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 […]

Insights into our hackdays: Yes, we gained many experiences regarding self-organizing our teamwork!

During the 8th IPMA Research Conference in September 2020 – the first virtual one – we (team 7) participated in the organized Hackdays or Hackathon, which lasted two days and worked on the topic “Mindset, Culture and Atmosphere for Self-Organization”. In this contribution, we would like to share our experiences with you. Before we come […]

An IPMA virtual mega project award assessment: what a challenge!

Introduction This year was my first experience with the IPMA Global Excellence Award. I was already several times assessor and judge for the PMO of the world award. But those assessments are completely different. You watch on your own a one-hour presentation of a PMO. You assess that PMO at six criteria: PMO’s journey, client […]

Insight Curve: How to harness its power for PM effectiveness?

Clarity is power and a priceless asset. Developing a deeper and clearer understanding of a phenomenon, a situation, a problem, or a concept is often the difference between gloom and glory. Having a clear, deep and “sometimes sudden understanding of a complicated problem or situation” is called as insight (Cambridge dictionary, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/insight). Kiefer and Constable, […]

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 […]

IPMA Best Practices: Online certification in times of corona crisis – IPMA Slovakia case

I want to share my experience with IPMA Slovakia during the hectic period when the topic of COVID19 resonates all around us. I am responsible for the Project Competences Center in Framatome, the international corporate company, which operates one of its branches also in Slovakia – Framatome Controls s. r. o. Our primary focus is […]

The IPMA HackDays: the hackathon for self-organizing in projects

Would you like to make an impact in the world of projects and create a product with a real business application? Is your mind so full of ideas that sometimes you cannot even sleep at night? Do you get excited when you need to deliver against a deadline? Do you believe that teamwork makes the […]

‘Hierarchy of thought’ – Let’s give it a thought

Human cognitive process is perhaps the single most important determinant of socio-economic growth, creativity and innovation, and wellbeing of human civilization. While computers, machines, devices and all available tools and technologies – that we can think of, play a vital role in augmenting human living experience, and enabling social and economic growth; let’s not forget […]

How much do Agile Project Managers earn in comparison to others?

This is only one of the questions we were looking into in our 7th bi-annual salary study of GPM, German Project Management Association. Never before did so many people participate in the career and salary study in project management in the German-speaking countries: this time 1,650 Project Managers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland actively participated […]