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Volume IX - Issue V - May 2007

Second Edition

Second Editions include selected high quality papers previously published in another journal in a language other than English. Republication is with the permission from the author and journal of original publication.

 

Advancing Project Management Professionalism
and Culture in your Company

By Morten Fangel

 

Editor’s Note:   This is a distillation of Chapter 29 by Morten Fangel in Project Manager’s Handbook: Applying Best Practices Across Global Industries, Editors: David I. Cleland and Lewis R. Ireland, to be published in August 2007. Permission granted by McGraw-Hill for use.  Further publication is prohibited unless permission is received from the McGraw-Hill Companies.  This paper also appeared in the International Project Management Journal published by the Russian Project Management Association SOVNET in the Russian language in 2006.

 

1. Introduction to 12 instruments for advancement

The effort to continuously advance project management professionalism is part of every successful project-based company.

This advancement process is a task not only for company management and various specialists dealing with competence and method development. Your own competence in managing projects includes contributing to an on-going and constantly improved management of projects – at both the project level and the corporate level.

This article offers you an opportunity to evaluate the effort delivered until now by yourself or your company toward advancement of project handling – and to learn how those efforts can be improved.

Read the complete paper English

 

About the Author:


Morten Fangel
Author

Morten Fangel is Managing Director and Chief Consultant of Fangel Consultants Ltd., Saettedammen 4, DK-3400 Hilleroed / Copenhagen, Denmark.  He is also the founder of the Association of Danish Project Management, of which he today is the Executive Director. Morten is a member of the Association of Danish Project Management and four other Nordic Associations, the International Project Management Association (IPMA), the Project Management Institute (PMI ®) and the Association of Certified Management Consultants (CMC).  He is former president, past Chair and an Honorary Fellow of IPMA, and an honorary member of the Icelandic Project Management Association Morten Fangel holds a Masters of Science degree in Civil Engineering, and Ph.D. in industrial research from the Technical University of Denmark and a Diploma in Economics degree from the Copenhagen Business School. After years in consulting Engineering companies, he founded Fangel Consultants Ltd., from where he has more than two decades of experience in management consulting. Morten Fangel has introduced and is a specialist in methodologies for project preparation and start-up, and for planning and evaluation of project management. He also teaches advanced project management seminars for IPMA.  Morten can be reached at morten@fangel.dk.

 

 

 

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