EDITOR'S PERSPECTIVE

• Editor's Perspective on the Current Edition
  By David Pells

EDITORIAL

• Advances in Project Management
  By Prof Darren Dalcher

LETTERS TO EDITOR

• On the Subject of Your November Editorial – On Projects & PM to Meet Basic Human and Social Needs
  By Jonathan Norman

• In Response to the article in the November 2009 PM World Today by Pat Weaver explaining the various types of activity ‘float’
  By Earl Glenwright
  

INTERVIEWS

Interview with Ricardo Triana

President, PMI South Florida Chapter

Newly Elected Director-at-Large (2009-2011)
PMI Board of Directors

 

COLUMNS

• A Series on Advances in Project Management
  David Cleden

• It’s All About Objectives!
  By David Hillson
  

VIEWPOINTS

• Planning? Yes, indeed, planning!
  By Germán Bernate

• Financial Aspects of Project Launch: Clarifying Project Value
  By Helen Cooke

• Remote Project Management: An Evolving Culture Supported by the Tools of Its Time
  By Tamara Poppler

• That Most Awkward of Questions!
  By Tom Taylor

• It’s All About Commitment!
  By Melissa Vincenzi
  

FEATURED PAPERS

• Test Driven Development in Extreme Programming
  By Pavan Kumar Gorakavi

• Adding Marketing Perspectives to Program/Project Management?
  By Alan Stretton

• Enterprise IT Program Integration Management Framework
  By Ravi Yerabolu
  

STUDENTS PAPERS

• Humour as a competence element for Project Managers
  By Guðmundur Gauti Guðmundsson
  

CASE STUDIES

• The Rosario Habitat Program Experience Project Management Applied To Government
  By Ana Maria Rodriguez and Adriana Salomón
  

ADVISORY ARTICLES

• The PMO Continuum!
  By Mounir Ajam

• Project Closure! Knowing When to Say “Stop”!
  By Jeremy Katz

• What’s in Your Backpack?
  By Michelle LaBrosse

• How to Get Things Done
  By Jeff Oltmann

• Productive Laziness and the Open Door Policy
  By Peter Taylor

• The 5 Golden Rules of Project Management
  By Jason Westland

SECOND EDITION

• How It All Began
  The Creation of Earned Value
  and the Evolution of C/SPCS and C/SCSC
  By James Morin
  

REGIONAL REPORTS

•    Project Management news from Albania
  By Kushtrim Mehmetaj

•    Project Management news from Argentina
  By Ana Maria Rodriguez

•    Project Management updates from Brazil
  By Andre Choma  and Peter Mello

•    Project Management news from Dallas
  By Ann R. Miller

•    Project Management update from Finland
  By Jouko Vaskimo

•    Project Management in India
  By Raju Rao

•    Project Management news from Italy
  By Antonello Bove

•    Project Management news from Kosovo
  By Kushtrim Mehmetaj

•    Project Management update from Nepal
  By Suraj Dahal

•    Project Management Update from Poland
  By Artur Bialy

• Projects and Project Management in South Africa
  By Jaycee Krüger

•    Project Management in Spain: Monthly Report
  By Alfonso Bucero

•    Project Management update from Switzerland
  By Rüdiger Geist

•   Project Management news from Turkey
  By Ahmet Taspinar

•    Project Management updates from East Midlands
  By Philip Smelt

•   UK Project Management Round Up
  By Miles Shepherd
  

PM BOOK REVIEWS

• PMP: Images of Projects
  By Mark Winter and Tony Szczepanek
  Reviewed by Roger Atkinson

• Dictionary of Project Management Terms, 3rd Edition
  By J. LeRoy Ward
  Reviewed by Buck Field
  

CALL FOR PAPERS

• 1st Call for Papers for 2010 IPMA World Congress on Project Management in Istanbul
  

• Call for Papers announced for May 2010 PM-05 Project Management Conference in Crete
  

FUTURE PM EVENTS

• Free PM Event on 9 December in Birmingham - Optimising Engineering Cost Management to improve the effectiveness of your company

• Day Three Agenda Announced for 17th Global Project Management Symposium 2009 in New Delhi

• World Class speakers to provide PALM in Saudi Arabia

• PM-05 Project Management Conference to be in Crete in May 2010

• Day Two Agenda Announced for 17th Global Project Management Symposium 2009 in New Delhi

• Day One Agenda Announced for 17th Global Project Management Symposium 2009 in New Delhi

• PMForum named Media Partner for February PMI® Global Congress 2010 - Asia Pacific in Melbourne

• DYNAMICS 2010 Project Management Conference to be in Istanbul, Turkey in April
  

PM COMMUNITY NEWS

• PMForum Correspondent Tom Sheives joins True Solutions in North Texas

• David Maurer named International Correspondent for PMForum & PM World Today in Northern Virginia

• University of Oulu student team wins Project Management Finnish Championship 2009

• Heikki Lonka elected President of Project Management Association Finland

• Young Volunteers become the key to success at PMI Cono Sur Tour Mendoza

• PMForum Correspondent Peter Mello Recognized by PMI for Project Management Excellence

• Philip Smelt in Lincolnshire named International Correspondent for PMForum in UK

• Tom Taylor to Chair Public Sector Project and Programme Management Conference in UK on 2 December

• PMI Leaders invited to Ground Breaking Conference in Amman, Jordan in December

• Wayne Abba and Mathew Morris to Present Earned Value Workshop in New Delhi

• UN Honours British Professor with Human Development Award
  

PM RESEARCH NEWS

• Opportunity to Participate in Research on Leadership in Program Management
  

PM EDUCATION NEWS

• Saïd Business School’s Beyond Project Management; a start on the road to Major Programme Management

• 1st International Project Management Forum for Students announced in Moscow, Russia
  

PM PROFESSION NEWS

• Australian Institute of Project Management Awards Life Fellowship to Lynn Crawford

• Next GAPPS Workshop set for Bali in February 2010

• asapm Wins IBM Grant in USA

• Heikki Lonka elected President of Project Management Association Finland

• Record audience at the IV Brazilian Project Management Congress

• Great success at the PMI South Cone Tour in Buenos Aires

• Gran exito en el PMI Cono Sur Tour en Buenos Aires

• Great success at the PMI South Cone Tour in Mendoza

• Gran exito en el PMI Cono Sur Tour en Mendoza

• Report from the PMI UK Chapter 4th International Project Management Day Concludes at Glaxo Smith Kline in Stevenage

• IPMA and The APM Group sign Support Agreement

• Project Management award for French speaking countries launched

• PMI Buenos Aires Chapter announces new Officers
  

PM INDUSTRY NEWS

• Exhibitors and Sponsors invited to April DYNAMICS 2010 Project Management Conference in Istanbul

• CACI Named Government Contractor of the Year in USA

• PMForum named Media Partner for April DYNAMICS 2010 Project Management Conference in Istanbul

• Severa announces new add-on features for Severa 3 software

• IPMA and The APM Group sign Support Agreement

• German Engineers Release Open-Source Project Management Software in Spain
  

FASCINATING PROJECTS

• Projects to Research the Dead ZoneSouth Africa’s first rapid rail system project not on track.

• NASA'S Shuttle Atlantis Launches for Space Station

• Project to Create World's Deepest Laboratory underway in South Dakota

• Project Success! NASA Confirms Water Found on Moon

• EBRD Supports Ukrainian Project in Odessa

• NASA launches Operation Ice Bridge flights to Antarctica

• Project Announced to Transform KL Sentral into Smart & Sustainable Urban Center in Malaysia

• US DoT announces Highway Investment Hits $20 Billion in USA
  

PUBLISHING NEWS

• The Human Side of Projects in Modern Business published

• New Book on Multi-Company Project Management by Dean Baker published by J. Ross in USA
  

OTHER NEWS AFFECTING PROJECTS AND PM

• China's Leadership Key to Global Economic Recovery according to IMF Managing Director

• African Guarantee Fund proposed to Aid Development

• Asia to Play Leading Role in Post-Crisis Global Economy

• Recovery Act Funding Reaches 10,000 Transportation Projects in USA

• UN Announces Satellite Communications Deal to Help Disaster Preparation & Recovery Projects

• EBRD announces latest economic forecasts for Eastern Europe

• UN Official Says Latin America Making Progress Towards Development but Slow on Gender Equality

• US Government Developing Strategy to Achieve Global Food Security