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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers.

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Agile: Past, Present, & Future. A Conversation with Agile Trainer, Rubin Jen.

International Institute for Learning

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 23 years, spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, not-for-profit and government sectors. He has worked with companies such as Bombardier Aerospace, Celestica, Accenture and the Ontario Government.

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Project Management Mastery: Conquering Big, Hairy, Complex Projects (BHCP)

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The second required an understanding of government and public sector procurement process, benchmarking hardware and software systems and working with myriad vendors and computer system standards at a time, when no such systems or standards had ever existed. .

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Sprint Zero: Starting Off RightWith Rubin JenFriday, May 196:00 – 7:00 AM EDT and1:30 – 2:30 PM EDT

International Institute for Learning

Rubin also has extensive consulting experience in strategic and operational planning. Rubin has been helping teams and organizations in their Agile transformational journey since 2014, as a subject matter expert and as an Agile coach.

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The Agile Project Manager

International Institute for Learning

Rubin Jen has been in the project management field for over 25 years; Spanning aerospace, engineering, telecom, software development, outsourcing, consulting, and government sectors. Rubin also has extensive consulting experience in strategic and operational planning.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

As an example, the aerospace division of a Fortune 500 company benchmarked against their competitors. At the end of the benchmarking period, everyone in the aerospace group were hugging and congratulating each other after the results appeared showing how good they thought they were in project management. Al Zeitoun, Ph.D.

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The Leadership Gap: Signs, Symptoms, and Solutions

International Institute for Learning

This is even more applicable in situations when customers have no choice (when served by a monopoly, when the customer needs something from the provider, or when it comes to government services). Another important part of the problem is that corporations look at governments and learn from them. Related to the item above: cost savings.