PM World Today Viewpoints - December 2006
- The PM Profession Needs to Avoid the “Siloing” Affect
- Eric Jenett - AACEi Joins GAPPS – Why & What it Means
- Paul Giammalvo - Chief Project Officer - To Have or Not to Have?
- A Matt Piazza & Satinder Baweja
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The PM Profession Needs to Avoid the “Siloing” Affect
- Eric Jenett
Project Management (PM) organizations like the Project Management Institute (PMI®) need to remain collegial in nature and persistent in avoiding, not encouraging, and rooting out the "siloing" effect of individual or group interests that have developed in organizations serving many other professions. In my opinion, these are damaging to the cross-fertilization and "test of exposure" needed to truly serve the domain of project management
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Eric Jenett
Eric Jenett has spent over 55 years working in project environments with increasing levels of responsibility, including technical design through chief process engineer, engineering vice president, corporate vice president, project manager and project director. After receiving his Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University, Eric spent a majority of his career with Brown & Root Corporation in Houston, Texas, USA retiring in 1989 as Corporate Vice President. During his career, Eric had experience working on a wide variety of project types in the USA and abroad. He is particularly proud of having started, executed and closed out every project on which he had project management responsibilities. Eric was one of the founders of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) in 1969 (he is PMI member #3), and served as PMI President in 1971, Chairman of the PMI Board of Directors in 1972, and PMI Secretary during 1975-76. He was instrumental in founding the Houston PMI Chapter (the first PMI Chapter chartered) and served as Houston Chapter President and Chair. He also helped organize PMI’s first regional seminar in 1976, which evolved into the annual Seminars/Symposium and now Global Congresses. His PMI recognitions include Distinguished Contribution (1975) and PMI Fellow (1982); he also carries the distinction of PMP #1 (ret.). PMI’s “Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award” is named in his honor. Eric was also an early member of the American Association of Cost Engineers International (AACEi), having attended their formation meeting in 1956. He has been a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChe) for over 40 years and was a registered engineer in Texas until his retirement. Eric has written and lectured on both technical and project management topics and authored over 20 professional papers and handbook contributions, including several for PMI publications and for the Houston PMI Chapter. Only partially in jest he describes his lifetime goal and guiding principle as being: to hunt down and eradicate the existence, acceptance and practice of the project management paradigm that in effect says: the project manager operates to solve the problems of today by tomorrow applying the techniques of yesterday.
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AACEi Joins GAPPS – Why & What it Means!
by Paul D. Giammalvo
The Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International (AACEi) www.aacei.org has joined the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS) www.globalpmstandards.org. Why is this significant?
As the use of project management as a delivery system continues to mature, leading owner companies such as Motorola, Shell and Nokia are starting to realize the folly of relying primarily on knowledge based credentials to ensure better project management. They are now moving towards the next level in the evolution of professional project management- independently evaluated, competency based credentialing.
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AACEi Joins GAPPS – Why & What it Means!
Paul D. Giammalvo
Paul D. Giammalvo, CDT, CCE, MScPM, PhD Candidate, is a Director of the ASEAN Project Manager’s Center of Excellence, (APMX); Senior Technical Advisor to PTMC, Jakarta, Indonesia and Adjunct Professor in Project/Program Management at ESC Lille, Paris, France. For over 13 years, he has been provided Project Management training and consulting throughout SE Asia. He is active in the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE); Construction Specifications Institute (CSI); Construction Management Association of America, (CMAA); the International Council of Systems Engineers (INCOSE). Email Paul at: pauldg@attglobal.net or visit Paul's Website at:getpmcertified.com.
Project Management Today - Viewpoint
Chief Project Officer - To Have or Not to Have?
by A. Matt Piazza & Satinder Baweja
In today’s corporate structure, a serious communication gap exists at the C-level between the customary business disciplines, like operations, marketing, & IT, and the project management discipline. This communication gap forces the project management’s requirements to travel (like a passenger) through tactical communication channels of the other disciplines to carry the project management requirements up to the strategic C-level.
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Chief Project Officer - To Have or Not to Have?
A Matt Piazza, PMP
A Matt Piazza, PMP, MBA, is an independent consultant with over twenty years of project management experience since earning his Bachelors of Science degree at Texas A&M University and his MBA degree at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in the USA. His project management experience comes from major multi-year projects in the US Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Energy (DOE) and high technology industries. Matt is past president of the Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the DFW Chapter of the Microsoft Project Association (MPA). He currently travels globally for enterprise project management (EPM) implementations and project management training. Matt lives in Flower Mound, Texas and can be reached at deltasol@earthlink.net.
Satinder Baweja,
PMP, CCE
Satinder S. Baweja is the CEO of Milestone Consultants, Inc and an executive consultant relating to matters in project management and the turnaround of troubled projects. Satinder has personally consulted on projects totaling over 8 Billion US Dollars. His project experience ranges from Infrastructure, Product Deployments, Market Launch and Systems. Satinder received his Bachelors of Engineering degree from Bangalore University in India and a Master of Engineering degree from Texas A&M University in the USA. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a certified Cost Engineer (CCE). Satinder is active professionally and in the community as the Chair for International Service for the Plano Rotary Club and as President of the Dallas Section of the Cost Engineering Society. Milestone Consultants is a global solutions organization providing expertise and business solutions in Project Management, Web Solutions and Business Process Outsourcing. To find out more about the firm, please visit www.milestone.cc. Satinder can be contacted at sbaweja@milestone.cc.
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