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32nd Global Symposium 2024 & 6th World Project Management Forum (WPMF) Meet

Tarun Admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 05:31:56 +0000

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30th Global Symposium 2022 & 4th World Project Management Forum (WPMF) Meet

Tarun Admin — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 11:13:40 +0000

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Historic First World Project Management Forum (WPMF)

CEPM Admin — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 07:41:51 +0000

The historic First World Project Management Forum (WPMF) was concluded in New Delhi on December 10 with astounding success. 400 + participants across 120 institutions participated. Speakers from 14 countries – Australia, Japan, Norway, Finland, Hungary, Germany, UK, USA, Brazil, UAE etc. spoke on critical aspects of front end efforts at the time of project creation in vision realisation.

Adesh Jain, Founder of WPMF in his inaugural address showed graphics which captured the background in creating WPMF. Vision can be only accomplished through project creation phase followed by project execution or delivery. The outcome of a project is in realisation of benefits, he referred to as Actual Benefits (AB). AB is compared with Visualised Benefits at the time of visioning process. For project success, the gap between VB and AB should be as low as possible.

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Merging General and Project Management to Delivery Management

CEPM Admin — Mon, 06 May 2019 07:29:03 +0000

Project Management is no longer a small part of General Management. It is now emerging as a distinct discipline. Ultimately it is delivery which counts. Delivery Management is the Master Key without any compromise in quality and ensuring faster and better value for money of products and services.

Adesh Jain, Chairman, i2P2M

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Linking Responsibility with Freedom

CEPM Admin — Wed, 01 May 2019 06:24:26 +0000

There is a direct relationship between RESPONSIBILITY and FREEDOM. There are ten possibilities or states linking the level of Responsibility fulﬁlled with that of the Freedom given.

In the schematic X axis represents Freedom and Y axis denotes Responsibility. We can divide Freedom and Responsibility into three levels i.e. Low (L), Medium (M) and High (H) giving rise to nine combinations.

A tenth possibility or combination (shown on the top right corner) is of Super Freedom combined with Super Responsibility giving rise to the outcome of Self Empowerment or Self Actualization. This is the ultimate state one can wish to be in. Great leaders worldwide always demonstrate their willingness to be in this highly desirable state. From a business perspective, entrepreneurs attempt to reach this ultimate stage. This 10th possibility does not mean having your own business. You can be working for an organisation and still you create your own leadership to be in this state.

The stability of the 9 possible States is shown by three different colours i.e. Stable (Green), Unstable (Yellow) and Very Unstable (Red). Our challenge is to be in the green state. All the three Green states are equal in their importance.

(Taken from the book ‘Assorted Thoughts on Project Management’ by Adesh Jain. The book was released on 6 December, 2014 by Mr. Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport , Highways and Shipping, Government of India. )

Adesh Jain – Chairman, i2P2M

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Awareness

CEPM Admin — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 07:47:07 +0000

Let us look at execution of activities with reference to X,Y and Z dimensions.

ACTIVITIES are performed with reference to TIME. We may call it Z and X dimensions as shown in the schematic. These activities are part of our business, project or social activities. Conventionally we keep performing similar activities over time with little thought in a robotic mode. But we are beyond robots and the differentiating factor is consciousness. I call this as AWARENESS. If we are fully aware of what we are doing every moment then the quality of our work will be extremely high.

The Awareness is in Y dimension. I have chosen this as Y dimension to link it with Potential Energy. Potential Energy is mass multiplied by gravity and then the height (PE=MxGxH).

We must discover our Potential Energy by being fully aware of what we are doing. Awareness will certainly not dilute the efforts or divide our attention as Awareness is inbuilt in our actions and we must discover it. Awareness increases our consciousness.

Adesh Jain, Chairman, i2P2M

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50% of Project Management is Risk Management

CEPM Admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 10:42:16 +0000

Projects are taken up to build the future and have many uncertainties. Risk is, therefore, at the center stage of managing projects. Risk management is 50% of project management. Diverse interests of stakeholders contribute significantly to project risks.

Adesh Jain, Chairman, i2P2M

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Project Management performing teams are built by synergising E4

CEPM Admin — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:52:44 +0000

Every person in the world has a unique E4 – Education, Experience, Emotions and Expectations which impacts their interactions in society.

Once we appreciate that each person has a different E4 we tend to become more humble and start appreciating other people. It minimizes our ego. We must perform what is the best in view of our E4.

E4 is like a finger print which is unique for each individual. The challenge is to recognize this fact and then to synergize different E4s to achieve a shared vision and objectives.

E4 can be further sub-divided into two categories– Hard and Soft. Education is towards the hard side as it does not change frequently.

Experience, Emotions and Expectations are more towards a softer dimension implying frequent changes. Among these three, Emotions change most frequently.

Our E4 is not static as it undergoes changes.

Unique E4 + Changes = Unique E4

Whenever there is connectivity between human beings, there is bound to be differences both positive and negative. E4 takes full cognizance of the differences and taps on strengths of individuals instead of weaknesses to build high performance teams.

Even though our E4 is unique we must make all attempts to continuously acquire knowledge and apply it to improve our skills and competencies.

Unique E4 + Growth = Unique E4

The challenge for planning and implementing projects, programs and portfolios is to integrate different E4s to supplement each other creating a better possibility of achieving what we have visualized.

Adesh Jain, Chairman, i2P2M

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Project Management is all about integrating ‘Parts’ into ‘Whole’

CEPM Admin — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 08:52:54 +0000

Project Leaders take full responsibility and empower the team members to fulfill their own responsibilities.

How much responsibility we take carves out our growth and ability to solve problems. In this respect, if we restrict our scope to few activities, it restrains our development. The more responsibilities we are willing to take and the more we confront new situations the more we can harness our full potential.

‘OR’ divides while ‘AND’ integrates.

We should not confuse the ‘OR’ and ‘AND’ logic functions with implementation of parts to integrate the whole. Successful leaders have always viewed the “Whole” as a part of “AND” logic and implemented the components bit by bit in an integrated manner using “OR” Logic.

AND must precede OR Function. We need to be at the balcony to have 20 : 20 vision and also to read finer details with reading glasses.

And helps us to Visualize the ‘Whole’ while ‘OR’ facilitates implementation of ‘Parts’ to be integrated into the ‘Whole’.

Adesh Jain, Chairman, i2P2M

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Decision Making – Why is it Tough?

CEPM Admin — Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:02:51 +0000

In the schematic, the vertical line represents Time as on-date. We need to take a decision which will impact our future and we have three possibilities.

• The first possibility is when we have no information about the future hence our decision can only be based on past experience, guess work or intuition.

• The second possibility is when we have partial information about the future events.

• The third possibility is when we have all the information about the future and therefore can take a decision easily based on complete information . It is only a utopia.

Project managers are required take decisions on the availability of partial information i.e. 12 state. Decision making therefore is tough.

Decision making is the most fundamental attribute of living beings which gets activated dynamically when it comes to our survival process. Decisions require information either based on facts or perceived facts.

In the context of decisions made under uncertainty, a ‘good’ decision is one that is based on sound decision making principles. Because decisions must usually be made before full information is available and uncertainties are resolved, a good decision might have lucky and unlucky consequences.

However, we should not criticize decision makers for the unlucky outcomes. They should be criticized only if their analysis at the time of making the decision was not based on due diligence. After the event, it is easy to give advice as to what should have been done. We need to bear in mind that complete information will never be available before taking a decision.

Any audit done must also view the assumptions made at the time of taking decisions and not just look at outcomes in isolation.
Adesh Jain

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