The Disciplined Agile Mindset By Scott Ambler | Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute The DA tool kit supplies straightforward guidance to help you, your team, and your enterprise increase your effectiveness. The DA tool kit shows you how to apply and evolve your way of working (WoW) in
Innovation Project Management By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. | Senior Executive Director, International Institute for Learning (IIL) We are excited to bring you this blog post on Innovation Project Management, which is adapted from Dr. Harold Kerzner’s new book of the same title. Below, he explains why this topic is so important, the types of challenges
Dr. Harold Kerzner’s Project Management Predictions for 2020 By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. | Senior Executive Director, International Institute for Learning (IIL) The landscape for project management changes almost every year. Some changes are relatively small or incremental, whereas other changes can be significant. Major changes to project management will occur in 2020 due to much
Why Business Analysts and Digital Project Managers are Needed Now, More Than Ever By J. LeRoy Ward | Executive Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, IIL Today, it seems it’s all about data: collecting it, analyzing it, making sense of it, and then using it in a variety of ways – for example, to gain more
By Luigi Morsa, Ph.D. Nowadays, companies are very conscious that if they want to be competitive, they have to innovate. The conquered market shares can rapidly disappear or drastically be reduced. The only way is to keep pace, to be reactive and introduce new solutions, ideally before their competitors. It is worth quoting a sentence
By J. LeRoy Ward, IIL Executive VP of Enterprise Solutions and Sander Boeije, Program Manager – IIL Online Conferences On November 7, 2019, IIL will celebrate the 16th anniversary of International Project Management Day, also known as IPM Day. Initially conceived by Frank P. Saladis, and made possible by IIL, this important day recognizes the
By J. LeRoy Ward | Executive Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, IIL Is it possible to deliver a project on time, on budget, and to scope and still have an unsuccessful project? Now more than ever, the answer is yes – because today’s projects are all about benefits and value. A benefit is an outcome
By J. LeRoy Ward | Executive Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, IIL In June 2019, the Project Management Institute (PMI)® announced that significant changes are coming to the Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam. In this post, I will provide important information about the new PMP® Exam and answer the following questions: When is the PMP
By Liam Dillon, PMP, PMI-ACP, PgMP, PfMP Senior Consultant, IIL | Managing Director/President, Turlon & Associates Reading various blogs, articles and papers on how to be successful as a project manager got me thinking about what NOT to do as a PM. I have seen some major “do nots” throughout a 27-year career in project
By J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM, CSPO | Executive Vice President – Enterprise Solutions, IIL The other day I was scrolling through my LinkedIn feed and saw that someone had posted a picture of one of those business/inspirational quotes, attributed to no one in particular, in an attempt to gain a lot of
