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 com-
passionately 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.
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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
- A Time for Celebration and Reflection:
A Look Back at the Year in PM
By David l. pells
November 2006
- Live & in Color – Is the World of PM Ready
for Prime Time? By David l. pells
October 2006
- Project Management Research - What?
By David l. pells
September 2006
- The World of Project Management - What Is It?
By David l. pells
August 2006
- Continuity or Change - The Dilemma of New Managers
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?