References - Success Driven Project Management

PMI Press Release includes SDPM

posted Nov 29, 2009 2:56 PM by Peter Mello [ updated Nov 29, 2009 2:05 PM ]

November, 2009 - Peter Mello wins the Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award for "his outstanding contributions to the practice of the project management profession and his demonstration of leadership and initiative while advancing project management concepts, techniques, practices and theories".

For the event the press release says "[Peter] is also a consultant in project and portfolio management, emphasizing risk and scheduling management with the application of Success Driven Project Management methodology. Mello develops restrictions-based scheduling and provides project management training and consulting services to governmental and industrial organizations in Brazil".

More information at: http://www.pmi.org/AboutUs/Pages/Brasilia-Local-Recognized-for-Project-Management-Excellence.aspx

Investments in Oil & Gas

posted Oct 30, 2009 5:46 AM by Peter Mello

It happened in Rio on October 28th (2009) an event to discuss probable means of developing investments in Oil & Gas in Brazil.

Peter Mello presented (in Portuguese) a paper demonstrating the importance of SDPM to deal with risk scenarios to a public with representatives of Transpetro, Petrobras and many service providers in the Oil Industry.

His presentation followed one made by Leonardo Feitosa, from Petrobras, where leassons learned from Urucu/Manaus Project were presented.

Mello's paper will be posted in the Portuguese section of SDPM World in a couple of days.

Risk Management and SDPM

posted Oct 30, 2009 5:43 AM by Peter Mello

In the Portuguese pages it was included references to an event with IQPC regarding Corporative Risk Management.

The event happened in August 2007 in São Paulo, with an interesting presentation linking project management risk to corporative risk management.

State of the Art 2008-2013

posted Oct 20, 2009 7:21 AM by Peter Mello

Presentation by Russell Archibald in PMI Chapter in Mexico discusses his view of present and future, with support to the application of Russian Resource Critical Path (SDPM) and its success probability index. The paper can be found here.

Book about Forensic Analysis discusses SDPM

posted Oct 20, 2009 6:55 AM by Peter Mello [ updated Oct 20, 2009 6:03 AM ]

Available in Portuguese, the book "Eficiência e Análise de Atraso em Projetos e Análise Forense de Cronograma", discusses the application of SDPM as means of evaluating project results. Information about the book may be found at http://www.thespiderteam.com/forense

Published a book about Spider in Portuguese

posted Oct 20, 2009 6:52 AM by Peter Mello [ updated Oct 20, 2009 5:59 AM ]

The book "Spider Project: Metodologia e Qualidade em Gerenciamento de Projetos" is the first book in Brazil to bring a chapter about Success Driven Project Management. The book has its own website at http://www.spiderproject-book.com