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NEWSLETTERNewsletter, 1st Quarter 2005

MILES SHEPHERD HANDS OVER IPMA BEACON TO ADESH JAIN

On January 14, 2005 during the meetingof the Executive Board in Delft, theNetherlands, Miles Shepherd handedover the Presidency of the IPMA toAdesh Jain, who has previously served afruitful three terms as the VP, IPMA.Adesh is the Honorary President ofProject Management Associates, Indiaand is the Programme Director of theIPMA World Congress scheduled to beheld in New Delhi, India between 13-16November 2005.

Adesh, while accepting the medal fromMiles promised to uphold the foundingprinciples of IPMA and vowed to makeIPMA a dynamic and vibrantorganization to promote ProjectManagement worldwide. In carrying outthis mission, he called for support fromall past office bearers, the current ExBo,the member associations of IPMA andthe project management community atlarge.

Other ExBo members 2005-2006:

Daniel Scheifele(SPM,Switzerland):deputy chairmanCouncil

Otto Zieglmeier(GPM,Germany): vicepresident

Brigitte SchadenPMA, Austria):vice president

Veikko Välilä(PMAF,Finland): vicepresident

Qian Fupei (PMRC, China): vicepresident

Ed Naughton(IPMI, Ireland):vice president

Gerard Geurtjens(PMI,Netherlands):vice president

Secretariat(ChristianneJanssens, MOS)

Adesh Jain (PMA, India): President (left)Miles Shepherd (APM, United Kingdom): chairman Council (right)

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CONTENT:

Page 1 Handing over of beacon to Adesh JainPage 3 3rd IPMA-ICEC international expert seminarPage 4 pma review – previewPage 4 AzPMA: intellect 2004 prizePage 4 SPR certification agreementPage 5 Scandinavian NCBPage 6 India beckons!Page 7 Award assessors trainingPage 7 IPMA Award 2005Page 8 Award support in IandiaPage 9 Markus Zoller: level APage 9 Masters on Cranefield South AfricaPage 10 International symposium St PetersburgPage 12 ‘’Towards European Integrations’’ Symposium SerbiaPage 12 Nordnet 2005 SymposiumPage 12 Information from secretariat

Information from secretariat:

New logo: 40 years IPMA. This logo marks the 40 years jubilee of IPMA, which will be commemorated especially at the WorldCongress in India.

New Corporate member: H2i, Hornagold & Hills international Lebanon

Individual members as of July 2004:Palitha Kurruppuarachchi AustraliaBryan McConachy CanadaChang Woo Park KoreaMosunmola Oladeinde NigeriaHabib Shakiba IranAydin Meric TurkeyGrant Kerr CanadaJihad Raad LebanonThamer Al-Qudaimi Saudi ArabiaNatalija Kilikeviciene LithuaniaMaytam Al-Khairulla United Arab Emirates

Deadline next issue: May 15th 2005

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1. INTRODUCTIONThe III IPMA-ICEC International ExpertSeminar and the VIII InternationalCongress on Project Engineering wereheld jointly from 7 to 8 of October of 2004the first, and from 6 to 8 of October thesecond, both in Bilbao.

The Expert Seminar was organized byAEIPRO and by the Area of EngineeringProjects of the Universidad del PaísVasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, takingalso part the Escuela Superior de Ingenieríade Bilbao/Bilboko Ingeniaritzaren GoiEskola and giving support to the eventwithout any reserve. IPMA (InternationalProject Management Association) as well asthe ICEC (International Cost EngineeringCouncil) worked also as organizers, givingsupport to the activities by means ofdisseminating the information through theirweb pages, giving information to theNational Associations across the World andgiving data about attendants to similarscientific events.

This has been the first scientific activitydealing with Project Management andEngineering Costs, held in Spain, having theofficial support of both InternationalOrganizations. During previous Congresses,the subject of Project Management wastreated as a specific Thematic Area,appearing now as an exclusive event.

There is a growing need of disseminatingthematic areas related with ProjectManagement, and if this is done with theparticipation of a high number ofinternational experts, much better.

Taking advantage of the gathering for theExpert Seminar, IPMA programmed also aCouncil Meeting as well as severalCommittee Meetings, from October 9 toOctober 11, making easier the presence ofrelevant personalities of the Associationwho had attended the Expert Seminarsessions. 57 representatives from about 35National Associations arrived from allaround the world. These meetings wereheld at the Colegio Oficial de IngenierosIndustriales de Bizkaia.

Because all the above, the generalOrganization was somewhat morecomplex than de standard one, since twoaperture sessions had to be held, one forthe Congress in October 6, and anotherone for the Seminar in October 7, as wellas a unique joint Closure Session inOctober 8.The total attendance to the ExpertSeminary, taking into account keynotespeakers, paper presenters, participants inpanel presentations, and delegates ofsponsors, was near 60 people.

Opening and Closure activities wereperformed at the Aula Magna of theEscuela Superior de Ingeniería deBilbao/Bilboko Ingeniaritzaren GoiEskola, and the rest of the activities, in thefacilities of the International Fair ofBilbao

2. III IPMA-ICEC INTERNATIONALEXPERT SEMINAR

The Opening Session of the ExpertSeminar was held the 7 of October of2004, under the direction of Mr. AgustínIturriaga, Chairman of the “ColegioOficial de Ingenieros Industriales deBizkaia” jointly with Mr. ErnestoCilleruelo, Vice director of the “EscuelaSuperior de Ingeniería de Bilbao”, Mr.Juan Luis Cano President of AEIPRO, andMr. Javier Caamaño Eraso Chairman ofthe Organizing Committee.

The Opening Session was held at the AulaMagna of the Escuela Superior deIngeniería de Bilbao/BilbokoIngeniaritzaren Goi Eskola.

The Opening Speech, was given byDoctor Lynn Crawford, from theUniversity of Technology of Sydney,under the title of “Strategic DeliveryCapability. The challenge of ProjectManagement”. This topic was alsoincluded within the program of the VIIIInternational Congress on ProjectEngineering.

The afternoon of the same day DoctorHans Knoepfel, Vice-president of IPMA,presented the work entitled “ProjectManagement Quality”.

On Friday October 8th a Session-Panelon “Project Management Education” withthe participation of experts on the topictook place.

The joint Closure Speech, for theCongress and Expert Seminar, was givenby Mr. Eduardo Serrano, OperationalDirector of SENER on “MultiprojectManagement”

On Friday 8, also were performed twojoint technical trips for the Congress andExpert Seminar, the first to the facilitiesof Zabalgarbi Vaste Incinerator and thesecond to Euskaltelium, where wereshown the last advances in Informationand Communication Technologies.

A total of 37 papers, from five thematicareas, were presented, from which 12were written in English and the rest inSpanish; 26 papers were conveyedthrough oral presentation during 6sessions the Thursday 7 and the Friday 8of October (this last day only during themorning). The rest of the papers werepresented in poster sessions.

From the organization point of view,AEIPRO has developed a specificpackage within his own web pages, tohelp the management of Congresses,issuing calls for abstracts, collectingpapers, and so on. The fine-tuning of suchpackage has produced delays in thepublication of the Proceedings and of theCD-ROMs of the Expert Seminar.

D. Juan L. Cano

Chairman of AEIPRO

REPORT ON THE III IPMA-ICEC INTERNATIONAL EXPERT SEMINAR

Reception of Attendants

Lecture of Dr. Lynn Crawford

Lecture of Mr. Hans Knoepfel

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2004 was a successful year for PROJEKTMANAGEMENT AUSTRIA (pma) inmany aspects: about 700 new certifiedproject managers, over 100 new membersand about 700 guests at events organizedby the Austrian member association ofIPMA really are a satisfying reason to startthe new year highly motivated! Pleaserefer to the last issue of the IPMAnewsletter for a review of pma´s mainevent last year – pma focus 2004.

pma: review 04 – preview 05

With more than 2.000 certified projectmanagers, Austria now is on the 3rd

position of the international ranking ofcertifying countries (behind China andGermany). About 700 PM-professionals(66 level B, 300 level C and 314 level D)have proven their knowledge andexperience by becoming certified ProjectManagers. Mentioning the comparativelysmall population of Austria, this probablyis the most efficient way of fulfilling thepurpose of the association - promotingProject Management as a profession!

Being an interesting platform formembers and all others persons interestedin Project Management, pma willcontinue it´s attractive offer of servicesand events. Just to mention one event –pma focus 2005 will take placeSeptember 21st and 22nd, 2005 and coverthe interesting topic of“Linie.Macht.Projekte.”, to be translatedas “Line.Power.Projects.” – if you´re

interested in the area of conflict betweenline-organisation and projectmanagement, please refer to ourhomepage (www.p-m-a.at) for moredetails and register soon!

In January pma has introduced a newversion of “pm baseline”, the nationalcompetence baseline, which was revisedand updated. The focus of the newversion is on offering the competencebaseline for hands-on deployment butalso assuring the high level of quality incertification.

Contact: PROJEKT MANAGEMENT AUSTRIA,Palais Schlick, Tuerkenstraße 25/2/21, A-1090 Vienna, Tel.: +43 (1) 319 29 21, Fax: +43 (1) 31929 21 - 29, Email: office@p-m-a.at, www.p-m-a.at

Mag. (F.H.) Horst Illek

Azerbaijan Project Management Association(AzPMA) held a competition on the “ProjectExcellence” and awarded a prize of a year“Intellect 2004”.With a view of general recognition of thecompanies’ activity, working for the welfareof the Native Land, developing its economyand basing on the marketing researches heldin this year, AzPMA held a competition on“Project Excellence” and awarded a prize of ayear “Intellect 2004”.

The award is given to the project team thathas achieved the best results among the prizewinners, making the most successfulrepresentative of project management. The“AzPMAAzerbaijan Project ManagementAssociation” supports professional projectmanagement in achieving high performancein projects and identifies projects as examplesof excellent project management.

The “Project Excellence” model assessesnine criteria divided into two sections, ProjectManagement and Project Results. The“Project Excellence” model helps a projectteam reflect its own strengths and potentialimprovement areas. It also helps the teamunderstand the assessment process for the“AzPMAAzerbaijan Project ManagementAssociation”.The competition is held on the followingnominations:Information TechnologiesTelecommunicationsMedium and Small BusinessShow-BusinessSocial and Economic SphereMass Measures Construction

AzPMA: Intellect 2004

On instituting a prize of a year “Intellect2004”, practically the whole spectrum of themodern, developing Azerbaijan Society wascovered. That is why, amongst thenominations naturally were “BankBusiness”, “Culture”, “Medicine”,“Technologies”, “Service”, etc. Onsumming up the opinions andrecommendations of the wide range ofspecialists on projects were taken intoconsideration. According to the result of thecompetiton the winners on each nominationgot prizes and diplomas, established byAzPMA and “IT Magazine”. Thedistinguishing feature of this competitionwas that it was the first time in the Republicthe prize could be awarded not only to thecompany or organization of AzerbaijanRepublic, but also the representatives offoreign countries.On the nomination of“Telecommunication” the winners were: SP “AzEuroTel”; PO “Aztelekom”; “AzStarNet”;“Azercell Telecom”;SP “Catel”; “Karat L.T”, etc.On the nomination of “InformationTechnologies” the prizes were awarded to:“New Technology Corporation”;“Ultra Computers”; “Bestcom Group”; “M-Dizayn Company”; “Azerbaijan Electronics Company”; “Sinam Company”, etc.On the nomination of “Medium and SmallBusiness” the prizes were presented to:

“Azersun Holding”; “Ataholding”; ’Caspi-Yildiz”; NJT-2000”,etc. Among the winners were also onnominations: “Education”- ModernComplex of Education named after HeydarAliyev; “Media”-Lider TV;“Insurance”- Azerbaijan Society of Insurers,International Insurance Company;“Service”- Anadolu Restaurants net; “Culture”-Rain Sultanov, Javan Zeynalli; “Economics Development”- “MurphyCompany”; “Show-Business”-Murad Dadashov, etc.From the representatives of the foreigncountries the winner was the branch of theIntel Company in Transcaucasia and Asia inthe person of Kirill Tokarev.The prize is expected to be awardedannually.

dr. Igbal Babayevpresident of AzPMA

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For the first time in IPMA’s history threeNational Associations have been workingtogether on issuing a joint NationalCompetence Baseline. The outcome is anew NCB for Scandinavia, which ispublished jointly in February 2005 by theProject Management Associations inDenmark, Norway and Sweden.

The take-off for the development was theDanish NCB published in 2002. Aftermore than a year of intensive co-operationthe new 160 page NCB is published inEnglish with the title “Competencies inProject Management”.

One criterion for the development hasbeen to reflect the contents of the ICB –IPMA Competence Baseline. Anothercriterion has been to reflect new trends inproject management and aspects ofproject management, which we considerto be essential for the management ofprojects in Scandinavia.

The NCB for Scandinavia is structuredaccording to three aspect of competentproject management:

• Performing appropriate leadershipbehaviour in projects.

• Competencies in method applicationwhich support the managementperformance.

• Competencies in experienceapplication when performing projectmanagement.

The logo of the NCB illustrates that thethree aspects are interacting. In additionthe logo intends to indicate thatleadership behaviour is the primecompetence – which is supported byexperience and method applications.

Leadership behaviourcompetencies

In addition to using the logo to emphasise

New National Competence Baseline for Scandinavia

the need for behavioural competencies,the NCB for Scandinavia introduces anextensive tool for self-assessing leadershipbehaviour.

The frame for the assessment is tenbehavioural elements, which are furtherdivided into some fifty sub-elements. Tosupport a firm assessment we havedeveloped a definition – a ten-level-scale.

Method application competencies

In addition to the classic projectmanagement element defined in the ICB,the chapter on method application hasbeen extended or nuanced by thefollowing method elements:

• Plan the specific project managementeffort.

• Evaluate the performed projectmanagement.

• Facilitate the project managementprocesses.

• Handle anchoring with determiningparties.

• Provide staffing to the projectorganisation.

• Establish infrastructure forcommunication.

• Promote personnel competencies andlearning.

• Perform personal leadership andcoaching.

• Handle strategic managementprocesses.

• Handle the portfolio managementprocesses.

• Handle the management of aprogramme.

• Develop project managementprofessionalism.

The section on method application is intotal divided into 34 competence

elements. Each of these is divided intosome six sub elements. This means thatthe full application of the tool implies thatyou are scoring your explicit knowledgeand practical experience for some 200sub-elements.

To support a nuanced assessment we havedeveloped a specification of two ten-levelscale for explicit knowledge and practicalexperience. Furthermore, the tool includesthat you – for each element – shouldverify your assessment by referring tosources of your peek knowledgerespectively your peek application inpractice.

Experience applicationcompetencies

The experience part of the book givesguidelines for listing and classifying theprojects from which you have gained yourexperience in managing projects. Aspecial feature is the tool forcharacterising the managementcomplexity of a project.

You will also find a method and form foranalysing challenges of managing yourpast projects and for extracting learningfrom your performance as a projectmanager.

When developing the NCB forScandinavia we have consciouslyincluded detailed tools and features,which we have not seen in other NationalCompetence Baselines. The reason forthis is twofold:

• One reason is to promote a nuancedassessment of candidates for IPMACertification in the Scandinaviancountries.

• The other reason is that we want topromote that the application of theNCB for self-assessment in itself willboost the competence level of the userof the tool.

In addition to the 160 pages the bookCompetencies in Project Managementincludes a CD with the self-assessmentforms in Word and Excel. The prise of thetool is € 60 plus VAT.

The book can be ordered troughinfo@projektforeningen.dk or by mail to:Association of Danish ProjectManagement, Saettedammen 4, DK 3400Hilleroed, Denmark.

You are also welcome to contact the undersigner who have edited the book incorporation with representatives from thethree associations.

Morten Fangelmf@projektforeningen.dk

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It was announced to NAs that IPMA hadstarted discussion with DNV aboutpossibility to come to an agreement aboutcertification. After one year it seemed,there was no significant progress andtherefore in autumn 2003, NAs wereencouraged to enter into negotiation withDNV directly on national level.DNV Czech Republic, after firstunofficial contact, expressed interest insuch agreement. This lead to the firstofficial meeting between DNV CzechRepublic director and representative ofSPR during early spring of 2004. Timeframe and communication channels hadbeen agreed so that trilateral meetingamong DNV Netherlands, DNV CzechRepublic and SPR was held in Prague,July 2004. The meeting was decisivepoint of the whole process.Responsibilities and schedule ofnecessary steps has been agreed withtarget for contract signature – end of2004.

Unfortunately, even though intentionto come to an agreement with DNV wasapproved by General Assembly a yearago, opposition occurred. Crucialproblem was intended change in prices ofall levels of certificates. It was necessary to explain clearly to ourmembers all aspects leading to suchunpopular change. Prices being graduallyenforced by IPMA were used as oneextreme, our contemporary one asanother extreme. Our final proposal is to

raise prices four consecutive years,reaching similar price level (not same) asin the Netherlands. Such compromise hasbeen accepted both, by our members, aswell as our partners from DNV and theAgreement was signed with effective dateof March 1st, 2005.

Validation process of Czech CertificationBodyIntention to validate our process datesback to end of 2002 and outbreak of2003, to the moment we had reachedaccreditation from Czech Institute forAccreditation, based on CSN EN 45 013and first audit successfully passed.Unfortunately, it was exactly the moment,when several other validations had beenunder progress and a „queue“ for nextterms occurred. Taking it intoconsideration, we addressed unofficiallyIPMA with request in September 2003with formal request in writing shortlyafterwards. Official communicationbetween validators and our certificationboard (CO) started during February 2004,followed by exchange of basicdocumentation. As Czech language is notquite common and only part of documentsent to IPMA was in English, SPRprovided translation of almost alldocuments into English, what might beuseful for other purposes in the future. Asit took necessary time, our intended target– June 2004 – had to be modified andsome sound date for visit of validators

had to be mutually agreed. As, by allparties acceptable date of visit December20th and 21st have been finally agreed.Validation itself was performed in Brno,most of the time in premises ofSporitelni akademie (training centre ofone of the largest banks in CzechRepublic), where certifications arenormally performed, partly in CO office.Main participants – validation committee– Brigitte Schaden, Erhard Mozel, CO –Lubos Vrestal, Miroslav Franz, KarolinaKostalova, assessors – Petr Chlupaty,Zdenko Stanicek.62 points had been checked, resulting inseveral recommendations for action typea) and b) respectively. Some items arequite easy to remove, some will be quitetime consuming. There was an actionplan prepared, defining dates andresponsibilities for each particularrecommendation.We consider our validation as successful,bring us feed back enough early, not toconserve improper processes, but torectify and correct them before theywould „get deep under the skin“ of allparties involved. Corrective effort in laterstage might be more difficult.Finally, I would like to express ourthanks to all participants as the eventtook place in the hectic days, whenChristmas, with all consequences, isevent number one.

For SPR – Petr Chlupaty (vice-president)

SPR agreement with DNV about certification

There is a compelling reason to come toIndia this November. The opportunity istwofold: the 19th IPMA World Congresstitled 'Vision to Reality - the projectmanagement way' to be held between 13-16 November 2005 and the chance tovisit incredible India - at her fantasticbest in November.

Congress sponsors include ONGC,India’s oil giant and Infosys, a worldsoftware leader. Two Indian states havebecome partner states and 38 industryassociations of India have pledgedsupport as associates of the congress.Besides this, 8 associations from abroadincluding ICEC with a presence in over40 countries, and other associations fromcountries such as Japan, Australia, UKand Korea support for the event.

INDIA BECKONS: 19TH IPMA WORLD CONGRESS

The four days of the World Congressguarantee you the right mix of businessand pleasure - high-voltage technicalsessions, special events, the vibrantcelebrations of IPMA's 40th anniversary,the much-awaited IPMA InternationalProject Management Award 2005,besides innovative programmes foraccompanying persons and many tourprogrammes that promise to keep youbusy.

Featuring a special Invited Address byProf Ervin Laszlo - one of the foremostexponents of systems philosophy besides6 keynote presentations by speakers suchas Dr. Jurgen Schloss of Siemens, 3 paneldiscussions and 60 paper presentationsfrom over 40 countries.

The 15th Global PM Forum (GPMF),expected to draw over 100 delegates, willprecede the congress on November 12,2005. IPMA’s 3-day Young CrewWorkshop (Nov 10-12) as usual is goingto be another major highlight of theworld congress where we expect over100 professionals from 30 countries.

At the 40th anniversary of IPMA, let usall come together in Delhi and make thisWorld Congress a true get-together of theIPMA family along with a confluence ofPM professionals from all over theworld.

MARK YOUR CALENDER NOW!

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Reports by Otto Zieglmeier, Gilles Caupin(New Delhi), Martina Huemann, MaryMcKinlay (Frankfurt), Alan Harpham,Nino Grau (Warshaw) all trainers of theIPMA PM Award Assessor Training.

First Assessor Training in NewDelhi, India (19-21 Jan. 2005)Otto Zieglmeier, IPMA Vice President andChairman of the IPMA AwardManagement Board, together with GillesCaupin, Chairman IPMA CertificationValidation Management Board, verysuccessfully conducted a 3 dayInternational Workshop for becomingAssessors for IPMA’s International ProjectManagement Award 2005 attended by 20top professionals from Germany,Malaysia, UAE and India from 19-21stJanuary 2005 in New Delhi, India. This isthe first time that a workshop of such anature is being held in Asia.

Second IPMA PM Award AssessorTraining in Warsaw, Poland (22-23 Jan.2005)In preparation for the IPMA PM Award 2005our well reputed senior trainers Alan Harphamand Nino Grau conducted the first ever trainingin Eastern Europe. Although the Assessor poolalready comprises many high level Assessorsfrom Eastern European Countries fromprevious years, this training in Warsaw was tocope with the ever increasing developments ofadvanced Project Management in EasternEurope. The feedback from tutors andparticipants reflected a very successful andenjoyable workshop session. The mix ofcolleagues from Poland of course and Italy,Germany, Ukraine and Russia was a good basisfor solid hypothetical assessor teams for futureAward applications.Stanislaw Sroka, President of the fastestgrowing IPMA Member Association SPMPPoland, Winner of many Polish ManagementPrizes, IPMA PM Award Prize Winner in 2002

IPMA PM Award Assessor Training in New Delhi, Warsaw and Frankfurt

and IPMA PM Award Jury Member since2003 also participated and reported greatsatisfaction by the participants. This wasparticularly valuable because also at thisevent high level participants weresignificantly adding to the quality list of thepotential IPMA PM Award Assessors.

Alan and Nino praised the good preparationand hosting by SPMP and underlined thegood spirit in the teams which is a mostimportant asset for the real assessment job.

IPMA PM Award Assessor Training inFrankfurt, Germany (29-30 Jan. 2005)Twenty-six individuals, representing ninedifferent nationalities met in snowy Frankfurtfor the last weekend of January 2005. No, these were not delegates to one of thethree Trade Fairs at hat time nor were theythere just to sample the delights of theFrankfurt social scene, this was HARDWORK. 24 trainee assessors led by two

tutors were preparing for the 2005 IPMAAward. Their objectives were to understand the ProjectExcellence Model, the IPMAAward processand to share experience from previous awardsand their own business lives. In the course ofthe activity, they started to develop the rapportthat will help to make the 2005 Award runsmoothly.Teamwork was the keynote; the focus was onunderstanding rather than calculations, makinguse of the variety of skills available to the teamto add value to the process and listening to eachothers ideas. All these things meant that bySunday afternoon, we had a great collection ofindividuals working together.

Greetings to you all, Bernhard Haring,Michael Browne, Erik Mansson, FranzObermoser, Gebke van Gaal, John Roos,Martin Schoch, Frank Peter, Claudia Gruber,Ulrich Lein, Graham Woodward, TerryWilliams, Ezela Evens, Bernhard Graeb, LenaTzavara, Reinhard Kniest, ChristopherHarding, Sonja Ellmann, Benjamin Keller,Michael Pfannkuchen, Andreas Dalluege,Gabriele Danzebrink. Special thanks to ourhost the “Deutsche Bank Bauspar AG”, toMarkus Albrecht and Katja Frede (GPMGerman Association for Project Management)for their organising work – including guidingus around Frankfurt for Saturday evening. Youwere all hardworking, deep thinking and apleasure to work with.

Sitting l-r: K. Anjaneyulu, K.M. Bansal, G. Caupin, B. Cagnell, V.P.C. Dharaniraj, K.K. Goyal, S.Jaggia, A. Jain, R. Jain, S. Nair,Standing: D.P. Marria, R. Nair, K. Nataraj, S. D. Navare, G. Prakash, K. Raman, T. Sankaralingam, K.Satyanarayana, S. Sethi, S. Majumdar, K.V.K. Kumar, O. Zieglmeier, O. Scherer

E. Drozd, G. Dzwonnik, S. Gasik, M.F. Grechi, C. Holm, Z. Kosakowski, M. Pacewicz, S. Sroka, L. Stasto, J.Stawicki, G. Szalajko, J. Szych, M. Tereszkiewicz, T. Wiatr, K. Witkowski, E. Sarzydska, A. Harpham, N. Grau.

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Dear Friends of the IPMA PM Award, the Project 2005 is on time, onbudget and the processes are advancing in good quality as Dr.Michael Gessler, the Project Manager of the Award 2005 reports. Allthree assessor trainings have been successfully completed and AwardProject applications are being announced. It is my pleasure to thankthe organizers, trainers and of course the trained assessors for theirspecial contributions. We are well prepared for this yearsbenchmarking process which will have its summit at the Award Galaon November 15th at the IPMA World Congress on ProjectManagement in New Delhi. We have great support from IndianIndustry, Academic World and Government as you can see atwww.ipmacongress.org During an evening presentation Minister Mr Oscar Fernandes of theIndian Government underlined the importance and great opportunityof the World Congress with the PM Award for India.

We visited the Congress Centre where the stage is waiting for theAward Ceremony on 15 November and other monuments like the

Logo of the World Congress, the Bahai Temple, a symbol for equalpeace for all.

With the Assessor training for the Award 2005 IPMA has achieved 4new important milestones. First ever Assessor training outsideEurope and first time in India conducted by Frenchman Gilles andGerman Otto, first ever training by our first all female trainer teamAustrian Martina and English Mary, first ever training in EasternEurope by British Alan and German Nino. And we have prepared 60experts for the Assessment Job in 2005. Since the first training in2001 IPMA now has trained a total of 152 experts from 23 countries.Following Ex President Miles Shepherd who participated in 2002our new President Adesh Jain very actively participated with hiscertificated wife Rushira at the Assessor training workshop in India. Looking forward to seeing you all latest at the Award Gala in NewDelhi.

Otto ZieglmeierDirector of the IPMA International Project Management Award

IPMA International Project Management Award 2005

Otto Zieglmeier and Gilles Caupin havevisited India and gave us (the 19th WorldCongress team) an extensive support. Thesteps of their voyage have been:

On January 18th meeting with delegatesof Petrotech Congress, one of the largestCongresses held in India on petroleumindustry. Mr M K Dalal, Chairman ofEngineers India Ltd, India’s premierengineering consultancy organization,chaired the session. Mr Dalal lauded theefforts of IPMA in developing theconcepts of certification and expressedhis support for the same.

On January 19th elite gathering ofDirectors and Chairpersons besides seniorofficials of the Ministry of ProgrammeImplementation. This event was chairedby Mr Oscar Fernandes, Minister of

Extensive Support for IPMA Project Management Award & 4Level Certification in India

Programme Implementation, andGovernment of India. Otto talked aboutthe project excellence model and theglobal trends in project management.Gilles talked about the trends and growthof IPMA 4 Level Certification. MrFernandes while thanking the speakersfor their valuable inputs expressed hissupport for project managementcertification and exhorted the companiesto participate in the competition for theIPMA Project Excellence Award.

On January 20th, presentation in theConfederation of Indian Industry (CII),India’s premier industry associationwhich was attended by over 40 topindustry and management professionals.The session was highly interactive anddignitaries present exchanged views onseveral aspects of the project excellence

model and the need for furtherimprovements on some of the aspects ofthe model.

On January 21st, Otto and Adesh Jaingave an excellent exposure to the 40participants of a special talk organized byAll India Management Association(AIMA), India’s leading association formanagement education, to the imperativesof using scientific project managementand the key role played by IPMA instrengthening PM profession globally.The session was chaired by MajorGeneral D N Khurana, Director General,AIMA and was attended Mr KamalSingh, Director, AIMA amongst others.

Sushma Mair – 19th IPMA WorldCongress Team

Minister Fernandes, A. Jain, G. Caupin, O. Zieglmeier and two officialsfrom the Ministry.

Bahai Temple Delhi

Logo zeer slecht niet te gebruiken

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Dr. Markus A. ZollerHead of Project Execution, SiemensSwitzerland Ltd. Transportation Systems

My motivation to become a CertifiedProjects Director (IPMA Level A)

I lead an organisation of 300 projectmanagers and engineers, who areresponsible for the execution of a portfolioof approx. 200 rail automation projectsmainly in Switzerland but also abroad.

After having been certified as a projectmanager IPMA Level B in 2001 myself, Iexpected my project managers to follow. Inthe meantime more than 25 of themachieved the certification of IPMA Level Bor C. When the Swiss certification body

VZPM introduced the IPMA Level A inearly 2004, I decided to go for it.

The basis for this decision was • the motivation to act as a role model for

my employees,• the intention to demonstrate best in class

project management standards to ourcustomers and

• the target to learn myself by reflectingmy management principles in theproject directors report.

The success of a project or a projectportfolio very much depends on the peopleleading it.I am convinced that thenomination of certified project managersand certified project portfolio managersclearly results in a significantly increasedpotential for project success.

Zurich, 3rd February 2005

Cranefield College of Project andProgramme Management recentlycelebrated the first graduation of studentsfrom its Masters programme. Theprogramme has four modules, focusing onleadership and management researchmethodologies, strategic value chainmanagement, advanced case learning inproject and programme management andwork context dissertation. The studentshailed from a variety of professionalbackgrounds, each bringing a freshperspective on this dynamic and growingdiscipline through their dissertations.

TThhee 55 ssttuuddeennttssStanley Mpofu has impressiveexperience in the IT field, and has skillsin both the technical and projectmanagement aspects of the industry.Mpofu is currently employed by Eskom,where his duties have included the designof a project methodology for GenerationInformation Management at thecompany’s head office. Mpofu has provedhis skills in project management a numberof times; his impressive portfolio includesinvolvement in the Generation SAPDisaster Recovery as well as managementof a number of projects for Arivia.kom.Mpofu’s dissertation focused onidentifying the challenges encountered bySouth African-based organisations whenimplementing projects beyond thecountry’s borders. He found that asystematic connection exists between thetop quartile scale causes: corruption,bureaucracy, poor telecommunicationinfrastructures, lack of transparency,payment delays, political interference,security, logistics and infrastructure.

Masters on Cranefield College, South Africa

Mpofu concludes that, althoughcolonisation is often blamed for suchproblems, there is, in fact, a lack ofleadership maturity.

Chris Brits is a director of financial andrisk services provider, Alexander Forbes.His distinguished career has seen himassume many roles in the field of riskmanagement, many with a focus onproject management. Brits’ dissertation istitled ‘Improving project managementperformance through harnessingintellectual capital,” and examines theimpact of employee abilities on anorganisation’s change managementproject. Brits found that, by assigningindividuals to certain projects on the basisof their cognitive, conative and emotionalstrengths, they were more likely toachieve success.

Samantha Copeland’s dissertationexplored the effect of leadership, and itsrole in the sphere of project management.Copeland already has considerableexperience in this area, having worked asa project manager for seven years. Herexpertise lies especially in the IT andtelecommunications industries. Copelandwas able to call on this experience toexamine how project leaders may berequired to maintain and inspiremotivation and passion among teammembers. Their ability to do this oftenaffects the success of a project.

Shaan Watkins’ experience in projectmanagement stretches back to 1998, whenhe was employed by BSW Data as aproject manager. Since then, he has held

similar positions in various companies,including Dimension Data South Africa.He is currently head of Technology andProgramme Management at Sage Life.For his dissertation, Watkins elected toillustrate how project managed strategicoutsourcing can act as a powerful tool fororganisational transformation, helping anorganisation to achieve its strategicobjectives.

James Sikiti is no stranger to projectmanagement, having already attainedadvanced and post graduate diplomas inthis field. Sikiti has put these skills togood use, most recently as a Project andManagement Engineer at BP SouthernAfrica and, since 2004, as ChiefExecutive officer of JX Projectmanagement Services. Sikiti conducted astudy of the new and changing businessenvironment, and how organisations canadapt to new contexts by managingknowledge and intellectual capitalthrough projects and programmes, as partof his dissertation.

Illona Wilken used her dissertation toinvestigate how matching an employee’stalents and job requirements can result inincreased productivity and betterperformance. This was particularlyrelevant in view of the fact that manyorganisations are finding that employeesare not, in fact, well suited to their jobs.Wilkens concluded that leadership whichstrives to build on individuals’ strengthscan impact on a company’s sustainablegrowth by enabling project teams todeliver project on time, in a cost effectivemanner.

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The Russian Project ManagementAssociation SOVNET, the InternationalProject Management Association(IPMA), Global Performance BasedStandards for Project ManagementPersonnel Working Group (GPBS WG)with the support and assistance of anumber of international and nationalpublic and professional organizations,companies and institutions, are proud toannounce the International Symposiumon Project Management “PROJECTMANAGENT: BUSINESS, IDEAS,PRACTICE” to be held in St Petersburg,Russia May 16– 20, 2005.

SYMPOSIUM GOALS ANDOBJECTIVES• Consider the issues of global

cooperation in order to work out newconcepts, methodologies, standards,tools and models to adapt to dynamicand turbulent social and economicconditions.

• Realize the potential, discover newapplications and broaden thegeographical scope of the efficient useof professional project management.

• Learn about advanced state-of-the-artpractice and share experience in thefield of project management.

• Promote and stimulate co-operationand the establishment of close tiesbetween businessmen, professionalmanagers and others seeking toachieve success and ensure progress inbusiness, society and state.

• Help the participants to get to knowbetter the state of the art in education,training systems and certification forproject management as the mostpromising professional discipline ofthe new millennium; discuss theprospects and objectives of creatingand developing the profession and thediscipline of project management aswell as standardization issues relatedto this sphere.

• Contribute to the development ofprofessional project management andits wide application

SPECIAL FEATURES OF THESYMPOSIUM The International Symposium on ProjectManagement “PROJECT MANAGENT:BUSINESS, IDEAS, PRACTICE” to beheld in St Petersburg Russia May 16– 20,2005 is special as:• The Symposium is not so much

addressed to the professionalcommunity, but more to a broadercommunity of Russian businessmen,public figures and statesmen at thefederal, regional and municipal levels.

Its goal is to improve publicunderstanding and recognition of therole and content of professionalproject management; reveal andrealize its potential to let it be widelyapplied in practice.

• The political, economical andgeographical position of Russia in themodern world allows make theInternational Symposium a bridgebetween the West and the East, Southand North. This will contribute to theintensive world economic cooperationand integration.

WHO IS THE SYMPOSIUMADDRESSED TO• Professional practical workers active

in project management (managers ofcompanies, project managers andexperts) interested in making use ofstate-of-the-art technologies forbusiness, organizational and publicPrograms and Projects in the differentfields of industry, investmentinnovations, education, managementand other spheres.

• Professionals seeking to develop thisdiscipline and tools for projectmanagement (research, educational,professional organizations, companies,companies developing products andproviding service in the field ofproject management).

• Specialists and organizationsinterested in applying project

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

«Project Management: Business, Ideas, Practice».

“Competent Project Management – Investment into the Future”

St. Petersburg, Russia, May 16 – 20, 2005.

SYPOSIUM MAIN STREAMS AND TOPICS

Main Streams Session Topics

1. Project and Program management • Energy and Utilities sectorBest Practices and case studies • Investment, Construction, Infrastructure sphere.

• State, Public and municipal structures• Finance, Banking and Insurance• Industrial sector.• Transport sphere• Management of investment programs and

business development projects.Round Table 1: «Investments, Innovations,Development of North-West Region of Russia and Project Management»

2. Developing professional • Methodology, methods and tools of project project management and program management.

• Professional competence - Education, Trainingand Certification in the sphere of project management.

• Global Standards and Enterprise Standards issueswith regard to professional project managementRound Table 2: «Projects and People»

3. Dynamic Project Management and • Uncertainty in Modern Project Management Extreme Project Management • Project Life Circle in Modern Project

Management and Industrial Standards• Cross-Culture Integration in Dynamic Project

management • Project management and overlapped

Methodologies• Peculiarities of Extreme Projects in Russia and

Extreme Project Management in the West• Project in Social sphere, Mass Media and cultureRound Table 3: «Dynamic Project Management»

4. Management of High Technology • Strategic programs, Megaprojects and Project Programs and Projects Management in High Technology Companies

• Information technologies and telecommunication.• Offshore programming• Harmonization of project management and

Industrial StandardsRound Table 4: «Project Management MaturityModels and Strategic Project office»

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PRELIMINARY SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

May 16, Monday • Registration of Symposium participants • A series of pre-Symposium seminars, training and

preparing for certification, master-classes, casestudies

• Global Performance Based Standards for Project Management Personnel Working Group GPBSWG) open session.

• Exhibition opening• Welcome Cocktail-party

May 17, Tuesday • Registration of Symposium participants• Symposium Opening Ceremony • Symposium Program: plenary and stream sessions,

round tables 1 and 4• Cultural Program:

o for companions (during the day)o Neva river tour, dinner and concert program Tour

of St. Petersburg

May 18, Wednesday • Symposium Program: plenary and stream sessions,round tables 2 and 3

• Symposium Closing ceremony• Closing of the exhibition • Cultural Program:

o for companions (during the day)o Gala Dinner for the Symposium participants with

the awarding ceremony for nominations andIPMA-SOVNET Certificates presenting

May 19, Thursday • Post-Symposium Seminars: training, preparation forcertification, training sessions, master-classes,practical cases

May 20, Friday • Special tours and excursions• Departure

REGISTRATION FEES (in Euros)

IPMA & PMI members 550

IPMA & PMI non-members 650

Program attendance fee a(sessions only, without Welcome Cocktail Reception or Gala Dinner) 550

Companions 250

Students 200

Daily Tickets for one particular day without taking part in the social program 275

management methodologies and toolsin the practical work

Representatives of the West, the East,including countries interested in

establishing business and professionalcontacts in order to share experience,network, cooperate and contribute to theworld integration process.

DISCOUNTSAll discounts applicable to fullregistration package only. No discountswill be granted after May 1, 2005.Early Bird Discount - 25% until January1, 20% until February 15, 15% untilMarch 1, 10% until April 1, 2005.Team Discount - 10% for 2, registrants15% for 3, 20% discount for 4, 25%discount for 5 registrants employed bythe same company.Special discount for participants ofPMI® Global Congress 2005-EMEAEdinburgh, Scotland 23-25 May 2005 (in condition of payment before April 15) - 20%.

Discount for Speakers 20%. Total discount is limited to 40%.

BENEFITS FOR SPONSORS The amount and forms of benefits forSponsors are widely varied depending of thecategory the Sponsor classifies – from theGeneral Sponsor (€ 10,0 K) to the Sponsorof certain Symposium events (€ 1,0 K).

EXHIBITIONDuring the Symposium an Exhibition willbe held displaying the latest achievementsand tools of project management. It willpresent materials on methodologies,software products for projectmanagement, engineering and consultingservices, successful project managementcases, investment and innovative projects,educational programs and trainingmaterials, books, magazines and otherpublications, etc.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THESYMPOSIUMChairman of the Symposium SteeringCommittee Prof. Vladimir Voropaev Tel./fax (095) 215-37-18,E-mail:sovnet@sovnet.ru

Chairman of the OrganizationalCommittee Alexandr TovbTel. +7 (095) 283-78-80E-mail: Atovb@yandex.ru

Chairman of the Program Committee Grigory TsipesTel. +7 (095) 967-80-80E-mail: Gtsipes@ibs.ru

Additional information: www.pmsymposium2005.ru

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Project Management Association ofSerbia and Montenegro (YUPMA) willheld 9th International Symposium onProject Management on June 6-8 2005.The main topic of the Symposium isProject Management and its role with theprocess of European integration regardingdevelopment of companies, business,society and state. Symposium will be agreat opportunity for cross industry shareof knowledge between all main industryrepresentatives (e.g. building, health, IT,transportation, pharmaceutical etc.), andalso a chance for domestic companies tobecome familiar with experience of othercountries in transition.

This year International Symposium willtake place on a mountain Zlatibor, whichis one of the most beautiful mountains inSerbia. Zlatibor mountain is famous for

its streams, unpolluted air, healthy andclear water, the wonderful landscape andfriendly hosts.

‘’TOWARD EUROPEAN INTEGRATIONS’’

9th International Symposium on Project Management, Zlatibor June 6-8 2005

This year’s Nordic symposium, NORDNET2005 will take place in Copenhagen the26th to 28th of October. It is organised bythe Association of Danish ProjectManagement in cooperation with theassociations in Finland, Iceland, Norwayand Sweden.

The frame of reference will be the newNational Competence Baseline forScandinavia, which is presented in anotherarticle in this IPMA Newsletter. Allspeakers at the symposium will onbeforehand get a copy of this book, which istitled Competencies in Project Management.

At the symposium most plenary sessionsand one stream is planned to take place inEnglish – meanwhile the other streams areplanned to take place in Scandinavia.

We welcome proposals for paperpresentation at the sessions of the stream inEnglish. For your information, thepreliminary titles/themes of the four half-day modules of this stream are as follows:

1. Lead the project management throughplanning and evaluating the managementeffort and organising the managementphases such as preparation, start-up andclose-out.

2. Perform the project managementwhich include both the overall definitionof frames for the project and the ongoingmanagement of the project execution.

3. Manage the corporate projectprocesses including handling the projectoriented management functions such asPMO, the project portfolio andprograms.

4. Perform appropriate leadershipbehaviour which integrate the projectprocess, promote the projectperformance and stimulate the co-operation between participants andparties.

For each module we will form a team ofspeakers who will co-ordinate theircontributions on beforehand and will plan

how to involve the participants troughgroups and plenary discussions.

Furthermore, speakers will be invited topre-workshops in Copenhagen where thecoordination can take place – and whereyou may also act as sparring partner forother teams.

The sooner you send your proposal, thebetter we can fit it into the programme ofthe symposium. Please send tosymposiet@projektforeningen.dk or by mailto: Association of Danish ProjectManagement, Saettedammen 4, DK 3400Hilleroed, Denmark.

You are also welcome to contact the undersigner who are the project managerrespectively the chairman of NORDNET2005.

Helene Harildhh@projektforeningen.dk

Morten Fangelmf@projektforeningen.dk

Call for papers for NORDNET 2005 Symposium

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