PM World Today - October 2006
Letters to the Editor
- On Other PM Resources in South Africa
- Shahieda Hendricks - Request For PM Contacts For Nigeria
- John Ndubuisi - On Brainstorming the PMBOK® Guide
- Muhamed Abdomerovic
On Other PM Resources in South Africa
Shahieda Hendricks
Cape Town, South Africa
Dear Editor
I am very interested to find out more about project management, best practises, trends, accreditation, skills required, R&D, international demands especially in an insurance industry. I am in the process of conducting a skills audit for project managers and would be very appreciative if I could get some guidance, advise etc.
What is the process to ensure that you e-mail the updates of your editorials etc.?
Thank You
Shahieda Hendricks
Cape Town, South Africa
Shendricks5@oldmutual.com
www.oldmutual.co.za
Editor’s Note: We have responded to Ms. Hendricks with referral to PM contacts in Johannesburg. Readers are welcome to contact her directly with information or contacts that might also be useful.
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Request For PM Contacts For Nigeria
John Ndubuisi
Owerri, Nigeria
Dear Sirs,
I am very sorry for the delay in the reply, as I have told you earlier, I am somehow busy and it is a bit expensive for me to get access to the internet. But I am trying my best to see what I can do about it.
On the issue of your publishing my emails, I'll be very grateful if you do that and I will even be more grateful if you put me in contact with someone from the World Bank and other places. I will like to expand my knowledge and contacts, and get the latest for my career.
I think I have what it takes to make a good potential project manager. I only need some guidance not just from my school and country alone. I think my country has not gone far enough so I need some help from outside. You will be doing me a lot of good if you grant my request.
Thanks,
Yours sincerely,
John Ndubuisi
Owerri, Nigeria
ndumann@yahoo.com
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On Brainstorming the PMBOK® Guide
Muhamed Abdomerovic
Dear Sir:
I am writing to express my appreciation and interest for the PM Forum cooperative program with University of Texas to review project management books. Today I am shipping two packages, one for the UTD book reviewer and other for you. Each package contains a copy of the “Brainstorming The PMBOK® Guide” and “Brainstorming the PMBOK® Guide – CD”. The attachment to this email contains e-book, “Brainstorming The PMBOK® Guide Third Edition”. Please forward the e-book to designated UTD reviewer.
Project Management Publications is a publishing company recently started by my son and myself. Intrigued by the gap between the spectacular circulation of the PMBOK® Guide and its modest application, I decided to analyze the document and try to create a practical picture of it. The outcome of this analysis was a set of Power Point slides showing chronological sequences of all of the PMBOK® Guide’s outputs/inputs.
After several successful applications of the derived sequences, we saw an opportunity to make a serious contribution to the project management profession by writing and publishing studies about project management standards. From that time I have written two books and CD related to the PMBOK® Guide:
- The paperback, "Brainstorming The PMBOK® Guide", explains detail methodology for analysis of the PMBOK® Guide editions and reveals a practical side of the PMBOK® Guide 2000 Edition.
- The e-book, "Brainstorming The PMBOK® Guide Third Edition", reveals a practical side of the PMBOK® Guide Third Edition.
- "Brainstorming the PMBOK® Guide - CD", a collection of the original Power Point slides on CD-ROM, which may be used to lecture about the PMBOK® Guide 2000 Edition.
The books and CD are a technical analysis of the PMBOK® Guide, which do not question statements given in the PMBOK®Guide editions. They are just a pragmatic way to get better use of the PMBOK®Guide editions. In the opinions of several distinguished contributors to project management profession we created a tool that can fill the gap between the PMBOK® Guide and project management practice.
I also belong to professionals, which actively contribute to advancement of the PMBOK®Guide. My paper “The PMBOK® Guide Third Edition – An Analysis” is something different from the books. It compares the PMBOK® Guide editions and suggests what we should do to make next edition better.
To provide the project management community with enough information about Brainstorming the PMBOK® Guides, we also built the web site, www.pmpublications.net/brainstorm. In that time we believed that we have started a process of continuous improvement of project management standards.
Unfortunately, the PMI® declined to support the products and offer the products in the PMI Bookstore. They simply did not understand that any fundamental document, e.g., PMBOK® Guide, must be elaborated through many independent studies to reach maturity and wide acceptance.
Thanks again, with best regards,
Muhamed Abdomerovic
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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.
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