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
- Mill Clocks and Earned Schedule - Commentary - Piney -
- Comments on Risk Mitigation Strategies - Letter to the Editor - Piney -
- On the subject of Schedule and Budget Overruns - Letter to the Editor - Piney -
- Earned Benefits, Risks, Standards and Then Some, Interview with Kik Piney - Interview - Khelifi, Piney -
- On the Usage of Language - Letter to the Editor - Piney -
- Response to July Letter to Covid - Letter to the Editor - Piney -
- On Whatever Happened to Organizational PM Maturity - Letter to the Editor - Piney -
- On the Subject of Black, Pink and Grued Elephants - Letter to the Editor - Piney -
- A New Project Management Manifesto - Commentary - Piney -
- On the Subject of John Schlichter’s recent articles - Letter to the Editor - Piney -
- Benefits Realization Compendium: Benefits Integration Techniques for Tracking, Execution and Realization - Series Article - Piney -
- Benefits for Projects: Adding a benefits dimension to the Earned Value Method - Series Article - Piney -
- Uncertain Benefits: Understanding the impact of risk on benefits realization - Series Article - Piney -
- The Benefits of the Earned Benefit Framework: Counteracting the Common Causes of “Project” Failure (Applying Earned Benefits Management) - Series Article - Piney -
- The Benefits of Stakeholders (Practical Benefits Management) - Series Article - Piney -
- Realizing the Benefits: Earned Benefit tells you how much, but you need to know when! - Series Article - Piney -
- Disappearing Benefits: You can’t simply pick and choose your investments! - Series Article - Piney -
- The Cost of Benefits (Applying Earned Benefits Management) - Series Articles - Piney -
- The Value of Benefits (Applying Earned Benefits Management Series) - Series Articles - Piney -
- Benefits Maps You Can Count On - Series Articles - Piney -
- Principles AND Processes - Commentaries - Piney -
- Applying Earned Benefit - Series Article - Piney -
- PMI’s Models of Project Management Knowledge: Life Cycles, Process Groups and Knowledge Areas - Featured Papers - Piney -
- The Devil’s Dictionary of Project Management Terms - Creative Works - Piney -
- Uncertainty and Indeterminacy in the Project World - Second Editions - Piney -
- A New View of the Precedence Diagramming Model - Second Editions - Piney -
- On the To-Complete-Performance-Index - Letter to the Editor - Piney -
- Critical Success Factors for Projects - Commentaries - Piney -
- Threats and Opportunities Don’t Matter… - Commentaries - Piney -
- Three Essential Elements of Risk (Risk Doctor Series) - Series Articles - Piney -