In This Edition
Welcome to the May Edition of the PM World Journal
By David Pells, Managing Editor
Letters to the Editor
On The Subject of Ethics-Related Articles in the April PMWJ by Dalcher and Cavanagh
By Michael O’Brochta (USA)
Featured Papers
PMO and the Tollgate Process
By Bob Prieto (USA)
Modeling the Project Management Tasks Under the Risk and Uncertainty Condition with a Cyclic Alternative Network Model
By Lev Averbakh, Yan Gelrud and Vladimir Voropajev (Russia/USA)
Teaching Earned Value as a Simple Methodology
By Jeffery Tyler (USA)
Exploring Gold Equivalency for Forecasting Steel Prices on Pipeline Projects
By Trian Hendro Asmoro (Indonesia)
Communications and Contacts in Massively Interconnected Systems – Part 1: Rents Rules and Connectedness between People
By Pavel Barseghyan, PhD (Armenia/USA)
Realising Complex Policy – Using Systems-of-Systems
By Dr David Dombkins (Australia)
Measuring the Convergence of Sustainability and Project Management – Where the ‘Triple Bottom Line’ falls short: P5 in Action – The Enhancement of the Model
By Mark Reeson (UK)
Series Articles
The Complexity Dialogues: ‘Complicated’ and ‘Complex’ – the management difference
Panelists: Kaye Remington, PhD (Australia); Revd Michael Cavanagh (Ireland)
Author/Moderator: Prof Darren Dalcher, PhD (UK)
Enterprise Project Governance: How to Manage Projects Successfully Across the Organization – Stakeholder Management
By Paul Dinsmore and Luiz Rocha (Brazil)
New Construction Contract for the 21st Century: A Series on the CIOB’s new contract for complex construction projects – Cost Management, Valuation and Payment
By Keith Pickavance (UK)
IPMA Education & Training Board Series – The E&T Stream at the forthcoming IPMA World Congress: “Balancing PM: Further Training & Professional Development”
By Prof John-Paris Pantouvakis (Greece)
Advisory Articles
Executive Perspective on Project Sponsorship: Some Suggestions
By Abid Mustafa (UAE)
Commentaries
Project Team – an Abiding Myth
By Martin Price (UK)
Student Papers
Sustainability in Project Management – a case study at Landstede MBO Zwolle
By Bianca van Es & Marjolein Jonker
The University of Greenwich in London (United Kingdom) in cooperation with Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Deventer (The Netherlands)
Second Editions
Identifying/Verifying Customer Needs before Specifying Product/Service Requirements in the Program/Project Context
By Alan Stretton (Australia)
Reports
Project Management Update from Santiago
By Jaime Videla (Chile)
IPMA Achievement Awards – Making a Difference
By Ewa Bednarczyk (Poland) & Alan Tupicoff (Australia)
Project Management Update from Argentina
By Cecilia Boggi (Argentina)
UK Project Management Roundup
By Miles Shepherd (UK)
Project Management Report in Spain
By Alfonso Bucero (Spain)
Count down to the Largest Gathering of Project Experts in Nigeria and West Africa!
By Taopheek Babayeju (Nigeria)
Book Reviews
Project Pain Reliever (J Ross)
By Dave Garrett
Reviewed by Richard Bonaparte (USA)
The Idea Agent (AMACOM)
By Linda M. Echeverria
Reviewed by Nazanin Mehrooz, PMP (USA)
Creating Entrepreneurial Supply Chains (J Ross)
By William B. Lee, PhD
Reviewed by Carol Kacinko (USA)
Stress and Performance in Healthcare Project Teams (PMI)
By Francois Chiocchio, Paule Lebel, Pierre-Yves Therrianult, Andree Boucher, Carolyn Hass, Francois-Xavier Rabbat; Jean-Francois Bouchard
Reviewed by Nazanin Mehrooz, PMP (USA)
Project Ethics (Gower)
By Haukur Ingi Jonasson and Helgi Thor Ingason
Reviewed by Vijaykumar Kancharla (USA)
Building Successful Information Systems (Business Expert Press)
By Michael Savoie, PhD
Reviewed by Jerry Harraman (USA)
The GPM Reference Guide to Sustainability in Project Management
By Joel Carboni, Monica Gonzalez, and Jeff Hodgkinson
Reviewed by David Simon (Kuwait)
Execution: the Discipline of Getting Things Done
By Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
Reviewed by Jen Skrabak (USA)
The Five-Minute Interview: A Job Hunter’s Guide to Successful Interviews, 3rd Edition
By Richard H. Beatty
Reviewed by Heather Fawn Lowry (USA)
News
People News
Wideman Website updates announced for May 2013
PMI Author Liliana Buchtik, PMP, PMI-RMP Launches Bilingual Website
Dr Dimitrios Emiris joins PM World Correspondents Network in Greece
Call for Papers
Call for Papers for 5th Nigerian National Project Management Conference in September 2013
Call for Papers for PMI® Global Congress 2013 – North America
Future Events
First Keynote Speaker announced for 27th IPM World Congress on Project Management in Dubrovnik
Abstracts are in, theme set for 7th Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in August
IPMA Young Crew Global eCollaboration Competition GeCCo 2013 – invitation to national Young Crews
African Project, Program Managers to Converge on Accra in June to Boost Professionalism
Education News
Profession News
Publishing News
Managing Project Stakeholders – new book by Tres Roeder published by Wiley
New book by John Goodpasture guides project managers to Maximize Project Value
Project Management and Sustainable Development Principles published by PMI
10th Edition of classic book Project Management by Dennis Lock announced by Gower
New series of articles by IPMA Education and Training Board featured in PM World Journal
PMI Information Systems Community of Practice Book Reviews to be published in PM World Journal
Project Stakeholder Management – New Book by Pernille Eskerod & Anna Lund Jepsen published by Gower
First Spanish book published on project risk management – by Liliana Buchtik, PMP, PMI-RMP
PM World Journal translator makes content available in Portuguese and 50 other languages
Industry News
NASA Extends Crew Flight Contract with Russian Space Agency
Hill International to provide PMO services to Iraqi State Housing Commission
NASA extends Mission Operations Support Contract with Lockheed Martin
EcoSys announces record revenues and relocation to Denver
Hill to provide PMO services for $500M Mitikah development in Mexico City
CH2M HILL to invest £65million and create 500 new jobs in UK
Research News
News from Projects & Programs
Solar Energy Project in Ukraine receives EBRD funding
NASA Successfully Launches Three SmartPhone Satellites
Project to develop major new private hospital in Mongolia receives EBRD funding
Paraguay-Paraná Waterway Project to improve critical inland water transport between four Countries
Food Projects in Jordan benefit Thousands of Syrian Children
UK to fund IDB Programme to help farmers in Brazil adopt Sustainable methods
Other News
AfDB approves a Ten-Year Strategy for Africa’s Transformation
New source of funding for energy efficiency projects in Kyrgyz Republic announced by EBRD
Building Canada Fund to invest $14 Billion in infrastructure projects over 10 years
UN: Sustainable development of oceans key to ending hunger
Climate-Proof Water Projects to receive stimulus funding in three poor African Countries
