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Supercharge Your Project Performance
"Learning
without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous."
Confucius
Keywords: Training, PMI Credentials, Certification.
Supercharge Your Project Performance [P066]
The ever increasing demand for more project
managers is creating divergent pressures on the project management
profession. In one direction, project managers are seeking training and
accreditation as a means of increasing their professionalism, raising
their profile, and making themselves more marketable in a competitive
market. At the same time, many organisations, with limited
understanding of the ‘profession and practice’ of
project management still appoint almost anyone to the role of project
manager, keeping the concept of the ‘accidental project
manager’ alive and flourishing.
Some accidental project managers have been remarkably successful; but
many find themselves blamed for problems and project failures they were
ill-equipped to prevent. It is important to help accidental project
managers be successful not only to encourage them to remain in the
profession but also because every project failure is a failure for the
Project Management profession as well as the organisation that
commissioned the project.
This paper will explore the phenomenon of the accidental project
manager and describe the project management skills needed for success.
It will then outline ways organisations and the Project Management
profession can support project managers and help them achieve
recognised qualifications such as PgMP,
PMP and CAPM ; identify some of
the emerging and critical
techniques available to help them and their organisations consistently
deliver projects successfully such as OPM3
(and OPM3 ProductSuite),
Earned Value,
Earned Schedule, Risk
Management and Stakeholder
Engagement; and finally encourage them to make project
management their
career.
Author: Dr. Lynda Bourne
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