by Mounir Ajam | Sep 19, 2017 | Agile "Project Management", Organizational Project Management, PMBOK Guide
We have been hearing about the #PMBOK Guide going Agile for a year now; or more. However, now the new #PMBOK Guide is out, where is #Agile? This question reminds me of an old Wendy’s commercial about “where is the beef?” I ask this question despite...
by Mounir Ajam | Sep 16, 2017 | Project Management Methodology
This post is extracted from a chapter in our upcoming book on Project Management with the title, Project Management beyond Waterfall and Agile. Some practitioners of project management raise their concerns in dealing with the challenges they face in project...
by Mounir Ajam | Sep 9, 2017 | Applied Project Management (4PM), PMBOK Guide, Project Management Process Groups
Now that the PMBOK Guide is officially out, what are the changes – officially now? We are likely to write a few posts on this subject. Today’s topic will focus on the changes in the processes. Overall, the number of processes changed from 47 to 49; a net...
by Mounir Ajam | Sep 7, 2017 | How to, PMBOK Guide
With the recent release of the PMBOK Guide edition, I felt it is important to reflect back on something I wrote a long time ago and worth sharing again. Before we move on to this article. This article focuses on the size of the guide not because we are interested in...
by Mounir Ajam | Aug 13, 2017 | Methodology-CAMMP, Project Life Cycle, Project Management Methodology, Project Management Training
Road Maps to Travel the Project Journey: End-to-End Almost every organization today deliver value to their shareholders, customers, or citizens and the community through projects. The vital question is how to enhance the chance of success, deliver excellence, and...
by Mounir Ajam | Aug 10, 2017 | Applied Project Management (4PM)
I have been leading a PMP exam prep workshop all week and every time we do this workshop we get questions like what we are listing today. We have touched on these points in the past but as the fifth edition of the PMBOK Guide will be coming to an end and the sixth...