Table of Contents

Preface.
Staying on course.

Over ten years experience with PM@Siemens.


The Project Directors Community

The exchange of experience put into practice.


From dream to reality

A new airport for Bangalore.


How to create public interest in a project

The airport project in Tirana.


Taking a second step overseas

Metro trains for Prague and Venezuela.


A Metro for Maracaibo

Success through joint responsibility.


Leading a project is like running a company

An interview with Friedrich Strobusch.


Stakeholder Family

Arabia as a project location and private living space.


Everyday life in global multi-project management

The global accessibility of a project manager and other
challenges.


Taking on joint responsibility

The development of a project-oriented organisation.


Discovering improvement potential in the organisation

The MPM Assessment.


A different world

Understanding project management in Western Siberia.


Aligning a new team

The integration of VA TECH during a project in the United Arab
Emirates.


From project execution to sales

Project management in healthcare.


?Just? Software?

A computer scientist in the project business.


PM certification?

Yes, but which is most appropriate?


Skytrain in Bangkok

A project during a crisis.


Securing the ground

A high-speed railway project in the Netherlands.


A project manager must be burning for his work

Passion in project management and project management in a global
organisation.


From plant engineering to a product platform

Multi-project management for a regional multiple unit
train


Formula 1

Creating a team from scratch or how to turn a sand pit into a
race track


Sustainable personnel development through an internal
certification system

How Siemens certifies its project managers ? and at the
same time gets to know them.


When costs and deadlines start getting out of hand

Crisis management in South Carolina.


Suddenly you are standing in front of 100 people

? and you enjoy it!


Pioneers of the project business

The Siemens brothers and the Indo-European telegraph
line.


Epilogue.


Editors and authors.


Glossary.


Index.

About the Author

ELISABETH BITTNER has built up communities on project management and project training and she does communication and PR for project management topics. WALTER GREGORC has directed projects in the USA, in Albania, Hong Kong, Oman, Saudi-Arabia, Turkey and Austria. In addition, he has special experiences in claim and contract management, in project assessment and in PM coaching. Both are members of the Siemens Project Directors Community.