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Volume X - Issue VIII - August 2008
PM Community News
Chartered Institute of Building names Keith Pickavance Reported by David Shannon in the UK
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has for only the second time in its 174 year history elected an architect as President. Keith Pickavance (pictured), who is a Senior Vice President for Hill International, has become the CIOB's 105th President. Keith made the following main points during his acceptance speech and afterwards:
Keith Pickavance is an architect with construction management experience. He is the author of 'Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts' (3rd Edition 2005) and 'Construction Law and Management' (2007). Keith has had numerous articles published in leading technical and legal journals and regularly contributes papers on delay and disruption related issues. His academic qualifications include a Diploma in Architecture, an honours degree of Bachelor of Laws, and a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration. He is currently a Fellow of the British Academy of Experts, a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Arbitrators, an international associate of the American Bar Association, a Member of the Project Management Institute, and a Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. As an expert he has been appointed on over 400 occasions in a broad variety of cases involving such diverse projects as housing, shipping, IT supply, oil and gas, road rail and air transport, multi -storey buildings, power generation plants, hospitals, commercial and industrial buildings, petro-chemical and other process plants. He has given evidence in a broad variety of civil courts and both domestic and international tribunals on more than 20 occasions over a period of 30 years as a testifying expert and has sat as an arbitrator, adjudicator or mediator on over 80 occasions.
The CIOB has also announced the following new Board of Trustees:
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) represents on behalf of the public the most diverse set of professionals in the construction industry. The CIOB's role is to Promote the importance of the built environment; Lead the industry to create a sustainable future worldwide; Encourage leadership potential; Set the highest standards in quality, safety and qualification; and Create an industry where excellence prospers. Further information on the CIOB is available at: http://www.ciob.org.uk/about/. Mary McKinlay in UK joins PM Ambassadors™ Speakers Bureau PMForum is pleased to announce that Mary McKinlay, Managing Director of Mary McKinlay Projects Ltd, a Project Assessment and Training firm based in the UK, has joined the PM AmbassadorsTM Speakers Bureau. Based in London, UK and with over 30 years of professional experience, Mary has advised organizations and spoken on project management across the UK and in many other countries in recent years. She has now announced her availability to speak at project management events worldwide.
Mary McKinlay, BA FAPM MIoD, is also currently Vice President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and an Adjunct Professor of Project Management at Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Lille (ESC Lille) in Lille, France. Having worked in Project Management for almost 30 years as practitioner, researcher, expert and trainer, Mary is a Project Management enthusiast who is often invited as a Conference speaker. Recent speaking engagements have included the IPMA World Congresses in Budapest, India, Shanghai and Krakow; PM Tage in Vienna; Ukrainian PM Association conferences in Kiev; conferences in Dubai, Slovenia, Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), Vienna (Austria), and Lisbon (Portugal), and the APM Conference in London. She has given workshops and tutorials all over the world. Following a degree in Systems Engineering, she started her career in the defence sector on the Tornado aircraft project, subsequently working on many large programmes. A further dimension was added by participation in research programmes involving collaboration between industry and academics e.g. Alvey, SERC and ESPRIT. One of these projects was to generate a process model for Project Management using soft systems methodologies. This underlined the need for Project Management improvement and influenced her later work. Having trained in the use of the Project Excellence Model, Mary has acted as an assessor for the IPMA Awards since 2004. She has also jointly delivered Training Workshops for the Awards. She is a Governor of the University of Greenwich and an active member of the UK Institute of Directors. Mary’s areas of expertise include Project and Programme Management, Risk Management, Systems Engineering. Special field of interest Aerospace and Defence. Professional interests are in the principles & theories of programme/project management and development of a closer relationship between Industry and Academe; working together trans-nationally and establishment of standards to make this possible; and use of Systems Thinking principles as a foundation for effective project management, especially in the field of complexity.
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Mary has spoken throughout the UK and in many countries in Africa, Asia and Europe in recent years, and is available to travel. For information on Mary’s availability, please contact ambassadors@pmforum.com or editor@pmforum.org. 
The PM Ambassadors™ Speakers Bureau was introduced by PMForum in 2007 as a service for project management leaders and meeting planners worldwide. The program offers leading project management authorities, experts and leaders who are available to speak at PM events worldwide with 60 days advance notice. PM Ambassadors™ include globally-recognized project management professional experts; authors of PM textbooks; former presidents and chairs of PM professional societies; experienced project managers and PM professionals; and retired executives of project and program-oriented organizations.  Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and is one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today eJournal where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net. Laura Magahy becomes First Woman in Ireland Reported by Ed Naughton in Dublin The Institute of Project Management has announced that Laura Magahy of MCO Projects Ltd has become the first woman in Ireland to acquire the coveted IPMA Level A certification status. Her candidature was recently assessed in Dublin with the IPMA Vice President of Certification Brigitte Schaden participating in the process. She is only the second person in the country with this credential and is a member of an elite group of less than 200 throughout the world. The IPMA four level certification system operates in 43 countries and is expected to have 100,000 certified professionals by year end.
Laura said that "I wanted to acquire IPMA Level A certification because I believe it gives formal recognition to the experience I have gained during my career. I have gained a great deal of experience working successfully as Project Director/Project Manager during the last 20 years. Many of these projects have been highly complex, with a myriad of constituent elements comprising the total project, all of which have needed to be managed successfully to completion." "The qualifications I hold complement the work I do," she added, "including my MBA, and my recently acquired Chartered Directorship, which involved refreshing my competence in governance, strategy, finance, HR, legal, and marketing." (In photo: Brigitte Schaden and Laura Magahy) Laura Magahy is the Managing Director of MCO Projects Ltd (www.mco.ie) a company specialising in sustainable development and architecture for the public and private sectors. She has served on many public and private Boards in Ireland and the UK, including CIE, Dublin Bus, Gresham Hotels plc, Dublin Chamber of Commerce, the Arts Council of Ireland, Ilex Urban Regeneration Board in Derry, Design Ireland, Junior Dublin Film Festival, and Graffiti Theatre-in-Education Company, among others. She is currently President of the Institute of Directors in Ireland. With over twenty years’ experience as Project Director/Project Manager for multi-disciplinary construction and urban renewal projects, she has a track record in delivering quality projects on scope, on time and on budget. In addition to traditional construction project management skills she is an experienced team-builder and commercial negotiator as well as being a strategic thinker who can respond creatively to changing and challenging circumstances. The projects she runs on behalf of MCO Projects Ltd. vary in size and complexity, the largest being the Mater Campus Hospital Development, a circa €250 million build cost project, involving the re-building of a substantial part of the Mater Hospital and bringing the Metro to the Mater Campus site. Prior to establishing MCO Projects Ltd. in 2000 Laura was Chief Executive/Project Director for ten years of Temple Bar Properties Ltd., a commercial semi-state company in Ireland that pioneered new approaches to urban renewal, green energy and intelligent buildings, leading more than 40 different individual projects during her tenure. Roland Gareis to deliver keynote speech at The project management team for the 22nd IPMA World Congress on Project Management - ROMA 2008 Project Management to Run -has announced that Prof. Roland Gareis will be a keynote speaker for the November congress. Roland Gareis is Professor of Project Management and Head of Department Projekt Management Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria. He is globally recognized for his research on the topic of project based society.  Roland Gareis, PhD, Dkfm, is also director of the Professional MBA Program “Project & Process Management” at the university and manager of the research program: Project orientation (international). He was formerly a visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA; at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland; and at the University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada. He studied at Vienna Technical University and the University of Economics and Business Administration, receiving his doctorate in 1972. He was a post-doctoral visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles, USA, in 1976. From 1986 – 2002, Roland was chairman of the board of Project Management Austria, the Austrian professional project management association. In 1990, he organized the IPMA World Congress in Vienna on the topic of “Management by Projects”. He is the former research director for IPMA and has been involved in various project management research and teaching projects for over 20 years. Since 1982, Professor Gareis has also owned and managed ROLAND GAREIS CONSULTING, providing project management services to national and international companies throughout Europe. At the 22nd IPMA World Congress in Rome, as a key-note speaker, Dr. Gareis will speak on the topic of “Change Management and Projects”. According to his abstract, “Transformations of organizations due to mergers, acquisitions, new business developments, etc. have to be fast, efficient and have to achieve the defined business case results. In discontinuous changes new identities of the considered organizations result. For the management of change processes a professional change management is required. For different change types, such as transformations, resolutions of crises, and organizational developments, different forms of management are to be applied. Projects and programmes are organizations to manage phases of change processes. The relationship between change management and project & programme management is to be optimized. The specific challenges for project management in change processes are to be identified. The project manager of a change project, e.g. has to have good organizational and process management competences, required by its business plans.”  Founded in 1967 and registered in Switzerland, the International Project Management Association (IPMA) is is an international federation of more than 40 national PM societies in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Local societies serve each country in its national language. IPMA provides an umbrella organization at the international level. IPMA’s internationally acclaimed 4 Level PM Certification Programme continues to grow worldwide. The IPMA annually presents awards to teams that achieve great feats in project management. IPMA maintains its continuous presence in the global PM arena through regular International Symposia, Expert Seminars and its Annual World Congress. The president of IPMA for 2008 is Veikko Valila. Additional information is available at www.ipma.ch. Carol Dekkers Named PM Ambassador™ in Florida PMForum is pleased to announce that Carol Dekkers, President of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc., a management consulting firm based in Florida, USA, has joined the PM AmbassadorsTM Speakers Bureau. Based in Seminole, Florida, Carol is a software project management, benchmarking, metrics, standards and quality expert who has been an advisor to many organizations and spoken on various aspects of software project management across the USA and in many other countries. She has now announced her availability to speak at project management events worldwide.
Carol Dekkers is President of Quality Plus Technologies, Inc., a progressive management consulting firm specializing in working with companies who want to improve their success with software intensive systems programs and projects.Ms. Dekkers works with clients to implement software measurement for estimating and process improvement, project and process management, process improvement, requirements, software sizing (using function point analysis), and team communication.
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Carol has spoken in more than 25 countries on the above topics in recent years, and is available to travel. For information on Carol’s availability, please contact ambassadors@pmforum.com or editor@pmforum.org.
speak at PM events worldwide with 60 days advance notice. PM AmbassadorsTM include globally-recognized project management professional experts; authors of PM textbooks; former presidents and chairs of PM professional societies; experienced project managers and PM professionals; and retired executives of project and program-oriented organizations.
Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world's first website devoted to professional project management and is one of the world's most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum also produces the monthly online PM World Today eJournal where articles, case studies, papers and viewpoints by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net. PMI Research Award Winners Announced The Project Management Institute (PMI) has awarded The PMI® Research Achievement Award to Dragan Z. Milosevic, PhD, PMP, of Portland, Oregon, USA, and the Project Management Journal Paper of the Year Award to Blaize Horner Reich, PhD, of Vancouver, Canada.
"The PMI Research Achievement Award is for a person who has significantly advanced the concepts, knowledge and practice of project management through professionally conducted and authored project management research,"said Edwin J. Andrews, PhD, director of academic and educational programs and services and research for PMI."The Project Management Journal Paper of the Year Award recognizes a paper that has made a significant contribution to project management knowledge and practice. We are pleased to have distinguished recipients for each of these awards." Project management research involves scholarly or scientific investigations or inquiries and is based upon data from which general conclusions can be drawn. Both the data and the conclusions are focused on either the project management context or the management activities needed to complete a project successfully, but not on the technical activities of the project. Dr. Milosevic’s research focuses on the broad area of project management with particular emphasis on standardization of project management and alignment with business strategy.
Dr. Dragan Z. Milosevic (pictured left) is professor of engineering and technology management at Portland State University in Oregon, USA. Prior to beginning his teaching career in 1993, he held management and leadership positions with firms in industry, including posts of engineer, project manager, marketing manager and executive vice president for projects. Over the past decade, Dr. Milosevic has written eight books on project management,six chapters in professional reference books and more than 45 leading-edge research papers in world-class journals and conference proceedings.
Dr. Blaize Horner Reich (pictured right) is a professor of business administration at the Segal Graduate School, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, a consultant and a researcher. Earlier at Simon Fraser University, she was associate dean, Graduate Programs from 2000 to 2003. She also has been a visiting associate professor at Templeton College, Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Leading Project Management Author and Authority Reported by Raju Rao in India Dr. O. P.(Om) Kharbanda, acknowledged by many to be the "Peter Drucker of India," passed away on July 19, 2008. After graduation from Jhang, alongside the Nobel Laureates Abdus Salaam (1940), and earlier, Har Govind Khorana, Professor Kharbanda earned his MChE and DChE Degrees from The Polytechnic University of New York.
Professor Kharbanda authored over 30 books on project management,engineering, disaster response, finance, management and other topics. They included What Made Gertie Gallop?; Lessons from Project Failures; Successful Project Managers, Total Project Management: From Concept to Completion; Capital Cost Estimating for the Process Industries; Successful Projects: With a Moral for Management; and Project Cost Control in Action. Professor Andrej Skarabot Named International Correspondent for PMForum & PM World Today in Slovenia Professor Dr. Andrej Skarabot, one of the best known and most respected project management experts in Slovenia, has been named an International Correspondent for PMForum and the monthly PM World Today eJournal. Recently retired from the University of Ljubljana where he taught management and project management since 1980, Dr. Skarabot remains active as an author, consultant, lecturer and assessor for IPMA Awards and Certifications.
Andrej Skarabot, PhD, has a diploma in Chemical Engineering (1963) from Ljubljana University in Slovenia and a Masters of Science (M.Sc.) in Business Administration (1975) and Ph.D. in Business Administration (1985) from Zagreb University in Croatia. Dr. Skarabot was a professor on three technical faculties, on the subjects of business and project management at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia from 1980 - 2006, retiring in 2007. During 1989 – 2006, he was also a partner in d.o.o., a management consulting firm based in Ljubljana.
He is an expert is organizing and implementing project management processes and programmes, in the construction and IT fields.
Ljubljana is the largest city and capital of Slovenia. It is located in the center of the country and had a 2007 population of 278,638. Ljubljana is regarded as the cultural, scientific, economic, political and administrative center of Slovenia. The city is divided into several quarters, formerly municipalities: Šiška, Bežigrad, Vič, Moste, and Center. Its transport connections, concentration of industry, scientific and research institutions and industrial tradition are contributing factors to its leading economic position. Ljubljana is the seat of the central government, administrative bodies and all government ministries of Slovenia. It is also the seat of Parliament and of the Office of the President.
Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia, is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north. The capital of Slovenia is Ljubljana.
With a population of just over 2 million, Slovenia has a high-income developed economy which enjoys the second highest (after Cyprus) GDP per capita ($28,010.76 estimate for 2008) of the new EU countries which is 93% of the EU average. Although the country's relatively high inflation declined to 2.3% in 2006 (prior to adoption of the euro), it recently reached 5.1% year-on-year, exceeding the average in the eurozone.
Established in 1995, www.pmforum.org was the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and continues to be one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum is an organization formed to operate and administer the pmforum.org website. PMForum also produces the monthly PM World Today eJournal where articles, papers, stories and viewpoints by leading PM authorities from around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net. PMForum’s global network of correspondents provides news and information from around the world of project management. More information about this program can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm#5. IPMA President Veikko Valila to deliver Closing Keynote Speech at 2nd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in August The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) has announced that Veikko Välilä, president of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), will be the closing keynote speaker at the end of day two of the 2nd Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in August. The conference, subtitled “Leveraging Project Management for Business Success!”, will be held in the School of Management building on the UT Dallas campus in Richardson, Texas, USA during 18-19 August 2008. Mr. Valila will speak on Tuesday afternoon, August 19, 2008.
Veikko Välilä (pictured left), current IPMA president, is also Chairman of Project Management Association Finland and Practice Leader of Marsh Ltd., a global insurance and risk management organization. He has more than 25 years experience in project and risk management, gained in employment with PaloDEx Group, Kone Corporation, Industrial Mutual, Ministry of Trade and Industry, P&C Insurance and Marsh & McLennan. Veikko has been Scientific and Industrial Commissioner of Finland for China and Southeast Asia, and has lived and worked in nearly 50 countries. He was a co-founder of Soredex Oy and responsible for start up of new insurance underwriting operations in the London market for Hansa Industrial Insurance. Veikko has provided consulting and risk management services to many large corporations in the areas of power generation (including thermal and nuclear power), pulp & paper industry and large infrastructure projects (including harbor and motorway projects.) Veikko Valila will fly in from his base in Helsinki, Finland to speak at the UT Dallas Symposium.
The 2 Day 2nd Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in August will focus on topics important to organizations and industries in North Texas. The Conference will include an Opening Keynote address by UT Dallas President David Daniel, several other keynote presentations during the two days, over 40 professional presentations, three panel discussions, a project management vendors’ exhibition, a Monday evening networking reception, and a closing keynote address.
The Project Management Program at UT Dallas provides application-oriented education for professionals with significant project, program or general management responsibilities. Established in the Executive Education Center in the School of Management, students have the option of earning a Graduate Certificate in Project Management, a Master of Science degree with an emphasis in project management, or a Master of Business Administration degree with project management emphasis. The UT Dallas PM program, originally developed in 1997, is accredited by the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and is a PMI Registered Education Provider (PMI R.E.P.). The program is taught by world-class faculty with a blend of industrial project management, consulting and teaching experience. Delivered both on campus and online, the program attracts students from across the United States and around the world. For more information, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/project/.
The PMI Dallas Chapter is a volunteer-based professional association dedicated to supporting the growth and development of project management practitioners, as well as building awareness of the project management discipline and its critical role in business and organization success. With more than 240,000 members in over 160 countries, the Project Management Institute (PMI®) is the world’s leading membership association for the project management profession. Founded in 1984 and with over 4,000 members, the PMI Dallas Chapter is one of the world’s largest PMI components. To learn more about the PMI Dallas Chapter and its service offerings, please visit www.pmidallas.org
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