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What is Behavioral Project Management?
BehavioralPM applies science-based tools to project management, helping you address challenges like poor communication, missed deadlines, and misaligned teams.
By understanding human behavior and decision-making, it helps you create a more efficient, collaborative, and successful project environment.
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Neuroscience in Project Management
Neuroscience in Project Management
Neuroscience in Project Management
The podcast episode "PM Point of View #69: The Human Dimension of Project Management" by PMI Washington DC Chapter delves into the critical role of human behavior in project management. It highlights how understanding psychological and social factors can empower project managers to lead more effectively, foster collaboration, and drive project success.
Implement Behavioral Project Management
Implement Behavioral Project Management for Better Performance
Implement Behavioral Project Management for Better Performance
The podcast episode "AEC PM 055: Implement Behavioral Project Management for Better Performance" from the Engineering Management Institute discusses how applying behavioral science principles can enhance project management within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.
The Neural DNA of Bad-Performing Projects
The Neural DNA of Bad-Performing Projects
The Neural DNA of Bad-Performing Projects
The article by Dr. Josh Ramirez explores how "neural short-circuiting" in our brains leads to poor project outcomes, with patterns like optimism bias, time pressure, and cognitive overload disrupting effective planning.
Can Behavioral Science Make Your Projects More Successful?
Can Behavioral Science Make
Your Projects More Successful?
Can Behavioral Science Make Your Projects More Successful?
The article "Can Behavioral Science Make Projects More Successful?" from The Digital Project Manager explores how incorporating behavioral science techniques can subtly yet significantly enhance project management. By understanding and influencing team behaviors, project managers can foster better collaboration and decision-making, resulting in improved project outcomes
Feakonomics approach to project delivery
Feakonomics approach to project delivery
Feakonomics approach to project delivery
The article "Can Behavioral Science Make Projects More Successful?" from The Digital Project Manager explores how incorporating behavioral science techniques can subtly yet significantly enhance project management. By understanding and influencing team behaviors, project managers can foster better collaboration and decision-making, resulting in improved project outcomes.
Frequently asked questions
Behavioral PM courses are ideal for project managers, team leaders, and professionals across industries who want to use behavioral science to improve project outcomes. Whether you are new to project management or an experienced professional, our courses help you enhance decision-making, improve team alignment, and increase your effectiveness as a leader by applying principles of behavioral science.
Behavioral PM improves project outcomes by incorporating insights from behavioral science into project management practices. This approach enables managers to address key challenges such as poor communication, missed deadlines, and team misalignment. By understanding human behavior and decision-making, Behavioral PM helps project managers foster a more collaborative, efficient, and successful project environment.
The Behavioral PM Membership offers a comprehensive package for anyone looking to deepen their expertise in Behavioral Project Management. The membership includes access to all courses, monthly live sessions, exclusive resources, and ongoing community support. Please visit the Membership page on our website for the most current pricing options and a full list of membership benefits.
No. Behavioral Project Management (BPM) just helps these methods become more effective by adding a human-centered evidence-based foundation to existing methods. BPM doesn’t replace, it enhances.
There’s a common misconception that most things that have to do with human behavior in business are just more leadership practices. Though BPM certainly does enhance leadership, it is far from its only focus. When we consider all the ways the brain interacts with project management, it is about a full range of sciences that study how people respond to stimuli (including in software), how they think in certain environments, how processes should be designed around their thinking, how they interact with other people, how they make decisions, and so much more. Leadership just becomes one very small aspect in the full consideration of human cognition.
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The word “behavioral” is very important. Human behavior is the output of thinking and feeling, thus the final outcome of judgment and decision. The word behavioral is chosen for some very specific reasons:
1 - It incorporates a whole host of sciences underneath it, such as cognitive psychology, social psychology, behavioral economics, and so many more
2 - Many other technical disciplines have adopted behavioral science as well, and all use the word behavioral in their names (these include Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Finance, Behavioral Marketing, and many more). So adding “Behavioral” to “Project Management” makes sense not only for transferability across the disciplines, but also because behavioral science itself encompasses all the sciences below it that are required.