Day Two @PMOSym: Is This Day One? Innovation and the Project Economy

November 4, 2019 | by Matt Crawford

At the opening general session, The Project Economy – The Future of Work,  Bob Safian, Founder of The Flux Group and Former Editor of Fast Company, delievered a whirlwind look at the lessons of innovation, pros and cons of "The Project Economy" and a recap of PMI's 50 most influential projects of th

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Blogging from the PMO Symposium: Day One -- Play Ball!

November 3, 2019 | by Matt Crawford

PMO Symposium 2019 is off and running.  I attended the session entitled “Leading the Agile Evolution: Let’s Play Ball,” led by Alison Bakken from Thomson Reuters.  Her thoughts on the key reason for implementing Agile was to help teams deliver more effectively and efficiently for customers.  She sh

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Being Aware of Cybersecurity Threats is Spooky

October 30, 2019 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

It seems fitting that Cybersecurity Awareness Month ends on Halloween. Now that you are aware, the thinking behind that goes, you should wind up scared ... very scared. I took the course offered by ESET (which closes tomorrow ... so don't delay!) and while most of the tips were things I was already

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The View from PMI50: After the Storm

October 10, 2019 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

In theory, we should all return from a work conference stoked full of new ideas, new or refreshed professional contacts, and ready to rock. The reality is that after the hotel beds, the dim weird conference room lighting, the whirlwind of introductions, the writer's cramp from trying to take notes

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The View from PMI50: Winds of Change

October 7, 2019 | by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Agility is required to navigate the halls of the PMI Global Conference: one moment I am being swept back into memories of my work for the PMI Publishing Division's North Carolina office 25 years ago (a chapter which is, sadly, missing from the PMI history book we all received in our conference packe

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