Crispin (“Kik”) Piney
France
After many years managing international IT projects within large corporations, Crispin (“Kik”) Piney, B.Sc., PgMP is now a freelance project management consultant based in the South of France. At present, his main areas of focus are risk management, integrated Portfolio, Program and Project management, scope management and organizational maturity, as well as time and cost control. He has developed advanced training courses on these topics, which he delivers in English and in French to international audiences from various industries. In the consultancy area, he has developed and delivered a practical project management maturity analysis and action-planning consultancy package.
Kik has carried out work for PMI on the first Edition of the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3™) as well as participating actively in fourth edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge and was also vice-chairman of the Translation Verification Committee for the Third Edition. He was a significant contributor to the second edition of both PMI’s Standard for Program Management as well as the Standard for Portfolio Management. In 2008, he was the first person in France to receive PMI’s PgMP® credential; he was also the first recipient in France of the PfMP® credential. He is co-author of PMI’s Practice Standard for Risk Management. He collaborates with David Hillson (the “Risk Doctor”) by translating his monthly risk briefings into French. He has presented at a number of recent PMI conferences and published formal papers.
Kik Piney is the author of the book Earned Benefit Program Management, Aligning, Realizing and Sustaining Strategy, published by CRC Press in 2018
Kik can be contacted at kik@project-benefits.com.
Updated 24 May 2017
Articles and Papers
- On the Subject of WBS or BRM - Letter to the Editor - Piney - September 2024
- Comments on Stephen Devaux’s Paper on The Program-Level Breakdown Structure - Letter to the Editor - Piney - August 2024
- On the Subject of Better Progress Measurement - Letter to the Editor - Piney - July 2024
- On the Subject of Project Life Cycle Terminology - Letter to the Editor - Piney - July 2023
- On the Subject of Earned Value Management and some recently cited examples - Letter to the Editor - Piney - May 2023
- Mill Clocks and Earned Schedule - Commentary - Piney - November 2022
- Comments on Risk Mitigation Strategies - Letter to the Editor - Piney - October 2022
- On the subject of Schedule and Budget Overruns - Letter to the Editor - Piney - May 2022
- Earned Benefits, Risks, Standards and Then Some, Interview with Kik Piney - Interview - Khelifi, Piney - April 2022
- On the Usage of Language - Letter to the Editor - Piney - October 2021
- Response to July Letter to Covid - Letter to the Editor - Piney - August 2021
- On Whatever Happened to Organizational PM Maturity - Letter to the Editor - Piney - November 2020
- On the Subject of Black, Pink and Grued Elephants - Letter to the Editor - Piney - September 2020
- A New Project Management Manifesto - Commentary - Piney - November 2019
- On the Subject of John Schlichter’s recent articles - Letter to the Editor - Piney - August 2019
- Benefits Realization Compendium: Benefits Integration Techniques for Tracking, Execution and Realization - Series Article - Piney - May 2019
- Benefits for Projects: Adding a benefits dimension to the Earned Value Method - Series Article - Piney - April 2019
- Uncertain Benefits: Understanding the impact of risk on benefits realization - Series Article - Piney - February 2019
- The Benefits of the Earned Benefit Framework: Counteracting the Common Causes of “Project” Failure (Applying Earned Benefits Management) - Series Article - Piney - December 2018
- The Benefits of Stakeholders (Practical Benefits Management) - Series Article - Piney - November 2018
- Realizing the Benefits: Earned Benefit tells you how much, but you need to know when! - Series Article - Piney - September 2018
- Disappearing Benefits: You can’t simply pick and choose your investments! - Series Article - Piney - August 2018
- The Cost of Benefits (Applying Earned Benefits Management) - Series Articles - Piney - June 2018
- The Value of Benefits (Applying Earned Benefits Management Series) - Series Articles - Piney - April 2018
- Benefits Maps You Can Count On - Series Articles - Piney - March 2018
- Principles AND Processes - Commentaries - Piney - March 2018
- Applying Earned Benefit - Series Article - Piney - February 2018
- PMI’s Models of Project Management Knowledge: Life Cycles, Process Groups and Knowledge Areas - Featured Papers - Piney - January 2018
- The Devil’s Dictionary of Project Management Terms - Creative Works - Piney - April 2017
- Uncertainty and Indeterminacy in the Project World - Second Editions - Piney - March 2017
- A New View of the Precedence Diagramming Model - Second Editions - Piney - January 2017
- On the To-Complete-Performance-Index - Letter to the Editor - Piney - October 2015
- Critical Success Factors for Projects - Commentaries - Piney - March 2015
- Threats and Opportunities Don’t Matter… - Commentaries - Piney - February 2015
- Three Essential Elements of Risk (Risk Doctor Series) - Series Articles - Piney - September 2014