Your Projects
Project Management Institute (PMI), IPMA and PRINCE2®, Scrum and hybrid+ …. Uniform standards increase the efficiency and quality in your projects – and improve your image with customers and in competition! Especially if you can prove the qualification of your staff with an international project management certificate. We support you with certification training courses that are precisely tailored to your wishes and requirements.
CONTENTED STAFF
You are wondering which international PM certification you can offer to your staff, to develop them professionally and improve their career opportunities within the company.
FLEXIBILITY
You are looking for project management methods tools and qualification programmes which you can flexibly combine for your staff and which have practical relevance.
EFFICIENCY
You want to improve project orientation in your organisation overall but realise that your projects do not yield the desired results and are not well implemented in terms of time and cost.
COMPETENCE
You are unclear what professional development options suit your career concept and would like an overview of which competencies are developed with the various certifications.
CASE STUDIES
The introduction of a PM standard for customer projects led to clearly defined responsibilities and interdisciplinary team work with reduced losses in quality or through friction. This was achieved through the dynamic and flexible PM standard PRINCE2 as support tool, so that we could realise an increase in orders for plant construction.
The adoption of a project system across all areas meant that interdisciplinary team work became alive. This led to enhanced customer orientation.
For the small site they created a slimline PM concept with compact guide and a project cockpit which was successfully adopted into the regular routine operations. We could thus reduce losses through friction in project work and further enhance quality. It shifted the perception of PM to acceptance locally and beyond.
The self-organising teams that were created led to enhanced transparency in the team. This enabled staff to better prioritise projects and tasks and to work more creatively within the security of the set parameters.
The success-critical role of a project sponsor
When asked which factors are important for the success of a project, the roles of the project manager and the team members are often listed above all. However, one role is often neglected, namely that of the project sponsor. There is a great number of project management standards, but only a few that take care …
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How project managers triumph as generalists in a specialized world
After reading the book “Range. How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by David Epstein, the similarities with project managers came to my mind immediately . The book argues that the success of people does not depend on specialization, but the opposite – the longest possible period of experimentation, interdisciplinary learning and gaining generalist experience. …
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Logic of failure – our inability to deal with exponential growth and uncertainty
In these days (in my home office) I have been working on one of my favourite books again, namely “The Logic of Failure – Strategic Thinking in Complex Situations”. It was first published in 1989 and was written by Professor Dietrich Dörner, who held a professorship in psychology with the research focus on cognitive psychology, …
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