Project Management Best Practices

With the current financial downturn, organizations are looking for ways to cut costs. In their haste, these organizations may make some mistakes concerning the value of project management.

First of all, many decision-makers mistakenly believe that project management is a luxury, an overhead expense that, in a pinch, can be done without. After all, it’s the team members who do the actual work, right? The PM is just an administrator, coordinator or status report writer.

Not True!!

Proven project management processes and practices can make the difference between the success or failure of an enterprise’s business strategy. Project management is more than just coordinating the work of others and reporting on their progress. Project management has protocols, methodologies and proven professional practices based on experience, consensus and scholarly research. There’s a big difference between being a general manager and being a project manager. Project management is a well-defined specialty within the management domain.

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Value of CAPM

Project Management Certification Discussion.

Project Management Professional Discussions for this topic can be found under the PMP Certification sub-category.

Project Management Certification

Welcome to our blog.  “Project manager” is more than just a title or a job description. Successful project managers practice project management as a profession. Our firm, pmbestpractices.com, provides project management consulting services, including project management methodologies, PMO creation and management, project and program management professionals for short to long-term engagement, and Project Management training (including PMP preparation).  Our blog is dedicated to furthering the project management profession.

In addition to our regular postings and articles, we encourage our colleagues in the project management community to contribute to the blog. If there are specific topics you like to see discussed, please drop me a line.

There are two categories of topics here: Main: General discussion about project management, PM best practices, PM maturity, program & portfolio management, project management careers, PM consulting and other PM topics. (The post you are looking at, right now, is in the Main blog category.) Project Management Professional Development: A special discussion category about PM Professional Development. This blog category has a sub-category for general discussion about PM professional development as well as a special sub-category for PMP certification.

So let’s get the conversation going!!!