PM Community News - October 2006
- Hiroshi Tanakia awarded honorary Ph.D.
(Philosophiæ Doctor Honoris Causa) by ESC Lille - Global PM Advisory Panel Announced For pmforum.org
- Former APM Chair Miles Shepherd Becomes International
Correspondent for pmforum.org in the UK - Russ Archibald Joins PMF Global Advisory Panel
- Marcio Prieto Joins PMF Global Advisory Panel
- Max Wideman Joins PMF Global Advisory Panel
- Gilles Caupin Joins PMF Global Advisory Panel
Hiroshi Tanakia awarded honorary Ph.D.
(Philosophiæ Doctor Honoris Causa) by ESC Lille
Mr. Hiroshi Tanka, one of the world's foremost leaders in the project management professional world, has been awarded an honorary Ph.D. (Philosophiæ Doctor Honoris Causa) by the Lille School of Management (ESC Lille) in Lille, France.
The honorary degree was presented to Mr. Tanaka on 26 August 2006 in Lille by Professor Christophe N. Bredillet, Associate Dean Postgraduate Programs, and Director of ESC Lille's Programs in Strategy, Program and Project Management, at the ESC Lille in France. Mr. Tanaka was participating in a Doctoral Seminar sponsored jointly by ESC Lille and the University of Technology, Sydney. Attendance at the annual Five-day seminar was "by invitation only" for Masters, MBA, and Doctoral students currently enrolled at either ESC Lille or the University of Technology Sydney; their Supervisors; Adjunct and Visiting Professors; and Fellows of ESC Lille and UTS, along with researcher friends and colleagues of these programs and partner universities.
Hiroshi Tanaka, known to his friends as Hiro, is the National President of the Project Management Association of Japan (PMAJ), a professional organization formed in 2005 by the merger of the Japan Project Management Forum (JPMF) and the Project Management Professionals Certification Center (PMCC).
Mr. Tanaka was the founder and the National President of the Japan Project Management Forum (JPMF). He is also a fellow and special project management delegate of the Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA). One of the best known experts in project management worldwide, Mr. Tanaka has been a speaker at PM conferences in more than 20 countries. He is a long time member of PMI, IPMA-PMA (India; fellow), IPMA-SOVNET (Russia), AIPM (Australia), PMCC (Japan) and SPM (Japan). Mr. Tanaka is also a global editorial advisor to www.pmforum.org.
Founded in 1892, ESC Lille (Lille School of Management - www.esc-lille.com.) is one of the oldest business schools in France, with campuses in Lille and Paris. It is also the first institution outside North America to receive GACPM accreditation by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). The project management program at ESC Lille was inaugurated in 1979. ESC Lille offers postgraduate programs in project management: two masters in project & program management (one taught in English, the other in French), an MBA in Strategy, Program & Project Management (English), and a PhD in Strategy, Program & Project Management (English). ESC Lille research activities in project & program management are grouped together into the International Centre for Project Management and Analysis (CIMAP).
Global PM Advisory Panel Announced For pmforum.org
A Global PM Advisory Panel is being formed for www.pmforum.org, as announced by Managing Editor David Pells on 4 September 2006. The Global PM Advisory Panel will consist of current and former leaders of the world’s leading project management professional societies and organizations. Their experience and insight will help guide pmforum.org in matters associated with the world of project management. In particular, the group will advise the managing editor on ways that www.pmforum.org can best serve the international PM community.
According to Mr. Pells, “We want to develop and offer news and information that can be truly useful to project management professionals and organizations worldwide. In order to do so, we would like to get the best advice possible. Leaders of the world’s PM professional societies can certainly provide invaluable guidance and feedback.”
Objectives for the new Global PM Advisory Panel will include the following:
- To establish a global network of PM leaders to provide advice, feedback and support.
- To expand the content, reach, and reputation of the pmforum.org website and of the monthly PM World Today.
- To ensure that compelling and useful PM information is published on www.pmforum.org and in the monthly PM World Today.
- To promote and expand www.pmforum.org credibility & visibility around the world.
PMForum.org advisors will include current and former leaders of widely recognized PM professional associations, including AIPM, APM, IPMA, PMA, PMAJ, PMI and others. Advisors will be well known and well connected in the global project management professional community.
Each member of the pmforum.org Global PM Advisory Panel will be introduced and featured on the www.pmforum.org website as a "global advisor", with a photo, bio & company affiliation. They will receive additional recognition with each published contribution, and will have an opportunity to meet periodically as a group to plan and discuss the direction and strategic goals of the pmforum.org website and associated activities and publications. Each of the global advisors will be expected to contribute periodic "viewpoints" articles on important issues facing the global PM professional community.
According to Mr. Pells, "We will be announcing our first global advisors later this month. So far we have received overwhelming encouragement and have several very well respected and recognized professional leaders who have whole-heartedly agreed to participate. We are extremely excited about this opportunity to bring such high-level support, expertise, and vision together to focus on the evolution of pmforum. Together our ultimate goal is to have a positive impact on the world of professional project management."
Former APM Chair Miles Shepherd Becomes International Correspondent for pmforum.org in the UK
Mr. Miles Shepherd, BSc, MAPM, MBCS, CITP, CMIPD, APMP, has been named an International Correspondent for www.pmforum.org. Mr. Shepherd has been involved with project management in one form or another for more than 30 years, and has led a variety of projects in UK, Eastern Europe and Russia. He has a background in defence, development of Information Technology strategy and the implementation of major IT projects. Qualified to Post Graduate level in computing, he moved on to develop specialised project management training for information technology for UK Government staff.
His later work centered on the develop project management techniques used to decommission nuclear reactors in UK. He has worked on decommissioning projects throughout UK and in Eastern Europe. Overseas tasks included consulting assignments at Chernobyl, Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant and Bohunice A1 plant in Slovakia.
Recent assignments have included support to the rail industry and business development assignments, including management of a major collaborative project for the European Commission to strengthen the accreditation capabilities in Eastern European countries, and the development of post graduate project management education in Romania.
Miles holds significant posts with the Association for Project Management, the UK’s national PM association (Vice President, and immediate past Chairman) and the International Project Management Association (Past President and Chairman of Council). He is well known throughout the project management professional world, and has been a speaker at PM conferences worldwide.
Mr. Shepherd is an Associate Lecturer and research supervisor for the Open University and Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University. He also holds the honorary post of Senior Research Fellow at University College, London.
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With a population of 60 million, it is the third most populous country in the European Union and is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations (UN), where it holds a permanent seat on the Security Council. The UK is also one of the world’s major nuclear powers and has an economy of approximately US$1.8 trillion. As the successor state to the British Empire, the UK retains influence throughout the world due to the extensive use of the English language, as well as through the world-spanning Commonwealth of Nations, which is ceremoniously led by the UK. (London and UK facts courtesy of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org
Needless to say, London and the UK are the source or sponsor of many programmes and projects, both in the UK and worldwide. The Association of Project Management (APM) in the UK has been one of the world's leading professional associations for advancing project management for over 30 years.
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Considered one of the fathers of modern project management in Brazil, Marcio Prieto was the sponsor and founding member of the first chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in Brazil in 1978. Since 1995, he has led the resurgence of the PM profession in Brazil, resulting in new PMI chapters in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and other states and cities around the country.
Marcio Prieto has a civil engineering degree (1971) and construction planning certificate (1972) from the Polytechnic School of Sao Paulo University (EPUSP). He conducted post graduate studies in urban planning and computer science during 1972-73, and has completed numerous professional and technical courses since then. His career spans more than 35 years of projects and project management, primarily in the engineering and construction industries. His major projects include the Cantagalo Railway Project and Fortaleza, Recife and Maceio Railway systems in Brazil; La Paz Expressway Project in Bolivia; Yamboo-Medina Highway Project in Saudi Arabia; Madeira Island and Acores Islands Airport Projects in Portugal; and other major projects in Brazil related to airports, harbors, highways, hydroelectric power plants, nuclear power plants, railways and various types of buildings. He has experience in Africa, Central America, Europe, the Middle East and in various countries of South America.
Since 1972, Mr. Prieto has been employed by Promon Engenharia, a leading Brazilian engineering consulting company; Hidroservice Engenharia, Brazil's largest engineering company in the early 1970s; NUCLEN, a joint venture of NUCLEBRAS (a Brazilian government company) and Siemens of Germany; CNEC (Consorcio Nacional de Engenheiros Consultores), a leading engineering company and part of the Camargo Correa Group of companies; PRODESP - Processamento de Dados Estado de Sao Paulo (State of Sao Paulo owned company); and CAMARGO CORREA, the largest and most important engineering and construction group of companies in Brazil. Marcio retired from Construções e Comercio Camargo Correa S.A. in 2004, acting now as consultant.
Marcio was the first member of PMI in Brazil, and the founding member of PMI's first chapter outside of North America in 1978. He was president of the PMI Brazil chapter during 1978-81 and of the PMI-Sao Paulo Chapter during 2002-2006. Mr. Prieto has participated in engineering and project management meetings and conferences worldwide for over 30 years and is widely known throughout the Americas as an active leader in the PM profession. He is currently a Steering Team member of PMI's global Community Transformation Project. He is also a long standing participant of the Engineering Institute of Sao Paulo.
In recent years, Marcio has also been a contributor to PM World Today and other project management journals and publications. The pmforum.org team welcomes Marcio as a global advisor for www.pmforum.org and for the world of project management. Marcio Prieto can be reached at marcioprieto@uol.com.br.
Max Wideman Joins PMF Global Advisory Panel
Max Wideman, FCSCE, FEIC, FICE, Fellow PMI, has agreed to become a global PM advisor for www.pmforum.org. A globally-recognized author, consultant and expert on the subject of project management (PM), Max is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on modern project and program management. The Wideman project management glossary is one of the most widely-referenced lexicons of PM terms and terminology in the world today.
Max Wideman has 40+ years of PM related experience, including hands-on experience as a corporate executive, project director and project manager, for a wide range of project types and clients. He has experienced and studied PM from the perspective of owner, developer, engineer, contractor and government agent, as well as reviewer and auditor. He is recognized internationally as a speaker and workshop leader and has presented seminars and papers on a variety of PM topics in many countries.
Max Wideman is a registered professional engineer specializing in project management consulting. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, a Fellow of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and a long-time member of the Institute of Management (UK).
Max was active in PMI for many years and was elected to the PMI Board of Directors as Vice President Member Services (1984), President (1987) and Chairman of the Board (1988). In the mid-1980's, he led a team of some eighty PMI volunteers from across North America to document the Project Management Body of Knowledge for the Institute. It was approved and published by PMI in 1987, but since superseded by A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge in 1996, 2000, and 2004. These publications have provided the basis for PMI's Project Management Professional certification program. PMI recognition has included the Distinguished Contribution Award (1985) and Person of the Year Award (1986).
Max Wideman is the author of two books for PMI, A Framework for Project and Program Integration (1991) and Project and Program Risk Management: A guide to Managing Project Risk and Opportunities (1992). He has contributed chapters to a number of other books, including "Project Risk Management" in Project Management Handbook (PMI/Jossey-Bass, 1998); "How to Motivate All Stakeholders to Work Together" in Field Guide to Project Management (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1998, 2004) and "Professional and Personal Development Management: A Practical Approach to Education and Training" in Project Management for the Business Professional - A Comprehensive Guide (Wiley, 2001). His latest book is A Management Framework for Project, Program and Portfolio Integration. (Trafford Publishing, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2004)
In recent years, Max has been a frequent contributor to www.pmforum.org and to PM World Today. A resident of Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, Max Wideman's personal website can be found at www.wideman.com. He can be contacted at max_wideman@sfu.ca. While officially semi-retired, Max is available for occasional consulting assignments through his company, AEW Services.
AEW Services specializes in project management consulting to corporate executives and project staff from the perspective of owners, consultants and contractors. Fields of capital project management experience include hydroelectric, river, marine, transportation, industrial, institutional, commercial and residential projects. Fields of corporate project management include project information systems, software development, productivity and expropriation claims, project management reviews and audits.
Gilles Caupin Joins PMF Global Advisory Panel
Mr. Gilles Caupin, former President and Chair of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and the French Project Management Association (AFITEP), has agreed to become a global PM advisor for www.pforum.org. Widely recognized as one of the leading authorities on modern project management in Europe, Mr. Caupin is also the former chair of the Global Project Management Forum Steering Committee.
Gilles Caupin has over 40 years of experience in projects and project management, in a variety of fields and industries. Mr. Caupin has a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lille in Paris, but with education in civil, electrical, electronics and mechanical engineering as well.
Mr. Caupin has been heavily involved in the development of project management professional associations and PM certification in the world for many years. He is one of the founders and a past-President of the French project management association AFITEP, past-Chairman and Distinguished International Fellow of the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC), past-Chair and Honorary Fellow of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), and past-Chair of the Global Project Management Forum initiative.
Gilles Caupin is a Certified Cost Engineer from AFITEP (ICEC system). He is a lifetime member of the American Association of Cost Engineers International (AACEI), a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) since the early 1980's (Member N° 6558), a founding member of the first PMI Chapter in France, a member of the American Society for the Advancement of Project Management (asapm), a founding member of AFITEP and SMAP in France, an Honorary Member of APOGEP (Portugal), and an honorary Fellow of PMA (India).
He is presently Chair of the IPMA Certification Management Board, first assessor and international validator for several IPMA certification bodies. He is First Assessor for several countries (France, Portugal, USA) in the IPMA System. Under this system, First Assessors are considered equivalent to IPMA Level B. He has played a leadership role (as a member and chairman of the Certification Validation Management Board) in the development of the IPMA Certification System since 1994.
Gilles Caupin's professional experience covers governmental organizations, information technology, infrastructure (airports, rail, road), nuclear energy, process industries, telecommunications, and both large and small projects. He has worked for Agiplan, Areva, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Cegos, and Proctor & Gamble. Significant project roles have included Assistant Project Director for Korean Nuclear Plants at Framatome (now called AREVA) and Head of Project Controls at Framatome. He assisted in the organization of project management at SNCF Infrastructure (the infrastructure branch of the French railways).
Recently he completed an assignment for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), helping align project certification processes. As an employee of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) during 2004-2005, Gilles was Project Team Leader for the "Common Procurement Certification Scheme for the UN". This scheme covered all 50 agencies / programmes / funds of the UN (including UNDP).
He has owned and managed his own consulting practice, Caupin & Associates, for many years and, although currently semi-retired, he is available for short term assignments. Gilles has presented papers, speeches and workshops on project management around the world for the last twenty years and is widely recognized as one of the leaders in the world of professional project management. Gilles can be contacted at gilles-caupin@wanadoo.fr.