Value proposition design for projects
29 May 2017 IN Featured Know how Uncategorized BY Reinhard Wagner
One of my favorite books, “Value Proposition Design” written by Osterwald, Pigneur, Bernada and Smith shows how to design and test value propositions in an iterative search for what customers really, really want. The basis for the right value proposition is a Canvas (see illustration based on Strategyzer), which shows on the one hand side
Read more »Performing virtual project meetings
24 May 2017 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner
Many project teams are nowadays spread across the globe and therefore cannot not (regularly) meet physically. Most of their meetings are performed virtually, usually by means of a web conference or a collaboration tool. The participants can see each other, establish a dialogue and chat via the online tool, they can work on documents, perform
Read more »Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Vasco da Gama
22 May 2017 IN Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner
With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors out of your context so we may learn from them and improve our way of performing projects. “Projector” is a term introduced by Daniel Defoe in “An Essay upon Projects” (1697). It
Read more »Are you a candidate for the IPMA Research Awards?
15 May 2017 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Helgi Thor Ingason
Research is one of the basic building blocks of every profession. IPMA promotes and acknowledges outstanding research world-wide and thereby encourages academics and practitioners to develop the profession through rigourus research. The annual IPMA Research Awards is an important part of this strategy and the goal of IPMA Research Awards is to promote excellence within
Read more »The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management
11 May 2017 IN Featured Know how News BY Sandra Misic
Megaprojects are very large investment projects. The team “Mega” often implies the size of the task involved in developing, planning, and managing projects of this magnitude. Bent Flyvbjerg, a professor at the Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford says that globally, megaprojects make up 8 percent of total GDP. They attract a lot
Read more »Management 4.0 – Handbook for Agile Practices
5 May 2017 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner
A recently released Handbook is worth mentioning on this Blog, because it addresses a topic, which is a „hot topic“ in the world of projects, and the way it was developed is even more remarkable. But one after the other. Nowadays, all conferences, publications and seminars need to address the topic of „Agility, Agile or
Read more »Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Alexander von Humboldt
3 May 2017 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner
With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors out of your context so we may learn from them and improve our way of performing projects. “Projector” is a term introduced by Daniel Defoe in “An Essay upon Projects” (1697). It
Read more »Projects and project management in Ecuador
1 May 2017 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Reinhard Wagner
The Federal Republic of Ecuador, which is literally the “Republic of the Equator” is located in the Northwest of South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the East and South, and the Pacific Ocean to the West. It also includes the famous Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometres to the
Read more »1. IPMA Conference on Diversity in Project Management Conference
26 April 2017 IN Best Practices Featured Know how News BY Yvonne Schoper
As a common initiative both from IPMA together with its member associations in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland the first Diversity in Project Management Conference took place from April 10 to 11 2017 in s-´Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. The conference was a great success for all participants. The diversity of the themes around
Read more »Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Jakob Fugger
24 April 2017 IN Know how BY Reinhard Wagner
With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors out of your context so we may learn from them and improve our way of performing projects. “Projector” is a term introduced by Daniel Defoe in “An Essay upon Projects” (1697). It
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