WELCOME
By David Pells
Managing Editor
Addison, Texas, USA
Welcome to the August 2025 edition of the PM World Journal (PMWJ), our 155th monthly and 13th annual anniversary edition. This month’s PMWJ is another diverse and interesting edition, with 32 new works by 39 different authors representing 17 different countries. The new additions this month bring our totals to 5,556 works by 2,144 different authors representing 90+ countries published in the PMWJ to date and now archived in the PM World Library.
Introduction + New Developments
As those of you who read my welcome articles have noticed, I use this opportunity to mention new developments related to the PMWJ or library. Last month it was our launch of peer reviews for research papers by academic researchers and professionals who want or need such feedback. We are quickly learning that peer reviews are serious, entail a lot of work to both perform and coordinate the reviews, and can be frustrating for everyone if they result in multiple revisions and reviews, as several have. Thank goodness Dr. Miles Shepherd is leading and facilitating the peer review process for us. See our new Editorial Peer Review Panel here. We can still use a few more reviewers, so if you have gained your doctoral or PhD degree, have experience reviewing academic papers and have an interest, please let us know.
The introduction of peer reviews has forced us to review and update our publishing policies and processes, as well as author guidelines. Most of that work has been done, so if you are an author or potential author, please take a look at the following new webpages on the PMWJ website:
Under the ABOUT tab: What We Publish, How We Publish and Ethics and Fairness.
Under the AUTHORS tab: General Author Guidelines and Before You Submit.
Several others are still to be updated and/or created, including Copyright and Open Source, Data Protection and Privacy, and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). New policies and guidelines related to AI may be of most immediate interest, since we are already seeing many submissions for which AI has been used for one purpose or another. Some aspects are already included in our Ethics and Author Guidelines policies, but AI is a big subject and its use is growing rapidly. It’s also not so simple. We will have all policy and guidelines pages updated and live on the PMWJ website this month, so please check periodically if interested. We are upping the game as the world’s first truly hybrid journal for program and project management, and perhaps, the most international.
One final important point regarding new policies and processes. All works submitted for possible publication in the PMWJ are now subject to potential plagiarism and AI checks (see our new Ethics and Fairness guidance). All works must also be submitted in our standard format, and all authors must sign an Author Agreement to cover copyright, posting in the PM World Library, free downloading by readers and other topics. This is all intended to speed up the editing, review and publishing processes as our volume grows.
We have also welcomed two new Honorary Global Advisors in recent weeks, including the globally renowned professor Dr. Lynn Crawford, Life Fellow of AIPM, Hon Fellow of APM and IPMA, award-winning author of multiple studies, papers and books about project management, who is based in Australia, and PMI Fellow and former Chair Deanna Landers, founder of Project Managers Without Borders, who is based in the United States. To see their profiles, click here.
Now, here is my take on this month’s contents.
This Month in the PMWJ
One Letter to the Editor is included in this edition on the topic of “End of an Era + AI Alert” from Dr. Ken Smith in Manila. As one of the oldest and most experienced project management practitioners in the world, Ken has been sharing his experience and advice with PMWJ readers for the past few years. In his mid-90s now, maybe he’s slowing down, which is too bad because his articles are full of history, knowledge and good advice, as well as often entertaining. Thank you, Ken.
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How to cite this work: Pells, D.L. (2025). Welcome to the August 2025 PMWJ; PM World Journal, Vol. XIV, Issue VIII, August. Available online at https://pmworldjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/pmwj155-Aug2025-Pells-Welcome-to-the-August-2025-pmwj.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. He recently spent a dozen years as a program management advisor for the U.S. government’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
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/
