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Vol. XIV Issue I - January 2012
Project Management eJournal
Global Advisors
The individuals showcased as Global Advisors below include current and former leaders of leading project management professional societies and organizations around the world. These individuals are members of a Global Advisory Panel established to advise the editorial team for PM World TodayWith their experience and insight, they provide guidance and feedback on matters associated with the world of professional project management.
Russell Archibald I
Martin Barnes I
Gilles Caupin I
Paul Dinsmore I
Morton Fangel I
Adesh Jain I
Brian Kooyman I
Harvey A. Levine I
Peter Morris I
Debbie O'Bray I
Klaus Pannenbacker I
Miles Shepherd I
Alan Stretton I
Hiroshi (Hiro) Tanaka I
Professor Vladimir Voropajev I
Max Wideman I
Rebecca Winston I
Robert Youker
Russell Archibald Global Advisor   
Russell Archibald, PhD (Hon), PMP, PMI Fellow, is a globally
 Dr. Martin Barnes, PhD, is currently President of the Association for Project Management (APM), the professional body for project managers in the UK. He was a founding member (no. 10) of APM in 1972 and has been an active APM leader since that time. He was APM Chair in the 1980s and was named an APM Fellow in 1995. Martin has a civil engineering degree from the University of London and a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. His doctorate was awarded in 1971 for research into improved methods of financial control for engineering projects. Martin Barnes invented the classic Time/Cost/Quality triangle and other project management techniques over the years. He built up his own PM business over 15 years until it merged with what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1985. Now a consultant in project management, Martin was also Executive Director of the Major Projects Association (MPA) for nine years until 2006. Dr Barnes has advised on significant projects in many countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, for the World Bank, other funding agencies, governments, promoters and major contractors. He has worked on projects in the engineering, defense, aerospace, IT, financial, business change and media sectors. Martin’s BBC television programme on project management has been used as a training aid in many countries. He has acted as expert witness in a number of arbitrations concerning major projects. Martin led the team that produced the New Engineering Contract (NEC), a system of contracts designed to facilitate and stimulate the use of modern project management across all the contributors on a project. The NEC is now being used in over 20 countries and has been adopted by the UK government for all publicly funded construction projects. Martin Barnes has been active in the IPMA since 1972, having attended all but one of its world congresses since that year. He presented papers at most of them. He is a Fellow of IPMA and a former board member and Chairman of its Council of Representatives. Dr Barnes is a recipient of the Chartered Institute of Management’s Special Award and of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Watson Medal in the UK, both for his personal contributions to the development of project management. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the UK’s highest engineering recognition, and is a Churchill Fellow. Martin Barnes lives near Oxford and can be contacted at cornbrash@aol.com.
 Mr. Gilles Caupin, is former President and Chair of the International Project Management Association (IPMA). He is one of the founders and a past-President of the French project management association AFITEP, past-Chairman and Distinguished International Fellow of the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC), past-Chair and Honorary Fellow of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), and past-Chair of the Global Project Management Forum initiative. Mr. Caupin is a Certified Cost Engineer from AFITEP (ICEC system), a lifetime member of the American Association of Cost Engineers International (AACEI), a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) (Member N° 6558), a founding member of the first PMI Chapter in France, a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (asapm), a founding member of AFITEP and SMAP in France, an Honorary Member of APOGEP (Portugal), and an honorary Fellow of PMA (India). He is presently Chair of the IPMA Certification Management Board, first assessor and international validator for several IPMA certification bodies, and has played a leadership role (as a member and chairman of the Certification Validation Management Board) in the development of the IPMA Certification System since 1994. Gilles Caupin has over 40 years of experience in projects and project management, in a variety of fields and industries. Mr. Caupin has a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lille in Paris. He has owned his own consulting practice, Caupin & Associates, for many years and, although currently semi-retired, is available for short assignments. Gilles has presented papers, speeches and workshops on project management around the world for the last twenty years and is widely recognized as one of the leaders in the world of professional project management. Gilles can be contacted at gilles-caupin@wanadoo.fr.
 Paul Dinsmore is President and principal consultant for Dinsmore Associates, an international project management and organizational change consultancy with global offices based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Paul is a globally recognized author, expert and authority on the subject of modern project management. A long time member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Paul has been honored with PMI’s Distinguished Contributions Award as well as the prestigious Fellow Award. He is one of the early PMPs -- Project Management Professionals (PMP number 129) certified by the Institute. Paul participated as a member of the PMI Standards (PMBOK) and Research Committees, is a former director of PMI’s Educational Foundation, and is founder and counselor of PMI Chapters in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. Paul Dinsmore works as consultant and keynote speaker in South America, North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He is a graduate in engineering from Texas Tech University and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and Postgraduate in Management by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation in São Paulo. He is the author of 12 books published in the United States, Japan, Brazil and Korea. Among them: How to Become a Project Management Professional; Winning in Business with Enterprise Project Management; Creating The Project Office – A Manager’s Guide to Leading Organizational Change, and the AMA Handbook of Project Management. For more information about Paul or Dinsmore Associates, visit www.dinsmore.com.br.
 Morten Fangel is Managing Director and Chief Consultant of Fangel Consultants Ltd., Saettedammen 4, DK-3400 Hilleroed / Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also one of the founders of the Danish Project Management Association, of which he today is the Executive Director. Morten is a member of the Danish Project Management Association 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 three 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 organises and teaches the annual IPMA Advanced Courses. Morten can be reached at morten@fangel.dk.
 Mr. Adesh Jain, M. Eng, CPP, MPD, is a global advisor for PMForum, Inc. Mr. Jain is also Managing Director of the Centre for Excellence in Project Management Ltd. (India), President of PM Guru, Inc. (USA), and Honorary President of Project Management Associates (PMA - India). Adesh is the immediate past president and current Chair of the Council of Delegates for the International Project Management Association (IPMA), and is Chair of the IPMA Nation to Nation Forum. Adesh’s career includes 40 years of project-oriented work, including projects for Litton Industries and Control Data Corporation in the USA in the early 1970s. In 1973, Adesh returned to India where he became No. 2 in one of the largest steel plants in India. In 1975, Adesh was asked by Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited, the largest Indian Government engineering undertaking, to head their IT and Project Management services, the youngest CEO ever to head a division there. He became Chairman of the Heavy Engineering Group in 1982. In 1991, the President of India honored him with a Fellowship award for laying a strong foundation for the IT industry in India. He has since been conferred with 6 major awards in India, including the 'Gem of India' award. Adesh started the Centre for Excellence in Project Management in 1992, and founded Project Management Associates (PMA), India - a-not-for-profit registered society in 1993. He was elected to the steering committee for the Global PM Forum in 1996 and received a Distinguished Contribution Award from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in the USA in 1997. In January 1999, Adesh became the first non-European to become a Vice President of IPMA, serving three terms through 2004. He was elected President of IPMA for 2005 and IPMA Chair for two years beginning January 2007. Adesh has addressed or trained over 50,000 people world wide, has made over 40 keynote presentations, is author of the book “New Dimensions in Project Management” (1992), and has authored over 50 articles on project management. Since 1999, Adesh has contributed significantly to modern PM in China where he has trained over 2,000 professionals. He is Honorary Chairman of the China Project Management Committee (CPMC), the first non-Chinese to enjoy such a privilege. In 2001, he was invited to give a keynote presentation in the Great Hall of China at a UNIDO conference. During the last two years, Adesh has been a keynote speaker at major conferences in Abu Dhabi, China, Sweden, Thailand, and Turkey. For the last ten years, he has organized and managed an international PM conference in New Delhi, and he was the organizer and project manager of the 19th IPMA World Congress held in New Delhi in November 2005, the first IPMA congress outside of Europe and the largest IPMA congress ever held. Adesh Jain has a BS in Mathematics and BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a MS in Control Systems from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Adesh received the IPMA Honorary Fellowship award in October 2006. Adesh divides his time between Asia, India, Europe and the USA, and can be contacted at adesh@cepm.com. Additional information about Adesh Jain can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2007/03/adesh-jain-chair-of-ipma-is-named.html.
 Brian R. Kooyman, B. Arch R.A.I.A., F.A.I.P.M., M.A.I.C.D., M.P.D, is Managing Director, Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Tracey, Brunstrom & Hammond Group, based in Sydney, Australia. Brian is also Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Business at Curtin University in Western Australia, Adjunct Professor of Project Management at the University of Technology Sydney in New South Wales, and Honorary Associate in the School of Government at the University of Sydney. Brian is the past National President of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) and was Chairman of the Global Council of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). He was a member and the Chair of PMI’s Nominating Committee for 2001 and 2002. and is currently the Vice Chair of PMI’s Ethics Review Committee. He has been a keynote speaker at project management conferences in Australia, India, South Africa, and the USA, and is well known throughout the world of professional PM. Brian has over 35 years experience on a wide variety of projects and programs, and has been directly involved in several famous Australian projects, including The Sydney 2000 Olympics, The Sydney Harbour Casino (NSW), The National Biological Standards Laboratory (ACT), The Darling Harbour Redevelopment (NSW), and Federation Square (Vic). Brian also has extensive experience as an Expert Witness for such International projects as The Australian Embassy in Beijing, The Australian High Commission in Geneva, The Australian Embassy in Hanoi, Mt Worsley Aluminium Refinery (WA), and The Roi Namur Sewerage Treatment Plant (Marshall Islands). Brian has achieved workplace assessment against the Australian Project Management Competency Standards, at Master Project Director Level. Tracey, Brunstrom & Hammond (TBH) is one of the largest independent and privately owned project and strategic management companies in Australia, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Perth. The organization specializes in strategic and project management services for the Construction, IT and Telecommunications industries. Brian has a Bachelors Degree in Architecture from the University of New South Wales (1972), and was named Managing Director of TBH in 1995. Additional information about TBH can be found at www.tbh.com.au. Brian can be contacted at briank@tbh.com.au.
 Harvey A. Levine Mr. Harvey Levine, PMI Fellow and well-known project management (PM) author and consultant, has agreed to become a global advisor for PMForum.org. He is one of the most widely respected authorities on the subject of PM software and practices in the United States. He is also a leading advocate and mentor in the expanding field of Project Portfolio Management. Harvey is a Principal with The Project Knowledge Group, a PM consultancy based in New York and California. A former President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), Harvey A. Levine has over 44 years of PM experience, including nearly 25 years with the General Electric Company. In 1986, Mr. Levine founded The Project Knowledge Group, a consulting firm specializing in building PM competencies and providing guidance, training and services related to PM software selection, evaluation & implementation, and PM using microcomputers. Harvey Levine is one of the leading consultants to the PM software industry in the USA. He has provided evaluation, feedback and product development services to dozens of the leading vendors in this field, and continues to provide several vendors with software evaluation, training, development, and general support. Mr. Levine has also been recognized as a PM software industry watchdog, and a PM software “guru” for his knowledge, understanding, and insights regarding both vendor and user issues. He still provides PM consulting services to a wide variety of businesses in both the private and government sectors. Mr. Levine has been Adjunct Professor of Project Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Boston University in the United States. He also conducts lectures, workshops & seminars at other schools, symposia and organizational meetings; and in-house seminars and training sessions for corporate clients. Mr. Levine is the author of three books: "Project Portfolio Management: A Practical Guide to Selecting Projects, Managing Portfolios, and Maximizing Benefits" (recently published by Jossey-Bass); "Practical Project Management: Tips, Tactics, and Tools" (John Wiley & Sons 2002); and "Project Management using Microcomputers" (Osborne/ McGraw-Hill 1986). He is a frequent contributor to various technical and software publications on PM, and was feature editor of the PM Software Forum in PMI’s Project Management Network magazine, for 13 years. He contributed chapters to several important PM books, including Project Management Handbook (2nd Ed. - VNR), Handbook of Project Management (AMA), and The Field Guide to Project Management (VNR). He has published over 240 articles and whitepapers on PM in the past 15 years. Mr. Levine served as President and Chairman of the Board of PMI during 1985-86, received PMI's Distinguished Contribution to Project Management award in 1989, and was elected a Fellow of PMI in 1998. Harvey divides his time between upstate New York and San Diego, California in the USA, but can be contacted at any time at halevine@earthlink.net. Additional information about Harvey Levine can be found on his website at http://home.earthlink.net/~halevine/  Peter Morris, PhD Peter Morris, PhD, is a Global Advisor for PMForum in the United Kingdom. One of the most widely recognized figures in the project management profession in Great Britain and throughout the world, Dr. Morris is also currently Professor of Construction and Project Management at University College London (www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk) and Executive Director of INDECO, a leading consultancy in the management of projects (www.indeco.co.uk). Peter is also currently a Vice President and was previously Chairman of the Association for Project Management (APM), the professional body for project management in the UK. He was previously Deputy Chairman of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), the Switzerland-based federation of national project management societies. He is a (Honorary) Fellow of APM, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has been a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in the USA since 1976. His research has largely been on the competencies required to develop and deliver projects and programs successfully. He is the principal proponent of ‘the management of projects’ perspective, as illustrated in The Wiley Guide to Managing Projects (Wiley, 2005); The Management of Projects (Thomas Telford, 1994) and The Anatomy of Major Projects (John Wiley & Sons, 1987). He has also worked on the linkage between corporate and project strategy (Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy (PMI, 2004)). He is the author of over 110 papers and was the recipient of the PMI 2005 Research Achievement Award. He is on the editorial boards of The International Journal of Project Management, the Project Management Journal, and the Journal of Project Management. Dr. Morris has consulted widely, with clients including AstraZeneca, British Airways, British Gas, British Petroleum, Ericsson, FKI, Fujitsu, GSK, Land Securities, National Australia Bank, Pfizer, PowerGen, Shell, Skanska, Spirent and Unilever amongst others. He was previously Professor of Engineering Project Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He was a main board director of Bovis Ltd., one of the UK’s leading international construction project management firms. He was also previously Executive Director of the Major Projects Association, a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, a senior consultant with Arthur D Little, a senior consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, and an engineer with Sir Robert McAlpine.
 Debbie O’Bray, CIM (Hons), is a former Chair of the Board of the Project Management Institute (PMI ®), and is currently the Secretary of the PMI Educational Foundation Board of Directors. Debbie has enjoyed a diverse and distinguished career in project management that includes twenty one years in the telecommunication industry followed by seven years in project management consulting. During her consulting career, Debbie worked extensively in China, Mexico, and Europe with organizations in a variety of industries including banking and finance, new product development, mining, aerospace, and environmental engineering to improve their performance through better project management. Debbie is currently with Investors Group Financial Services Inc, where she is responsible for the project management practice across an enterprise IS organization, which spans five companies in both Canada and Europe. A passionate PMI volunteer since 1992, Debbie has served in many capacities at the local, national, and international levels. She is a founder of the PMI Manitoba Chapter and served on the chapter’s Board of Directors for five years, including three years as Chapter President. In 1992 she joined the PMI Standards Committee, serving as a core team member and key contributor to the development of the 1996 edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Debbie’s contribution to standards development was recognized with a PMI Presidential Citation in 1995. At the international level, Debbie served on the PMI Board of Directors for a total of six years in positions of increasing responsibility. Prior to assuming the role of Board Chair in 2003, she held the positions of Secretary-Treasurer, Executive Committee Member, Vice Chair, and Chair of the Strategic Planning and Program Alignment Committee. Most recently, Debbie was named Chair of the PMI Ethics Standards Review and Ethics Standards Development Committees where she led a team of internationally respected professionals from twelve countries through the development of a new ethics code for the Institute. The PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, which applies to approximately 300,000 professionals worldwide, came into effect on January 1, 2007. Debbie resides in Winnipeg, Canada and can be reached at dobray@shaw.ca.
 Klaus Pannenbäcker Klaus Pannenbäcker is currently a teacher, coach and certification assessor of project management for the 4-Level-Certification System of IPMA in Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Hungaria, Egypt, Russia, Ukrainian, India, Iceland, Portugal and South Africa. He is a member of an international network for R&D of new technologies in manufactories and of process development in public operations. Klaus Pannenbäcker is one of the best known figures in the world of professional project management and a leading figure in the German project management community. Former president and current member of the “Advisory Board” of the German Project Management Association (GPM - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Projektmanagement), Klaus previously served as vice president, president and Chair of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and remains active in the IPMA network of researchers and assessors. He remains a Project Management AWARD Assessor for GPM, First Assessor of GPM / PM-ZERT and First Foreign Assessor for IPMA in 12 countries. Klaus began his 52-year career at Siemens AG (1959-1969), where he developed and implemented cost calculations for site assembled construction of industrial plants; During 1969-1981, he developed codes, standards and a project management office for Kraftwerkunion AG, a Daughter Company of Siemens AG. From 1981 until retiring in 2001, Klaus was owner and managing director at GABO Anlagentechnik und Prozessmanagement GmbH, where he managed the development and implementation of GABO software „Re-Documentation“ used to update technical documentation (as built) for all faculties and for synchronic labeling of mechanical systems, electrical equipment and I&C installations in power plants in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Iceland and South Africa. Gabo also developed and implemented project management via Project Management Office (PMO) in companies of plant engineering and operations plant operation, especially of power plants. He has also served as Associate Professor at universities of applied science of project management in Riedlingen, Ulm, and Hannover. A 1959 Engineering Graduate of the University of Applied Science in Dortmund, Klaus achieved extensive technical and management training over the course of his career and became an expert and leader in the project management field based on experience, training and involvement in GPM and IPMA. Klaus lives in Erlangen near Nuremberg, in Southern Germany.
 Miles Shepherd, BSc, MAPM, MBCS, CITP, CMIPD, APMP Miles Shepherd is based near London, and can be reached at miles.shepherd@msp-ltd.co.uk.
 Alan Stretton, PhD Alan Stretton, PhD, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) and former chair of the PMI Standards Committee, is one of the world’s most widely respected figures in the project management profession. Alan retired from his second project management-related career in 2006, as Adjunct Professor of Project Management in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Australia, which he joined in 1988 to develop and deliver a Master of Project Management program. Alan has a BE Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Tasmania and a Masters Degree in Mathematics from the University of Oxford (UK). He was Tasmanian Rhodes Scholar for 1948. He was awarded an honorary PhD in Strategy, Programme & Project Management by Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Lille, France (ESC, Lille) in 2005. Prior to joining UTS, Mr Stretton worked in the building and construction industries in Australia, New Zealand and the USA for 38 years, which included the management of construction, R&D, information and control systems, internal management education programs, and organisational change projects. Alan started his professional career with the Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania in 1947. He was an engineer and construction supervisor for the Snowy Mountain Hydro-Electric Authority in New South Wales (NSW) from 1952-1957. He was a civil engineering consultant in Dunedin, New Zealand, during 1957-1960. He spent a short stint at Thiess Bros Pty Ltd, construction contractors during 1960-61. In 1962, Alan joined Lend Lease Corporation Ltd in Sydney where he spent the next 26 years. At Lend Lease, now one of the world’s largest construction and property development companies, Alan was Senior Office Engineer, Planning Manager at their head office, Assistant to the Managing Director, Manager of Special Projects (Civil & Civic Pty Ltd) and Manager of Special Projects for Lend Lease. Dr. Stretton has been involved in PM professional development activities for decades, including the development of PM related courses and curricula at the School of Building at the University of New South Wales, and at UTS. He has also been extensively involved in establishing PM professional standards, with the Standards Association of Australia (SAA) in 1981-1982; as Chairman of the Standards (PMBOK) Committee of the Project Management Institute (PMI) from late 1989 to early 1992 and member of the PMI Standards Committee through 1996; and as a Member of the AIPM Core Working Group for the development of Competency Standards for Project Managers during 1994-95. He was also a Member of AIPM’s Professional Affairs Committee during 1990-92 and Intersociety Relations Committee 1989-93. Alan was elected a Life Fellow of AIPM in 1996. Since 1977, Alan Stretton has published over 70 professional articles and papers related to project management, including 34 presentations at various project management conferences around the world. Additional information about Alan Stretton can be found at Additional information about Alan Stretton can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2007/09/alan-stretton-aipm-fellow-former-rhodes.html.  Hiroshi (Hiro) Tanaka Hiroshi (Hiro) Tanaka has 40 years of experience in the global engineering and construction industry and is one of the foremost leaders in the world of professional project management. He is currently Deputy General Manager with JGC Corporation, one of Japan’s largest engineering and construction companies engaged in large off-shore international projects. He was General Manager of JGC’s Project Services Division and a board member of 800-employee JGC Project Services Company until 2002. He is now Deputy General Manager, Project Management Advocate, of JGC’s Strategic Planning and Government Relations Division. Hiro is also the National President of Project Management Association of Japan (PMAJ), the Japanese national PM association – and the founder and former National President of Japan Project Management Forum, known as JPMF. Dr. Tanaka is also a Fellow and global project management delegate of the Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA), the Japanese project industry initiative with 220 first-line Japanese corporations. Dr. Tanaka is widely considered the leading authority on project management in Japan. He has presented keynote, invited or proffered papers and speeches at more than 60 international PM conferences or seminars in 20 countries since 1982. He gained his Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate from the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in 1996, and received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award in 1998. Hiro was won awards from ENNA for Outstanding Engineering Contributions – Project Management in 1998 and 2002, the Global Fellow award from PMA (India) in 2000, and a PM GURU – Global Project Management Leadership Award presented by the State of India in November 2005. Dr. Tanaka is an author of two project management books and numerous papers and articles published in PM conference proceedings, journals and industrial reviews in four languages (Japanese, English, Chinese and Russian). A member of AIPM, IPMA, PMAJ, PMI and SOVNET (honorary lifetime membership), Hiro has been a frequent contributor to www.pmforum.org in recent years. Dr. Tanaka holds a Bachelor of Law in Political Science from Keio University, Tokyo (1967), and received a Ph.D. (Hon.) in Strategy, Programme and Project Management from ESC Lille - École Supérieure Management et Commerce Lille, France in August 2006. Hiro can be contacted at hirojpmf@wta.att.ne.jp.
 Professor Vladimir Voropajev, Ph.D. Professor Vladimir Voropajev, PhD. is is President and Chairman of the Board of the Russian Association of Project Management, SOVNET. Dr. Voropajev is professor of Project Management at the State University of Management, Moscow, Russia. He is also Head of the Program and Project Management Faculty for the Russian State Academy’s Program for Professional Retraining and Professional Skill Development for Executives and Specialists in Investment Fields. He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences on Information Science and Cybernetics, and of the International Academy of Investments and Economy in Construction. From 1991 to 2001, he was Vice-president and a member of the Executive Board of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), the global federation of national PM associations based in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the First Assessor for several IPMA certification bodies. In 2005 he was awarded IPMA Honorary Fellowship Award. He is also an honorary Fellow of the Indian Project Management Association and a past member of the Global Project Management Forum Steering Committee. During his 40 years of engineering, scientific, teaching and consulting activities, he has published over 250 scientific research works including 7 monographs and 5 textbooks about the organization and planning of construction, information systems, and project management. Vladimir serves on the editorial boards of several international project management journals, is a frequent participant in PM conferences worldwide, and provides ongoing counsel and support to PM professional leaders in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia and several other countries. Professor Voropajev can be reached at voropaev@sovnet.ru
 Mr. Max Wideman, FCSCE, FEIC, FICE, Fellow PMI, is a global PM advisor for PM World Today. A globally-recognized author, consultant and expert on the subject of project management (PM), Max is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on modern project and program management. The Wideman PM Glossary is one of the most widely-referenced lexicons of PM terms and terminology in the world today. Max Wideman has 40+ years of PM-related experience in a wide range of projects and industries. He is a registered professional engineer specializing in project management consulting. Max is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and a long-time member of the Institute of Management (UK). Max served on the PMI Board of Directors as VP Member Services (1984), President (1987) and Chairman of the Board (1988). In the mid-1980's, he led a team of PMI volunteers to document the PM Body of Knowledge for the Institute, published by PMI in 1987. Max won PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award in 1985 and Person of the Year Award in 1986. Max Wideman is the author of A Framework for Project and Program Integration (PMI, 1991) and Project and Program Risk Management: A guide to Managing Project Risk and Opportunities (PMI, 1992). He contributed chapters to Project Management Handbook (PMI/Jossey-Bass, 1998); Field Guide to Project Management (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1998, 2004) and Project Management for the Business Professional - A Comprehensive Guide (Wiley, 2001). His latest book is A Management Framework for Project, Program and Portfolio Integration. (Trafford Publishing, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2004). A resident of Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, Max Wideman’s personal website can be found at www.wideman.com. Max can be contacted at max@wideman.com.
 Rebecca Winston Ms. Rebecca Winston, Esq., JD, PMI Fellow, is a former Chair of the board of the Project Management Institute (PMI®). An experienced expert on the subject of project management (PM) in the fields of research & development (R&D), energy, environmental restoration and national security, she is well known throughout the United States and globally as a leader in the PM professional world. Rebecca has over 25 years of experience in program and project management, primarily on programs funded by the US government. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska’s College of Law, Juris Doctorate (1980), in Lincoln, Nebraska and has a Bachelor’s of Science (BS) degree in Education from Nebraska Wesleyan University and a Master’s Degree in Biology from Iowa State University in the USA. She is a licensed attorney in the states of Iowa and Nebraska, USA. Active in PMI since 1993, Rebecca Winston helped pioneer PMI's Specific Interest Groups (SIGs) in the nineties, including the Project Earth and Government SIGs, and was a founder and first co-chair of the Women in Project Management SIG. She served two terms on the PMI board of directors as director at large, Secretary Treasurer, Vice Chair (for two years), and Chair (2002). She was elected a PMI Fellow in 2005. She is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of Female Executives in the United States. Ms. Winston currently serves as a consultant to organizations such as the National Nuclear Security Administration (USA), U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on topics ranging from Program and Project Management to project reviews, risk management and vulnerability assessments. She has extensive recent PM experience in the areas of national defense and security, and has worked closely with local, regional and national officials, including Congress and the Pentagon. She lives in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA and can be contacted at Rebecca.Winston@associates.dhs.gov.
 Robert (Bob) Youker is an independent trainer and consultant in Project Management with more than forty years of experience in the field. He is retired from the World Bank where he developed and presented six week project management training courses for the managers of major projects in many different countries. He served as the technical author for the bank on the Instructors Resource Kit on CD ROM for a five week training course on Managing the Implementation of Development Projects. He has written and presented more than a dozen papers at the Project Management Institute and the International Project Management Association (Europe) conferences many of which have been reprinted in the Project Management Institute publications and the International Journal of Project Management (UK). Mr. Youker is a graduate of Colgate University, the Harvard Business School and studied for a doctorate in behavioral science at George Washington University. His project management experience includes new product development at Xerox Corporation and project management consulting for many companies as President of Planalog Management Systems from 1968 to 1975. He has taught in Project Management Courses for AMA, AMR, AED, ILI, ILO, UCLA, University of Wisconsin, George Washington University, the Asian Development Bank and many other organizations. He developed and presented the first Project Management courses in Pakistan, Turkey, China and Africa for the World Bank. A few years ago Mr. Youker conducted Project Management training in Amman, Jordan financed by the European Union for 75 high level civil servants from Iraq who implemented the first four World Bank projects in Iraq. He is a former Director of PMI, IPMA and asapm, the USA member organization of IPMA. Most recently he has been consulting for the US Government Millennium Challenge Corporation on project management training in Africa. Bob can be contacted at bobyouker@att.net.
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