The View from PMI50: Agile Mindset ... It's a Meme!
Deborah Bigelow Crawford has more than 20 years of experience in business management and handles the operational and administrative functions of PM Solutions. Ms. Bigelow Crawford also serves as Co-CEO of the PM College®, PM Solutions' training division, where she is responsible for the fiscal management and quality assurance of all training and professional development programs. Prior to joining PM Solutions, she served as the Executive Director of the Project Management Institute (PMI), and was instrumental in providing the foundation and infrastructure for the exponential growth that the Institute has maintained over the last 10 years. In addition, she served as the Executive Director of the PMI Educational Foundation. Over the last decade, she has authored numerous articles in PM Network, Chief Project Officer, and Optimize magazines. Ms. Bigelow Crawford is also co-author of the book Project Management Essentials. She has presented a variety of papers as a speaker at international symposia and conferences, and is a member of the National Association of Female Executives and the Project Management Institute.
We are here in our hometown to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of PMI ... and the conference is just great, as is the opportunity to connect with friends and colleagues we have known, in some cases, for decades!
Our presentation yesterday went great (apart from some wobbles with the sound system) and generated a stimulating Q&A session with the attendees afterwards. One of the big surprises in the schedule was that there's another presentation also focusing on the "agile mindset" on Monday morning! Then, today, my colleague Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin tweeted that the presentation in the exhibit hall by Caterpillar, Inc., representatives hit on the same point we found in our research: that it doesn't matter what tool you use. It matters how you think and feel about the change required and initiated by agile and adaptive methods! Must be something in the air ....
Follow both our blogs, here and at pmsolutions.com/blog, for daily updates and insights from this milestone PMI conference. And don't miss45 my next presentation on Benefits Realization Management today at 4:45 if you are attending the conference!
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