Dr. Paul Gardiner, Prof. Jim Ritchie and Jean Binder debated live on Dubai Eye Radio: Is Dubai "Global Project Management Ready"?
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· Global projects are a unique set of projects that require special consideration for success.
· Global projects usually have the following characteristics: participants from more than one location, more than one time zone, multiple cultures, more than one language, multiple organisations.
· This makes them complex compared to most projects.
· Jean's research has developed a set of 25 success criteria, within five dimensions that are considered important for project success.
· Dubai is the home of large and complex projects ... but are the project managers in Dubai ready for global projects? |
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Dr Paul Gardiner
Dr Paul Gardiner is a senior lecturer and head of programme in project management at The British University in Dubai. Dr Gardiner studied Engineering for his first degree at Imperial College and then worked for Schlumberger. Dr Gardiner has established, designed, implemented and taught postgraduate programmes in project management at Heriot-Watt in Dubai (Academic City) and in universities in Italy, Sweden and the UK. He is a member of the APM and the PMI. He is also an external examiner for the University of Bradford and the University of Ulster. Dr Gardiner has written over 60 journal articles and conference papers, and publishes on project management in a number of top quality journals including, International Journal of Project Management, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Information Management, and Construction Management and Economics. He has also authored a textbook on project management for Palgrave Macmillan.
Prof Jim Ritchie
Jim Ritchie is Professor and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, specialising in teaching and research in the domains of design, manufacturing and management. Recent funded research has investigated the use of digital tools, especially virtual reality, for the automatic generation of design and manufacture process mapping and knowledge acquisition. Future projects in this area will include project management. Other funded projects have included quality methods in the food industry, design process analysis, logistics for SMEs and capability maturity modelling. With over 130 joint publications, he is also Director of his University’s Advanced Manufacturing Unit.
Jean Binder
Jean Binder, PMP, has more than 20 years of experience working in project environments, most of them living abroad and communicating in multi-cultural and multi-language environments. He has particular experience of managing global projects, having implemented collaborative tools and techniques in a number of global organisations. The Global Project Management Framework that serve as a basis for this presentation is explained on the website www.globalprojectmanagement.org and in the book “Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management Across Borders”, released by Gower Publishing in 2007, recipient of the PMI David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award 2008 (Best project management book published in 2007). The framework is now undergoing academic evaluation as part of a PhD study.
Jean Binder, from the GlobalProjectManagement.org, presented a very interactive workshop, where particiapants learnt some practical solutions to increase the efficiency of global project teams. The workshop consolidated the vast experience from the participants on multi-cultural project management, discussed the key challenges and combine presentations with group exercises. By the end of the evening all participants developed their own set of cross-cultural success factors for global projects.