A staple of “green” management is that any project that tends to kill off significant numbers of animals – even animals that are dangerous, or ones nobody has ever heard of, like Gre ...
Driving into work yesterday I listened to yet another story on what I've started calling BP's "Nightmare in the Gulf." This is the story of a disaster that just doesn't see ...
Joseph Onstott, PMP, is the Budget and Cost Manager for the ITER project. He presented at Synergy, the PMI UK event for International Project Management Day, last week. ITER was conceived in 1985 ...
The 800-mile Alaska Pipeline was a project without a plan or method. This remarkable story presents some valuable lessons from the biggest and most expensive private enterprise in American history.
The BP oil spill instantly became a crisis management disaster with devastating repercussions. What went wrong, and what lessons can we take from the tragedy?
The BP oil spill instantly became a crisis management disaster with devastating repercussions. What went wrong, and what lessons can we take from the tragedy? As our two-part article concludes, we look at more of the major management mistakes.
Applying data warehousing and analytics to current events, this writer uses some super-sleuthing analytics to try and get to the bottom of the supply and demand myths of the oil crisis.
Renewable energy emerges from the economic Dark Ages with the spotlight on project management.
There are now more than 7 billion people in the world and that number is expected to jump to 9.4 billion in less than 40 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. As the population grows, so too does the mass migration from the countryside to cities, particularly in developing nations. This article discusses how project teams are re-imagining urban development to alleviate the massive strain on cities' infrastructure, construction, energy and IT demands.
A staple of “green” management is that any project that tends to kill off significant numbers of animals – even animals that are dangerous, or ones nobody has ever heard of, like Gre ...
This case study delves into the project management techniques used on the multi-billion (10 plus) US dollars Department of Energy's (DOE) project called the Superconducting Super-Collider (SSC). A high-energy subatomic particle accelerator set to be the most powerful in the world, the SSC project's intended end result was a product to be used for research and development. Purchase this item in the PMI Store, where PMI members receive discounted prices.
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