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As a part of every issue of PMI Today, the Project Management Institute‘s monthly newsletter published as a supplement to PM Network magazine, PMI features a small section called PMI Fact File which features statistics about the number of PMI members, new members acquired, number of active CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) or PMP [...]

If you’re going to be managing projects, it certainly helps to know what they are! As per PMI‘s Project Management Body of Knowledge, a project has the following dimensions: A project is an endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. A project is temporary; it has a beginning and an end. Project [...]

While working in the Project Portfolio Office of a bank in Ireland I became ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management certified. The Foundation Level of ITIL is the first stage in learning the key concepts, structure, terminology and processes of ITIL. ITIL stands for Information Technology Infrastructure Library, and it is a trademark of the [...]

The PMI Registered Education Provider (REP) program is a training provider certification program run by PMI for providers that issue Professional Development Units (PDUs) for project management training courses. The REP program was created to enhance the ongoing professional development of PMI’s members, PMI-credentialed members (PMPs, PgMPs, CAPM holders, and so on) and other project [...]

The featured story in the Project Management Institute’s PMI Today magazine was the results of the sixth edition of PMI’s Project Management Salary Survey. The highlight of the survey was that despite the ongoing recession, many project managers have reported salary increases; in fact, 51% of respondents (of which there were nearly 35,000 from 19 [...]

PDUs are Professional Development Units, necessary for maintaining Project Management Institute (PMI)-certified credentials. They are a part of PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) program. One PDU is worth one hour of project management training, though there are some exceptions to this rule. PMPs and other PMI credential holders can claim PDUs by visiting PMI’s web [...]

The story of the pig and the chicken has several variations, but it usually goes something like this: A chicken and a pig are hanging out on the farm (as pigs and chickens often do) trying to decide between the two of them what they can make for breakfast. The chicken suggests, “what about ham [...]

PMI is the Project Management Institute, a not-for-profit professional association dedicated to “advancing the practice, science and profession of project management throughout the world”. They do this in a conscious, proactive manner to increase the chances of adoption and utilization of PMI project management processes in organizations throughout the world. The Project Management Institute was [...]

The PMBOK (or PMBOK Guide) is the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, one of the key sources of PMI (Project Management Institute) standards and guidelines. This comprehensive project management document describes the norms, methods, processes and practices involved in professional project management. As described in the PMBOK Guide itself, these standards and [...]

Scrum as a product development methodology is certainly growing in popularity. Having managed projects using several different project management frameworks I can attest to the flexibility and scalability of Scrum, especially when compared to the waterfall method. According to the Scrum methodology you should not change your processes while sprinting; the first sprint in your [...]