Free Project Management Books – Drawing for Project Governance book by Ralf Müller Announced

Sept. 23, 2010 - PRLog -- Dallas, Texas, USA — PMForum has announced that the 5th book to be given away through its PM GiveAways™ Program will be Project Governance, by Ralf Müller and published by Gower in 2009.  PMForum’s PM GiveAways™ Program was announced in July 2010 at http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2010/07/FreeProjectManagementStuffPMForumLaunchesPM.html

Without a governance structure, an organization runs the risk of conflicts and inconsistencies between the various means of achieving organizational goals, the processes and resources, causing costly inefficiencies that impact negatively on both smooth running and bottom line profitability. However, the frequency of projects failing to meet these corporate objectives has focused attention firmly on the process of project governance.  

In this book, Ralf Müller provides a well-researched framework to explain the different preferences organizations have in goal setting, along with the best-practices, roles and responsibilities related to governance tasks.  This book is an important guide for project and programme managers, those managers concerned with corporate governance such as risk managers and internal auditors, project sponsors and project board members, as well as academics researching organizational and project performance.  

Ralf Müller is an international lecturer, researcher, author, and business consultant. He is the founder and managing director of PM Concepts, a Sweden based Management Consultancy, which advises larger enterprises in project, program and portfolio management. In parallel he is a part-time Associate Professor at Umeå University, Sweden, Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian School of Management BI, and at the SKEMA Graduate School of Management in Lille, France. He lectures project management, project governance and research methodology.

His research focuses on project, program and portfolio management improvement from an organization-wide perspective. His research studies have appeared in more than 50 publications and he is frequent speaker at global research and Practitioner conferences. As a consultant he worked in 44 different countries, for the improvement of project management in large organizations. He also managed national, international and global IT projects and consulting organizations.

Dr Müller is a member of the Editorial Review Board of several international academic journals. He is a member of the Consortium for Research in Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, and a co-founder of PMI's Frankfurt and Munich Chapters, as well as contributor to the PMI Standards for Organizational Project Management Maturity (OPM3), and Program and Portfolio Management.

Project Governance; by Ralf Müller; published by Gower; ISBN 9780566088667; 124 pages; softcover; © 2009; US$49.95/UK£25.00.  For more about the book, click here.  The DRAWING for free copies of the book Project Governance will be held on October 28, 2010.  Drawing will be for 10 lucky winners.  The book will be shipped free of charge to the winners.  For rules and to register, visit http://www.pmforum.org/PMGiveAways/Free-PM-Books.html.

PMForum’s PM GiveAways™ Program is based on periodic DRAWINGS for free educational and professional project management products and services.  PM GiveAways™ will include project management courses, books, conference passes, software and other valuable items.  Drawings will be held at least monthly, with the products and services to be given away announced in breaking news articles ahead of time and on PM GiveAways™ web pages.  To learn more or to register for drawings for free project management stuff, visit http://www.pmforum.org/PMGiveAways/PMGiveAways.html.

About Gower
Gower is one of the world’s pre-eminent book publishers, with a wide range of project management titles by some of the most respected authors in the field.  Gower’s “Fundamentals of Project Management” Series provides practicing professionals and project students the fundamentals in definitive, shorthand guides to each of the main competencies associated with project management.  Gower’s “Advances in Project Management” Series includes books by leading thinkers in the project and programme management field.   To see their selection of project management books, visit http://www.gowerpublishing.com/projectmanagement.

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About PMForum
PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s first website devoted to professional project management and still one of the most popular online sources of project management news and information. PMForum also produces the monthly PM World Today eJournal where articles, reports and stories about projects and project management around the world can be found; free subscriptions at www.pmworldtoday.net.

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