Development Sector - PM4NGOs

How, when and why remote project management works

by PM4NGOs | Mar 17, 2018 | Development Sector, Project Management

This blog was originally published on APM. Whether you currently have or allow remote work from project managers and project team members or not, there are likely times when the concept would have been beneficial. You may not have even seen it at the time, or if you...

Designing Learning in Global Organizations: What Our Brain Can Teach Us

by PM4NGOs | Mar 10, 2018 | Development Sector

This blog was originally published on Linked In by Emma Proud. Mercy Corps is an organization of 5,000 people. We live in over 40 countries, and speak 26 primary languages. And of course, we all have different cultural backgrounds and personality types. We all learn...

If You Always Do What You’ve Always Done…

by PM4NGOs | Feb 21, 2018 | Development Sector, Project Management

This blog was originally published on Nelson Project Consulting. Henry Ford, the creator of the assembly line, is quoted as saying “if you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got”. One of the more often heard definitions of insanity...

Agile in International Development

by PM4NGOs | Feb 8, 2018 | Development Sector

This article was first published on the agilebusiness.org/blog by the Agile Business Consortium. By Pamela Ashby | 2 February 2018 I was recently privileged to attend a meeting of the Project Management special interest group at Bond, the UK network for organisations...

Global Migration’s Impact and Opportunities for Project Management

by PM4NGOs | Jan 3, 2018 | Development Sector, Project Management

This blog was originally published on IPMA. People are on the move! That´s one key conclusion of a report published by McKinsey Global Institute about global migration´s impacts and opportunities. Approximately 250 million people live outside their country of birth....

Philanthropy is Changing Fast: 12 Lessons from Three Reports

by PM4NGOs | Dec 20, 2017 | Development Sector

This blog was originally published on nextbillion.net. One decade ago Paul Collier sought to explain how traditional aid isn’t working in his piercing book “The Bottom Billion.” In the ten years since, inequality has continued to get worse and the United...