This page contains the most recent articles from the Agile Project Management Academy.
What is the Project Logical Framework? It’s a very interesting concept and it is very consistent with the idea of “Value-driven Project Management” that I believe is so important to the future of project management, but it would probably be difficult to apply in its full form to many projects. The best way to describe […]
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I recently wrote an article on “Reinventing Project Management” which advocates developing a more integrated Agile Project Management approach that embraces both Agile and traditional plan-driven project management in the right proportions to fit any given project. Some people will want more information on how a hybrid Agile Project Management approach would work and what
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PMI has recently announced a new direction for the PMI-ACP exam. It’s been over (10) years since the PMI-ACP exam was originally created and changes are definitely needed. Many people who are familiar with my Agile Project Management training may be wondering what I think of those changes and how it relates to the training
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In this article, I want to talk about the need for “Reinventing Project Management”. Any dynamic organization or company needs to be constantly evolving to keep pace with a rapidly changing marketplace and competitive environment. My favorite example of that is American Express. American Express started their business in the 1800’s delivering packages on railway
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There seems to be some confusion about “What Is Agile Project Management?”. To some people, it seems to be nothing more than the level of project management that is already integrated into Scrum and consists of simply managing the implementation of a standard Scrum project. I think it is more than that. I think it
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What is value-driven project management? The very essence of what “project management is” is going through significant changes at this time. For many years, project management has been heavily associated with what I call a “traditional plan-driven approach to project management” where the primary emphasis has been on planning and control to achieve predictability over
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What Can We Learn from the OceanGate Tragedy? The recent OceanGate tragedy where five people were killed in an apparent implosion was, in hindsight, a disaster waiting to happen; and from a project management perspective, there are many things that could have been done better to prevent this from happening. We can learn from this
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I participated in a question-and-answer session on Quora in response to a question someone asked, “What happens to professors if no one signs up for his/her class?” I want to share my answer with you. My Early Start at Boston University I was originally hired as an Adjunct Professor at Boston University about (10) years
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I participated in a discussion on “How long should I study for PMI-ACP?” and here is my initial response: “It’s very unlikely that you can pass the PMI-ACP exam simply by cramming prior to taking the exam. The best way to prepare for the exam is to combine studying with some good, solid real-world experience.
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What happened to Southwest Airlines has been a popular topic lately. The airline had the biggest meltdown in airline history with thousands of flights canceled and many passengers and hundreds of pieces of luggage stranded at a number of different airports throughout the US. Even now, Southwest is still struggling to recover from this disaster
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