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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.

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March 2011

• State of the World of Project Management - PM Education and Training
  By David Pells

February 2011

• Tunisian Winds of Change! The Potential Impact of Political Upheaval in North Africa & the Middle East
  By David Pells

January 2011

• State of the World of Project Management A look back, then forward
  By David Pells

December 2010

• Clean Water as a Human Right! Implications for Project Management
  By David Pells

November 2010

• Project Management Enters the National Debate
  By David Pells

October 2010

• Project Journalism! How Project Management Knowledge Can Help Journalists & Traditional News Media!
  By David Pells

September 2010

• Project Stories – the Largely Untapped World of Personal Experiences & Lessons Learned in Project Management
  By David Pells

August 2010

• The Dangers of Arrogance in Project Management
  By David Pells

July 2010

• Deepwater Horizon: Lessons from the Recent BP Project Failure and Environmental Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico – Part I
  By David Pells

June 2010

• With former US President Bill Clinton, PMI to
  Step onto the World Stage at Global Congress
  in October
  By David Pells

May 2010

• Take a Trip!
  The Value of International Travel for
  Project Management Professionals –
  based on a Personal Story
  By David Pells

March 2010

• What motivates your Project Team?
  What you think might just be Wrong!
  By David Pells

February 2010

• Three Points – about Project Management Education, Training & Career Development
  or Three Good Reasons for Continuous Learning in Project Management
  By David Pells

January 2010

• Construction Project Scheduling Today: Issues and Controversies
  By Earl Glenwright

December 2009

• Advances in Project Management
  By Prof Darren Dalcher

November 2009

• Back to the Future: Projects & Project Management to Meet Basic Human & Social Needs
  or
  Malthus and Maslow Revisited!
  By David L. Pells

October 2009

• Five Decades of Modern Project Management:
  Where It Came From – Where It’s Going
  By Russell Archibald

September 2009

• Disruptive Events!
  Are you, your project or your organization prepared ?
  By David L. Pells

August 2009

• Give Back to Your Profession – Volunteer!
  The Return on Investment May Surprise You
  By David L. Pells

July 2009

• Refreshed!
  The Value of Project Management Conferences
  Revisited (again)
  or
  What was refreshed at the 23rd IPMA World
  Congress on Project Management in Finland
  By David L. Pells

June 2009

• Global Business Intelligence for Managers of Programs, Projects and Project-oriented Organizations
  By David L. Pells

May 2009

• Frontiers for Project Management! Projects & PM in Healthcare & Medical Treatment: Part I - PM for Hospitals & Medical Centers
  By David L. Pells

April 2009

• Editor’s Perspective on the Current Edition
  By David L. Pells

March 2009

• Project Management as a National Competence!
  How Modern Program & Project Management can
  Strengthen Organizations, Industries and Economies
  By David L. Pells

February 2009

• Project Management and Accountability!
  How Professional Program & Project Management can
  Help Improve Accountability in Business & Government
  By David L. Pells

January 2009

• The Project Management Manifesto!
  By David L. Pells

December 2008

• Silver Lining: Why the Economic Recession May be Good
  for Project Management!
  By David L. Pells

November 2008

• The Future of Project Management is …
  Not a Straight Line!
  By David L. Pells

October 2008

• Project Management in Politics! How Modern PM
  can help advance Democracy Worldwide
  By David L. Pells

September 2008

• Back to the Future: Project Earth Revisited!
  By David L. Pells

August 2008

• How Many Project Managers Do You See –
  On Your Project?
  By David L. Pells

July 2008

• New Frontiers for Project Management:
  Earth Science, Monitoring the Planet & Climate Control
  By David L. Pells

June 2008

• Seven Good Reasons for the Rapid Growth of
  Project Management in IT and why that Trend
  will Continue By David L. Pells

May 2008

• New Frontiers for Project Management:
  Future Energy By David L. Pells

April 2008

• The Value of Project Management Conferences
  Revisited - My recent experience in Tokyo
  By David L. Pells

March 2008

• New Frontiers for Project Management –
  Nanotechnology By David L. Pells

February 2008

• Climate Change: What it Means to the World of
  Project Management By David L. Pells

January 2008

• Ten Years On! Back to the Future of Project
  Management! By David L. Pells

December 2007

• Time to Celebrate! - 2007, the year of PMForum's
  emergence as a global resource for the world
  of project managemeNT
  By David L. Pells

November 2007

• More Project Management Conferences: Major
  Trend or Market Reflection?
  By David L. Pells

October 2007

• The Important But Under-appreciated Role of
  Consultants in the Project Management World!
  By David L. Pells

September 2007

• Project Management for Emergency Response &
  Recovery – A Call to Arms!
  By David L. Pells

August 2007

• The Seven Natural Phases of a Project Management
  Career By David L. Pells

July 2007

• Why is Project Management so White Hot - Cool?
  By David L. Pells

June 2007

• Teams of Teams! - The New Organizational Reality
  for Program & Project Management
  By David l. pells

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

• The Importance of Projects in Outer Space and
  Why the World of PM Needs to Care!
  By David l. pells

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

• Continuity or change - the dilema of
  new managers

June 2006

• TO PURSUE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES…

May 2006

• The Timeless Principles of Successful
  Project Management

April 2006

• PMO: COST CENTER OR PROFIT CENTER?

March 2006

• LET’S JUST SEE HOW SIMPLE WE CAN MAKE
  THIS STUFF

February 2006

• WHERE DO WE DEBATE THE FUTURE OF
  PROJECT MANAGEMENT?

January 2006

• Professional Ethics – The most important
  subject for the PM Profession

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?

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