Category: Articles

Risk Management – An Investment Banking Perspective

Risk Management – An Investment Banking Perspective The difference between an average project manager and a good project manager is that the latter foresees events that might potentially impact projects and as a result devises strategies to address such events effectively. A good project manager believes there is an opportunity hidden in every threat. Investment Banking has been my domain […]

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President’s Message (January 2016)

PMI Thailand Chapter members and interested professionals, Project Management is for everyone! It’s not only for project managers, coordinators, program managers, senior managers, or engineers. It’s for everyone wishing to better organize what they do on a day-to-day basis. It is for students who want to better organize their study activities. It is for athletes […]

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ASEAN News Highlights

This section summarizes excerpts of news from the ASEAN community as made available from ASEAN Secretariat News website.  The intention is to point our readers’ attention to what is happening in the AEC as related to project management.

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Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail

The proverb “failing to plan is planning to fail” has made its way into project management lexicon so much that it is considered a rule of thumb because of the importance of planning. Rules of thumb like this are ever present. We hear them, we say them and we nod in agreement. Specifically, this rule […]

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Keeping Pace with the Growth of Project Management

By Sam Finch In recent years I have witnessed widespread growth and application of project management in sectors that are not traditionally associated with its use. As a result of this, the profession itself and those calling themselves project managers is increasingly becoming harder to define. In the case of Thailand, as project management continues […]

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Keeping Pace With the Growth of Project Management

By Sam Finch In recent years I have witnessed widespread growth and application of project management in sectors that are not traditionally associated with its use. As a result of this, the profession itself and those calling themselves project managers is increasingly becoming harder to define. In the case of Thailand, as project management continues […]

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Creating a Culture of Contribution

by Dave Wakeman, PMP I’ve written a lot lately about leadership in project management and one area that I think needs special emphasis is how we can create a culture of contribution in our project teams. This culture of contribution is important because our projects don’t happen in vacuums and as project managers, we depend on [...] Read More

Learn to be a Good Project Manager

by Athrym Ong, PMP Introduction Apart from obtaining academic qualification, it is essential to a project manager to acquire and develop different skill sets in securing the success of a project. These skills could be grouped as management skills, people skills, leadership skills and of course, the subject matter related skills which are fundamental to […]

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Latest on the Strategy Execution Framework

I am excited to share a real case story about how Klaus Welle, the Secretary General of the European Parliament, used the Strategy Execution Framework from my book, Executing Your Strategy, to plan and organize the EP strategy. He stated the benefit of the SEF very well, “This is a way to reflect about the […]

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Change Management as Part of Project Management

by Kevin Taylor, PMP There are at least two definitions of Change Management in the Project Management field. One refers to the Change Control Board of a project or program that approves or denies changes to a project. The other definition refers to a corporate change initiative focusing the “people side” of change. The PMBOK […]

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