WELCOME
By David Pells
Managing Editor
Addison, Texas, USA
Welcome to the April 2025 edition of the PM World Journal (PMWJ), our 151st monthly edition. This month’s PMWJ is another diverse and interesting edition, with 37 new works by 39 different authors representing 20 different countries. The new editions this month bring our totals to 5,415 works by 2,096 different authors representing 90+ countries published in the PMWJ to date and archived in the PM World Library.
Four Letters to the Editor are included in this edition, two on the topic of risk meta-language and two related to AI. Please read the one from Massimo Pirozzi in Italy who argues that open-source publications like the PMWJ are showing up in lists of references in AI searches. Good news for the PMWJ, I think.
Two Interviews are included this month, courtesy of PMWJ correspondents Yasmina Khelifi in Paris and Aina Aliiva in Canada. Yasmina’s interesting interview is with award winning PMI Fellow and Professor Prasad Kodukula in Illinois, USA. Aina’s interview is actually five short interviews with co-authors of the recently published book, The Evolution of the PMO: The Rise of the Chief Project Officer, for which Aina was the editor. Actually, this month’s is Part 1, with more to follow in coming months. Thank you Aina and Yasmina. Check out these interesting interviews this month.
11 Featured Papers are included this month, by authors in six different countries. These good papers are a mix of academic and professional research, by professors, graduate students and very senior project management practitioners. The topics vary from directly to indirectly related to program and project management. Rather than mention all of the titles and authors, I can say that these are substantial works representing many hours of research and writing. So please review the titles and summaries and read one or two. Several are fascinating and a couple cover significant topics. Please note that because we are receiving multiple papers each month now from PhD students and university professors, we are considering the creation of an Editorial Review Committee and transformation of the PMWJ into a partially peer-reviewed (or refereed) journal. If you have interest in this topic, please let me know.
Six Series Articles are included by nine authors in five countries. Dr. Stanislaw Gasik in Poland has authored another important article in his series on “Lets Talk about Public Projects.” His new article, “GPIS as a Tool for State Resilience”, is in my opinion one of Stan’s best so far, especially for relatively mature government agencies and project leaders who think they already know everything. Oliver Lehmann in Germany has authored another article in his important series on “Project Business Management”. His article titled “7 Steps to Boost Profit Margins” should be of interest to anyone on the supplier side of projects and project management (the entire supply chain, in my opinion!). Martin Hopkinson in the UK has penned another brief guide in his “Practical Project Risk Management” series, this one titled “One Page Per Risk Reports.” I think the title speaks for itself. Dr. Hugo Minney in UK is back with a new article in his benefits management series titled “Portfolio Prioritisation through Benefits Management: Closing the Strategy-Execution Gap”. Read this to learn from a true expert!
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How to cite this work: Pells, D.L. (2025). Welcome to the April 2025 PMWJ; PM World Journal, Vol. XIV, Issue IV, April. Available online at http://pmworldlibrary.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pmwj151-Apr2025-Pells-Welcome-to-the-April-2025-pmwj-3.pdf
About the Author
David L. Pells
Managing Editor, PMWJ
Managing Director, PMWL
David L. Pells, PMI Fellow, HonFAPM, ISIPM, PMA is Managing Editor and publisher of the PM World Journal (www.pmworldjournal.com) and Managing Director of the PM World Library (www.pmworldlibrary.net). David is an internationally recognized leader in the field of professional project management with more than 40 years of experience on a variety of programs and projects, including engineering, construction, energy, defense, transit, technology and nuclear security, and project sizes ranging from thousands to billions of dollars. Most recently he served as an independent advisor for a major U.S. national security program and project management advisor for several U.S. national laboratories.
David Pells has been an active professional leader in the United States since the 1980s, as founder and president of several PMI chapters, founder of PMI’s first SIG (Project Earth), and member of the PMI board of directors twice. He was founder and chair of the Global Project Management Forum (1995-2000), an annual meeting of leaders of PM associations from around the world. David was awarded PMI’s Person of the Year award in 1998 and Fellow Award, PMI’s highest honor, in 1999. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Project Management (APM) in the UK; the Instituto Italiano di Project Management (ISIMP) in Italy; and Project Management Associates (PMA) in India.
Former managing editor of PM World Today, he is the creator, editor and publisher of the PM World Journal (ISSN: 2330-4880). David has a BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington and an MBA from Idaho State University in the USA. He has published widely and spoken at conferences and events worldwide. David lives near Dallas, Texas and can be contacted at editor@pmworldjournal.com.
To see other works by David Pells, visit his author showcase in the PM World Library at http://pmworldlibrary.net/authors/david-l-pells/
