New Help Content - June/July
July 18, 2008
Check out the new help content that has come out over the past month. Office Online Content and Demo Videos Connect with other Project users Connecting with the community of Project users has now gotten more interesting with the addition of more... Read more...
Panarchy: How To Burn Trees To Save The Forest
July 18, 2008
Previously I wrote about using the concept of Panarchy to analyze complex problems. This concept can assist Project Managers dealing with today’s complexities. If you haven’t read the previous post, I suggest you catch up on that one, before... Read more...
Stories from NASA: ASK Magazine Features Real Project Stories by Real Project Leaders
July 18, 2008
The July edition of ASK Magazine, published by NASA’s Academy of Program/Project & Engineering Leadership (APPEL), contains some fascinating stories about NASA projects and project leadership.They are tremendously interesting and educational descriptions... Read more...
PMI Research Award Winners Announced at PMI Research Conference in Poland
July 18, 2008
The Project Management Institute (PMI) has awarded The PMI® Research Achievement Award to Dragan Z. Milosevic, PhD, PMP, of Portland, Oregon, USA, and the Project Management Journal Paper of the Year Award to Blaize Horner Reich, PhD, of Vancouver, Canada. “The... Read more...
Heads of Major Space Agencies Issue Joint Statement in Paris on Future of International Space Station
July 18, 2008
The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met at European Space Agency (ESA) Headquarters in Paris on July 17, 2008, to review ISS cooperation. As part of their discussions, they... Read more...
Governance of Project Management - APM Guides Available Online in UK
July 18, 2008
Reported by David Shannon in London Directing Change: A Guide to Governance of Project Management and Co-Directing Change: A Guide to the Governance of Multi-Owned Projects are available from the Association for Project Management (APM) in the UK. These... Read more...
Primavera Contributes $1 Million to PMI Educational Foundation
July 17, 2008
Primavera Systems, Inc., the world’s leading provider of project, portfolio and resource management software, is contributing $1 million to support the humanitarian and educational programs of the PMI Educational Foundation (PMIEF). “Social... Read more...
ESI Publishes 10 Top Trends In Project Management for 2008
July 17, 2008
According to ESI International, a US-based project management consulting and training organization, the top 10 trends in project management for 2008 are as follows: Investment in Project Management Training To Counter Effects of Troubled Economy. Squeezed... Read more...
Announcing the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers
July 15, 2008
On July 15th, 2008 Microsoft announced the availability of the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Office Servers is a set of updates to improve platform performance and contain several customer driven fixes. The updates... Read more...
Black Swan: The Link Between Mind, Complexity And Resilience
July 15, 2008
For me, THE most influential book of the first half of 2008 is definitely “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Craig reminded my with his post yesterday of this book, and the fact that it was due... Read more...