As one of his last official acts, President Barack Obama signed the The Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act! This bi-partisan legislature states that the Deputy Director for Management or designee shall: – adopt government-wide standards,...
As we speak, the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition) is under development and from what we can tell, the new PMBOK® will contain considerable changes. PMI has done a great job of defining the roles that project managers play and...
Agile is incorrectly referred to as a methodology. Agile itself is not a methodology but a mindset and approach to developing and managing a project incrementally and iteratively. Using Agile approaches allows teams to respond to unpredictability and change in a...
Motivation, worker behavior, and efficiency studies have been conducted since the industrial revolution. Management scientists like Abraham Maslow, Frederick Herzberg, and David McClelland and even more modern studies like the recent MIT Federal Reserve Board study...
Do you use Agile practices, tools, and techniques in your projects? Is your organization transitioning or implementing Agile methodologies? If so, you may want to consider an Agile certification. With so many options for certifications, why choose the PMI Agile...
Project managers can be well served by implementing an Agile development approach to their software development projects. Agile is an iterative software development approach where an integrated team from across the stakeholder community work together to evolve the...
