PMI Global Congress – Reflections, Part I
Wow, what a conference! I cannot remember any conference or professional meeting I ever attended where there was such a wealth of knowledge, interesting people, inspiring ideas. It will take a time to digest all the information. All I can say is that I highly recommend this conference to anyone seriously interested in project management – and leadership.
The sessions I attended dealt with project leadership (vs. simple project management), complexity of projects, PMOs, communication to and for executives. In a nutshell?
- The insights about how to set up and manage PMOs were not new but re-assuring.
- Project leadership becomes ever more important in a complex world.
- Effective project leaders manage executives to act for the success of a project.
Now, there is much more to it. Of course, there is. And I will write more about it in the days and weeks to come. So stay tuned.
An equally interesting subject would be PMI’s view towards Agile… I don’t know if that was mentioned in the conference.
Yes, AGILE PROJECT MANAGEMENT has been a topic at the conference. Indeed, I believe there were 2-3 presentations on this very topic.
For example, Michele Sliger, co-author of the newly published and excellent book „The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility (Agile Software Development Series)“, talked about Agile Project Management.
In addition, agile project management was referenced in many other presentations. Let me write about this topic in a new post.