The conversation with Scott Ambler, co-creator of Disciplined Agile (DA), driven by Weronika Makać and Jan Orłowski At the end of July 2022, you officially left the role of Vice President and Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at the Project Management Institute. Can you explain to us why you and Mark made this decision? We started on August 1, 2019, when PMI purchased our organization. Contrary to popular belief, there was no agreement in our contract to stay for these three years, only for a minimum of 90 days. 3 years is a lot of time and we stayed that…

An interview with Dr. Bruno Paul Kahne, trainer, facilitator and responsible of the strategy of Airbus Leadership University. By Paulina Szczepaniak and Łukasz Paluszkiewicz Bruno, you’re talking on communication, and what project managers can learn from the Deaf community. It is a very unusual idea. Could you tell us, where it came from? I am a trainer on different topics, including communication. I’ve developed a course on communication using communication models, theories, some games and experimentations. And it was good. People were coming to the course, and they were happy, they were progressing. But one day the sponsor of this…

A conversation with Nader K. Rad, one of the PMBOK® Guide, 7th Ed. developers, by Kornelia Trzęsowska How did you get into the project management world? What is your story? When I was nearly 18 years old, I met a project planner accidentally, and we had a conversation about computer software for about an hour or so. A few months later, and only a week after I entered the university to start my Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, he contacted me and offered me a part-time job on a new project he had. He had become the head of the…

Rozmowa z Joanną Chmurą przeprowadzona przez Kornelię Trzęsowską Wydawałoby się, że społecznie uznaliśmy, iż w pracy powinniśmy przyjmować twardą i odporną postawę, nie okazując za wiele emocji. Czy Pani zdaniem lider równa się twardziel? Jakby to pytanie padło w latach 80., pewnie przytaknęłabym. Dzisiaj myślę jednak, że sytuacja wygląda zupełnie inaczej, co dotyczy nie tylko liderów, ale i biznesu jako „przestrzeni” naszej codzienności. Nastał czas, kiedy doświadczamy czegoś w rodzaju głębszej transformacji postrzegania emocji w biznesowym świecie. Czasem uważana jest ona za nowomodę, ale mam nadzieję, że jest to trwała zmiana kierunku i sposobu zarządzania. Nowe pokolenie potrzebuje zupełnie innego…

An interview with Michel Thiry, conducted by Andrzej Kacperski Michel, could you tell me which project management approach do you prefer when you are driving projects? Are you rather a Waterfall of Agile enthusiast? I prefer a blend. It is more as I say in English “horses for courses”, it depends on the circumstances. If you have well-defined objectives, you do not think they will change and you think that you can predict the outcome, then probably Waterfall is the best solution, or traditional project management as we say. If there is a possibility that things may change because you…