News From Authors & Publishers - December 2006
Wideman PM Website Updates Announced for November
Max Wideman has announced the November updates to his popular project management website, as follows:
This month Walter Wawruck concludes in Part 3 of his Guest paper on Managing Project Scope with recommendations for A Framework for Controlling Scope. Our Paper is a review of Joe Marasco's book The Software Development Edge a delightful and informative set of essays on managing successful projects. In Musings we recount the story of how an educated animal sets about project managing the Planning and Construction of a traditional beaver dam
Max has added content to a number of Issacons this month, as follows:
- 1004c1 Project Portfolio Management;
- 1004c4 Project Portfolio Management;
- 1004d Project Selection;
- 1040 Project Management: Model Guideline #6;
- 1280b Project Librarian;
- 1303 Network Scheduling;
- 1314 Resource Scheduling;
- 1330 Cost Estimating Approaches1330
We've added new Issacons
- 1303a Earned Value & other techniques;
- 1462 Document Control/Versioning.
Max Wideman is one of the world’s best-known project management authorities. An engineer and professional project manager, his experience includes systems, social and environmental projects, as well as design and engineering projects. He is a Fellow of the Project Management Institute, of which he is past president and chairman, and for which he led the development of the 1987 version of the Project Management Body of Knowledge. He is also a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering. His personal web site at http://www.maxwideman.com is a source of superior project management knowledge and information. It is free to the public.
*"Issacons" stands for "Issues and Considerations" that are presented
in bullet form for quick and easy reference by project managers.