OUR TENTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE! Volume X - Issue I - January 2008

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EDITOR'S PERSPECTIVE

• Editor's Perspective on The January 10th Anniversay Issue of PM World Today
  By David L. Pells

EDITORIAL

• Ten Years On! Back to the Future of Project Management!
  By David L. Pells

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• On the subject of a personal dilemma
  From Craig Jensen

• Kudos and congratulations
  From Russ Archibald

• A Tribute to Max Wideman
  From Muhamed Abdomerovic, Dipl, Eng, PMP

VIEWPOINTS

• On the Tenth Anniversary of PM World Today
  By Harvey Levine

• On the Tenth Anniversary of PM World Today
  By R. Max Wideman

• The future of Project Management – a UK perspective
  By Miles Shepherd

FEATURED PAPERS

• A Sustainability Checklist for Project Managers
  By Tom Taylor

• Value Delivery in Systems Engineering
  By Tom Gilb

• Churchill’s Team - Beaverbrook
  By Mark Kozak-Holland

• The Project/Program Management Office
  By DT Jainendrakumar

CASE STUDIES

• Project and Program Retrospectives for Improved Business Results
  (Introduction to the Series)
  By Debra Lavell & Russell Martinelli

• Program and Project Retrospectives: An Introduction
  (Part 1 of a Series)
  By Debra Lavell & Russell Martinelli

PERSONAL STORIES

• An Island Inside the Firestorm
  By Harvey Levine

• Project Management in my Life
  By Azra Duric, PMP

PM TIPS & TECHNIQUES

• Winning Project Team Support: Establishing Trusting Relationships Across Borders
  By Sue Freedman and Lothar Katz

• How PM Companies and Consultancies Can Reduce Cash Float
  By Curt Finch, Journyx CEO

• The Seven Deadly Project Sins: Part 6 – Over-allocation of Resources
  By Tim Bergmann, PMP, ABCP

• How to Make Your Team Dysfunctional
  By Avnett Mathur

SECOND EDITION

• Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling the Efforts of Knowledge Workers
  By Russell D. Archibald

REGIONAL REPORTS

• What to Expect in Argentina in 2008 for the Project Management Profession?
  By Ana Maria Rodriguez
  Read complete paper in English | Spanish

• Looking back and Looking ahead – a perspective of India
  By Raju Rao

• Current Developments Affecting Project Management in Nigeria
  By O. Chima Okereke, PhD

• Project Management News from South Africa End of December 2007
  By Jaycee Krüger

• Project Management from Spain - End of December 2007
  By Alfonso Bucero, PMP
  Read complete paper in English | Spanish

• Report on Projects & Project Management in the UAE
  By Mounir Ajam

• Project Management Round Up from the UK
  By Miles Shepherd

• News from Washington State End of December 2007
  By Marc Zocher

• Project Management News from Turkey End of December 2007
  By Ahmet N. Taspinar, PMP, REP

PM BOOK REVIEWS

• The Rise of the Project Workforce
  Reviewed by Karen Jefferson

• Unearthing Business requirements: Elicitation Tools and Techniques
  Reviewed by Hussein Mzee

• Advancing Organizational Project Management Maturity
  Reviewed by Ishkhan Topalian

• Project Management Essentials
  Reviewed by Anwar Ali

CALLS FOR PAPERS

• 2nd Call for Papers - 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome, Italy Come to Rome!
  Advance your career! Experience history!

• Slovenia to host 8th Annual European Academy of Management Conference
  Call for Papers

• Making Projects Critical - 4th Workshop - Announcement & Call for Papers

• Preliminary Invitation to Authors for May 2008 International Earned Value Management Conference in Florida

FUTURE PM EVENTS

• 2nd Call for Papers - 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome, Italy Come to Rome!
  Advance your career! Experience history!

• Slovenia to host 8th Annual European Academy of Management Conference
  Call for Papers

• Gulf Forum for Project Development set for January 2008 in Kuwait

• US DOE's Information Management Conference set for Atlanta in March 2008

• 5th Annual PMI College of Scheduling Conference, "Scheduling: The Winds of Change"

• Invitation to Exhibitors & Sponsors for 22nd IPMA World Congress: Come to Rome
  for Business & History!

• New Date for first 2008 APM Risk SIG Event

• Project Management at Sea Cruise set to sail from Galveston, Texas on March 27!

• AIPM announces dates & location for 2008 Annual Conference:
  12-15 October in Canberra, Australia

• Project Managers to share experiences at BPUG Congress in London - February 2008

• AACE International's 52nd Annual Meeting & ICEC's 6th World Congress on
  Cost Engineering, Project Management and Quantity Surveying - June 2008

• Invitation to Exhibitors & Sponsors for 2nd UT Dallas
  Project Management Symposium in Texas

• Global PM Leaders line up to support March PM Symposium in Tokyo

• 2008 PMI® Metrics SIG Global Online Congress & January Webinars Announced

PM COMMUNITY NEWS

• Dhanu Kothari named PM Ambassador™
  announces availability as speaker for PM events worldwide

• Wayne Abba named named PM Ambassador™
  announces availability as speaker for PM events worldwide

• Dwaraka Iyengar re-elected President of the PMI Dallas Chapter - Chapter Board of Directors set for 2008

• APM Re-elects Chairman

PM RESEARCH NEWS

• PMO research results released by Center for Business Practices:
  Project Management Offices experience Growth, Challenges!

• New Swedish report on Public Private Partnership Projects provides State-of-the-Art
  update & raises questions on cost efficiencies

PM EDUCATION NEWS

• Programme Management goes to College

PM PROFESSION NEWS

• ISO Launches Work on International Standard for Project Management

• IACCM increases links with Project Management

• APM issues update on new ISO Standard for Project Management

• APM Re-elects Chairman

• New Dallas Cowboys Stadium Construction Project to be topic of January PMI Dallas Chapter Meeting

PM INDUSTRY NEWS

• Ukrainian Firm Launches Remote PM Software Solution

• New Development & Project Management Firm set to shine in Northeast England
  and beyond

• Microsoft Project Conference 2007 EMEA held December 3-5th, 2007 in Madrid

• URS acquisition of Washington Group creates global project services company

• Nominations due December 31 for Project Management Office of the Year Award 2008

• Invitation to Exhibitors & Sponsors for 22nd IPMA World Congress: Come to Rome
  for Business & History!

• New Guides from APM set out governance principles for joint projects
  and Improvement Models

• Alcatel-Lucent selected as sole supplier for China's largest e-government network transformation project

• IChemE launches Standard International Forms of Contract

FASCINATING PROJECTS

• Masdar - Project to develop the World's First Fully Sustainable "Green Community" underway in Abu Dhabi

• "Greenland Connect" project Tele Greenland awards Euro 90 million contract
  to Alcatel-Lucent

• Pre-feasibility Study launched for USD 6 Billion South Africa
  Refinery Project in Port Elizabeth

• United Launch Alliance successfully Launches 2nd COSMO Satellite -
  NASA announces Shuttle launch delay

• KIZUMA (WINDS) Satellite Launch Announced by JAXA

• Amandelbult East UG2 Platinum Mine Expansion, South Africa

• Two Major Coal Projects Announced In South Africa

• Project in Ecuador to help rural poor funded by World Bank

• A new airport at the lowest point on earth

• Russia, Turkmenistan & Kazakhstan agree on new Caspian Gas Pipeline Project

• Fraud or just bad project management? State audit uncovers serious problems
  at Port of Seattle

• Project off Washington coast receives FERC first license for Offshore Wave Energy

• NASA'S announces Top Exploration and Discovery Stories of 2007

PUBLISHING NEWS

• AIA Introduces new Integrated Project Delivery Guide

• What PM best practices? Why Program Management? A new Portfolio Management Model!

• New Handbook of Program Management by James Brown available from McGraw Hill

• New Guides from APM set out governance principles for joint projects
  and Improvement Models

• New O'Reilly book addresses How to Get Software Projects on Track
  and Keep Them There!

• IChemE launches Standard International Forms of Contract

• New Swedish report on Public Private Partnership Projects provides State-of-the-Art
  update & raises questions on cost efficiencies

• PM Story Tellers invited! Personal Stories from around the world of project management
  to be published in PM World Today

• Wideman PM Website updates announced for January 2008

OTHER NEWS AFFECTING PROJECTS AND PM

• UK Gives $863 million For African Development Projects

• African leaders at "Connect Africa" meeting in Rwanda pursue
  universal Internet access by 2012

• World Bank launches new Country Partnership Strategy for Ukraine

• Projects & life in Northwestern USA battered by Storm & Floods

• Multilateral Program Management - UN agencies team up to help local authorities in Iraq

• South America launches New Bank to help finance economic development projects
  and responses to natural disasters

• UN Expects Climate Change to result in more CDM (Green) Projects
  and increased employment

• UN partners with European Commission to boost ICT investment in Africa,
  Asia & Caribbean

• World Bank Approves USD 400 Million Loan To Bosnia-Herzegovin

• India approves Rs 6bn disaster management plan

• India opens door for drug discovery sans frontiers

• World Bank announces 2005 Global Report comparing sizes of Economies

• $7.4 Billion for Palestinian People and Projects

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