The 2011 PMI Global Congress North America in Dallas – Part 3 – Take-Aways from Sessions on Leadership, Project Winners, the Learning Project Organization, and the future PMO
This is the third part of my impressions of the 2011 PMI Global Congress North America in Dallas. Part 1 talks about the conference setup. Part 2 covers my lessons learned from sessions on sustainability, ethics, innovation, and Agile. In this 3rd part I am…
2011 PMI Global Congress North America in Dallas – Part 2 – Take-Aways from Sessions on Sustainability, Ethics, Innovation, and Agile
This is the second part of my impressions of the 2011 PMI Global Congress North America in Dallas. Part 1 talks about the conference setup. You can read it here. In this second part I am talking about my takeaways from the sessions I attended. …
The 2011 PMI Global Congress North America in Dallas – What a great event! – Part 1
The 2011 PMI Global Congress North America in Dallas is history. Time to look back and see what I took back from this conference. Overall, it was yet another GREAT conference. It is impossible to describe all impressions and lessons learned. It would fill volumes. …
Tips, Tricks & Lessons Learned for Social Media in Project Management
What would you say is the biggest problem on projects today? Is it the ever increasing complexity? Is it project sponsors who are absent? Is it the impossible expectations that our customers have? Robert Szilinksi and Michael Krebs (www.esentri.com and www.social-pm.com) say that it’s neither…
What’s driving you?
In his latest post Bill Barren talks about the importance of realizing the urgency of a problem if you want to change something. The blog is entitled „Mosquitos, Malaria and What May Be Stopping You From Getting Clients“. Bill cites the dilemma of malaria deaths…
So, you want to become #1? Think again!
It is the epitome of Western society that becoming and being #1 is thing to drive for. It is good to be the best in your class no matter what. But is it really good all the time? Hardly. Think of the following. The German…
PMI Global Congress EMEA 2011 in Dublin
Today is the second day of the PMI Global Congress EMEA 2011 in Dublin. More than 800 people came to Dublin to share their stories about project management and get inspired by new ideas. A fabulous event! My own presentation „The Good and Evil of…
Work environment: It’s your own choice
Our work environments have a huge impact on our contributions, how they are perceived and valued, and how we feel. This is not a new insight. And yet often I hear that we cannot really change our own work environments, that they are predefined and/or…
Successful New Year’s Resolution
Once every year there are thousands and thousands of people who sense the urge to come up with resolutions for the new year. This is good. It shows that people are willing to change something for the better. I wonder though how many of these…
Another reason to attend PMI Global Congresses: Meeting friends
There are so many reasons to attend PMI’s Global Congresses. To learn about new trends, share lessons learned, networking – and meeting friends. Returning to these conferences is like homecoming. There is a family of presenters which happen to speak and attend the Congresses year…