With the current wave of Generative AI opportunities permeating all aspects of work and personal life, I grabbed the chance to enroll in PMI’s Generative AI Overview for Project Managers course. According to the course introduction, Generative AI will impact project management in various ways, including in improving project delivery success rates, benefits realization, societal…
A widespread reason why projects don’t meet expectations is that they fulfill specifications to the dot but neglect to consider what the users really wanted. IT professionals typically argue that the application that they delivered does exactly what the requirements say. Unfortunately, requirements are sometimes ambiguous, incomplete, or just plain wrong. Sure, it is not…
I recently completed a project where we modeled business processes for the Surveying and Mapping Authority in Slovenia and I co-authored and presented a paper about it at the Slovenian Society Informatika annual conference in April 2019. Some of the main benefits of this project that we outlined in the paper were: Business process modeling…
If you are involved with project management, chances are you have heard of the Chaos report published by the Standish group. The Chaos report delivers shocking results about the overwhelming failure of most projects. In the initial report that was published in 1994, just 16 percent of all projects were considered successful and this number…
When it comes to choosing either an agile or a traditional project management methodology, we don’t necessarily have to pick either one. Hybrid project management is a better answer, because it combines the best of both worlds and it allows a smoother transition from traditional to agile as compared to making the transition in one…
The new general EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become a binding law at end of May this year. The aim of the regulation is to establish greater control over the handling of personal data. As project managers, we must be aware that personal data may also be handled within projects, especially with respect to…
Whenever I hear that someone refers to PMP or PMI as a methodology, I want to tell them that neither of these is a project management methodology (PMP is a certification and PMI is the name of the organization that issues the certification). The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) is also not a methodology…
Project contingency planning is among the least understood topics related to project management. This is probably due to the fact that contingency deals with the unknown. How do we plan for something that might happen but we don’t even know what that might be? And how much will it cost us if it does happen?…
The findings of PMI’s 8th annual Global Project Management Survey as published in The High cost of Low Performance are disturbing. They report declines in many of the project success factors that they track. Furthermore, the percentage of projects meeting their goals is lower than it has been over the past four years. According to…
A large number of companies are starting to implement at least a few of their projects using agile approaches. They do so because it is becoming known that agile projects are more successful and their stakeholders more satisfied. It is risky if a company starts implementing agile before they understand exactly what it means in…