Certified Project Management Professionals are change agents that want to create lasting results in their organizations by enabling effective, efficient, and easier decision making. This topic is discussed in the article, “How Project Management Enhances Decision Making.” In order to make a positive impact certified project managers are skilled at viewing our organizations and projects […]

The purpose of this posting is to clarify why certified project managers are not sales representatives, pre-sales consultants, or business development persons. Certified project managers serve their organizations in a highly skilled manner. Therefore, certified project management professionals have a higher probability of creating sustainable successful results over the long term. The ten reasons why: […]

The purpose of this posting is to show that project management in collaboration with six sigma principles enables effective and efficient decision making by enabling less bottlenecks in decision making. In order to accomplish this, project managers in collaboration with business analysts or alone, model processes to create systematic consensus in common scenarios. 4 Process […]

IBM, Netflix, and Conde Nast. What do these corporations have in common? Their core business represents a digital transformation and disruption trend in organizations. They  are leveraging talent with PMP certifications (IBM: around 5%, Netflix: around 11%, Conde Nast: between 1-3%, Source: LinkedIn).  Project managers are in demand in a variety of industries. “Although quite common […]

The purpose of this post is to demonstrate how lean, scrum, and agile project management practices can be used together. In this post, I’ve included a sample of lean and agile used in practice in a project charter document. In this charter document, we have incorporated a backlog to describe some aspects of scrum backlog, […]