PM Scene: Faces and Places
November - December 2002
The Project Management World Today
Editors And 2002 Authors
Each month we feature an individual who has made a significant contribution to the development, governance and advancement of a global project management community.
This month we salute a group of people who have contributed to the year 2002 success of the Project Management World Today monthly magazine. Here are the short biographies of the Project Management World Today Editors and Contributing Editors for the year 2002. These are the people that make the Project Management World Today a must read for what is happening in the world of project management.
Please take a look at these biographies and see the experience and contribution of the Authors of the Project Management World Today. Visit their web sites and see what they are up to when not writing for the Project Management World Today. [ Read The Biographies ]
Program Director of PMI OPM3 Resigns
John
Schlichter, MBA, has announced he is resigning as Program Director of the
PMI Organizational Project Management Maturity Model Program Team effective
immediately. Schlichter has agreed to remain on the team to provide technical
expertise in an advisory role that is less demanding. Schlichter has been
the Program Director since PMI started the OPM3 program in 1998. He has led
over 600 PMI volunteers in over 20 countries.
"The team is engaged in the final phase of work on the standard, and aims for the publication process to begin Q3 2003. I am confident that the product will launch successfully and attract adopters throughout the world. While I have enjoyed pursuing excellence through PMI standards in the day-to-day direction of the OPM3 program, I must rededicate my energy to new opportunities to help my own partners and clients achieve excellence in project management," said Schlichter.
"John Schlichter has contributed greatly to PMI and the OPM3 program," said PMI’s CEO, Greg Balestrero. "John Schlichter has demonstrated dedication beyond the call of duty. He expanded the program to engage hundreds of professionals in order to ensure OPM3 represents the profession. To date the team has surveyed over 30,000 professionals, analyzed dozens of maturity models, and developed most of the content of the emerging OPM3 standard under John Schlichter’s leadership." said PMI’s Standards Manager Steve Fahrenkrog. "In John Schlichter’s role as leader of the OPM3 program, he has immeasurably contributed to the growth of the profession," said PMI’s Chair of the Board of Directors, Rebecca (Becky) Winston, J.D. "I am confident of the OPM3 Program Team’s continued progress and look forward to it reaching its goal and PMI publishing OPM3, PMI’s first organizational project management maturity Standard, near the end of 2003."
Ralf Friedrich, PMP, has been named Interim Program Manager for the OPM3 Program.
For more information contact: Laurie Cooke Director, Professional Programs Project Management Institute +610 356-4600 ext. 1140 laurie.cooke@pmi.org
Editors Note: To get up to date on the OPM3 read John Schlichter's Progress Report on OPM3 and his comments on organizational maturity models.
Chris Seabury Appointed CEO of APM
Chris
Seabury has been appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the UK based Association
For Project Management. Chris is well known in Europe as an ardent advocate
for the advancement of project management where he has been involved in a
hands on role in the development and administration of the International Project
Management Association.
He will be a familiar face to many people having presented papers, run workshops and/or manned the IPMA booth at conferences in Europe, USA, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
Chris was the General Manager of the International Project Management Association from 1996 to 2002. As General Manager of IPMA he was responsible for all of IPMA's affairs running the administrative office and responsible for all business and financial affairs.
He was a member of the APM Council where he served as Director of Communications and Chairman of the Technical Committee for the World Congress of Project Management in London 2000.
Chris founded the Commonwealth Forum for Project Management a non government organization whose goal is advancement of project management in developing countries and the Commonwealth of Nations.
A Project Manager of more than 15 years experience in the civil sector of electronics and telecommunications he brings a practical and pragmatic viewpoint to the future management of the APM.
Association For Project Management
Thorton House, 150 West Wycombe Road,
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP12 3AE
Email Chris Seabury
info@apm.org.uk
The APM web site is at http://www.apm.org.uk