PM World Today Editorial Archive
Each Editorial describes a current organizational or other project management issue. These Editorials highlight imperatives of the project management profession. Issues are objectively and compassionately described with thoughts on where and how the PM profession is advancing as a global discipline.
The full text of recent editorials are available as PDF files. Links on this page link to a summary. Click on the full text link in the summary to access the full content in PDF format.
June 2007
May 2007
- Transparency Vs Security! - A Growing Dilemma for Project Managers and Organizations By David l. pells
April 2007
- The Value of Project Management Conferences By David l. pells
March 2007
- Project Management Advisory Panels, An Idea Whose Time Has Come! By David l. pells
February 2007
January 2007
- The Future of Project Management is YOU By David l. pells
December 2006
- The Future of Project Management is YOU By David l. pells
November 2006
- The Future of Project Management is YOU By David l. pells
October 2006
- The Future of Project Management is YOU By David l. pells
September 2006
- The Future of Project Management is YOU By David l. pells
August 2006
- The Future of Project Management is YOU By David l. pells
July 2006
- The Future of Project Management is YOU By David l. pells
August 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
PM World Today Editorials 2005
- Who are the true leaders in project management?
- Do We Really Need Another "International Day Of"?
- Why are canceled projects considered failures?
- Project Management's Critical Marketing Problems
- Continuing to “connect the world of project management”
- Beyond Maturity in Project Management Alternative Futures
PM World Today Editorials 2004
- The THIRD WAVE of Project Management
- Knowledge Mapping and the Price of Knowledge
- An Interesting Exchange on Software Development Projects
- A New Window on the PM Web
- Outsourcing and Off shoring - Our Changing World of Work
- A Debasement of the PM Coin
PM World Today Editorials 2003
- A New Year Prediction
- Earned Value the Handmaiden of Project Management
- The Case of the Missing Domain
- Why Don't Software Methodologies Work?
- The Sky Is Not Falling In
- The David Pells Open Letter to the PMI® Board
- Learning From NASA
PM World Today Editorials 2002
- Trade Shows , Entertainment and Hype!
- Project Management, PMBoK and Order
- Where is the Evidence?
- Self-Motivated Work Groups
- What's In A Name?
- The Project Management Function Has Two Heads?
- What Does A Project Manager Do?
- Consensus Vs. Consent
- Defining Requirements
- Satisfying Requirements: On Competition and the Invisible Hand
- Two Into One Won't Go
PM World Today Editorials 2001
- Project Management Maturity
- On Project Success and Failure
- On Real Progress
- Standards and Practices for Global Projects
- A Case For Risk Management
- The Biggest Project of All
- Ethics and Sustainable Development
- Licensing Project Managers - Good or Bad Idea?
- Is Project Teamwork Overblown?
- All Else Pales by Comparison
- On Processes and Phases?
- A New Project Management Standard?
PM World Today Editorials 2000
- Lacking in Principles?
- Risk, Failure or Opportunity?
- Project Management for the New Millennium
- What Price Professionalism?
- Project Management Globalization - Two Points of View?
- On Intellectual Property Or Who owns the knowledge economy?
- Communication: The Project Lifeblood
- Getting Top Management Onside
- Practice vs. Theory
- Professional Associations and Power
- People, work and projects around the world
- The Project Life Cycle - One Size Fits All
- Project Management Knowledge and the Web
- Is the WBS War About to Break Out Again?