Is traditional project management (what we’ve done as project managers for years before the Agile disruption) really predictive? This term, predictive, is how PMI has chosen to refer to traditional project management, so that there is predictive project management, agile project management and hybrid. Is it predictive? I don’t like …
Is project management the same thing as just getting something done? It seems that PMI has moved closer to this description in recent years. I could equate “just getting something done” with general management, which the founders of PMI specifically wanted to distinguish project management from. But recent PMI leadership …
What is the role of theory in explaining project management? Morris, Peter. Reconstructing Project Management Reprised: A Knowledge Perspective. Project Management Journal, Vol. 44, No. 5, October 2013, p13. © 2013 by the Project Management Institute This is the last in my series of posts commenting on nine questions that …
