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Dubai Eye Radio show: Is Dubai global project management ready? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Monday, 29 March 2010

Dr. Paul Gardiner, Prof. Jim Ritchie and Jean Binder debated live on Dubai Eye Radio: Is Dubai "Global Project Management Ready"?

 radio-1.jpg  ·         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?

 Listen to Part I

 Listen to Part II

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 Listen to Part IV

 

 Click here to learn more.

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.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 30 March 2010 )
 
Dubai workshop: Global Project Management, success across borders PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Sunday, 28 March 2010

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.

Click here to download a copy of the presentation.

Click here to download the flip chart results.

 

Last Updated ( Monday, 29 March 2010 )
 
Congres du Management de Projet 2010: Effective Communication in Global Projects PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Thursday, 08 April 2010

Jean Binder, from the GlobalProjectManagement.org, made a presentation about effective communication in Global Projects. Click here to learn more.

It was a very interactive session, and participants learned some practical solutions to increase the efficiency of distributed international teams. After the initial presentation, they brainstormed in teams on the key factors for the success of global projects, and shared the results with the other participants.

Click here to download the results.

Last Updated ( Monday, 12 April 2010 )
 
IPMA 2009 Global Congress - Helsinki PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Monday, 08 June 2009

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Jean Binder, from the GlobalProjectManagement.org, presented the Model of Success Factors for Global Project Management at the 23rd IPMA World Contress 2009, in Helsinki (17 June 2009). Click here to download the full congress programme.

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 July 2009 )
 
PMI Global Congress EMEA 2009 - Amsterdam PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Wednesday, 20 May 2009

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pmi165.jpgJean Binder, from the GlobalProjectManagement.org, made a presentation about effective management of Global Projects at the PMI Global Congress EMEA 2009, in Amsterdam.

In this presentation, over 150 people reviewed the key framework concepts from the book and discussed the main areas of knowledge that companies must consider to achieve a high level of efficiency on global projects.

Using a mix of theory and real-life examples, Jean presented different processes and methods for effective collaboration on projects that involve people in different countries and time zones. Some questions answered during the presentation include:

 

- What are the main cross-cultural differences and how can they affect global projects?

- How to build trust over distance?

- How to avoid and resolve conflicts across borders?

- How to use brainstorming and mindmapping with distributed teams? 

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Images ©2009 Felix Ludosan 

Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 July 2009 )
 
Global Project Management reviewed by the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Monday, 02 March 2009

Dr. Derek H.T. Walker, from the RMIT University in Melbourne, reviewed the book "Global Project Management" for the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (volume 2, issue 1, pages 160-163).

Dr. Walker considers that the book "is one a very few available texts in this domain with a project management focus and as such it makes a valuable contribution to project management practice", and that "the [Global Project Management] framework provides a neat way of presenting and organising the book being a globe figure with latitude and longitude lines to segregate it into 25 chapters of varying length and five major themes: Global teams; global communication; global organisations; collaborative tools and collaborative techniques".

The review concludes by saying that the book is a very useful tool and "a long waited primer for those struggling with managing global [project management] teams", representing "one of the pioneer books in an important area of focus for [project management]".

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 March 2009 )
 
Congres du Management de Projet: Effective Communication in Global Projects PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Tuesday, 17 March 2009

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 Jean Binder, from the GlobalProjectManagement.org, made a presentation about effective communication in Global Projects. Click here to learn more.

Using a good mix of theory and real-life examples, we discussed different processes and methods for effective communication on projects that involve people in different countries and time zones. What are the main communication challenges from global projects? What strategies can be used? How to use communication techniques to increase commitment of global stakeholders? All participantes came to the presentation with ideas to answer these questions, and brought other challenges faced by global project managers. The result was captured in a mindmap with key elements suggested by the audience.

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Last Updated ( Saturday, 16 May 2009 )
 
Global Project Management reviewed by the Project Management Journal PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Monday, 05 January 2009

Dr. Ginger Levin reviewed the book "Global Project Management" for the Project Management Journal (volume 39, issue 4, page 115), from the Project Management Institute.

Dr Levin evaluates that "For project professionals working on virtual or geographically dispersed projects, Global Project Management by Jean Binder will be a valuable reference. It could serve as a textbook for universities that offer programs in project management and wish to or have a course on the virtual and global environment. ... In a number of areas, Global Project Management adds to previously notable work".

The peer-refereed academic and research quarterly of PMI, Project Management Journal® features state-of-the-art management techniques, research, theories and applications. It addresses the broad interests of the project management profession, and maintains an editorial balance of content about research, technique, theory and practice.

Click here to read the full review

In case the link above does not work, please download the review from the pmi.org website (Select "Resources" > "Project Management Journal" > "Read past issues of the journal" > "September 2008") 

Last Updated ( Monday, 05 January 2009 )
 
Jean Binder interviewed by "Everyday Project Management" PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Sunday, 02 November 2008

"Using the book you don’t need to spend time surfing the web and online bookstores to find different pieces of information. The framework provides the main recommendations, and also references to other sources of information, for the readers that want to have a deep understanding of selected topics."

Click here to read the full interview 


Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 November 2008 )
 
Global Project Management webinar presented at PMOSIG PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Thursday, 30 October 2008

Jean Binder, from the Global Project Management.org, presented a webinar to more than 140 members of the PMOSIG (The PMI PMO Specific Interest Group). The webinar "Strategies and best practices for a global PMO" reviewed the different areas of knowledge that are essential for effectiveness of global projects, and the various types and objectives of a global PMO, suggesting innovative ways to foster innovation and to improve the effectiveness of global programs and projects.

During the presentation, case studies from a number of global projects were presented and combined with the answers to the participants’ questions, providing best practices and techniques that can be applied directly by a global PMO.

Members of the PMOSIG can click here and download the presentation.

 
Global Project Management awarded as the best project management book of 2007 PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jean Binder   
Saturday, 18 October 2008

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The book Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management Across Borders  received today the PMI David I. Cleland project management literature award from the Project Management Institute during the PMI Global Congress in Denver, Colorado.

award_-_jbgb.jpg The award received by Jean Binder, from the GlobalProjectManagement.org (shown on the left with Gregory Balestrero, PMI CEO) recognizes an author for advancing the project management knowledge, practices, procedures, concepts or techniques that demonstrate the value of using project management.

"Global Project Management: Communication, Collaboration and Management Across Borders addresses the fundamental challenge faced by project managers in international environments: managing teams that span functions, corporations, continents and cultures. The book demonstrates the value of using project management for international endeavors by providing innovative approaches, strong concepts based on academic research and hands-on techniques that have been proven through actual practice. Over the course of its 300 pages, the book never wavers from its commitment to providing a valuable framework of methods to be used for the benefit of global project outcomes" (PMI award committee).

Click here to read the announcement

Click here to learn more about the PMI David I. Cleland award

Click here to discover the award-winning book

Click here to discover the other 2008 awards

 

Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 November 2008 )
 

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