SDG 16 of 17 aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. This is an important SDG for project management. This goal has ten specific targets to achieve by 2030. Significantly reduce all forms of violence and related […]
Mother Earth vs. Humanity
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein I recently watched a Google talk on YouTube by Alex Epstein called ‘The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels’. As I lean towards the other side of this debate, it was interesting to get a fossil fuel (oil, […]
A Mercenary Perspective on Sustainability
I am blessed and cursed with never having had a boss. Despite the image above, I actually consider myself a capitalist and believe that it is vital to generate jobs and improve the overall economic well being of society. All of that said though, I do believe we need an overhaul because the existing US-based […]
The Key Attribute of a Project Manager
I recently enjoyed a discussion on the key attribute of project managers. It started from a conversation about whether a project manager should just do what they were told, or if they should do their best to deliver the greatest value and benefits to the organization. I am biased towards sustainable project management, so the […]
EVM and Agile – Project Reporting
Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W17_PM_EVM-KPI-Reporting. It is a follow on to a recent post “EVM and Agile – Can they work together?“. Once again, this post is not specifically about sustainable change delivery. It does provide useful considerations, […]
EVM and Agile – Can they work together?
Context This post was modified from one I developed several years ago for the Mercure AACE 2013 program I took, called W15_PM_EVM-Agile-Considerations. My primary focus is split between sustainable organizational project, programme, portfolio and risk management improvement and organizational sustainable change delivery assessments. My project experience has been 30+ years in combining a series of […]
The Dangers of Tribalism with Project Methods
The project management industry has spent gazillions¹ on methods, frameworks, standards, training courses, certifications, degrees etc., and despite this there is a perception that our overall competency, capacity and success as a discipline is marginally successful at best. After spending over twenty five years studying, being certified on, and employing a multitude of project, programme, […]
Professionalism, have some.
Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to work on projects large and small, in diverse industries and sectors. From technology to development, business change, and events. This has given me the insight to project managers from a broad spectrum of focus areas. The trait that I find to a key factor for success, […]
Sustainable Development Goal 15 “Life on Land” and Project Management
This installment in our series on the SDGs focuses on #15 of 17, Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss”. This SDG has 9 targets which you can read in detail. The short version is to protect all life […]
We Have Redoubled Our Commitment to the Paris Agreement (and we are not alone).
GPM is a U.S. based organization with operations all over the world. Our prime objective is to advance sustainable development advocating a greater attention and focus on value creation in the project management profession. When an event occurs that threatens our ability to, we speak out. As a signatory to the UN’s Caring for Climate […]
