PMFORUM Breaking News

PMForum has announced that the 5th project management book to be given away through its PM GiveAways™ Program will be Project Governance, a book authored by Ralf Müller and published by Gower in 2009. PMForum's PM GiveAways™ Program was announced on 10 July 2010; to see article, click here.

Without a governance structure, an organization runs the risk of conflicts and inconsistencies between the various means of achieving organizational goals, the processes and resources, causing costly inefficiencies that impact negatively on both smooth running and bottom line profitability. However, the frequency of projects failing to meet these corporate objectives has focused attention firmly on the process of project governance.

In this book, Ralf Müller provides a well-researched framework to explain the different preferences organizations have in goal setting, along with the best-practices, roles and responsibilities related to governance tasks. This book is an important guide for project and programme managers, those managers concerned with corporate governance such as risk managers and internal auditors, project sponsors and project board members, as well as academics researching organizational and project performance.

Ralf Müller is an international lecturer, researcher, author, and business consultant. He is the founder and managing director of PM Concepts, a Sweden based Management Consultancy, which advises larger enterprises in project, program and portfolio management. In parallel he is a part-time Associate Professor at Umeå University, Sweden, Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian School of Management BI, and at the SKEMA Graduate School of Management in Lille, France. He lectures project management, project governance and research methodology.

His research focuses on project, program and portfolio management improvement from an organization-wide perspective. His research studies have appeared in more than 50 publications and he is frequent speaker at global research and Practitioner conferences. As a consultant he worked in 44 different countries, for the improvement of project management in large organizations. He also managed national, international and global IT projects and consulting organizations.

Dr Müller is a member of the Editorial Review Board of several international academic journals. He is a member of the Consortium for Research in Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, and a co-founder of PMI's Frankfurt and Munich Chapters, as well as contributor to the PMI Standards for Organizational Project Management Maturity (OPM3), and Program and Portfolio Management.

Project Governance; by Ralf Müller; published by Gower; ISBN 9780566088667; 124 pages; softcover; © 2009; US$49.95/UK£25.00. For more about the book, click here. The DRAWING for free copies of the book Project Governance will be held on October 28, 2010. Drawing will be for 10 lucky winners. The book will be shipped free of charge to the winners. For rules and to register, click here.

Project Governance is part of the Gower "Fundamentals of Project Management" Series. Practicing professionals and project students will find in the fundamentals a definitive, shorthand guide to each of the main competencies associated with project management; a book that is authoritative, based on current research but immediately relevant and applicable. Gower is a major books publisher based in the UK; to see their selection of project management books, visit http://www.gowerpublishing.com/projectmanagement.

PMForum's PM GiveAways™ Program is based on periodic DRAWINGS for free educational and professional project management products and services. PM GiveAways™ will include project management courses, books, conference passes, software and other valuable items. Drawings will be held every few weeks, with the products and services to be given away announced in breaking news articles ahead of time and on PM GiveAways™ web pages. To learn more or to register for drawings for free project management stuff, click here.

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PMForum offers no claims or warranties regarding the products or services offered or promoted through the PM GiveAways™ Program. In many cases, we will not have tried, read or experienced the product or service offered. We accept no liability regarding the quality or success of any course, product or service.