PM Scene: Faces and Places
May - June 2002
William R. Duncan Director Standards ASAPM
William
R. Duncan is a principal of Project Management Partners, a project management
consulting and training firm headquartered in Lexington, MA USA. He is
the former Director of Standards for the Project Management Institute,
Inc. (USA) and is currently Director of Standards for the American Society
for Advancement of Project Management (asapm).
Mr. Duncan has nearly thirty years of management and consulting experience including five years with a major international consulting firm. He was the primary author of the 1994 and 1996 versions of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, the most widely used project management standard in the world. In addition, his "process model" of project management was used to organize both ISO 10006, Guidelines for quality in project management.
He has helped clients in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia improve their organizational performance through better project management.
Mr. Duncan is a 1970 graduate of Brown University in Providence, RI and has done post-graduate work at Boston University and Northeastern. More info on William Duncan available at http://www.pmpartners.com.
Executive Director Leaves PMI ®
Rebecca Winton PMI® Chair announced that:
"Mr. Virgil Carter, current Executive Director for PMI, Inc., has recently accepted a career advancing opportunity as Executive Director for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME, in New York City, New York, USA."... ..."The PMI Board of Directors will be initiating an executive recruitment and selection process immediately and will make every effort to progress the process in a timely manner."
The Project Management Institute Web Site is at http://www.pmi.org/
Jean Paul Paquin Director Masters Program in Project Management
Dr. Paquin is currently the Director of the Masters Program in Project Management at the Université du Québec à Hull. With over 415 registered students, the Master's Program in PM has become, under his direction, a fully bilingual program (French & English) and one of the most important Programs in Project Management in North America.
Dr. Paquin has developed an expertise in the fields of Economic Planning, Project Financial Evaluation, Project Quality Management and Business Strategy. His work experience includes extensive field experience in financial evaluation and economic planning ( Input-Output Analysis) for the World Bank and private consulting firms operating in the developing countries (CARICOM countries, Senegal, Morocco), financial risk assessment for the Department of National Defence of Canada, as well as Strategic Planning for a major Canadian bank.
He currently teaches Project Management and Project Financial Evaluation at Universite du Quebec a Hull. Dr. Paquin's research and publications cover such diverse fields as: Financial Evaluation, Quality Management, Risk Management, and Strategic Management-by-Projects.
Dr Paquin's e-mail address is:
jean-paul_paquin@uqah.uquebec.ca.
The web site for Universite du Quebec a Hull Project Management Program
is:
http://www.uqo.ca/english/index.asp