Welcome to the March 2010 edition of PM World Today, the 3rd issue in our 12th year. Since 1998, PM World Today has provided educational and informative articles and stories about project management. As the global reach of this online publication continues to grow, we continue to seek new authors who want to share knowledge or advance their careers. If you have project management knowledge or a story to share, please send an article for publication. We are especially interested in those that contribute to solving global problems.

Each month the Editor’s Perspective on the Current Edition provides an overview of the contents of the current edition of PM World Today. This month’s edition again contains articles, news and stories from around the world, including several in Spanish. PM World Today is an educational and informative resource for PM professionals worldwide. It is also a service for PM experts, leaders and professionals who want to share knowledge, get published or gain more visibility in the PM world.

This month’s Editorial is entitled “What Motivates Your Project Team? What you think might just be WRONG!” It has now been well established that leadership skills can be key to project management success. Leadership involves many things, but clearly understanding motivation is an important aspect of project leadership. Program and project managers need to understand what will motivate their teams, individually and collectively, to higher performance. As a student and teacher of project management, the importance of both leadership and motivation has been clear to me for many years. I was therefore drawn to a fascinating article on this very topic in the January-February edition of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) by Amabile and Kramer. The conclusions and message were, on the surface, somewhat surprising; but they also carry an important message for project managers. Please read this short editorial this month and send your comments in an email to editor@pmforum.org.

One Letter to the Editor is included this month, a note from Ken Dziedzic in Tennessee who thanked us for the article and interview with Jim Morin on the history of earned value.

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