Project Management

What has been supported by advocates of professional project work for years has now become a reality in the daily routines of many employees and managers: highly project-oriented work structures. Consequently, professionalised project management competence is becoming increasingly vital to business success. Following the five project management phases of DIN 69901:2009 and supplemented by chapters on cross-phase competencies and agile methods, this book offers a clear and professionally sound presentation of the modernised ICB 4.0 framework (effective from January 1, 2024). Its structured content, illustrated by a consistent project example, not only guides readers but also ensures they are well-prepared to meet the IPMA ICB 4.0 examination requirements.This book equips anyone seeking to engage in professional project management with the knowledge and tools needed to successfully apply current best practices.

Marcus Schulz is a project management trainer with heart and soul, and as an inde-pendent consultant and coach, he supports companies on their way into the agile world of project management. After graduating from the Duale Hochschule Stuttgart in 1992 with a degree in Business Admin-istration, he worked as a consultant and project manager in various companies in Germany and abroad. He founded the Mannheim Training Centre in 2013. Marcus Schulz is a certified senior project manager (PMP®, IPMA® Level B), scrum master, agile coach (IHK), certified business trainer (BDVT), and has been a project management trainer (IPMA® Level B Certified Senior Trainer) since 2009. He has been named a benchmark trainer by the German Association for Project Management (GPM) mul-tiple times (GPM). In addition to his work as a trainer and consultant, he has taught project management at various universities and volun-teers as a support instructor in the leadership and communication sec-tion of the Heidelberg chapter of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW).
Tinka Meier gained her experience as a project manager after graduating in com-parative linguistics in 1997, initially in event management. She then spent over ten years working as a project and programme manager in international projects in supply chain management, with a focus on England, the USA, Singapore, China, Japan and India. She has been working as a freelance trainer, consultant and coach for international companies in both German and English since 2017. She also applies her passion for knowledge transfer and the personal development of her course participants in the social sector, for example in the training and further education of refugees and migrants. Tinka Meier is a certified senior project manager (IPMA® Level B), scrum master, certified intercultural trainer (dgikt) and systemic solu-tion-oriented coach (DGfC) and, since 2019, an accredited trainer for project management (IPMA® Level B Certified Senior Trainer) of the German Association for Project Management (GPM). She is also a lecturer in project management and intercultural communication at vari-ous German universities.

0 About this book1 Basics of Project Management2 Initialisation phase3 Definition phase4 Plannning phase5 Controlling phase6 Closure phase7 Cross-phase competences8 An overview of the Agile world9 Overview ICB4 elements and mapping to chapters10 Abbreviations11 Tables and figures12 Index of keywords