2009 governmental forum on PMI project management

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-07-10 16:42

May 26th, 2009 Beijing,China - Project Management Institute (PMI) held 2009 PMI Project Management Government Forum titled “From Developing Economic Stimulus Plans to Organizational Project Management” today inBeijing. All participants agreed that governmental project management plays a vital role in successful implementation of the economic stimulus plans.

2009 is the critical year for the implementation and execution of the ambitious 4 trillion economic stimulus package announced by Chinese government November 2008. It becomes a focus issue of whole society that whether relevant plans and key projects could be effectively implemented and achieve expected objectives. 2009 PMI Project Management Government Forum is aiming at giving answer to this question with perspective of project management.

Guests of the forum include Representatives from National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, scholars from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, and other academic institutions as well as representatives and scholars from other countries participated this forum and conducted in-depth discussion on government project management.

“Governmental project management becomes particular critical in the current economic situation, and bears the economic future of one nation or even a region. The ability of governmental project management directly affects the outcome of large-scale governmental projects.” said Steve Fahrenkrog, PMI vice president, “As the largest project management professional organization worldwide, PMI enjoys close cooperation with governments of many countries including China,U.S., and many international and regional organizations such as EU. PMI helps them to achieve better strategic goals through effective project management.”

According to the participants, government plans involve many large and complicated projects. However, government departments as comprehensive supervisor and coordinators can not penetrate into every key detail of projects, which poses a great challenge to the effective implementation and expected objectives of the projects. Organizational project management—one of the themes of the forum, combines the organization management with whole strategy, and realizes effective project control and ensures strategic targets through setting up a management system and process. This leading concept and practice of project management can help governments to deal with challenges in carrying out economic stimulus plans.

“project management has integrated into every stage of implementing government economy stimulus plan, from the strategic level to the implementation of specific projects.” said Chen Yongtao, managing director of PMI China, “We have witnessed a soaring need for project management professionals. In the current economic situation, the value of project management becomes more prominent. For yeas, PMI roots inChina, cooperate with government departments and organizations in various industries, helps Chinese government and enterprises to improve project management ability, and build up project management personnel pool inChina.”

Project Management Professional (PMP®) is the only credential recognized everywhere in the world. By the end of 2008, there are more than 200,000 PMPs in 150 countries all over the world.Chinacurrently has more than 30,000 PMPs. The number is expected to increase by 700 percent in next five years. More project management professionals will contribute their talent to industries of ICT, construction, financial services, public services and aviation.

According to James A. Rispoli, former assistant secretary of U.S. Department of Energy, government leadership is the key for the whole world recovering from the gloomy economy. Governmental project management has become an indispensable capacity of every excellent government. Chinese government’s stimulus package is an ambitious project plan, and the ability of governmental project management is vital to its implementation.

PMI holds project management conferences, fora and high-level roundtables across the world every year. This forum is the third project management governmental forum inChina. The first tow fora were held in 2006 and 2007. PMI is committed to bring world leading knowledge and practice of project management toChina, and help Chinese government to raise its ability of project management.

About PMI

Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world’s largest non-profit project management authority. It is committed to the research on project management, standard making and publishing, value advocating, Professional Certification, and degree courses certification. It also provides valuable information, resources and communication platform of professionals. PMI was established in 1969, headquarters inU.S., and has direct affiliated institutions and many partners in North America, Europe,China,India, and other countries. PMI has 500,000 members and management personnel with PMI certification worldwide.

The purpose of PMI is to promote scientization, professionalization and internationalization of project management, raise the comprehension and recognition towards project management of various organizations worldwide, and therefore encourage them to improve performance through project management.