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Kazakhstan and the World Bank Group have announced plans to jointly finance a $2.5 billion road project to help upgrade the trade route between Asian countries, Russia and Europe. The road is expected to boost Kazakhstan's competitiveness and to bring significant economic benefits both to Kazakhstan and to the broader Central Asia region. The agreement on Kazakhstan’s largest transportation

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Reported by David Shannon in London Working in any field these days often means working on projects. Elizabeth Harrin’s new book Project Management in the Real World points out gaps in project management theory and offers readers practical suggestions for how to manage their projects better. Project Management in the Real World contains over 50 case studies – some of projects that went well,

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Early registration has opened for The 2nd Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium to be held 18-19 August 2008 at The University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas, USA. The 2 Day PM Symposium, "Leveraging Project Management for Business Success!", will focus on topics important to organizations and industries in North Texas, including agile project management, IT project management,

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Reported by Miles Shepherd in the UK UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) signed contracts worth nearly £4 Bn with a new ship building joint venture. The Future Aircraft Carrier (CFV) programme will replace Britain's aging carrier fleet with 2 ultra modern system build carriers to be delivered in 2014. The ships, HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales, will be the biggest in Royal Navy

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Reported by Alcides Santopietro The self-proclaimed Social and Environmental Stock Exchange (BVS&A), an initiative coordinated by the Bovespa Institute for Environmental and Social Responsibility, delivered on June 27th and 28th a training course entitled "Introduction to the social and environmental project conception". The Project Management Institute Sao Paulo Chapter (PMI-SP) and the Project

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The project management team for the 22nd IPMA World Congress on Project Management - ROMA 2008 Project Management to Run -has announced that Prof. Roland Gareis will be a keynote speaker for the November congress. Roland Gareis is Professor of Project Management and Head of Department Projekt Management Group at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria. He

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Reported by Ed Naughton in Dublin The Institute of Project Management has announced that Laura Magahy of MCO Projects Ltd has become the first woman in Ireland to acquire the coveted IPMA Level A certification status. Her candidature was recently assessed in Dublin with the IPMA Vice President of Certification Brigitte Schaden participating in the process. She is only the second person in the

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Reported by O. Chima Okereke in Port Harcourt The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a loan of up to US$ 85 million to help finance the upgrade/rehabilitation of the Lekki to Epe expressway, linking Victoria Island with the Lekki peninsula in Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital. The project consists of upgrading, widening and tolling of the existing 49.5km long Lekki–Epe

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The ProMAC 2008 conference team has announced that Mr. Jong-Shin Kim, President & CEO of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., will deliver a keynote speech during the plenary session on September 17, 2008. Mr. Kim’s speech will be entitled "Present and Future of PM (Project Management) in Korea." The ProMAC 2008 Project Management Conference, "Project Management Leading Managerial Revolutions

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Reported by David Shannon in London I was present by invitation at the launch on 4 June 2008 in the House of Commons of a report of the Westminster Sustainability Business Forum under the joint Chairmanship of David Kidney MP and Barbara Morton, Director, Action Sustainability. The result of their inquiry’s work is contained in a 40-page report “Costing the Future: Securing Value for Money

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PMForum is pleased to announce that Mary McKinlay, Managing Director of Mary McKinlay Projects Ltd, a Project Assessment and Training firm based in the UK, has joined the PM AmbassadorsTM Speakers Bureau. Based in London, UK and with over 30 years of professional experience, Mary has advised organizations and spoken on project management across the UK and in many other countries in recent years

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The Panama Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) is seeking speakers for the 1st Annual PMI Panama Project Management Symposium to be held in Panama City, Panama on October 2, 2008. This major project management event is subtitled "The Land Divided - The Project World United" and will showcase the Panama Canal Expansion program. Engineers, IT professionals, project managers and

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Reported by Ana Maria Rodriguez in Rosario The World Bank has announced a US$15 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) intended to increase the efficiency in the use of energy and contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Argentina. This project will help establish regulatory and policy measures, scale up the efforts to phase out inefficient lighting, disseminate

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Reported by David Shannon in the UK The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has for only the second time in its 174 year history elected an architect as President. Keith Pickavance (pictured), who is a Senior Vice President for Hill International, has become the CIOB's 105th President. Keith made the following main points during his acceptance speech and afterwards:"The built environment

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Max Wideman has announced the latest updates to his popular project management website. According to the email from Max this month, here are the items that Max discusses or has added to his website this month. Max’s Guests this month, Lev Virine and Michael Trumper, provide a quiz to test your intuition - from their latest book: Testing Your Judgment in Making Decisions. In Papers, David

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World Bank announced on 26 June 2008 a US$22 million additional credit facility to the Government of Ghana under the Community Based Rural Development Project (CBRDP). The objective of the Project is to strengthen the capacity of rural communities to enhance their quality of life by improving their productive assets, rural infrastructure and access to key support services from private and public

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An important new book on project management has been published by Pearson Education. Rethinking Project Management: An Organizational Perspective by Norwegian professor Erling S. Andersen examines project management from an organizational perspective, focusing on the relationship between the permanent and the temporary organization. A project is a temporary organization, established by its

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A major new qualification for senior programme and project managers was launched on 24 June at the Best Practice Showcase which took place at the QEII Conference Centre in Westminster, London, UK. Sir David Normington, Permanent Secretary, The UK's Home Office, presented the first graduates of the new Programme & Project Sponsorship qualification with their certificates. Sir David (pictured

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Recent research shows that global corruption can add as much as 20% - 25% to the costs of public procurement but many companies are still faced with the dilemma of either paying bribes to win business or withdrawing from high-risk markets. To help resolve this global problem, the World Bank Institute has released "Fighting Corruption through Collective Action - A Guide for Business." Created

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Reported by Martina Huemann in Vienna The pilot project Sectoral Process & Project Management is a new research project of the PROJEKTMANAGEMENT GROUP at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Objective of the research project is to define relevant sectors and identify within these sectors specific process and project types. Specific requirements of different sectors

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Reported by Peter Mello in Brazil UNICAMP, one of the largest State Universities in Brazil, was home to an event regarding Project Management and the use of Agile Development Techniques with the iterative process SCRUM. The main presentation was given by Juan Esteban Bernabó - Agile Practice Leader from Teamware/Brazil. Contacts can be made to eventos@dextra-sw.com and the meeting was held

PMFORUM Webmasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12640567.post-15041420417706157352008-06-28T08:10:00.003-04:002008-06-28T08:20:29.938-04:00

The ProMAC 2008 conference team has announced that Kazuhiko Hanaoka, Corporate Vice President and President of the Corporate IT Unit at Fujitsu Limited, will deliver a keynote speech during the plenary session on September 16, 2008. Mr. Hanaoka’s speech will be entitled "IT Vision for Field Innovation." The ProMAC 2008 Project Management Conference, "Project Management Leading Managerial

PMFORUM Webmasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12640567.post-27482366608690998052008-06-28T08:02:00.002-04:002008-06-28T08:10:20.561-04:00

The Panama Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) has announced the 1st Annual PMI Panama Project Management Symposium to be held in Panama City, Panama on October 2, 2008. This major project management event is subtitled "The Land Divided - The Project World United" and will showcase the Panama Canal Expansion program. Engineers, IT professionals, project managers and executives

PMFORUM Webmasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12640567.post-30518789267482010862008-06-28T06:50:00.004-04:002008-06-28T08:24:28.527-04:00

Project Management Institute (PMI), the world's leading member association for the project management profession, has opened registration for its PMI Global Congress 2008-Latin America, to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil during 11-13 August. The three-day event will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Sao Paulo, and will offer opportunities for project managers to learn about worldwide trends as

PMFORUM Webmasternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12640567.post-66640297615442145702008-06-27T09:55:00.003-04:002008-06-27T10:07:59.350-04:00

Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2007, The Book By and For Professionals, by Rodolfo Ambriz, PMP, MCTS, MCIPT, is a new book co-published by J Ross Publishing and the International Institute for Learning, Inc., in the USA. Designed for the busy, practicing project manager, Dynamic Scheduling® With Microsoft® Office Project 2007 is intended to help readers get up to speed

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