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At the PMI EMEA Global Congress in Amsterdam I had the pleasure of talking to Brian Weiss, VP of Product Management at Project Management Institute. He explains his view on the role the PMBoK guide plays in the Project Management profession.
The last couple of weeks were an amazing experience for me: I became a member of PMI’s New Media Council (together with great people like Cornelius Fichtner, Dave Garrett, Elizabeth Harrin, Hal Macomber, Jerry Manas, Josh Nankivel, Chalyce Nollsch and Raven Young) and attended PMI EMEA Global Congress.
Blog postings about the PMI EMEA Congress in Amsterdam:
By Bob Tarne:
PMI EMEA Congress, Day 1
PMI EMEA Congress, Day 2
Final thoughts on PMI EMEA
By Jesse Fewell:
Live From PMI Global Congress Amsterdam – Day 1
Live From PMI Global Congress Amsterdam – Days 2 and 3
By Dave Prior:
Day Two of the 2009 PMI EMEA Global Congress
Thanks everyone for giving me this great experience!
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Thanks for sharing the interview Bas. I thought Brian did a good job of explaining the role of the PMBoK guide.
I remember the topic of “what is the PMBoK” came up when we met with Greg Balestrero last October during the North America Congress. The concern was an impression by many in our field that the PMBoK was supposed to be a methodology.
Greg and Brian are saying the same thing, and I hope it gets across to people.
Some people will ignore the PMBoK entirely because they want to use an Agile methodology or something else. They see the PMBoK as being competition for their own methodologies. I think this gets them into trouble, and may be part of the reason why so many Agile shops are poorly implemented due to a false dichotomy.
When I used SCRUM, our methodology still incorporated many of the underlying concepts in the PMBoK guide. I had to fight a little with some of the developers in the beginning…they thought that Agile meant “no up-front planning whatsoever” and they could just start coding.
Josh Nankivel, pmStudent.com
Congrats!
Congrats!. Best of luck.
Congratulations!!
@Josh: must admit that my thoughts on PMBok years ago were also thinking of it as a methodology
@all: thanks!