70: There is Nothing New
February 29, 2008
The ProjectWell the good news is that Roger is back and well up to speed after his vacation. Just as well as we are into the ducking and diving stage now. Actually things are going quite well. Of the eleven suppliers who expressed an interest in tendering... Read more...
PM War Stories #12 – Taking Ownership of Strategic Objectives
February 29, 2008
Download PMW_0012_Taking_Ownership.mp3 (16.1 MB) There is a new paradigm emerging in the world of project management. Where at one time project managers were solely focused on the successful execution of the projects they managed, today project... Read more...
Report from the Corporate Portfolio Management Conference in Clearwater Beach, Florida - Sponsors & Exhibitors
February 29, 2008
Reported by A Matt Piazza in Florida Attendees at The Corporate Portfolio Management Conference in Clearwater Florida took advantage of multiple opportunities to update their knowledge of available services and products for this management discipline.... Read more...
Publication Opportunities announced for authors and presenters at May Project Management Conference in Greece
February 29, 2008
Reported by Theofanis Giotis in Athens New publication opportunities have been announced for authors and paper presenters at the 4th SCPM and 1st IPMA/MedNet Conference on Project Management, which will be held on the Greek Island of Chios during 29-31... Read more...
Hill International Acquires Majority of Gerens in Spain
February 29, 2008
Reported by Alfonso Bucero, in Madrid Hill International, the US-based construction and project management company, has announced that it has acquired 60% of Gerens Management Group, S.A., a Spanish-headquartered firm that provides project management... Read more...
Human Resource Management in the Project-Oriented Organization - Important New Book published by PMI
February 29, 2008
Human Resource Management in the Project-Oriented Organization, a new book from the Project Management Institute (PMI), explores how project-oriented organizations operate differently from classic business organizations in that they adopt temporary organizations... Read more...
Professor John-Paris Pantouvakis in Athens named International Editorial Advisor for PMForum & PM World Today
February 29, 2008
PMForum has announced that professor John-Paris Pantouvakis, Ph.D., assistant professor of construction management and director of the Centre for Construction Innovation at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) has been named an International... Read more...
On Business Intelligence projects
February 29, 2008
What is business intelligence?Business intelligence is, frankly, a buzzword. It looks to me as if it simply follows on as the phase 2 or 3 from a series of semi complete data warehouse projects run a few years ago.Maybe that view is a bit sceptical.Let’s... Read more...
3 levels of requirements
February 29, 2008
I picked this concept up from a discussion on the Yahoo Requirements Engineering Group and thought it may be interesting to you. According to the boffins requirements have 3 levels; business, user and system. Each of them focus on a different aspect of... Read more...
Running SQL Server Profiler with Project Server
February 29, 2008
Quite often when you are performing customizations or when you want to troubleshoot your Project Server deployment it's useful to go "deep" and see what's happening under the SQL hood. The best way to achieve that is to run a SQL Server Profiler trace... Read more...