Centre of Excellence

On Friday 18th of November 2011, ESI hosted the 7th Centre of Excellence (COE) half day event for its PMO COE Community. This event entitled “How to create a ‘high performing’ environment through sustainable learning” provided a forum for COE members to meet, network and share their real life experiences and challenges. The first presentation covered...
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On Friday 18th of November 2011, ESI hosted the 7th Centre of Excellence (COE) half day event for its PMO COE Community. This event entitled “How to create a ‘high performing’ environment through sustainable learning” provided a forum for COE members to meet, network and share their real life experiences and challenges. How do you sustain...
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Changes to the PMBOK® Guide – Fourth Edition Textual ChangesAll of the text needs to be reviewed for references to process groups and adapted to make the relationships clear. - “Project management is accomplished through the appropriate application and integration of the forty-two logically grouped project management processes comprising the five process groups.        - Change to                  - “Project management...
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Abstract The PMI standards present knowledge using three overlapping models as follows: lifecycles, processes (clustered into process groups), and knowledge areas. The first two parts presented a reworking of the basic model and proposed structure of the body of knowledge in terms of: technology-specific life cycles, and Knowledge Areas. These are structured around the standard...
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In my last posting I explained that the PMI presents  3 ways of structuring the field of PM: 1) Lifecycles 2) Processes grouped into 5 process groups 3) Knowledge areas I focused on lifecycles and now I will continue by discussing processes and move onto covering the knowledge areas. Processes A process in its most general form is a mechanism for transforming an...
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Abstract The PMI standards present knowledge using three overlapping models, as follows: life cycles, processes clustered into process groups, and knowledge areas. Analysis of these models shows that, although life cycles are a stand-alone concept, the other two models should be presented in a hierarchical manner, with knowledge areas as the highest level, subdivided with...
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Can you drive up levels of organisational project maturity by sharing “everything” – from the gospel of project management best practices, through tasks on a development level, to the overall progress and status of ALL projects? Should the level of data and information you share evolve in line with your maturity? On Tuesday 5th of October...
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On Tuesday 5th of October 2010 ESI hosted a half day event for its PMO Centre of Excellence Community. This event entitled “Sharing Real Life PMO Challenges” provided a forum for COE members to meet, network and share their real life experiences and challenges. Throughout this interactive event, the moderator pulled out a major theme from...
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