the application of knowledge, skills and […]

4 Fallacies of Typical Project Management Thinking (Part 2)

Written by Ryan Downing Part 2 – Setting a Go Live Date. You can read previous articles in this series here. In this series, my goal is to bring to light several common project management practices that I feel are forced on projects because they are assumed to be best practice.  However, there are plenty […]