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What do you call a Product Owner with no authority?

Kiron Bondale

In 2003, Barry Boehm and Richard Turner coined the acronym C.R.A.C.K. I ran a poll in the PMI LinkedIn Project, Program and Portfolio Management discussion group to learn what others had experienced. They usually had someone with the right personality, knowledge and authority, but that individual was stretched too thin.

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Should I take CAPM or PRINCE2?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Even if you don’t work in a ‘formal’ PMI or AXELOS environment, you’ll still gain a rounded idea of what project management life is all about. The majority of people who consider the PMI credentials go straight for PMP. PMI has a relatively low, but growing, penetration in the UK. CAPM in the UK.

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Behind The Scenes At PMCamp Barcelona

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The only foreign holiday my boys have been on was to PMI EMEA in Barcelona (I take them to all the good places!). Stefan wrote a popular project management blog and suggested a BarCamp for project managers based on a participant-driven conference hosted by publisher Tim O’Reilly for the IT industry in 2003. Klaus Hofeditz.

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The Definitive Guide to Project Sponsors

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There is no single, perfect definition of a project sponsor that all the professional bodies like APM and PMI agree on. 2003) Perfect Projects. However, we generally know what we are looking for in a sponsor. Consider if they need more help, or perhaps it’s time for someone else to take over sponsoring the work.

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A Compendium of Works to Increase the Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Five Immutable Principles of Project Success , PMI Spring Seminar, 2021, Austin TX. Five Principles of Project Success , PMI, Northern Utah Chapter, Professional Development Day, 2012. Applying Deliverables Based Planning ® To Increase Our Probability of Success , PMI Fort Worth, Chapter Meeting, 15 July 2010.

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How Women Project Managers Deal with Challenges

Ganttic

According to the PMI , male PMs outnumber women by two to three. in 2003 to 7.7% Hopefully by highlighting some of the challenges that female project managers face, we can begin to understand where more changes need to be made. Is project management male dominated? Yet, even this is changing. For example, according to the U.S.

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A Short History of Project Management

MPUG

PMI on the scene. PMI has almost 600,000 members worldwide in over 200 countries and many different kinds of certifications. If I was a young engineer graduate, I would make it one of my top professional goals to eventually acquire one of these PMI certifications, making myself more marketable and helping me to rise to the top.

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