Starting a Young Crew in Morocco with IPMA TAP- Training Aid Programme in Marrakech and Casablanca
27 April 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Amin Saidoun

Written by Jesus Martinez-Almela and Amin Saidoun An important part for the development younger IPMA member associations is mentoring. As indicated in the IPMA programme structure 2020 derived from the IPMA 2020 strategy, mentoring can take the form of supporting the management of an association to create a Young Crew. Having a Young Crew is a
Read more »Projects and project management in Bulgaria
18 April 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner

Bulgaria is a country in South Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The region where nowadays Bulgaria is situated looks back to a rich heritage and history, being traced back to the
Read more »Three Common Mistakes In Managing Virtual Teams
16 April 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner

Author: Peter Ivanov (http://www.peter-ivanov.com/) Virtual Teams are everywhere now – from home office workers to workers in offices in multiple locations and teams embedded in large global corporations. According to Forrester Consulting 81% of Teams are distributed across multiple locations. Often when a Projects team is dispersed they suffer delays and sometimes complete failure. International
Read more »Call for Paper for ProMAC2018 in Thailand started
13 April 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner

ProMAC has been organized since 2002 by SPM, the Society of Project Management in Japan (Member of IPMA). This conference will follow its rich history of bringing together thought leaders from academia and industry to discuss the theory and practice of project, program, portfolio, organization and systems management, including the latest global trends and developments.
Read more »HR-Report 2018 with focus on agile organisations
11 April 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News Opinions BY Reinhard Wagner

This year´s HR-Report of Hays and the Institute of Employment and Employability of the University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigshafen focuses on agile organisations (The HR-Report 2018 in German language is available via: https://www.hays.de/personaldienstleistung-aktuell/studie?friendlyUrl=hr-report-2018-schwerpunkt-agile-organisation-auf-dem-pruefstand). Agile organizations are characterized by a high and fast adaptability to changing conditions and market situations. Flexibility in terms of adapting
Read more »What are the project management challenges in the different business sectors?
9 April 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News Opinions BY Helgi Thor Ingason

What are the main challenges facing different business sectors in Iceland in managing projects, as faced by representatives from different industries? This question was discussed at the annual spring conference organized jointly by the Icelandic Project Management Association and the MPM program (Master of Project Management) at Reykjavik University in 2017. Representatives of eight business
Read more »“Projectification and its impact on societies”
5 April 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Yvonne Schoper

Modern project management was developed in the 1970s. The methods were taken over to more and more industries. Today project management is found in all parts of industry, in public administration, in education and in sports. The global trend of “projectification” that comprises all areas of professional and private life is ubiquitous. First studies in
Read more »Working Out Loud – an idea that became a movement
3 April 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner

The idea of “Working out Loud” (#wol) was first described by Bryce Williams in 2010. He published “When will we work out loud? Soon!” in his blog “TheBrycesWrite” describing the idea behind the concept. As it might be difficult to grasp, I just copied in the key parts of his blogpost: “So we’ve got “Working
Read more »ISO 31000 Risk Management Second Edition published
29 March 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner

The International Standard Family ISO 31000 describes principles and generic guidelines on risk management. Furthermore, it provides a universally recognised paradigm for practitioners and companies employing risk management processes to replace the myriad of existing standards, methodologies and paradigms that differed between industries, subject matters and regions [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31000]. The first editions of the documents ISO
Read more »Council of Delegates Communique from Berlin (Germany)
26 March 2018 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner

The International Project Management Association (IPMA) is a federation of 70 member nations, who collaborate to promote competence in project, programme and portfolio management across all sectors and engage stakeholders around the world in advancing the discipline. IPMA’s Council of Delegates has discussed during its spring meeting as well as during its first Smart Cities
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