EDITOR'S PERSPECTIVE

• Editor’s Perspective on the Current Edition
  By David L. Pells

EDITORIAL

• Guiding Principles
  By David L. Pells

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

• On the Subject of Rebecca Winston’s December PMWT viewpoints article on Complexity

COLUMNS

• RISK MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES
  By Dr David Hillson

• ALIGNING A PROGRAM WITH ITS ORGANIZATION’S BUSINESS STRATEGY
  By Russell Martinelli,
  Tim Rahschulte &
  James Waddell

• Project Selection and Initiation Questions Leading to Good Risk Management
  By Timothy Kloppenborg, PhD, PMP

FEATURED PAPERS

• Project Management and Cloud Computing
  By Bernardo Nicoletti

• Organizational Culture in Leadership and Management
  By Ghirmai T Kefela

VIEWPOINTS ARTICLES

• Does your company need a Project Council?
  By Abid Mustafa

• 5 Reasons PPM Will Matter to CIOs in 2012
  By Alex Adamopoulos
  and
  Paul Dolman-Darrall

• New Year’s Resolution 2012 – ‘Unplug’
  By Marge Combe

ADVISORY ARTICLES

• Leveraging Email to Enhance Productivity
  By Avinoam Nowogrodski

• Schedule Estimation: Politics, Science, or Art?
  By Dave Berry
  and
  Luciano Mascari

• Top 10 Tips for Marketing a Book Using Social Media
  By Jeff Furman

• How to Avoid Expectation Collisions
  By Jeff Oltmann

• Avoiding Death by To-Do List: 15 Ways to Overcome Overload and Work Smarter in 2012
  By Jason Womack

STUDENT PAPERS

• Enhance PMBOK® by Comparing it with P2M, ICB, PRINCE2, APM and Scrum Project Management Standards
  By Sam Ghosh,
  Danny Forrest,
  Thomas DiNetta
  Brian Wolfe &
  Danielle C. Lambert

SECOND EDITION

• Proposals to Accelerate Advancement from Project Manager to Senior Executive
  By Jean-Pierre Debourse,
  and
  Russell D. Archibald

• Expecting the Unexpected
  By Taralyn Frasqueri-Molina

REGIONAL REPORTS

•   Project Management News from Argentina
  By Ana Maria Rodriguez

•   Project Management News from Brazil
  By Vitor Vargas

• Projects & Project Management in Indonesia
  By Rahayu Arifin

•   Project Management Update from Kigali
  By Isaac Nyarawaya

•   Project Management in Spain: Monthly Report
  By Alfonso Bucero

•   UK Project Management Round Up
  By Miles Shepherd

•   ZIMBABWE Project Management Round Up
  By Henry Mkhwananzi

PM BOOK REVIEWS

• Improving your Project Management Skills, 2nd Edition
  By Larry Richman, PMP
  Reviewer: Paul Thomason

• Project Management for Small Business: A Streamlined Approach from Planning to Completion
  By Joseph Phillips
  Reviewer: Hussein Mzee

• Office 365 in Business
  By David Kroenke and Donald Nilson
  Reviewer: Jeff Shannon

CALLS FOR PAPERS

• Call for Papers for 26th IPMA World Congress on Project Management – October 2012 in Greece

• Call for Papers – 16th International Congress on Project Engineering, Valencia, Spain, 11-13 July 2012

• Call for Papers for 6th Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium
  

FUTURE PM EVENTS

• asapm, IPMA-USA, to Host the PM Symposium, Project Management: Delivering the Promise, in Arlington, VA, March 5, 2012

• 1st International Scientific Conference on Project Management in the Baltic Countries to be in Latvia 8-9 February 2012

• 3rd Meeting on Professional Planning and Project Management in Macae Region of Brazil on 24 January 2012

• 26th IPMA World Congress on Project Management to be on Island of Crete in Greece

• APM Registered Project Professional certification to be explained at APM Branch Meeting in Newport, UK

• IPMA Expert Seminar on Future Trends in Project, Programme & Portfolio Management Announced for February 2012 in Zurich

PM RESEARCH NEWS

• 1st International Scientific Conference on Project Management in the Baltic Countries to be in Latvia 8-9 February 2012

• 2012 State of the PMO Survey Announced by PM Solutions

• UK Project Management Census Aims to Shed Light on Project Management Practices in 2012

PM PROFESSION NEWS

• APM Registered Project Professional certification to be explained at APM Branch Meeting in Newport, UK

• IPMA Expert Seminar on Future Trends in Project, Programme & Portfolio Management Announced for February 2012 in Zurich

• Samsung Engineering's PTT Gas Separation Plant #6 Project Receives PMI Distinguished Project Award

PM INDUSTRY NEWS

• Jacobs to Project Manage Abu Dhabi Retail Development at Yas Island

• Siemens UPS Worldport Expansion Project Identified Prize Winner

• Samsung Engineering's PTT Gas Separation Plant #6 Project Receives PMI Distinguished Project Award

FASCINATING PROJECTS

• Military Vehicle Project brings together the Motorsports Industry and the U.S. Military

• Project to provide 9,000 home to Poor in Ecuador gets Green Light

• Power Transmission Program in Viet Nam to Receive $750 million from ADB

• $280 million approved for social, environmental and urban improvement projects in Manaus, Brazil

• Water projects in Central Romania receive EU and EBRD Funding

PUBLISHING NEWS

• S.T.O.P. – The Project Management Survival Plan, new book by Steven Starke published by Actuation Press in USA

• Wideman PM Website updates announced for December 2011