Volume IX - Issue IV - April 2007
Publishing News
Fleming PM Books Translated into Chinese and Japanese Author Quentin W. Fleming’s two latest best selling project management textbooks have been translated into Asian languages. .  “Project Procurement Management-Contracting, Subcontracting, Teaming” published in 2003, has been translated into traditional Chinese, and is also being translated into simplified Chinese for release later this year.
 His other book “Earned Value Project Management”, 2nd edition, co-authored with Joel M. Koppelman, has been translated into Japanese by the Tokyo Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). Both books in their English format are available from the PMI Bookstore at: www.PMIBookstore.org. Quentin W. Fleming is a well known author and consultant based in the United States. He has over four decades of professional experience in project management, with two distinct careers: one in private industry and another as a consultant in project management. Quentin has written seven textbooks on project management, which collectively have sold over 60,000 copies world wide. In 1995, Quentin was honored when the Performance Management Association, which has since become the PMI College of Performance Management, awarded him their prestigious Lt. General Hans Driessnack Distinguished Service Award for his work in earned value management. Quentin has been a frequent previous contributor to www.pmforum.org and PM World Today. He can be contacted at quentinf@ca.rr.com.
vdf Hochschulverlag Publishes Popular vdf Hochschulverlag, the publishing house at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland hasjust released an English version of its successful German language project management textbook entitled “Project Management: Knowledge for a Successful Career”. The author, Bruno Jenny, is Managing Director at SPOL AG, a project management consultancy and training house based in Steinhausen, Switzerland .  The book highlights the fact that project management is far more than merely trendy. With the aid of numerous diagrams, it delivers real knowledge of project management as an independent of field of specialization and level of hierarchy. The book includes clear and reader-friendly language, concise learning aids and an nstructive case study. According to the book’s promotion, the author draws on his experiencewith projects at various levels within international insurance, banking and industrial concerns as well as public authorities. He addresses issues associated with functional as well as psychological changes on the strategic and operative levels. As a lecturer, coach and testing expert the author is a well-versed authority and pioneering personality in the realm of modern project management. In public and internal management seminars and in publications he communicates professional project management as a pioneering management system. The findings in the book are characterized by his experiences. Information about the book can be found at LINK or on the web at According to Wikipedia, the ETH Zurich, often called Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, is a science and technology university in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Its full name is Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, with ETHZ also being a common unofficial abbreviation. The ETH is an internationally oriented university. It is a member of the IDEA League and the International Alliance of Research Universities IARU.  The ETH was founded in 1854 by the Swiss Confederation and opened its doors in 1855 as a polytechnic institute (Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule). It comprised in the beginning six departments: architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, forestry, and a catch-all department for mathematics, natural sciences, literature, and social and political sciences. According to a ranking published by CHE in May 2006 the ETH ranked first by peer review and reputation in all natural sciences, computer science and engineering sciences among universities in the German-speaking countries. The ETH regularly ranks among the top universities in the world. Additional information can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETH_Zurich or at http://www.ethz.ch/ in German.
Wideman PM Website Updates Announced for April .  April 2007 - Our site search engine has finally broken down under the load of pages (there are over 10,000 on this site) so we have replaced it with a Google search engine. You'll find new instructions on the Search My Site page. We've also taken the opportunity to revamp our Site Map page, reducing it from over 650 links to just 18. Instead, these link it to separate departmental index pages. We hope you find this is an improvement. Simplicity is our watchword. This month our Guest, Jim Highsmith takes aim at The Chaos Report - Reality Challenged and in a companion Paper we pick up on Jim's thoughts in Selling into Project Success. In Musings we try to answer a visitor's question: Is the Project Manager's Job Really Any Different? Max has added the following new Issacons this month:
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Max Wideman is one of the world’s best-known project management authorities. An engineer and professional project manager, his experience includes systems, social and environmental projects, as well as design and engineering projects. He is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute, of which he is past president and chairman and for which he led the development of the 1987 version of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering. His personal web site at http://www.maxwideman.com is a source of superior project management knowledge and information. It is free to the public. . |
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