By Ardi Ghorashy, M.Sc. Engineering, PMP, PgMP | Senior Executive Director, Global Solutions, IIL What is the secret ingredient that certain people possess and allows them to rise from the ashes of failure? I’m referring to this dynamic that drives them to try again and again, while others are stopped dead in their tracks. This question
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By Keith Wilson, MBA, B.COMM., PMP, MCP, MCT, CSM, CSPO | Senior Trainer and Consultant, IIL Can Microsoft Project be used for Agile projects? Yes! Customizable fields and custom groups can be used effectively to create an Agile template. Custom fields allow you to add project-specific information, which can be used to filter or
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By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D., Senior Executive Director for Project Management, IIL With the growth in project management metrics, KPIs and dashboard reporting systems, companies are improving their success to failure ratios on projects and strategic initiatives. But even though the path looks bright, all that glitters is not always gold, at least seen by those people
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Catch Dr. Kerzner’s keynote session, “How Changes in PM Support Agile & Scrum” at the 2017 IPM Day online conference ON DEMAND. By Deborah A. Dell, PMP – Director, IBM Project Management Center of Excellence and Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. – Senior Executive Director for Project Management, IIL Deciding to implement a Project Management Office (PMO) is easy.
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Many years ago (i.e., before the Internet existed), I worked with a well-known colleague who was quite proficient at writing books. When I asked him where all of his ideas came from, he pointed to a small pad of paper and a pen in his shirt pocket. He stated that whenever any of his students
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By J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM The Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP)® is the world’s most popular and desirable project management certification. The numbers alone tell the story: as of December 31, 2014 there were 639,237 active PMP credential holders. No other project management credential (of which there are many competitors)
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By J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CSM What future am I talking about? The future of the project we’re currently managing. Why? Because everyone is obsessed with the future: you, your team, the boss, and the client. Everyone wants to know: when will the project be done? How will it work? There’s a lot of
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By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D, Senior Executive Director of Project Management, IIL Last year, I wrote a blog entitled My Most Important Best Practice. In the past several months, people have been asking me what I learned from this best practice. This is good news because it means that people are reading my blog. I have modified
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Catch Dr. Kerzner’s keynote session, “Innovation Project Management” at the 2018 IPM Day online conference On Demand. By Harold Kerzner, Ph.D., Senior Executive Director of Project Management, IIL There were numerous reasons why I decided to write a book entitled Project Management 2.0. While some people focus heavily on the skills, tools and techniques used by
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By Keith Wilson, B.Comm., PMP, MCT, MCTS, Senior Trainer and Consultant, IIL Good project planning requires asking and answering several questions in order to begin the process. Very often, there is a limited time to perform a needs analysis. Therefore, it is essential that you have a framework for structuring your questions and collecting information. The following
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