PM World Today Editorial - November 2006
Live & in Color – Is the World of PM Ready for Prime Time?
During October 2006, I had the opportunity to participate in two international project management (PM) conferences, in Sao Paolo, Brazil and Seattle, Washington, USA. In both places, a pmforum.org team attempted to “cover” these events as correspondents for traditional news media might. I am not sure that we were successful. This article describes our experiences and raises the question, is the world of PM ready for such visibility?
As a keynote speaker, I had the privilege to attend the PMI Sao Paulo International PM Seminario in Sao Paulo, Brazil during 3-5 October 2006. With more than 600 attendees, it was one of the largest PM conferences ever held in Latin America. It was quite successful by all accounts and measures. During the week that I was in Sao Paulo, I formed a team with Alcides Santopietro, our international correspondent in Brazil. We decided to prepare “breaking news” stories each day during the conference, prepared “on site”, then emailed to our webmaster in the USA for posting on www.pmforum.org.
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Live and In Color - Is the World of PM Ready for Prime Time
About the Managing Editor:
David L. Pells
Managing Editor, pmforum.org
David L. Pells is the Managing Editor of PM World Today and www.pmforum.org. He is also the President and CEO of iWorld Projects & Systems, Inc., the parent company of pmforum.org. David is an internationally recognized leader in the field of professional project management, with over thirty years’ experience in project management related activities and positions. His professional experience includes a wide variety of programs and projects, including engineering, construction, transit, defense and high technology, and project sizes ranging from several thousand to ten billion dollars. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI®), and was awarded PMI’s person of the year award in 1998 and Fellow Award in 1999.
David can be contacted at: editor@pmforum.org
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