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The story behind Project DPro Starter
Whenever I finish a PMD Pro level one training, I can pretty much guarantee what the first two questions are going to be. “When can I do level two”? and “Is there something I can use for my partners”? Let’s leave level two to be the subject of another blog but until...
Program DPro Guide Write Shop
What started in California in September 2015, PM4NGOs completed its final draft on “Program Management Guide for Development Professional” (PGM Pro) during the week of 25th – 29th July 2016, at Baltimore, MD, USA.Experts, practitioners, leaders and educators in...
Slap a certificate on me I’m done! How are we separating the certificate from certification?
I recently worked on designing a certificate toolkit for our members to help them market learning within their organizations. As I worked through the quick guide and designed a very nice (I may be biased there) certificate template, it got me thinking about the...
Are we listening enough to local voices?
I’ve taken a couple of days to reflect on what I heard at the WHS and what I didn’t hear. My first reflection is that local voices were not prominent enough and that the WHS process did not listen to them enough. My second reflection was that those with...
Project DPro overview: IPMA Brasil
IPMA Brasil team has developed a PMDPro article that synthesize the best practices guide. This is an excellent overview of the PMDPro phases, knowledge fields and tools that allows the reader to have a good comprehension of the PMDPro prior to the guide reading....
Risks, Issues and Assumptions: on my way to work
It is not rare that we misinterpret terms which definitions are similar or applied differently in different context or areas of work. One example in the project management area is the common confusion between risk, issue and assumption. The PMDPro Guide defines...
Six Steps to a (More) Useful WBS
The very first time I taught a class in project management was well before the days of PowerPoint and LCD projectors. In fact, my presentation materials consisted of overhead slides that I had created by hand with rub-on letters since color printers were more...
Logical Framework – A friend with many faces
There are several different definitions, formats, templates and structures for project logical frameworks available in the main project management methodologies. If you google “logical framework” then you will probably get lost in the hundreds different models....
Global NGO online technology stats
Nowadays, it is difficult to find statistics about the development and humanitarian sectors that are updated, global and free. A collaborative research project by the Public Interest Registry and Nonprofit Tech for Good, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is...