Project Management Update from Finland

Introduction

This report includes the following topics:

• The Human Side of Projects in Modern Business published

• Severa announces new add-on features for Severa 3 software

• Heikki Lonka elected President of Project Management Association Finland

• University of Oulu student team wins Project Management Finnish Championship 2009

The Human Side of Projects in Modern Business published

The Human Side of Projects in Modern Business, a state-of-the-art book on recent advances and emerging research on the human side of projects in modern business, has been published. At a total of 723 pages, this book is one of the most comprehensive ones published up to date on this topic, which is attracting increasing attention in the modern project business.

The book, which comprises the accepted research papers from the 23rd IPMA World Congress on Project Management in Helsinki, Finland, on June 15 … 17 2009, has been edited by Dr Kalle Kähkönen, chief research scientist (VTT), adjunct professor (Helsinki University of Technology and Tampere University of Technology), Chairman of the IPMA World Congress 2009 Scientific Secretariat, Mr Abdul Samad Kazi, chief research scientist (VTT) and Mrs Mirkka Rekola, senior researcher (VTT).

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