Volume IX - Issue VIII - August 2007
Viewpoints
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Project Management - A Key Contributor to (Editor’s note: This article was published in the Sunday Business Post in Dublin,Ireland in late June and suggests the adoption of project management as a strategy at the national level to improve productivity and global competitiveness. Modified and republished here with permission.) Project management as a management discipline underpins much economic activity - it has become an essential reality for business and government. Societies are becoming more & more project oriented. Nowadays, it is hard to imagine an organization that is not engaged in some kind of project activity. Projects are not just capital investments in infrastructure or information technology. “Project Management” is a mindset, to cope with the increasing dynamics and complexity in our business life. Work practice changes, process and service delivery improvements, new product introductions, acquisitions, disposals, introduction of new standards for learning and certification are all examples of projects covered by this mindset. Read complete paper in English
From Technical Expert to Project Manager Some technical experts are promoted to project manager’s position By Alfonso Bucero, PMP I have met some project management professionals in Europe that were promoted to the job of project manager without going through any selection process in their organizations. I have looked at some big multinational organizations and I observed that some of them think that “any professional is valid for the project manager job”. Then they promote senior technical people to the project management position without going through any selection process. People who have spent some years in the project management profession know that not everyone can be a good project manager. Most of companies worldwide do not spend time informing their people about the meaning of “the project manager job”, the content, the potential issues, challenges and/or difficulties to deal with, to do a good job as project manager. I believe that the main problem is that there is a lack of knowledge about project management in organizations, and then it is not its first priority. Read complete paper in English | Spanish
Project Management is not so “Advanced” as Many Think! By Paul Giammalvo In PM WORLD TODAY EDITORIAL, July 2007 David Pells wrote “Why is Project Management so White Hot - Cool?” Not to date myself, but at one time, Hula Hoops were once “cool”, as were 8 track tapes, Betamax and bra burning…… So what’s my point? We have to be careful to differentiate between fads and facts, propaganda and proof, sizzle and the steak…… Project management is certainly not “new”. The taming of fire, invention of the wheel…… the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, Panama Canal, Empire State Building…..These and many more examples stand as ample evidence that project management is an integral part of mankind’s development and evolution. Stated another way, initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing of projects seems to be “hard wired” into the human psyche. And somehow, at least up until around the early 1980’s, these projects were all done without benefit of the PMBOK Guide, PRINCE2 or any certifications. Read complete paper in English
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