Contributors to this book consist of both academics and practitioners, and represent the latest developments in Australia, the Netherlands, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
The essays brought together here focus on the themes of project management maturity; governance; programme and portfolio management, and methods, tools and techniques. The book concludes with two papers that explore the future implications for the project management profession.
Dr. Beverly Pasian embodies the international spirit of the International Project Management Association (IPMA). Educated in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, she is the founding President of the Project Management Association of Canada, and the first recipient of its Fellowship award. She currently serves in leadership roles as Research Chair for both the Dutch member association of the IPMA and the Asia-Pacific Federation of Project Management. She currently has more than 20 undergraduate and Master’s students of Project Management currently under her supervision in the Master’s programme in Project Management at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. In addition to her work with the IPMA Research Management Board, she is an expert participant in the IPMA Delta Baseline project, and academic programme lead for the 2014 World Congress in Amsterdam.