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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Karl Best nominated Secretary of ISO/PC 236 committee working on new international project management standard
Reported by Jouko Vaskimo in Helsinki
The Project Management Institute (PMI) has announced that Mr Karl Best has been appointed to the position of Secretary of ISO/PC 236, the committee working on ISO 21500 A Guide for Project Management. PMI serves as the secretariat of PC 236 on behalf of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Mr Best assumes the position immediately.
Mr Best says that he is pleased with the appointment and looking forward to working with the PC: "I have been involved in standards work for many years, and have always enjoyed working with the various experts who devote their time and energies to the advancement of their industry. The work of PC 236 will have a positive, wide-ranging effect across many fields. I look forward to assisting the members of the PC in continuing their work, and to meeting many of them for the first time at the upcoming PC plenary in Brazil." Mr. Best can be contacted at Karl.Best@pmi.org. (photo courtesy Karl Best)
Mr Miles Shepherd, Chairman of ISO/PC 236, welcomes the appointment of Mr Best, saying "Mr Best brings considerable experience of working with standards to our team and I am looking forward to working with him to bring ISO 21500 to fruition. We are now in the Committee Draft stage and still have a great deal of work, especially in the run up to our next plenary in Brazil so Mr Best will be very busy in the coming weeks and his experience will be invaluable." Mr Shepherd can be contacted at Miles.Shepherd@msp-ltd.co.uk. (photo courtesy Jouko Vaskimo)
Mr Best has been involved in standards and standards-related activities for over fifteen years, either as a committee participant, chair, administrator, standards organization management, or consultant. He has organized and spoken at numerous industry conferences and events related to standardization.
Mr Best was most recently Director of Standards at Kavi Corporation, where he advised standards organizations and industry consortia on organizational structure and policies, technical process, and other best practices, and assisted in the design of infrastructure tools for accredited and non-accredited organizations. He was also the author of various white papers and published academic papers on standards practices, and the author of the Kavi blog on Standards Best Practices. Prior to his work in standards Karl has worked for companies including Novell, Adobe, and Sun in producing electronic delivery systems for documentation and in developer support and training.
Mr Best is a long-time advocate of cooperative efforts between standards organizations, especially via the communication of the status of their efforts. He founded and led an ad hoc effort to define a metadata for specifications used to promote cooperation, reduction of duplicative efforts, and increase the participation in and adoption of standards work.
Mr Best holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the Brigham Young University.
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ISO enables a consensus to be reached on solutions that meet both the requirements of business and the broader needs of society. For further information please navigate to www.iso.org.
The Project Management Institute (PMI) has announced that Mr Karl Best has been appointed to the position of Secretary of ISO/PC 236, the committee working on ISO 21500 A Guide for Project Management. PMI serves as the secretariat of PC 236 on behalf of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Mr Best assumes the position immediately.
Mr Best has been involved in standards and standards-related activities for over fifteen years, either as a committee participant, chair, administrator, standards organization management, or consultant. He has organized and spoken at numerous industry conferences and events related to standardization.
Mr Best was most recently Director of Standards at Kavi Corporation, where he advised standards organizations and industry consortia on organizational structure and policies, technical process, and other best practices, and assisted in the design of infrastructure tools for accredited and non-accredited organizations. He was also the author of various white papers and published academic papers on standards practices, and the author of the Kavi blog on Standards Best Practices. Prior to his work in standards Karl has worked for companies including Novell, Adobe, and Sun in producing electronic delivery systems for documentation and in developer support and training.
Mr Best is a long-time advocate of cooperative efforts between standards organizations, especially via the communication of the status of their efforts. He founded and led an ad hoc effort to define a metadata for specifications used to promote cooperation, reduction of duplicative efforts, and increase the participation in and adoption of standards work.
Mr Best holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the Brigham Young University.
Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world's leading not-for-profit membership association for the project management profession, with more than half a million members and credential holders in 185 countries. PMI worldwide advocacy for project management is supported by the globally-recognized standards and credentials, an extensive research program, and professional development opportunities.
PMI products and services are the basis of greater recognition and acceptance of project management's successful role in governments, organizations, academia and industries.
PMI core values are the fundamental and enduring principles that guide the actions and create a common language for the diverse group of global stakeholders. For further information please navigate to www.pmi.org.
The Institute oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines that directly impact businesses in nearly every sector: From acoustical devices to construction equipment, from dairy and livestock production to energy distribution, and many more. ANSI is also actively engaged in accrediting programs that assess conformance to standards - including globally-recognized cross-sector programs such as the ISO 9000 (quality) and ISO 14000 (environmental) management systems. For further information please navigate to www.ansi.org.
ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 159 countries, one member per country, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland, that coordinates the system. ISO is a non-governmental organization that forms a bridge between the public and private sectors. On one hand, many of its member institutes are part of the governmental structure of their countries, or are mandated by their government. On the other hand, other members have their roots uniquely in the private sector, having been set up by national partnerships of industry associations.
ISO enables a consensus to be reached on solutions that meet both the requirements of business and the broader needs of society. For further information please navigate to www.iso.org.