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PMI

The PMP exam is changing!

July 13, 2011

The PMP exam changes next month. I spoke to Margaret Meloni, MBA, PMP, tutor at UC Irvine Extension and herself a blogger, about the forthcoming changes. Margaret, how is the PMP exam changing in August? Approximately every five to seven years the Project Management Institute (PMI) revisits the role of the project manager to ensure [...]

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PMI EMEA Congress Round up

June 22, 2011

PMI Global Congress EMEA was attended by 808 people from 54 countries. The countries that sent the most delegates were the United States (weird for a European event, but someone I spoke to said it was a good networking opportunity), the U.K., Ireland, Italy and Germany. I also met people from the U.A.E., Nigeria, Kuwait, [...]

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Project management in schools: two case studies

June 6, 2011

Last week I wrote about what the PMI Educational Foundation does. One of the missions of PMIEF is to build project management skills in young people and teachers, better equipping students for the future. How exactly does it do that? At PMI’s EMEA Leadership Institute Meeting in Dublin last month two volunteers spoke about their [...]

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Philanthropic projects: the PMI Educational Foundation

May 30, 2011

If you’ve been around projects for any length of time you have probably come across the Project Management Institute. You might even have heard of PMIEF: the PMI Educational Foundation. But what does it actually do? I thought it mainly sponsored research, but it turns out I was wrong. PMIEF’s Chair, John Rickards, gave a [...]

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Managing up: how to help your managers help you

May 25, 2011

One of the questions I’m often asked is: “How do I get taken seriously at work?” And over my career I have asked myself that question as well. One way to build credibility in the workplace was explained by Dr Lynda Bourne recently at the PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin. Let’s talk about managing [...]

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Using Social Media for Member Communications

May 23, 2011

This was the presentation I gave at the PMI Leadership Institute Meeting in Dublin earlier this month. Thanks to Adi at CMI for hosting this on Slideshare. For all that I sing the praises of social media, I don’t have my own Slideshare account!

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Signing books in Dublin

May 18, 2011

One of the best things about writing about project management is having the opportunity to travel and meet so many different people. At the PMI EMEA Congress in Dublin earlier this month I met Tarik, from Ajman University of Science and Technology in the U.A.E. This is a photo of us taken during my book [...]

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Office Talk: How what you say impacts your project

May 16, 2011

Do you think about what you say at work? Alfonso Bucero certainly does.  He presented at PMI Global Congress EMEA in Dublin recently on the subject of why we should choose our words carefully. “During many years as a project manager, I was not conscious about the consequences of the words I used with my [...]

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Video Diary: PMI Global Congress EMEA Day 3

May 13, 2011

This is my final video diary from the PMI Global Congress EMEA 2011 in Dublin. Watch the video of Day 2 here. Watch the video of Day 1 here. Thanks to PMI who waived my Congress fees to enable me to attend this event.

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Video Diary: PMI Global Congress EMEA Day 2

May 12, 2011

This is the video diary from Day 2 at PMI’s Global Congress EMEA in Dublin. See if you can spot Lindsay Scott, Thomas Juli and Luis Seabra Coelho. Watch the video from Day 3 here. Watch the video from Day 1 here.

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