EDITOR'S PERSPECTIVE

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

EDITORIAL

• Disruptive Events!
  Are you, your project or your organization prepared ?
  By David Pells

VIEWPOINTS

• Virtual Teamwork
  The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: the most ambitious program in the aerospace military industry
  By Antonello Bove

• Functionality First
  By James Brown

• Not enough project managers to save the country
  By Michael Young

FEATURED PAPERS

• Proposal of an Actions and Achievements Organizational Management Methodology (A2OM2) in order to face cultural management improvement goals
  By Jose Machicao, Tatiana Machicao

• The Fellowship of Teams: The Power of Individual and Shared Responsibilities on Projects
  By Wendy Overturf

• Change Management for IT Project Managers – A Practical Approach
  By Eleonore Pieper

• Identifying/Verifying Customers' Needs Before Specifying Product/Service Requirements In The Program/Project Context
  By Alan Stretton, PhD

• Information Behavior and Managing the Next Generation Software Development
  By Prof. Hubert Vaughan

ADVISORY ARTICLES

• IT Project Governance: A Model to Share
  By David Brojt

• What is your Biggest Risk
  By Dr David Hillson, The Risk Doctor

• Risks in Projects: A Synopsis of the Risk Assessment/Management Journey
  By Glenn R. Koller, PhD

• Project Portfolio Management – The Art of Saying “No”
  By Jeff Oltmann

REGIONAL REPORTS

•    Project Management news from Argentina 
  By Ana Maria Rodriguez

•    Project Management news from Australia  
  By Jürgen Oschadleus

•    Project Management news from Ecuador 
  By Irvin José Franco

•    Project Management Update from Finland
  By Jouko Vaskimo

•   Project Mangement news from Jordan
  By Ammar Mango

• Project Management News from Nepal
  By Suraj Dahal

•   Project Management News – Update from Perú
  By José Carlos Machicao

• Projects and Project Management in Romania
  By Florin Gheorghiu

•    Project Management news from South Africa  
  By Jaycee Krüger

•    Project Management in Spain : Monthly Report 
  By Alfonso Bucero

•   Project Mangement update from UK
  By Miles Shepherd

•   Project Mangement update from North Texas
  By Tom Sheives

PM BOOK REVIEWS

• Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
  By Hugh MacLeod
  Reviewed by Dr. James T. Brown

CALLS FOR PAPERS

• Call for proposals for the 2010 PMI Research and Education Conference

FUTURE PM EVENTS

• International Project Management Day - UK PMI Chapter Changes Date & Venue

• Modernisation in Project Management to be theme of October 2009 AIPM National Conference in Adelaide

• 21st Annual Integrated Performance Management Conference to be in Alexandria, Virginia, USA during November 2009

PM COMMUNITY NEWS

• Miia Martinsuo nominated Professor of Service Business Development and Project Management at Tampere University of Technology, Finland

• NASA Keynote, academic leaders and leading researchers make 9th Lille Project Management Symposium a major event

• PMForum representatives demonstrate leadership at 3rd UT Dallas PM Symposium in Texas

• Nuno Domingues to speak at September APOGEP Project Management Conference in Lisbon

• IPMA Secretary General Veikko Valila delivers closing keynote at 3rd UT Dallas PM Symposium in Texas

• Opportunity Unstuck! Tom Sheives shares advice from new book at 3rd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium

• Project Management in Politics! Koval breaks new ground at 3rd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in Texas

• From South to North America – José & Tatiana Machicao present new ideas at 3rd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in Texas

• Paulo Trezentos to address September APOGEP Project Management Conference in Lisbon

• Cranefield College Graduate Jaco Claassens helps Delta Airlines accelerate Schedule on Airport Reconfiguration Project

• Paulo Jorge Freitas to speak at September APOGEP Project Management Conference in Lisbon

 

PM EDUCATION NEWS

• Miia Martinsuo nominated Professor of Service Business Development and Project Management at Tampere University of Technology, Finland

• Closing Highlights of 3rd UT Dallas PM Symposium and 1st announcement of 4th UT Dallas PM Symposium in 2010

• Program Management Academy announces upcoming Training Series in Oregon

• ESC Lille EDEN Doctoral Symposium Launched

• Report from 9th International Doctoral Seminar on Project Management at ESC Lille

• EDEN Doctoral Seminar on Project Management begins with interesting first day at ESC Lille in France

• Dr. Ed Andrews of PMI highlights the Value of Project Management at 3rd UT Dallas PM Symposium in Texas

• Mayor Tom Leppert Keynotes 3rd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium

• 3rd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium opens with welcome & stories from Management School Dean Hasan Pirkul

• Cranefield College Graduate Jaco Claassens helps Delta Airlines accelerate Schedule on Airport Reconfiguration Project

PM PROFESSION NEWS

• Leadership Development with the PMI-RIO Chapter (Brazil)

• Next GAPPS workshop to be in Maryland, USA in October 2009

• PMA to open chapter in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa, India on 21 August – Project Managers invited to Inaugural Event

• Former Astronaut James Reilly opens 3rd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium with thrilling lessons from space

• Europe's first PMI online bookstore launched by the PMI Switzerland Chapter

PM INDUSTRY NEWS

• Hill International to provide Project Management Oversight on transit projects in USA

• PMForum named Media Partner for October AIPM 2009 National Project Management Conference in Australia

• Poyry awarded planning services for rehabilitation of the longest twin tube motorway tunnel in Switzerland

• SAIC acquires R. W. Beck Group in USA

• Poyry awarded project management service contract for metro Line 4 in São Paulo, Brazil

• Panama Canal Expansion Program BID for Third Set of locks is awarded

FASCINATING PROJECTS

• World Bank funds Irrigation Infrastructure Project in Armenia

• Pepsi Americas to build in Romania the biggest facility in Europe

• Catalyst Lend Lease reaches financial close on first phase of Birmingham Building Schools for the Future project in UK

• EBRD funds pan-European transport corridor

• New Dallas Cowboys Football Stadium Project described by Mark Penny at 3rd UT Dallas PM Symposium in Texas

• Panama Canal Expansion Program BID for Third Set of locks is awarded

• Space Shuttle Endeavor arrives safely back on Earth – Japanese lab on Space Station almost ready

OTHER NEWS AFFECTING PROJECTS AND PM

• To support Peacebuilding Projects, UN names experienced Malaysian Judy Cheng-Hopkins to Assistant Secretary-General

• Vilma Martinez, Former member of Fluor Corporation BOD, appointed US Ambassador in Argentina

• World Bank Supports Water Supply Projects in Indonesia

• Russian President orders review of state-run businesses

• Global Recession to have lasting Impact on Latin American Economies - and Projects!