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What did the Project Managers ever do for us?
There is that famous scene in Monty Python and The Life of Brian where the rebels are demanding action against the oppressive Romans and ask the question ‘What did the Romans ever do for us?’- The answers came back over and over again as the rebels listed the many...
Program Management for Development Professionals Guide
PM4NGOs is developing the Program Management for Development Professionals Guide to provide advice, tools and guidance to help Program Managers work effectively at a pivotal level in local, national and international NGOs. Program managers play an essential role by...
Managing Programs: are you in a horror movie?
A program is a group of related projects and activities that are managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits not available from managing them individually (PMDPro). In other words, the whole (the benefit of the program) is greater than the sum of its parts (the...
How does a DPro Project look like?
How does a PMDPro Project look like? This question comes up in each training course, meeting, or even informal conversation about project management in the development. Where can I find a PMDPro template? What is the checklist to attend all PMD requirements? Well, it...
Developing a Program Management Standard
This past week I had the pleasure of working with a fantastic group of people as we developed the next offering from PM4NGOs – The PgMD Pro Guide (Program Management for Development Professionals Guide) standard. The PgMD Pro Guide will be the next step in...
Is Traditional L&D Still Relevant?
Last month we published a survey, based on Jane Hart’s recent blog post, that asked readers to rate 10 different ways they learn at work. We did not receive 3,500 responses from 55 countries (as Jane did), however, 69 individuals from our sector responded to our...
#NoEstimates – De-Mystified
INTRODUCTION For some time now within the software development community on Twitter, and by extension, some in the project management community, there has been an ongoing discussion surrounding a concept called No Estimates. Actually, the discussion (sometimes heated)...
The Triple Constraints are NOT Success Criteria
What defines a project as a success? For a lot of Project Managers, the answer to this question (unfortunately), is “on-time, on-budget, on-scope”. These are known as the Triple Constraints, or the Iron Triangle, and are the Holy Grail for Project Managers. Hit these...
Project DPro in the field – Changing the world one project at a time
PMD Pro in action in Mudzi, Zimbabwe Mudzi is a district of Mashonaland in the far eastern part of Zimbabwe. World Vision International (http://www.wvi.org/zimbabwe) runs an Area Development Programme in Mudzi and the programme has adopted the use of PMD Pro and its...
