Featured Archives - IPMA International Project Management Association

21 June 2018 / 10:59 Reinhard Wagner

Passion for Projects – the Beauty and the Beast

If someone is going the extra mile in projects, we characterize this as passion. But what is passion? In philosophy and religion passion ...

18 June 2018 / 7:38 Reinhard Wagner

Project Management at the Edge of Chaos

The headline seems to be a contradiction. Project management is typically perceived to be structured, keeping order and being the opposit...

15 June 2018 / 7:26 Jiwat

5Ws 1H: A technique to improve Project Management Efficiencies

Project management can be regarded as a multipurpose techno-managerial activity. The diversity of its applications necessitates making PM...

13 June 2018 / 8:38 Sandra Misic

2. IPMA conference on Diversity in Project Management

rom 7th June to 9th June, Croatia had a great privilege of hosting the 2nd IPMA Diversity in Project Management Conference and welcoming ...

11 June 2018 / 7:19 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Denmark

Denmark is a Nordic country, south-west of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also ...

9 June 2018 / 7:58 Gholamreza Safakish

Some learned “a” as “Apple” and some “Apple”

By: Gholamreza (Kami) Safakish, IPMA VP of Education & Training and Young Crew Age diversity is becoming a crucial issue as the new t...

4 June 2018 / 8:41 Reinhard Wagner

Project-based learning for a changing world of work – Part 4

Written by Dr. Jesus Martinez-Almela and Reinhard Wagner Training and assessment offerings of professional organizations – with special f...

1 June 2018 / 6:53 Reinhard Wagner

Ludvig Holberg – The Underground Travels of Niels Klim (1741)

Niels Klim’s Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum in 1741, is a satirical fantasy...

30 May 2018 / 8:39 Amin Saidoun

This is Africa ! 2nd Pan-African Project Management Conference

402 delegates attended the 2nd Pan-African project management conference, from 23. to 25.05.2018 in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon. Ha...

28 May 2018 / 6:29 Reinhard Wagner

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Rudolf Diesel

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 pr...

24 May 2018 / 11:09 Reinhard Wagner

Project-based learning for a changing world of work – Part 3

Project-based education and training approaches The terms “education” and “training” are interrelated but represent two different concep...

23 May 2018 / 6:27 Sandra Misic

Interview with Reinhard Wagner: People Outweighs Methods and Tools

Journalist: Yu Yanjuan(Spring), Source: PMR Journalist’s Words: For more than three decades, he has been dancing with projects and walki...

22 May 2018 / 6:49 Reinhard Wagner

Project-based learning for a changing world of work – Part 2

Written by Dr. Jesus Martinez-Almela and Reinhard Wagner Which competences are needed for the people engaged in projects? That typically ...

18 May 2018 / 10:33 Jesus Martinez Almela

Project-based learning for a changing world of work – Part 1

Projects are the catalyst for change. Developing new products, implementing strategies or organising events is increasingly performed thr...

16 May 2018 / 6:41 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Turkey

The Republic of Turkey is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, comprising mainly Anatolia in Western Asia and a smaller portion on the ...

14 May 2018 / 7:23 Sandra Misic

International Workshop in Ankara: New perspective in Project Management

Written by Sandra Mišić and Amin Saidoun On 9th of May 2018 Turkish Project Management Association in collaboration with IPMA and Gazi Un...

9 May 2018 / 12:56 Reinhard Wagner

Projectors in Denmark – A comedy from the 17th Century

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez (1580 – 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and one of the most prominent Spanish poets of t...

7 May 2018 / 6:30 Reinhard Wagner

Handbook for Agile Practices – Release 2.0

In one of my previous blogposts I recommended the Handbook for Agile Practices “Management 4.0” edited by Dr. Alfred Oswald and Wolfram M...

4 May 2018 / 7:38 Reinhard Wagner

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Nikolai F. Fyodorov

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 pr...

2 May 2018 / 7:07 Amin Saidoun

The importance of project management in Tunisia, first Training Aid programme of IPMA in Sousse

written by Jesus Martinez-Almela and Amin Saidoun After initial contacts between IPMA an the universities of Sousse, Kairaouan and Kartha...

1 May 2018 / 10:05 Amin Saidoun

4TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN ALGERIA: “PROJECT MANAGEMENT AS ECONOMIC LEVERAGE IN A CONTEXT OF CRISIS”

Written by Jesus-Martinez-Almela and Amin Saidoun On 28.04.2018, Algerian Project Management Association (APMA) organised in Algi...

30 April 2018 / 10:24 Reinhard Wagner

Celebrating our Profession

In most of the countries today “labour day” is being celebrated on May 1st. It´s an annual holiday to celebrate achievements of workers. ...

30 April 2018 / 7:19 Amin Saidoun

4th national conference on Project management in Algeria: “Project management as economic leverage in a context of crisis”

Written by Jesus-Martinez-Almela and Amin Saidoun On 28.04.2018, Algerian Project Management Association (APMA) organised in Algiers its...

27 April 2018 / 7:44 Amin Saidoun

Starting a Young Crew in Morocco with IPMA TAP- Training Aid Programme in Marrakech and Casablanca

Written by Jesus Martinez-Almela and Amin Saidoun An important part for the development younger IPMA member associations is mentoring. As...

18 April 2018 / 6:30 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Bulgaria

Bulgaria is a country in South Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turke...

16 April 2018 / 7:07 Reinhard Wagner

Three Common Mistakes In Managing Virtual Teams

Author: Peter Ivanov (http://www.peter-ivanov.com/) Virtual Teams are everywhere now – from home office workers to workers in offices in ...

13 April 2018 / 7:52 Reinhard Wagner

Call for Paper for ProMAC2018 in Thailand started

ProMAC has been organized since 2002 by SPM, the Society of Project Management in Japan (Member of IPMA). This conference will follow its...

11 April 2018 / 7:14 Reinhard Wagner

HR-Report 2018 with focus on agile organisations

This year´s HR-Report of Hays and the Institute of Employment and Employability of the University of Applied Sciences in Ludwigshafen foc...

9 April 2018 / 7:26 Helgi Thor Ingason

What are the project management challenges in the different business sectors?

What are the main challenges facing different business sectors in Iceland in managing projects, as faced by representatives from differen...

5 April 2018 / 7:09 Yvonne Schoper

“Projectification and its impact on societies”

Modern project management was developed in the 1970s. The methods were taken over to more and more industries. Today project management i...

3 April 2018 / 6:57 Reinhard Wagner

Working Out Loud – an idea that became a movement

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 ...

29 March 2018 / 11:53 Reinhard Wagner

ISO 31000 Risk Management Second Edition published

The International Standard Family ISO 31000 describes principles and generic guidelines on risk management. Furthermore, it provides a un...

26 March 2018 / 6:08 Reinhard Wagner

Council of Delegates Communique from Berlin (Germany)

The International Project Management Association (IPMA) is a federation of 70 member nations, who collaborate to promote competence in pr...

20 March 2018 / 8:42 Yvonne Schoper

The story behind the IPMA Research Conferences

Research conferences tend to be a succession of presentations of academics, with critical feedback at the end to find the weaknesses in t...

14 March 2018 / 8:03 Reinhard Wagner

Overcoming challenges of project work through innovations in project management

Project-related work dominates many areas of our society. In many sectors of the economy more than one third of the time is already spent...

13 March 2018 / 8:06 Amin Saidoun

Resilience of Algerian Project Management Association (APMA), a special tribute to Djamel Soufi, Executive Director of APMA who passed away on 12 February 2018 in Algiers

On 12 February 2018, the Executive Director of Algerian Project Management Association passed away in Algiers. Many of you remember him w...

12 March 2018 / 8:14 Yvonne Schoper

Celebrating Differences makes the Difference

Project management has been characterized as a “macho profession” in the 1990s (Cartwright, 1995). In the 20th century a successful proje...

9 March 2018 / 8:17 Reinhard Wagner

The Project Maker – A forgotten masterpiece

Carl Spitzweg (February 5, 1808 – September 23, 1885) was a German romanticist painter, especially of genre subjects. He was self-taught ...

7 March 2018 / 7:52 Reinhard Wagner

The World Projects – an utopian story, or real life?

Kurd Lasswitz (1848-1910) was an interesting man. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Breslau and the University of B...

5 March 2018 / 8:04 Reinhard Wagner

How to engage top managers in projects and project management?

During the last couple of months I had the opportunity of talking to several top managers of multi-billion Euro companies. They certainly...

2 March 2018 / 8:10 Reinhard Wagner

Beneficiaries of projects – multifaceted perspectives

According to the IPMA ICB 4.0 a project is a unique, temporary, multidisciplinary and organised endeavour to realise agreed deliverables ...

26 February 2018 / 8:57 Reinhard Wagner

Join IPMA´s Smart Cities Symposium in Berlin

The number of people is steadily growing. By 2050 the world population is expected to reach nearly 10 billion people of which approximate...

23 February 2018 / 6:57 Astrid Kuhlmey

Managing the unforeseeable

Projects per definition are unique. However, we try to extensively plan something which we never – at least partly – experienced be...

21 February 2018 / 8:37 Reinhard Wagner

Progressing career through projects? Results of a survey …

Research has paid little attention to the careers and career models of project managers [Bredin/Söderlund 2013]. Some authors highlight t...

19 February 2018 / 8:08 Sandra Misic

2nd Diversity in Project Management conference in Croatia

Since the mid 1960’s, IPMA is one of the leading worldwide congress organizer on project, programme and portfolio management, bringing to...

16 February 2018 / 8:49 Helgi Thor Ingason

United Nations University fellows (UNU-GEST) train for D level certification

One of the great benefits of working with IPMA is to get the opportunity to collaborate with people from all over the world, learn about ...

14 February 2018 / 8:25 Jiwat

Stakeholders Optimization Strategy (SOS): A 3D-R approach

It is an established fact that stakeholders exercise significant influence on the outcome of projects. Optimizing Stakeholders influence ...

12 February 2018 / 8:00 Reinhard Wagner

Do we need a new leadership approach for projects?

Last week I joined a discussion on LinkedIn, triggered by Dr. Marcus Raitner, Agile Transformation Agent at BMW, who pulled together a “H...

5 February 2018 / 8:39 Reinhard Wagner

Competences – an update for the digital era

Digitalization is a trend which influences our life in all regards. Waking up in the morning, we´ll get a full update on what has happene...

2 February 2018 / 2:32 Helgi Thor Ingason

A butterfly with a huge impact

Project management is surely a young academic field. Many of the original shapers of the field are among us and some of them are still qu...

31 January 2018 / 8:21 Reinhard Wagner

Your Project Needs You!

With his first book titled “Kafka, Pulp Fiction, Beer and Projects” he already made me smile and in my blogpost and I summarized it “neit...

29 January 2018 / 8:13 Jiwat

5S (or 6S) Lean Management technique: Possible uses in project management

The quality of project management processes has a significant bearing on the output(s) and deliverables of any project. Despite the avail...

26 January 2018 / 8:49 Reinhard Wagner

Leading a project tribe

Projects are performed by people. There has already been written a lot about project teams and leading them without disciplinary power. I...

24 January 2018 / 8:22 Martin Sedlmayer

Project Management and the Five Traits of Leadership

Not too long ago, Jack Welch formulated and posted on LinkedIn five essential traits a real leader needs to demonstrate (LinkedIn, May 15...

22 January 2018 / 8:14 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Montenegro

Montenegro is a sovereign state in South-eastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the southwest and is bordered by Croatia t...

19 January 2018 / 9:00 Reinhard Wagner

Making Organizational Change Stick

Through the IPMA Blog we have already advocated for a strong synergy between change and project management, being two sides of the same m...

17 January 2018 / 8:29 Jiwat

Benefits breakdown structure (BBS): Different types and how to create them?

Benefit realization has recently become one of the top priority areas in the development of project management knowledge activities. Glob...

15 January 2018 / 8:06 Reinhard Wagner

Mindfulness in projects – fashion, fiction or mastery?

Passion for projects! The motto of my company, myself and maybe many other project managers describes an attitude of fully engaging with ...

11 January 2018 / 8:24 Jiwat

From systematic-beings to Organic-beings: A futuristic Vision of Project Management

It is an often-repeated truism that we live in a fast-changing world. The field of Project Management is no exception. It has become perv...

8 January 2018 / 8:38 Reinhard Wagner

Project-related work – multimodal, flexible, virtual and volatile

Traditional labour arrangements are founded on contracts with people who earn their living through a permanent contract with one employer...

2 January 2018 / 8:10 Jesus Martinez Almela

What is Important and New in 2018. Message from the new IPMA President

The Year 2018 is already here and facing the new mandate as IPMA President picking up the torch from my predecessors, especially that of ...

22 December 2017 / 8:29 Reinhard Wagner

It has been a real honour to represent the profession during the last five years

In a few days my term as President of IPMA will come to an end and Dr Jesus Martinez-Almela will take over the office. It has been an inc...

20 December 2017 / 9:05 Jiwat

No-drama Project Management: Is it possible?

In hindsight, life is like an ensemble of a series of episodes of a drama with some episodes full of comedy and other full of climax. Oxf...

18 December 2017 / 8:30 Sandra Misic

Diversity in negotiation

Negotiation is the process between two or more parties that aims to balance different interests, needs and expectations in order to reach...

13 December 2017 / 8:09 Reinhard Wagner

Global migration´s impact and opportunities for project management

People are on the move! That´s one key conclusion of a report published by McKinsey Global Institute about global migration´s impacts and...

11 December 2017 / 8:08 Reinhard Wagner

The status quo of digital transformation in project-oriented organisations

A recently published survey of the GPM (German Project Management Association) contains interesting findings regarding salaries and caree...

6 December 2017 / 8:14 Sandra Misic

Diversity in team members – part 1

Team diversity refers to the differences between individual members of a team that can exist on various dimensions like age, nationality,...

4 December 2017 / 8:12 Reinhard Wagner

Guide for Effective Benefits Management

The British Infrastructure and Projects Authority recently published a unique Guide for Effective Benefits Management , because benefits ...

30 November 2017 / 8:09 Fahri Akdemir

Moving social projects forward!

New charity service of IPMA The 30th international world congress of IPMA successfully took place in Astana / Kazakhstan in September wit...

27 November 2017 / 12:13 Helgi Thor Ingason

The great teacher inspires

For an organisation with the vision to promote project management competence throughout society it is good to know that the one exclusive...

23 November 2017 / 5:49 Jiwat

Co-create and Offer: A new business model with opportunities for project management

From Brick and Mortar to Click and Order, the transition in business thinking and opportunity capitalization has been swift and impressiv...

20 November 2017 / 8:08 Reinhard Wagner

Steering Committees for project-oriented organisations

There is not much literature about steering committees related to projects in organisations. Maybe that´s the reason why too many project...

15 November 2017 / 8:00 Ed Naughton

IPMA® Professionals Driving Transformation

Bord na Móna was established 80 years ago to develop Ireland’s peat resources for the economic benefit of Ireland. Today, it is comprised...

13 November 2017 / 7:35 Helgi Thor Ingason

Do we need faster horses?

Again, I am on my way back home from an IPMA research conference. This time it was held in Incheon, South Korea. I met new people and mad...

10 November 2017 / 8:29 Sandra Misic

4 Fallacies of Typical Project Management Thinking – Part 4 – The Customer is Always Right

Written by Ryan Downing This series concludes with a final project management scenario that I feel conventional wisdom needs to be re-exa...

8 November 2017 / 8:41 Yvonne Schoper

From the 5th IPMA Research Conference about Project Success

Already for the 5th time IPMA hosted together with the new member association of IPMA Korea the Research Conference in Incheon in Korea f...

6 November 2017 / 8:06 Jiwat

One-Point Lessons: A knowledge transfer driven Lean project management technique

Projects are knowledge-intensive entities and the knowledge bandwidth of teams affects their ability to solve problems and deal with emer...

3 November 2017 / 9:08 Sandra Misic

4 Fallacies of Typical Project Management Thinking (Part 3)

Written by Ryan Downing Part 3 – Providing a Very Detailed Schedule As this series continues, we will explore another area of manag...

1 November 2017 / 7:00 Reinhard Wagner

The real value of IPMA Certification

The 4-Level-Certification-System of IPMA is a unique service for individuals pursuing a career in project management. Through the certifi...

30 October 2017 / 8:01 Reinhard Wagner

Sustainability and Project Management – Perspectives, Challenges and Threats (Part 7)

Project managers typically use standards and tailor them to the needs of their projects. Are there standards available for managing susta...

27 October 2017 / 6:43 Sandra Misic

4 Fallacies of Typical Project Management Thinking (Part 2)

Written by Ryan Downing Part 2 – Setting a Go Live Date. You can read previous articles in this series here. In this series, my goa...

25 October 2017 / 7:05 Reinhard Wagner

Sustainability and Project Management – Perspectives, Challenges and Threats (Part 6)

One of the challenges we face in regards to sustainability is that it theoretically sounds easy but in real life it is hard to implement ...

23 October 2017 / 6:58 Paul Hodgkins

Portfolio Management. A simple case of chicken and eggs- Five steps to succesful portfolio management

What came first; the chicken or the egg? Was it Adam and Eve that gave birth to all of mankind, or was it a case, as Charles Darwin would...

20 October 2017 / 7:14 Sandra Misic

4 Fallacies of Typical Project Management Thinking (Part 1)

Written by Ryan Downing Part 1 – The Weekly Status Meeting I have spent over a decade managing projects and studying different phil...

18 October 2017 / 5:30 Jiwat

Project Eco-system: Designing future developments through Big Data analytics (Part B)

The fast pace of technological and business dynamics require organizations to develop what can be called TALK capabilities (T= Technology...

16 October 2017 / 5:47 Reinhard Wagner

Sustainability and Project Management – Perspectives, Challenges and Threats (Part 5)

Many roles are engaged in reaching sustainability through projects. Foremost, the governance bodies of an organisation need to set the di...

13 October 2017 / 7:22 Kamil Mroz

Envisioning the Future – Trends, Developments and Strategies

The future of Project Management will not be defined by the standards that have shaped the last 15-20 years, nor by the current status qu...

11 October 2017 / 6:56 Reinhard Wagner

The evolution of project management practice

The practice of project management is developing rapidly, starting from the medievals as a kind of craftsmanship. In the 1950s the “manag...

8 October 2017 / 11:18 Reinhard Wagner

Sustainability and Project Management – Perspectives, Challenges and Threats (Part 4)

Reaching the 17 Development Goals of the United Nations require us to consider those high-level objectives during the goal setting in our...

6 October 2017 / 7:13 Jiwat

Help vs. Harm potential: Using social media for Project Management (Part B)

Social Media is undoubtedly a disruptive innovation driving new means of wealth creation, creativity in business and ease of organizing a...

4 October 2017 / 7:01 Reinhard Wagner

Sustainability and Project Management – Perspectives, Challenges and Threats (Part 3)

Achieving sustainability requires project managers applying systemic thinking, taking various interrelationships and reciprocal transacti...

2 October 2017 / 5:26 Reinhard Wagner

Hoshin Kanri – Executing the organisation´s strategy through “doing the right” projects

One of the most difficult tasks of an organisation´s leadership is to execute the vision, mission and strategy. It´s pretty easy to descr...

29 September 2017 / 6:07 Martin Sedlmayer

Programmes are not just big projects

Nowadays, in many organisations, the term programme is used to mark the top of the project hierarchy: small project, normal project, big ...

27 September 2017 / 10:12 Jiwat

Using social media for Project Management: Now or never? (Part A)

Social Media can be seen as making people’s lives closer virtually and remote physically at the same time. It is therefore driving a disr...

25 September 2017 / 5:20 Reinhard Wagner

Sustainability and Project Management – Perspectives, Challenges and Threats (Part 2)

The most important aspect of reaching sustainable solution through projects is to widen our perspective. It´s not enough to focus purely ...

22 September 2017 / 7:11 Amin Saidoun

Project management in Kenya and IPMA

written by Amin Saidoun Jesus Martínez Almela Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa and a founding member of th...

20 September 2017 / 7:14 Reinhard Wagner

Sustainability and Project Management – Perspectives, Challenges and Threats (Part 1)

I was born in the Black Forest, a rural area in the South-West of Germany, well known for its beautiful forest and the world-famous Black...

18 September 2017 / 7:11 Reinhard Wagner

India – Propelling Sustainable Growth Through Competent Project Management

Written by: Dr. A Sivathanu Pillai President, PMA India, as one of the high growth economies, is progressing on the path of future susta...

15 September 2017 / 6:26 Jiwat

The Future is here: A terminology for new-age Project Management

As societies move to cyberspace, there seems little choice but to adapt to emerging trends in new-age technologies and social living. Pro...

13 September 2017 / 7:37 Mimoun El Ouarti

Project management is of strategic value

written by: Mimoun El Ouarti It is time for us to consider project management as a strategic competence and of a strategic value for orga...

11 September 2017 / 7:22 Reinhard Wagner

Council of Delegates Communique from Astana (Kazakhstan)

The International Project Management Association (IPMA) is a federation of 68 member nations, who collaborate to promote the recognition ...

7 September 2017 / 5:12 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Kazakhstan

The Republic of Kazakhstan is the world’s largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world. The terrain of Kazakhstan...

4 September 2017 / 12:09 Reinhard Wagner

Exploring the future of project-related work

Inspired by reading “Homo Deus” of Yuval Noah Harari and preparing my speech for the IPMA Global Young Crew Event at Astana I sketched a ...

1 September 2017 / 7:07 Reinhard Wagner

IPMA celebrates 30th World Congress in Astana

Next week IPMA celebrates its 30th World Congress in Astana, Kazakhstan. The IPMA World Congress has a long tradition and respected reco...

30 August 2017 / 7:07 Reinhard Wagner

Status Quo Agile – Usage of Agile Methods

The BPM Laboratory (Professor Ayelt Komus) at the Koblenz University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with Scrum.org, GPM and IPMA perf...

28 August 2017 / 6:27 Jiwat

Hard vs Soft Governance: Is it ‘Walking on the tight rope’ either way?

It doesn’t really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty; at least there is some water in it. Perhaps in the same vein, it m...

25 August 2017 / 7:23 Reinhard Wagner

Decommissioning of nuclear power plants triggers project business

The USA are currently decommissioning 18 nuclear power plants. In Europe the decommissioning of nuclear power plants will rise sharply as...

22 August 2017 / 7:07 Sandra Misic

Don’t miss the unique opportunity to participate in exciting business game “Sea Wolf – Competent PM”!

During the 30-th IPMA World Congress in Astana, all participants are invited to experience a brand new business game “Sea Wolf R...

21 August 2017 / 6:51 Reinhard Wagner

Do we need PR for projects?

Yes, we increasingly need professional PR in the sphere of projects! This is at least the answer of Manfred Noé, author of one of the few...

18 August 2017 / 10:05 Reinhard Wagner

Project Management Consultancy continues to grow in Germany

A recently published survey of the BDU, the German Association for Consultants [https://www.bdu.de/] revealed a significant and continuin...

16 August 2017 / 7:39 Jiwat

From Agile to Lean: Is it worth the journey?

Recently there has been a greater push towards the use of Agile methodologies and principles for project management on a wider scale, bey...

14 August 2017 / 7:41 Reinhard Wagner

Kick-off as crucial event for project success

There are many meetings during the project lifecycle, nonetheless a kick-off is the most decisive one. During a kick-off all members of a...

11 August 2017 / 8:19 Sandra Misic

The 30th IPMA World Congress – INTERVIEW WITH EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE IPMA – AMIN SAIDOUN

Welcome to the forth newsletter for the IPMA World Congress in Astana in September 2017. Through a series of newsletters you will be keep...

9 August 2017 / 7:36 Martin Sedlmayer

What exactly is competence?

When interested in the question of what exactly is competence, having a look at the OECD definition of competence is of course a must: th...

7 August 2017 / 7:18 Reinhard Wagner

Handover in projects – some pitfalls and good practices

The Association of Project Management recently published a valuable report aiming at understanding the critical success factors of handin...

4 August 2017 / 10:45 Sandra Misic

The 30th IPMA World Congress: Interview with the President of the IPMA – Reinhard Wagner

The 30th IPMA World Congress will be held in September in Astana, Kazakhstan. World Congress conducts interviews with many of our key spe...

31 July 2017 / 7:33 Jiwat

3MUs (Muda, Mura, Muri): A lean Management tool with potentially ‘Big benefits’ for Project Management

Projects are often challenged by constraints of all sorts, predominantly time and costs. The novelties in transition from one project to ...

28 July 2017 / 8:01 Sandra Misic

Young capital of the Kazakhstan, Astana, is opening its’ doors for the 30th World IPMA Congress

Large-scale worldwide event in the sphere of project managing – World IPMA Congress (hereinafter Congress) is going to start on September...

26 July 2017 / 7:18 Sandra Misic

Trends and perspectives for international project management – report from event in Germany

During its meeting in July, ExBo offered to pm-forum-augsburg to perform a “meet & greet”. Therefore, an event with a title: Trends a...

24 July 2017 / 7:03 Reinhard Wagner

Organizational Project Management

In recent years, the focus of project management shifted from managing an individual project to managing a multitude of projects in organ...

19 July 2017 / 7:21 Jiwat

What role does Big Data have in shaping future of Project Management? (Part A)

Big Data revolution is at our door steps and expected to drive ‘Big Changes’ in the way businesses and societies go about their day-to-da...

17 July 2017 / 7:57 Amin Saidoun

How to finance projects in an OPEC country when the price of oil barrel is divided by two?

Beginning of July 2017 a workshop with Algerian Project Management Association Board took place in in Algiers in order to review the impl...

14 July 2017 / 7:22 Sandra Misic

Projects – advancing the business and serving to the society

Interpreting the ISO 21500 approach on organizational strategy and projects [1], a new definition of project can be set, where project ca...

12 July 2017 / 6:52 Reinhard Wagner

Life is a Project: Project Management as an Enabling Life Skill

Author: Neil Robinson “Life is one big project. The trick is in managing it” (Maylor, 2010). When we speak of Project Management, we are ...

11 July 2017 / 3:28 Amin Saidoun

The 30th IPMA World Congress – Newsletter II

Welcome to the second newsletter for the IPMA World Congress in Astana in September 2017. Through a series of newsletters we will keep yo...

10 July 2017 / 7:01 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Bolivia

The Plurinational State of Bolivia is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered to the north and east...

7 July 2017 / 7:04 Reinhard Wagner

Shape your own life through experiencing projects

Literature is full of good advice “how to” manage projects. Projects are treated as subjects distinct to the person managing or participa...

5 July 2017 / 7:11 Sandra Misic

Project benefits vs project value

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Thomas Jefferson During my PhD research I faced with one of the tr...

3 July 2017 / 6:45 Sandra Misic

Projects and project management in Chile

The Republic of Chile is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Oc...

30 June 2017 / 7:26 António Andrade Dias

NEW SERVICE FOR MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS: IPMA C4D CALL FOR ACTION

The IPMA, aware of its contribution to the development of a global society, appeals to its member associations to locally set up their ow...

28 June 2017 / 7:36 Helgi Thor Ingason

Impressions from the EURAM 2017 conference – project management in a general management context

The annual EURAM conference was held in Glasgow June 21-23 and a number of interesting presentations on project management were given. Be...

26 June 2017 / 7:43 Reinhard Wagner

The Lean Project Manager, or how to improve productivity

The concept of “Lean Management” was originally developed in the Automotive Industry, reducing waste in manufacturing processes. However,...

22 June 2017 / 7:37 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Argentina

Argentina is a federal republic forming the key part of Southern America. It is bordered to the west by Chile, by Bolivia and Paraguay to...

19 June 2017 / 7:25 Reinhard Wagner

Ikigai, or the reason for getting up in the morning

A Japanese concept named “Ikigai” (生き甲斐)means “a reason for being”, or in French the “raison d’être”. Everyone has an I...

16 June 2017 / 2:33 Amin Saidoun

The 30th IPMA World Congress – Newsletter I

Welcome to the first newsletter for the IPMA World Congress in Astana in September 2017. Through a series of newsletters we will keep you...

15 June 2017 / 5:25 Helgi Thor Ingason

Impressions from the IRNOP 2017 conference – Developing new knowledge in project management

By Yvonne Schoper and Helgi Ingason One of the most relevant international research conferences in project management is the bi-annual IR...

12 June 2017 / 10:32 Reinhard Wagner

Good practices for distributed project teams

n several blogposts we already addressed aspects of global project teams with aspects such as managing collaboration in virtual teams, h...

9 June 2017 / 7:48 Jiwat

The Seven C’s for augmenting the Knowledge Bandwidth of project teams

The success of project teams is dependent on a number of factors including, but not limited to, having: an effective, competent and scala...

6 June 2017 / 10:21 Joop Schefferlie

IPMA Agile Leadership

By digital disruption we face the greatest revolution in corporate organization since 1800. It is unknown what will happen, no one will b...

1 June 2017 / 5:17 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in the Philippines

The Republic of the Philippines is a country composed of about 7,600 islands in the Southeast of Asia. Bounded by the South China Sea on ...

29 May 2017 / 7:18 Reinhard Wagner

Value proposition design for projects

One of my favorite books, “Value Proposition Design” written by Osterwald, Pigneur, Bernada and Smith shows how to design and test value...

24 May 2017 / 6:47 Reinhard Wagner

Performing virtual project meetings

Many project teams are nowadays spread across the globe and therefore cannot not (regularly) meet physically. Most of their meetings are ...

22 May 2017 / 4:46 Reinhard Wagner

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Vasco da Gama

With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors o...

17 May 2017 / 6:39 Reinhard Wagner

The interrelations between projects, programmes and change

This week the ISO/TC258/WG4 finishes its work on a new standard, the ISO 21503 “Guidance on Programme Management”. The core team of about...

15 May 2017 / 7:25 Helgi Thor Ingason

Are you a candidate for the IPMA Research Awards?

Research is one of the basic building blocks of every profession. IPMA promotes and acknowledges outstanding research world-wide and ther...

11 May 2017 / 7:58 Sandra Misic

The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management

Megaprojects are very large investment projects. The team “Mega” often implies the size of the task involved in developing, p...

8 May 2017 / 7:19 Reinhard Wagner

Japan meets Europe – Contribute to ProMAC 2017 in Munich

ProMAC has been organized since 2002 by the Society of Project Management (SPM), Japan. ProMAC 2017 will be conducted for the first time ...

5 May 2017 / 5:07 Reinhard Wagner

Management 4.0 – Handbook for Agile Practices

A recently released Handbook is worth mentioning on this Blog, because it addresses a topic, which is a „hot topic“ in the world of proje...

3 May 2017 / 8:36 Reinhard Wagner

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Alexander von Humboldt

With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors o...

1 May 2017 / 11:14 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Ecuador

The Federal Republic of Ecuador, which is literally the “Republic of the Equator” is located in the Northwest of South America, bordered ...

26 April 2017 / 9:46 Yvonne Schoper

1. IPMA Conference on Diversity in Project Management Conference

As a common initiative both from IPMA together with its member associations in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Iceland the ...

20 April 2017 / 7:04 Reinhard Wagner

The RASIC-Chart – a key tool for collaboration in projects

One of the key factors for successful collaboration in projects is having clear roles and responsibilities assigned. Otherwise work is ma...

12 April 2017 / 8:13 Sandra Misic

The element of trust in project management

Trust is a complex concept that has different meanings depending on the situation and relationships observed. Trust is an essential elem...

10 April 2017 / 5:56 Reinhard Wagner

Overcoming „projectitis“ in organisations

During the past fifty years projects became quite popular in organisations. Research indicates that in some countries more than one third...

7 April 2017 / 8:33 Reinhard Wagner

Managing collaboration in projects

In many sectors projects are performed together with partners, project management needs to be based on collaboration. Most project manage...

5 April 2017 / 7:41 Reinhard Wagner

Agile Project Management demystified

Since a few years the community is thrilled by what is called „Agile Project Management“. The approach is being aggressively advocated as...

3 April 2017 / 7:49 Sandra Misic

2nd IPMA Megaprojects Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting in Poreč (CROATIA)

2nd IPMA megaprojects SIG will be held in September 28-29th 2017 in Poreč, Istria, Croatia. In parallel, the 13h OTMC conference on const...

31 March 2017 / 6:36 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Portugal

Portugal is a country on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost country of mainland Europe. To the west and...

29 March 2017 / 9:23 Reinhard Wagner

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Martin Luther

With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors o...

27 March 2017 / 9:29 Reinhard Wagner

Good governance is critical success factor for implementing an organisation´s strategy

The International Project Management Association (IPMA) is a federation of 68 member nations, who collaborate to promote the recognition ...

24 March 2017 / 3:44 Sandra Misic

Can Project Management Transform Our World?

In September 2015, countries adopted a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new su...

22 March 2017 / 9:10 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand, formerly also known as Siam, is with nearly 70 million inhabitants one of the most populous countries in South-...

20 March 2017 / 8:40 CJ Fitzsimons

Why COACHING for Development

The 2011 McKinsey-Devex survey of 1210 people in NGO and development agencies showed that only 36% of aid projects achieved their intende...

17 March 2017 / 6:46 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Cambodia

The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by Thai...

15 March 2017 / 8:50 Sandra Misic

If you want to know what are the Breakthrough Competences to Manage Change in energy sector in coming years or geopolitical and economic change connected with the implementation of New Silk Road project – come to the 30th IPMA World Congress in Astana, 5th -7th September 2017!

IPMA World Congress has a long history reaching back to 1967 so it is not a surprise that with time this event established a brand on its...

13 March 2017 / 7:33 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Vietnam

The Socialistic Republic of Vietnam is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia bordered by China to the nort...

10 March 2017 / 11:52 Yvonne Schoper

New Diversity in Project Management Award by IPMA

On the occasion of the first Diversity in Project Management conference taking place on April 10-11 in s´Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands...

8 March 2017 / 9:51 Mladen Vukomanovic

PROJECT MANAGEMENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP FOR PH.D. STUDENTS, POST-DOC FELLOWS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS

Call for submissions: The Project Management Research Workshop 2017 is a unique opportunity for the young researchers to present and disc...

6 March 2017 / 8:38 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Myanmar

Myanmar, sometimes better known as Burma, is a sovereign state in South East Asia bordered by Bangladesh, India, China, Laos and Thailand...

1 March 2017 / 7:58 Reinhard Wagner

Bedtime Stories for Project Managers

After reading hundreds of books about project management I often have the feeling that I´ve seen everything and there is nothing new and ...

27 February 2017 / 6:38 Reinhard Wagner

Seeing the world through the eyes of a CEO – Results of PwC´s 20th CEO Survey

PwC asked business leaders for the last two decades about the trends reshaping economy and society. The new report summarizes the long-te...

24 February 2017 / 11:52 Yvonne Schoper

First Diversity in Project Management Conference in the Netherlands

Several research results in the last years showed that diversity has a significant impact on the success of project teams. In 2005 the HR...

22 February 2017 / 10:14 Reinhard Wagner

The Program Canvas – A useful tool for designing programs

During the 2014 IPMA World Congress in Rotterdam, Theo van der Tak, Björn Prevaas and Hans Cremer introduced a new concept for designing ...

20 February 2017 / 8:22 Amin Saidoun

Project management and societal challenges in Morocco: the first national conference of Moroccan Project management Association in Casablanca took place on 16 February 2017

In 2015, Moroccan Project Management Association (MPMA) was formed by some pioneers with the continuous support of IPMA. Since that time,...

17 February 2017 / 1:34 Reinhard Wagner

The World in 2050 – and some implications for project management

New results of a PwC report sets out the latest long-term global growth projections to 2050 for 32 of the largest economies in the world....

15 February 2017 / 2:33 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Sri Lanka

The name of “Ceylon” may still be more familiar for the island south east of India nowadays being the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sr...

13 February 2017 / 9:10 Reinhard Wagner

The Fourth Industrial Revolution … and what it means for project management!

Klaus Schwab, the founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, has published a new book with an attention-grabbing title: ...

8 February 2017 / 12:07 Reinhard Wagner

Competition first, collaboration second?

Competition first, collaboration second? During his Inauguration Speech Donald Trump he made the following statement: “From this day forw...

6 February 2017 / 11:12 Helgi Thor Ingason

“Everything must change”

One of my favorite singers is Randy Crawford and I often listened to her 1976 debut album “Everything must change.” Those wor...

1 February 2017 / 1:31 Reinhard Wagner

GPM´s action program aims at strengthening project management in administration

Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Berlin Airport, and Stuttgart 21 – only a few examples of failed projects in Germany clearly indicating that the...

30 January 2017 / 9:42 Reinhard Wagner

Scenario analysis and wild cards – dealing with ambiguity in projects

Planning and performing projects means always dealing with ambiguity. We need to look forward and predict the future developments, which ...

26 January 2017 / 10:45 Reinhard Wagner

The Chief Project Officer (CPO) – a new role for project-oriented organisations

The number of projects and thus their importance for the success of organisations is constantly increasing. As a result, we see more and ...

23 January 2017 / 8:52 Reinhard Wagner

EU Commission released new PM Methodology (PM2) Guide

The Centre of Excellence in Project Management (CoEPM²) of the European Commission has recently released a Guide on Project Management Me...

18 January 2017 / 8:14 Ed Naughton

Recognition for Project Management in the Public Sector of Ireland

December 19th, 2016 marked the launch of the Project Managers’ Network and the Project Management Handbook for the Irish Civil Service at...

16 January 2017 / 8:47 Reinhard Wagner

It´s all about the impact of a project, not the deliverables!

In trainings project managers are often told that the main focus of a project is to deliver in time and in budget. In fact, that´s only p...

11 January 2017 / 7:27 Reinhard Wagner

Kafka, Pulp Fiction, Beer and Projects

My first thought holding John Chapman´s book in my hand was: “what a weird title for a book on projects and project management”. However,...

9 January 2017 / 12:55 Marco Buijnsters

Are we going to do things better in 2017?

“Well Mr. Buijnsters. Again full of good intentions for the new year?” This way the dental assistant welcomes me to the bi-annual dental ...

2 January 2017 / 8:41 Reinhard Wagner

Starting your journey into 2017 – thinking it from the end

The year 2016 has ended and 2017 has just begun. After a few days of rest, relaxation and reflection we are going to start our journey. T...

22 December 2016 / 8:02 Reinhard Wagner

Project management for the good of society

The mainstream of project management focuses on projects that deliver value to a business. The application of project management for soci...

19 December 2016 / 8:33 Marco Buijnsters

Recovery projects – Better with a bloody nose…?!

By awarding the IPMA Project Excellence Award to the Medupi power plant project in South Africa, IPMA’s PEA jury has recognized and award...

15 December 2016 / 9:17 Mary Koutintcheva

Excellent Finalists and Winners of IPMA Awards 2016 have been decorated by IPMA

Managing projects and programs often means dealing with ever-increasing complexity and volatility. Project and program managers together ...

12 December 2016 / 8:37 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in China

The People´s Republic of China has a population of over 1.4 billion and this is the world’s most populous country. Located in Asia,...

7 December 2016 / 8:17 Reinhard Wagner

Temporary Organizing – the new art of working

Research has documented a concomitant rise of temporary organizing principles in and across firms - ranging from managing short-term proj...

5 December 2016 / 8:36 Amin Saidoun

Tunisia 2020: An opportunity for Project Management

Tunisia is starting the road to inclusive and sustainable development. After four years of consultations, supported by the international ...

2 December 2016 / 9:09 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Poland

The Republic of Poland, or in Polish language: Polska, is a country in Europe located between the Baltic Sea in the north and the Sudetes...

30 November 2016 / 8:51 Ed Naughton

Why I pursued IPMA Certification

Project management has become a global profession with project management established as the pre-eminent method for implementing change i...

28 November 2016 / 8:34 Amin Saidoun

Advocating the benefit of project management: the example of Morocco

Advocacy is an activity by which an individual or a group aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and ...

23 November 2016 / 1:15 Sandra Misic

Optimal experience of a project manager

Working with people implies communication, trade of information’s, doing assignments in a team of different people ect. It can be said th...

21 November 2016 / 8:08 Sandra Misic

Megaprojects that we admire

Today we are witnessing an explosion in the number of $1 billion+ projects with some, like the artificial archipelago being built in Azer...

18 November 2016 / 8:33 Sandra Misic

Beyond the legacy of megaprojects

On 11th November 2016 an Oxford Major Programme Management Conference, was held at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. The theme ...

14 November 2016 / 9:31 Reinhard Wagner

The German Reunification – seen through the eyes of project management

Last week I had the great opportunity to present in Korea my views on the German Reunification. Korea is divided since the end of the Kor...

11 November 2016 / 6:48 Marco Buijnsters

Are you a happy Principal?

There you are you are, as CEO, COO, director of projects or program manager. In your role as Principal you experience no problems and don...

9 November 2016 / 9:08 Michael Boxheimer

IPMA Project Excellence Model – the core element to make a project business successful

Nanjing Urban Construction Project Management & Development Co.Ltd. (NUCPMD) Assessment of the Nanjing Public Health Center Project N...

7 November 2016 / 11:04 Sandra Misic

Megaprojects in Australia

Infrastructure has a central role in the development of an emerging economy or sustenance of a mature economy. Australia’s robust economy...

4 November 2016 / 8:48 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Australia

The country portrayed in this blogpost is often called “Downunder”, as it is – from a European or a Northern perspective – a very souther...

2 November 2016 / 7:35 Sandra Misic

Global Young Crew Workshop (GYCW) PORTO 2016

Porto. Project Management. Time to discover. IPMA Young Crew. This was the perfect mix that motivated around 100 people to meet and reuni...

31 October 2016 / 9:49 Reinhard Wagner

International standard of governance ready for publication

During last week´s meeting in Athens the ISO/TC258 approved ISO 21505 “Project, programme and portfolio management – Guidance on governa...

26 October 2016 / 7:35 Sandra Misic

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Nikola Tesla

With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors o...

18 October 2016 / 9:25 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Brazil

The Federative Republic of Brazil is the fifth-largest country by area and population of the world. It is located in South-America, conne...

17 October 2016 / 3:50 Reinhard Wagner

Formally recognise the profession of project management, and dedicate certified project management resources to deliver their commitments – A call from Sydney

The International Project Management Association (IPMA) is a federation of 66 member nations, who collaborate to promote the recognition ...

13 October 2016 / 5:43 Reinhard Wagner

Project performance review

In a recent publication Alexia Nalewaik and Anthony Mills highlight the importance of performance audits for project success. Firstly, th...

7 October 2016 / 9:07 Amin Saidoun

Starting a Young Crew in Algeria with IPMA TAP-Training Aid Programme

An important part for the development of older and younger member associations is mentoring. As indicated in the IPMA programme structure...

4 October 2016 / 8:49 Reinhard Wagner

Strategies for Project Sponsorship

In recent blogposts we already highlighted the importance of project sponsorship. The book “Strategies for Project Sponsorship” addresses...

3 October 2016 / 8:53 Reinhard Wagner

Project management in the field of arts and crafts

Most of the articles and books regarding project management focus on its application in the field of industry or public administration. O...

29 September 2016 / 6:58 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Japan

Japan is a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean, located in East Asia. Sometimes it is also called the “land of the rising sun”. The pop...

26 September 2016 / 6:55 Gundars Strazdins

Global Young Crew Workshop 2016 – Sustainable and Creative Projects for Our Future

Flying home from the biggest IPMA Young Crew event – Global Young Crew Workshop 2016 (GYCW) – not only had a long transfer ti...

21 September 2016 / 8:48 Helgi Thor Ingason

When there is no plan B

The 4th IPMA research conference was held in Reykjavik Iceland on Sept 14-16. This conference was an eye opener for everyone that partici...

19 September 2016 / 7:57 Reinhard Wagner

Leading project teams without (disciplinary) power

Leadership is different in projects. Typically, project managers do not have disciplinary power like line managers. Leadership WITH disci...

13 September 2016 / 2:24 Gundars Strazdins

Managing Virtual Teams – the GeCCo Experience

With the announcement of the Global eCollaboration Competition (GeCCo) 2016, I would like to share some of my thought about the growing p...

12 September 2016 / 7:02 Reinhard Wagner

500 years of German Beer Purity Law

This year Bavaria celebrates a law that is 500 years in existence and is the most popular law as it impacts the way beer brewing is condu...

8 September 2016 / 10:15 Reinhard Wagner

One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence – impacts on PM!?

I thought it might be interesting to draw your attention to a study launched in 2014. This study, called the One Hundred Year Study on Ar...

5 September 2016 / 7:32 Reinhard Wagner

Asking clients for feedback

In external projects we intend to deliver according to specification within time and budget. However, clients expect more from us. They w...

1 September 2016 / 5:54 Reinhard Wagner

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Werner von Siemens

With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors o...

29 August 2016 / 10:30 Reinhard Wagner

Sponsoring a project – a key role for successful delivery

In this blogpost a key role for the successful delivery of a project shall be discussed. It´s the role of the “project sponsor”. GAPPS, t...

25 August 2016 / 5:33 Reinhard Wagner

Managing and working in Project Society

Many surveys proof the fact, that we experience an increasing number and importance of projects in our society. Research about project ac...

22 August 2016 / 9:09 Reinhard Wagner

Olympic Games for Project Management!?

Yesterday, the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro came to an end. It was a major international multi-sport event with more than 11.000 ath...

18 August 2016 / 6:19 Reinhard Wagner

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Daedalus and Icarus

With this article we continue a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great projectors o...

15 August 2016 / 9:33 Reinhard Wagner

The SWOT-Analysis – panacea or hazard?

Everyone knows it and uses it in projects, the SWOT-Analysis. The letters SWOT are an abbreviation for “Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunit...

10 August 2016 / 5:31 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia is a country in South-East Asia, situated between the Indian and Pacific Ocean. It is the world´s largest islan...

9 August 2016 / 4:23 Brigitte Schaden

The next GAPPS Thought Leadership Forum in Sydney!

The next TLF will take place from 13th to 14th October 2016. The purpose to link it with IPMA meetings and the AIPM conference is to give...

27 July 2016 / 3:50 Reinhard Wagner

The unleashed globe – living in uncertain times

Recently, Munich suffered from a rampage of a single male who killed nine people before committing suicide. The whole city was under aler...

25 July 2016 / 1:19 Sandra Misic

Inaugural Regional Conference in Sydney – did you already plan your visit?

Sydney is a vibrant city and definitely worth a journey. In October, an exciting event is scheduled, the Inaugural Regional Conference ho...

22 July 2016 / 5:34 Reinhard Wagner

It’s child’s play to manage projects

Project management is a serious profession. It developed over time and there are many possibilities of getting higher education, training...

11 July 2016 / 6:56 Reinhard Wagner

Against all odds – learning from great projectors: Ferdinand Zeppelin

With this article we´d like to start a series of pioneers and projectors to learn from. You are all encouraged to write about great proje...

6 July 2016 / 7:11 Helgi Thor Ingason

Project management and sustainability

– the theme of the 4th IPMA research conference, held in Reykjavik in September 2016 We are a generation with great responsibility....

1 July 2016 / 7:37 Amin Saidoun

Key project management competences for the public sector in Germany

Last week, IPMA attended for the first time an event called ‘Congress for the future’ organised in Berlin with the support of GPM (Gesell...

1 July 2016 / 7:04 Peter Tarnoki

Path to success in manufacturing world – a case from Hungary

One of our decades long supporter as well as corporate member LEGRAND Hungary Ltd. was winnig the Hungarian manufacturers’contest m...

29 June 2016 / 9:51 Reinhard Wagner

Working time sovereignty in projects

The increasing number of projects in our society (“Projectification”) is rapidly changing the working conditions for us and all people en...

27 June 2016 / 6:57 Reinhard Wagner

The end of a species called „homo economicus“ – or did it ever exist?

In economics we learn a lot about a species called “homo economicus”. Those beings are seen as consistently rational and narrowly self-in...

20 June 2016 / 12:09 Reinhard Wagner

Virtual Project Management Offices – a real option for large organisations

Project Management Offices (PMOs) are recognized and established in many organisations. A survey of GPM, the German Project Management As...

15 June 2016 / 7:51 Reinhard Wagner

Resilience – a new perspective for individuals, projects and organisations

A word gains increasingly attention in social sciences: resilience. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as: “The capacity to recover...

13 June 2016 / 6:44 Reinhard Wagner

Lean Project Management – old wine in new bottles or a real gain?

Like all other management disciplines, project management is subject to new concepts and developments – and not free of fashionable words...

8 June 2016 / 7:18 Paul Hodgkins

The importance of Project Management

In this five minute video, Paul Hodgkins shares his views on the project management profession; the differences he sees between project, ...

6 June 2016 / 4:35 Amin Saidoun

Project management needs (in) Africa

Africa is a continent that is increasingly engaging in project management.Yet, a recent concept note for the Pan-African Project Manageme...

3 June 2016 / 7:34 Tim Jaques

products.ipma.world – Open For Business

In early May, the IPMA Web Shop officially opened. This site is a full ecommerce solution dedicated to the sale and distribution of IPMA ...

1 June 2016 / 7:26 Reinhard Wagner

Humble Consulting – sustainable results through a different approach

In the early years of my career I thought that if I wanted to be a consultant, I needed to be a real subject matter expert with lots of e...

30 May 2016 / 7:19 Reinhard Wagner

Forming project teams – the right mix is key to success

It is well known, that teamwork is essential for projects. Many research papers, books and standards (like the IPMA ICB) highlight this f...

25 May 2016 / 7:58 Sandra Misic

Megaprojects in Latvia

It is a big challenge for a small country like Latvia to perform megaprojects and thus needs to build-up specific competences. Latvia is ...

23 May 2016 / 7:29 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Serbia

Last week I visited Serbia. It was my first visit and I realized how limited my knowledge about this country and the region is. The city ...

20 May 2016 / 9:49 Sandra Misic

How can fundraising encourage IPMA growth?

A fundraiser is an event or campaign whose primary purpose is to raise money for a cause, charity or non-profit organization. Fundraising...

17 May 2016 / 2:21 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Ukraine

This week’s blogpost is about the Ukraine, a country located at the northern shores of the Black Sea, bordered by Belarus, Russia, Moldov...

11 May 2016 / 9:01 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Croatia

A land of 1000 islands. Neither in the Caribbean, nor in the Pacific… I am writing about Croatia, a beautiful country at the crossroads o...

9 May 2016 / 6:39 Amin Saidoun

Governance models for Non for Profit Organisation: From theory to Practice

IPMA is in the process of implementing its 2020 strategy. This implies finding and putting in place the right governance model to do so. ...

6 May 2016 / 6:01 Brigitte Schaden

Benefit from GAPPS!

The GAPPS (Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards) is a unique alliance of government, industry and professional associations,...

4 May 2016 / 5:53 Reinhard Wagner

One size does not fit them all

Organisations often apply international standards such as the ISO 21500 “Guidance on project management” on all projects irrespective of ...

2 May 2016 / 6:23 Vlatka Vecerin

The 4th edition of GeCCo breaks all records

Global eCollaboration Competition (GeCCo 2015) organized by the IPMA Young Crew has gathered 96 young project managers and broke the reco...

27 April 2016 / 10:14 Reinhard Wagner

Making Projects Sing – A Musical Perspective of Project Management

Recently I was asked to write a foreword for a book providing links between music and project management. I was very much inspired and wr...

25 April 2016 / 1:06 Reinhard Wagner

Influence without Positional Authority

Interview with Raji Sivaraman Que: What are your viewpoints on ‘Influence without Positional Authority’ Let me start by explaining my def...

20 April 2016 / 6:06 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Russia

Russia is the largest country of the world. It spans from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, covers eleven time zones and connects Euro...

18 April 2016 / 4:22 Samira Baba-aissa

APMA joins IPMA on March 2016 in Riga

The Algerian Project Management Association « APMA » has finally joined the IPMA confederation to become a transitional association memb...

13 April 2016 / 5:17 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Colombia

The Republic of Colombia is located in the North-West of Southern America. Neighbours are Panama in the West, Venezuela and Brazil in the...

11 April 2016 / 8:27 Sandra Misic

How can PM raise awareness on climate changes?

There is “evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities”. This warming has been t...

7 April 2016 / 6:50 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America, and also known as the “Land of Volcanoes” (more than 19 active volcanoes can be foun...

4 April 2016 / 6:26 Paul Hodgkins

Interview No.1: Leadership

Interview by Reinhard Wagner & Sandra Misic (IPMA) Questions for Paul Hodgkins Q1.How do you succeed in being a good leader? I’...

31 March 2016 / 7:38 Vlatka Vecerin

GeCCo 2015 – GROWING INTEREST IN VIRTUAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Global eCollaboration Competition (GeCCo 2015) event organized by IPMA Young Crew broke the record of participants and active virtual tea...

29 March 2016 / 7:12 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in India

The Republic of India is a country located in Southern Asia. The country got its name from the Greek word “Indus”, which means “the...

24 March 2016 / 5:02 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Latvia

The Republic of Latvia is a relatively young country in the Baltic region, located between Estonia in the North, Lithuania in the South, ...

22 March 2016 / 7:37 Reinhard Wagner

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Power and Politics in Projects

Projects are performed through people. People are influenced through projects and their leadership. Power and politics are gaining increa...

16 March 2016 / 1:09 Reinhard Wagner

Change and Project Management – Two sides of the same medal

Recently a participant of a workshop asked me how change and project management differ. My answer came as a surprise to that person, beca...

14 March 2016 / 8:36 Lucia Nievergelt

Project management in Switzerland

On February 18th and 19th the swiss project management association spm invited an international group of experts to join the IPMA Expert ...

9 March 2016 / 8:16 Helgi Thor Ingason

4th IPMA Research conference: Project Management and Sustainability

As a member of the Research Board of IPMA I can say that our goal is really to move project management knowledge forward. We do this by d...

7 March 2016 / 7:50 Anita Ceric

How to bring researchers and practitioners in project management closer together?

I believe that closer cooperation between researchers and practitioners in the project management field is essential for the development ...

4 March 2016 / 8:02 Fahri Akdemir

What can WE, as project professionals, do for society?

That is the question we ask to ourself when we see the news from all corners of the world, where people are having problems to find shelt...

2 March 2016 / 8:08 Amin Saidoun

Project Management in Egypt: IPMA’s member association in Cairo as a linchpin of the Middle-East ?

Egypt has one of the longest histories of any modern country, arising in the tenth millennium BC as one of the world’s first nation...

29 February 2016 / 9:02 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Iran

Iran is home of one the world´s oldest civilisations, formations date back to 3200 BC. The first empire in the region was formed in 625 B...

24 February 2016 / 7:58 Vlatka Vecerin

Global Young Crew workshop Porto 2016

The GYCW Porto 2016 are organized by IPMA Young Crew Portugal and will be held in 15th, 16th and 17th September 2016. The event aims to c...

22 February 2016 / 8:32 Paul Hodgkins

The Challenge of Project Leadership

I believe the challenge of effective leadership in projects to be one of the most urgent the profession of project management has faced i...

19 February 2016 / 8:35 Anita Ceric

Trust in Project Management

I am delighted that ICB 4.0 recognizes the importance of trust in project management. This is an important change introduced into the las...

15 February 2016 / 11:31 Amin Saidoun

Increase competence mobility and how to share it with people’s country of origin: the case of Algeria

While Algerian Project Management Association is applying for IPMA membership, the French think tank Cread (Centre de recherche en études...

8 February 2016 / 8:44 Reinhard Wagner

Doing the right projects and doing them right

Most of the organisations worldwide recognise the increasing importance of projects. For example, the private enterprises struggle for a ...

4 February 2016 / 12:28 Tim Jaques

New IPMA ICB, PEB and OCB ready for download

The International Project Management Association (IPMA) announced the release of three standards for immediate download and web viewing t...

3 February 2016 / 9:58 Amin Saidoun

From Ryadh to Jeddah: IPMA moves forward in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

After having signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Project Management Chapter of the Saudi Council of Engineers of Riyadh in 2015...

1 February 2016 / 8:19 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Kuwait

Recently, IPMA was asked to come to Kuwait and support the creation of a national project management association. The State of Kuwait is ...

29 January 2016 / 8:58 Sandra Misic

Megaprojects in the desert: the case of Morocco

During my visit to Morocco with IPMA Executive Board, I had an opportunity to enjoy beautiful Moroccan gardens, one of which (Majorelle G...

25 January 2016 / 12:11 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Morocco

The Executive Board of IPMA started into 2016 with a meeting at Casablanca, dedicated to an exchange of experiences with board members of...

22 January 2016 / 8:52 Reinhard Wagner

The Gordian knot of global collaboration

Globalisation has been an imperative for all of us in the last couple of centuries, starting with the discovery of “new worlds”, the incr...

20 January 2016 / 10:41 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Korea

My first trip in 2016 brought me into the Republic of Korea a fascinating country with a long history and an exciting cultural heritage. ...

15 January 2016 / 8:55 Reinhard Wagner

Decoding leadership and its application to projects

A few days ago McKinsey&Company published an interesting article “Decoding leadership: What really matters”, highlighting results of an i...

11 January 2016 / 11:41 Helgi Thor Ingason

IPMA Research Awards 2015

Acknowledging excellence in project management research The IPMA Research Awards have become a fundamental activity for the IPMA Research...

4 January 2016 / 8:30 Reinhard Wagner

Embracing change in 2016

Last year was a very busy and successful year for IPMA. We celebrated our 50th Anniversary during the World Congress in Panama, the first...

21 December 2015 / 8:59 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Nepal

My last trip of 2015 brought my into Nepal, a country that I have never visited before, but is definitely worth of travelling more often ...

18 December 2015 / 8:50 Paul Hodgkins

Project Leadership – Becoming ‘that’ Project Manager

Over the years I’ve witnessed what I consider to be truly outstanding, motivational and inspirational project leadership. I’ve also witn...

17 December 2015 / 9:50 Sandra Misic

Sharing and Learning through Megaprojects: Building bridges on knowledge and competence

The project world that we live in is becoming megaproject world. Megaprojects are big investment projects whose purpose is to make the “m...

7 December 2015 / 10:24 Reinhard Wagner

Helping – how to offer, give and receive help

We are project management professionals, dedicating a lot of our precious time to the advancement of our profession, on regional, nationa...

4 December 2015 / 9:25 Helgi Thor Ingason

Love…. a competence element?

It is pitch black outside the window. It is also dark inside the cabin and the only lights I can see are coming from the screens of peopl...

2 December 2015 / 8:25 Brigitte Schaden

pma award 2015: Ovations for Excellent Project Management

On November 25th, 2015 the winners of the pma awards 2015 were announced during a gala ceremony in Vienna, Austria. The ceremony honoured...

30 November 2015 / 8:54 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in emerging economies

This post summarizes the rich insights gained during the 3rd IPMA Research Conference at Stellenbosch, South Africa. More than 35 people ...

27 November 2015 / 8:31 Reinhard Wagner

Facilitating dialogue – overcoming one-way communication

Whilst travelling around the world I often experience conferences, where a presentation is the only way of communication. We can learn a ...

19 November 2015 / 9:48 Reinhard Wagner

Public security – a challenge for all people operating on international level

The terror attacks of Paris and Beirut last week sent shock waves around the world. In Facebook many people changed their profile picture...

16 November 2015 / 8:25 Reinhard Wagner

Human resource management in the project-oriented organization

Project management is often solely seen as methodology. Since the 1990s, the organisational context of projects is getting more attention...

11 November 2015 / 6:18 Paul Hodgkins

Project Legacy – What is it, why is it important and can it ever really be planned for?

Legacy is something I hear often being talked about, but is it really understood by those that speak it? And more than that, can it ever ...

9 November 2015 / 7:33 Reinhard Wagner

Projects require improvisation

The concept of nowadays project management was born in the 1950s in the USA, mainly in the aerospace and defence sector. It was based on ...

4 November 2015 / 8:45 Reinhard Wagner

50 years of IPMA in a book – Building bridges worldwide

This year IPMA celebrated its 50th Anniversary. During the 29th IPMA World Congress at Panama we had the opportunity to commemorate this ...

3 November 2015 / 12:54 Reinhard Wagner

IPMA receives Sir Monty Finniston Award 2015

During the Award Gala of the Association for Project Management (APM) the International Project Management Association (IPMA) received th...

2 November 2015 / 8:47 Reinhard Wagner

Planning the portfolio of activities for 2016

Planning the portfolio of activities for 2016 The Northern hemisphere experiences fall right now, a nice time of the year, with bright co...

26 October 2015 / 6:04 Reinhard Wagner

Delivering projects successfully

There are many articles, surveys and discussions regarding successful project delivery. Most of them refer to the “iron triangle” of time...

19 October 2015 / 7:31 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Panama

This year´s IPMA World Congress offered a great opportunity to us, visiting Panama and experiencing the spirit of Central America. The Re...

12 October 2015 / 9:02 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Mexico

Mexico is a key country in Central and Latin America, for the development of the region as well as for the development of IPMA.

9 October 2015 / 10:37 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Guatemala

Before the 29th IPMA World Congress we had the chance of visiting Guatemala. In this blogpost I´d like to provide some insights regarding...

5 October 2015 / 2:26 Tim Jaques

Getting The Right People On The Bus: The ICB4 Dream Team

This is the story of how one small team created a big work product. And about how getting the right people on the bus is often more impor...

30 September 2015 / 4:08 Amin Saidoun

11th International PM Conference takes place at Tehran in February

On an annual basis, the Aryana Group together with the Iran Project Management Association runs an International Project Management Confe...

24 September 2015 / 1:29 Sandra Misic

Eric Gabriel

We received the sad news that Eric Gabriel, former Chairman of APM and former President of IPMA® passed away in mid September 2015. This ...

22 September 2015 / 10:36 Reinhard Wagner

IPMA Research Conference in South Africa: Project Management in Emerging Economies

This year´s research conference will be the third IPMA Research Conference after Berlin/Germany and Tianjin/China. It will take place on ...

21 September 2015 / 1:09 Sandra Misic

PM and IPMA World Congress in Italy

Project Management was born in Italy after the Second World War with the establishment of Engineering Companies, working in the Oil Secto...

18 September 2015 / 11:20 Sandra Misic

1st IPMA Megaprojects SIG meeting in Croatia

IPMA megaprojects SIG was held in September 2015 in Primošten, Croatia. In parallel, the 12th OTMC conference on construction PM took pla...

16 September 2015 / 7:38 Sandra Misic

German Project Excellence Award 2015: Four finalists announced

Examples for outstanding project management Four projects are announced as finalists of this years German Project Excellence Award. They ...

14 September 2015 / 4:00 Tim Jaques

Cycle Up Your Career With the ICB4

At IPMA, we see project management deeply rooted in the real world around us. From Mars rovers and nano engineering, to the development o...

11 September 2015 / 8:57 Brigitte Schaden

Victor A. F. Lamme – Keynote speaker at pma focus 2015 in Vienna

Under the title “projects/sales – selling projects: richtig erfolgreich” the pma focus 2015 conference (15th October in Vienna, Austria)...

9 September 2015 / 5:50 Sandra Misic

GeCCo – PRACTICE AND LEARN HOW TO WORK IN INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL TEAMS

Global eCollaboration Competition (GeCCo) event organized by IPMA Young Crew enables young project management professionals to get compet...

7 September 2015 / 8:48 Reinhard Wagner

Project managers can change the world

GpmFirst is raring to go after the brief lull of the summer vacation, and our Guest Editor this month is setting the bar high by encourag...

4 September 2015 / 10:03 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Canada

After the IPMA CoD in 2014 this year´s meeting of ISO/TC258 brought me a second time into Canada. Another reason for writing on the IPMA ...

1 September 2015 / 7:29 Reinhard Wagner

6th INTERNET World Congress on Project Management 1979

At the end of the 5th Congress on Project Management 1976 at Birmingham, UK, Roland Gutsch, one of the founders of INTERNET (now IPMA) pr...

27 August 2015 / 6:21 Reinhard Wagner

ISO/TC258 Project, programme and portfolio management met in Toronto

The Technical Committee (TC) 258 of ISO that is concerned with standards in the field of project, programme and portfolio management held...

25 August 2015 / 7:42 Reinhard Wagner

The Art of Project Management – Past, Present, Future

This year IPMA celebrates its 50th Anniversary, a great point in time for elaborating on the past, present and future of our profession. ...

20 August 2015 / 8:39 Reinhard Wagner

Different stages of organisational development during projectification

The increasing number of projects (“projectification”) has great impact on organisations, they transform. This transformation can be obse...

17 August 2015 / 5:29 Sandra Misic

What does it take to reach excellence in projects?

Tapping into experience of well over a hundred excellent projects assessed worldwide by hundreds of professionals over a period of 13 yea...

13 August 2015 / 7:52 Reinhard Wagner

Roland W. Gutsch – One of the founders of IPMA (formerly INTERNET)

Roland W. Gutsch was a German engineer who very early dived into the at that time miraculous world of computing. When he entered DORNIER ...

11 August 2015 / 6:46 Reinhard Wagner

Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of economic growth

A recent publication of Ernst&Young (EY) on Megatrends highlights the importance of entrepreneurship: “The growth and prosperity of a...

5 August 2015 / 8:06 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Germany

After writing about many other countries, I chose my own country to be the next one to highlight. It is Germany, or better the Federal Re...

3 August 2015 / 7:29 Sandra Misic

IPMA investigates new journal

International Project Management Association (IPMA) is considering launching a new project management journal for the benefit of the glob...

29 July 2015 / 5:17 Reinhard Wagner

International PM-Community will meet in Panama for the 29th IPMA World Congress

End of September the international Project Management Community will meet in Panama for the 29th IPMA World Congress

27 July 2015 / 7:06 Sandra Misic

25 years ago in Vienna – the World Congress of IPMA enters into a new stage

The exchange of experiences in IPMA (formerly INTERNET) has a long tradition. The roots can be found in the 1960s, where the first two ga...

22 July 2015 / 9:36 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Spain

I have been many times in Spain, a beautiful country in the south-west of Europe. After a visit to Granada I try to wrap-up things and wr...

20 July 2015 / 7:46 Sandra Misic

50 years anniversary of IPMA – The early period of IPMA – some informal notes

By Dr. Sc. Steen Lichtenberg, former IPMA President How was the situation before and during founding our society originally called INTERN...

16 July 2015 / 6:42 Mladen Vukomanovic

The complementarity of competence-based and process-based standards

The IPMA Individual Competence Baseline Version 4, or ICB4, is designed as the global competence-based standard for individual competence...

10 July 2015 / 4:10 Reinhard Wagner

Insights into the fascinating world of research projects

Friday, September 4 at Saint-Paul-les-Durance in southern France you can gain insights in one of the most fascinating research projects o...

8 July 2015 / 7:00 Sandra Misic

IPMA will launch a Megaprojects Special Interest Group in September

Megaprojects are extremely large-scale investment projects that typically cost more than 1 billion USD. Megaprojects are united by their ...

6 July 2015 / 7:53 Amin Saidoun

The Moroccan Project Management Association (MPMA) is born !

In June 2015, Moroccan Project Management Association (MPMA) was born. At this occasion a press conference was organized in Casablanca to...

2 July 2015 / 7:50 Reinhard Wagner

ISO 21504 Guidance on portfolio management published

In 2007 the British Standards Institute BSI initiated the development of an international standard on project management, which was final...

1 July 2015 / 6:07 Joel Carboni

IPMA Family Contributes to International Sustainability Goals at the United Nations

From June 23-25 a summit at the United Nations in New York was held to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the UN Global Compact. Busines...

29 June 2015 / 6:17 Amin Saidoun

How to balance financial resources in projects through fundraising

The increasing demand in humanitarian aid and charity projects raises the question of funding and new concepts for financial resources. F...

24 June 2015 / 12:54 Reinhard Wagner

Project Canvas – defining projects in a structured way

Canvas is a term not widely known and pretty new to project management. Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas) describes it as ...

22 June 2015 / 8:02 Reinhard Wagner

IPMA´s 4-Level-Certification System – A Success Story

IPMA is the world´s first project management association and celebrates its 50th Anniversary during the 29th IPMA World Congress in Panam...

17 June 2015 / 7:10 Reinhard Wagner

Designs, Methods and Practices for PM Research

Project Management is a pretty young discipline, but its development is dynamic and in the same time ambiguous. This is why the research ...

15 June 2015 / 8:01 Peter Milsom

GAPPS Background for IPMA

I was privileged to attend the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS) Thought Leadership Session in Manchester as a G...

11 June 2015 / 8:51 Helgi Thor Ingason

IPMA activity in Ethiopia and Kenya

There is a lot of work to be done in both countries and it is no question in my mind that professional project management is an absolutel...

8 June 2015 / 7:11 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and Project Management in Finland

After returning from a visit to Finland I´d like to continue our series of reports from IPMA Member Countries. Finland is a sparsely popu...

1 June 2015 / 9:28 Helgi Thor Ingason

New IPMA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct available

It is with great pleasure that I tell you about a project I have managed for the Research Management Board of IPMA. A successful project ...

30 May 2015 / 1:27 Tim Jaques

The Next Generation of Competence: ICB4

What Defines A Competent Project Manager? IPMA’s new flagship standard, the ICB4, is due to be launched in September at the World C...

26 May 2015 / 12:15 Amin Saidoun

IPMA’s third project management conference in Algiers!

Project managers from all over Algeria met for the third time during a conference initiated by IPMA (Training Aid programme) in Algiers a...

25 May 2015 / 7:31 Reinhard Wagner

IPMA and Green Project Management Establish formal Cooperation Agreement

Monday May 25th Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Detroit, USA Sustainability is an increasingly important aspect of project management. This i...

21 May 2015 / 6:45 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and Project Management in Malaysia

Last week the IPMA ExBo conducted a board meeting in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. The visit was already planned last year and b...

14 May 2015 / 3:45 Reinhard Wagner

How ICB ® and OCB ® interrelate

Recently I received an interesting question, which I want to answer via the IPMA Blog, because it touches a very crucial topic. The quest...

13 May 2015 / 4:12 Reinhard Wagner

PRINCE2® and ICB3® – Similarities and differences

We often get questions like, how PM standards such as PMBOK, PRINCE2, ICB3 differentiate, why we need them all or why not start a harmoni...

11 May 2015 / 1:23 Reinhard Wagner

IPMA and Gower jointly support PMs in developing nations

Modern technologies enable networking and support across the globe. A good example is the immediate response through social media after t...

4 May 2015 / 5:02 Amin Saidoun

IPMA present in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

IPMA participated in the 4th Saudi Project Management conference that took place from 28 to 29th September in the Kingdom’s capital Riyad...

30 April 2015 / 7:16 Reinhard Wagner

Projects and project management in Lithuania

Last week Vilnius, the capitol of Lithuania, was an international hot spot of project management. The IPMA Young Crew held its Internatio...

28 April 2015 / 6:52 Reinhard Wagner

IPMA calls for support of Nepal

With great sadness the IPMA Family has received news of the devastating earthquake in Nepal. The disaster hits a country that has had to ...

21 April 2015 / 5:00 Reinhard Wagner

Seven steps to a strategy for your organisation

Organisations are constantly faced with dynamic change in their context. This requires them to change their vision, mission and strategy ...

20 April 2015 / 6:01 Tim Jaques

The Next Generation of Competence: ICB4

IPMA’s new flagship standard, the ICB4, is due to be launched in September at the World Congress in Panama. The new standard, named...

14 April 2015 / 5:52 Reinhard Wagner

Project Management in Emerging Economies – theme of IPMA´s third Research Conference

IPMA Research Conferences aim to bring together researchers, experts, scholars and practitioners in order to discuss and exchange researc...

12 April 2015 / 7:30 Amin Saidoun

Moving IPMA and Project Management forward in Morocco !

Project managers in Morocco are forming an association to promote project management as a way to translate visions and strategies into re...

9 April 2015 / 9:00 Amin Saidoun

How to avoid killing Project Management softly

What will follow may be observed principally in many countries and in many organisations.

3 April 2015 / 11:30 Reinhard Wagner

PMOs are focussed on operations and less on strategy

The concept of Project Management Offices (PMOs) has gained popularity during the past years. In many sectors and independent of the size...

1 April 2015 / 11:40 Reinhard Wagner

IPMA moving fast forward with new Strategy 2020

This year the IPMA International Project Management celebrates 50th Anniversary. We are all proud to be part of the world´s first project...

20 March 2015 / 2:41 Reinhard Wagner

Project Management Trends 2025

The discipline of project management is developing very fast. Some developments are obvious, others are rather hidden.