OUR TENTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR Volume X - Issue VI - June 2008

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EDITOR'S PERSPECTIVE

• Editor's Perspective on The June Issue of PM World Today
  By David L. Pells

EDITORIAL

• Seven Good Reasons for the Rapid Growth of Project Management in IT,
  and why that Trend will Continue
  By David L. Pells

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• On the Subject of Lee Lambert’s May Viewpoints article:
  You’re a PMP, But … Are You a Project Management Professional?
  From AC Fred Baker, PMP
  Principal and CFO
  Baker Barnes Associates, Inc.

• On the Subject of your May Editorial on Future Energy
  From Russell D. Archibald,
  PhD (Hon), MSc, PMP, Fellow PMI and APM/IPMA

VIEWPOINTS

• Are We Failing the Next Generation and Ourselves?
  By Rebecca A. Winston

• Infrastructure Project Management; what can we
  learn from Chinese??? - (Part 2)
  By Getachew Teklemariam Alemu

• The Other Key Question
  By Dennis Stauffer

FEATURED INTERVIEW

• An Interview with Richard Pharro, CEO of the APM Group, UK
  Interviewed by PM World Today Managing Editor David Pells

FEATURED PAPERS

• Public Private Partnerships: The New Infrastructure Mega-Projects
  By Robert Prieto

• Where to look when Requirements do not Exist in today’s Software projects
  By Prof. Hubert Vaughan

• I T - Project and Program Management-Best Practices
  (An overview of Project life cycle phases & PM process groups)
  By TD Jainendrakumar, MCA, PMP

• Extreme Programming for Better Results on Software Development Projects
  By Aleksandr Tarabykin

• Historical Events of June and July 1940
  Churchill the Agile Project Manager - Part 22
  By Mark Kozak-Holland

CASE STUDIES

• Program and Project Retrospectives in a Global Workplace
  By Debra Lavell & Russell Martinell

PERSONAL STORIES

• Lessons Learned Log
  By Gary Lester

PM TIPS & TECHNIQUES

• How to Improve Project Sponsorship
  By Alfonso Bucero, DEA, PMP
  Read complete report in English | Spanish

• The Technical Support Project: How to Create a Winning Team, Part 1
  By Randy Miller, Director of Services, Journyx

• Business in a Knapsack - Can you run your projects when you’re on the run?
  By Michelle LaBrosse, PMP®

• Risk Management – Need it or Want it?
  By Avneet Mathur

REGIONAL REPORTS

• Project Management News from Argentina
  By Ana Maria Rodriguez
  Read complete report in English | Spanish

• Infrastructure and technology - areas of focus in India
  By Raju Rao

• Current Events Affecting Projects & Project Management in Nigeria
  By O. Chima Okereke, PhD

• Project Management News from Spain
  By Alfonso Bucero
  Read complete report in English | Spanish

• Project Management Profession Current Accruals
  A Critical Survey into Today’s Perception of the PM Profession in Romania
  By Florin Gheorghiu, PMP and Alina Bargaoanu, PhD, PMP

• UK Project Management Round Up
  By Miles Shepherd

• Challenges and Opportunities facing Project Management in Ireland
  By Ed Naughton

• Project Management News from Turkey
  By Ahmet Taspinar

• Project Management Education:
  What the Ethiopian Higher Education fails to recognize
  By Getachew Teklemariam Alemu

PM BOOK REVIEWS

• Managing Politics and Conflicts in Projects
  Reviewed by Susan Hewitt

• Construction Extension to the PMBOK Guide 3rd Ed
  Reviewed by Charles Rockson

CALLS FOR PAPERS

• Call for Presentations - NASA PM Challenge 2009

• Call for Presentation Proposals: APM 2008 Project Management Conference in London

FUTURE PM EVENTS

• Track Topics announced for APM's 2008 Project Management Conference in London

• City of London venue for UK Conference on Integrating Earned Value
  into Organizations Jun 10-11

• Not everything changed for 6th Best Practice Showcase in UK -
  Executive Roundtables coming back

• ProMAC 2008 Project Management Conference
  set for September 15-18 in Anchorage

• Full two-day program confirmed for 2nd Annual UT Dallas
  Project Management Symposium in Texas

• PMForum named Media Partner for Best Practice Showcase
  in London - 24 June 2008

• PMForum named Media Partner for ProMAC 2008 Project
  Management Conference in Anchorage

• Keynote Speakers announced for 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome

• APM Announce Academic Forum

• Institute of Risk Management Announces 2008 Risk Forum

• International Bridge "Savior" to keynote IPMA Congress in Rome

PM COMMUNITY NEWS

• Senior Research Fellow Bob Owen becomes International Correspondent
  for PMForum in the UK

• Alan Harpham named PM Ambassador™ in UK

• Tom Taylor in UK joins PM Ambassadors™ Speakers Bureau

• Martina Huemann named International Correspondent
  for PMForum in Vienna, Austria

• Peter Mello named International Correspondent
  for PMForum in Brazil

• Keynote Speakers announced for 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome

• Professor Rodney Turner in UK named International Editorial Advisor
  for PM World Today

PM RESEARCH NEWS

• PMI issues Requests for Proposals for 2009 PM research projects

• IPMA Call for 2008 Research Awards Submissions

• Project Track demonstrates strength of European Research at EURAM 08

• Invitation to Participate in Resource Management Research

PM EDUCATION NEWS

• La Salle Business Engineering School in Barcelona
  received PMI Accreditation

• Full two-day program confirmed for 2nd Annual UT Dallas
  Project Management Symposium in Texas

• Project Management course to be offered to
  Philadelphia High School Students

• APM Announces Academic Forum

• Elementary Education Project in India to receive US$600 million

PM PROFESSION NEWS

• PMI-Montreal celebrates its 30th anniversary
  with a remarkable Symposium and dinner

• Mendoza Branch of PMI's Buenos Aires Chapter
  is launched in Argentina

• Se Presenta el Branco Mendoza Del Capitulo Buenos Aires,
  Project Management Institute

• Nominations invited for IPMA International
  Young Project Manager Award 2008

• IPMA Call for 2008 Research Awards Submissions

• Report from the PMI College of Scheduling Conference in Chicago

• Atmosphere of 1st and 2nd day of PMI Leadership Institute
  meetings in Malta

• MITPM: A National Platform for Project Managers in Malaysia

• PMSA Conference kicks off with a high note

• From Strategy to Reality - Day Two of South African Project Management
  Conference builds on previous day's high standards

• All good things come to an end - PMSA's conference
  in Johannesburg South Africa too

• APM Announces Academic Forum

• IPMA Young Project Manager Award
  application deadline extended to 20 June

PM INDUSTRY NEWS

• Primavera celebrates 25 years

• New study concludes that Microsoft dominates
  the IT Project Management Space

• 6th International Primavera Conference in Russia

• UK Survey Reveals Top Three Reasons Why Web Projects Fail

• PMForum named Media Partner for Best Practice Showcase
  in London - 24 June 2008

• PMForum named Media Partner for ProMAC 2008 Project Management
  Conference in Anchorage

• Failed IT Project Brings Court Action

FASCINATING PROJECTS

• Additional $200M approved for Anhui Roads Project in China

• Cassini Program Duration Extended

• Club Med Pilot Project to add Connectivity

• A 3 million USD Post-harvest loss management project
  to be launched by a joint effort of CIDA and JUCAVM

• World Bank and IFC announce Rewards for
  16 Innovative Lighting Projects in Africa

• World Bank approves funds for three key projects in Nepal

• Russian steel company Severstal lands Euro 600 million
  from EBRD for energy efficiency project

• Funding for Smallholder Agriculture Project in Angola
  approved in Rome

• World Bank funding Federal Roads Development Project in Nigeria

• Contract signed for railway infrastructure project for Switzerland’s
  Gotthard Base Tunnel - world's longest tunnel project

• World Bank funds major Land Registry Project in Turkey

• Woman to head missile project for the first time in India

• Phoenix lands safely on Mars

• Elementary Education Project in India to receive US$600 million

• Jason 2 - International Near-Earth space Project to study oceans
  and climate set for launch June 15

• Small is still beautiful - Volkswagen plans low cost car UP! for India

PM PUBLISHING NEWS

• Invitation to share your project or project management Story!

• Wideman PM Website updates announced for June 2008

OTHER NEWS AFFECTING PROJECTS AND PM

• Japan to Build 1,000 Elementary Schools in Africa

• Sovereign Wealth Funds Hit $ 3.5 Trillion in 2007

• The Annual Budget for Development Programmes of ERSHA
  has reached 13 million Birr

• Unimaginable Cyclone Disaster in Myanmar - Followed by
  Disastrous Emergency Response by Government

• World Bank announces new Assistance Strategy for Ethiopia

• EBRD announces new strategy for Romania

• Euro turns 10!

• Recovery Projects in Myanmar still hampered by Government

• Myanmar finally opens doors to International Aid
  for Cyclone Victims

• New Climate Investment Funds to be established for Developing
  Countries to address Climate Change with New Technologies

• Aid now flowing into Quake-stricken Region in China

• India joins mega gas pipeline project

• URS Corporation Selected to Manage U.S. Department of Energy
  Hanford Site in USA

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