PMBOK 2 – Project Manager – Australia's online resource for project management professionals

Nobody puts stakeholder management in a corner

Michelle LaBrosse celebrates the new arrival of Stakeholder Management as a discrete PMBOK knowledge area. Stakeholder management has been put in a corner for far too long…

July 25, 2013

Three words to describe project management

Are we making project management too complicated? asks Lynda Bourne. What if she told you the PMBOK could be summarised in less than 500 characters?

July 23, 2013

Basic

The unspoken additional constraint of project management

There exists an important additional constraint to managing projects which is always considered in project needs but not necessarily thought of as a key constraint: user or customer satisfaction. PM Oracles on how to include customer satisfaction in quality requirements.

January 23, 2013

Quality

Project Management Institute updates standards

The Project Management Institute (PMI) updated its PMBOK® Guide, the Standard for Program Management and the Standard for Portfolio Management. So what’s new and how do the changes affect project management in Australia? Pat Weaver provides an overview of the updates.

January 22, 2013

Advanced

Robots versus Superheroes

It sounds like the title of a great movie, but it’s a battle that is played out every day in every organisation that runs projects. I read something this week that inspired me to write about this battle and what you can do if you are in the midst of it.

September 18, 2012

The 4 archetype projects

Each project is uniquely different and therefore project management cannot be a one-size-fits-all process or discipline. Pat Weaver describes the four archetype projects you are likely to encounter in your career.

September 5, 2012

Managing

Adding to the project management body of knowledge

PMI has developed six categories of PDUs in which one can obtain credits. Anne Booc outlines how you can earn credits in the Creating New Project Management Knowledge category.

August 10, 2012

Professional Development

Why the PMBOK is not a methodology

One of the more common discussions on the web and in other places is focused on comparing a methodology with PMBOK. The problem with the proposition is the basic premise is completely wrong! The Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge guide is not, and never has been, a methodology, argues Pat Weaver.

August 8, 2012

Methodologies