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'The Myth and Reality of Project Management,' Oct. 22

Stevens' Shenhar contrasts "current myths with the dynamic realities"

HOBOKEN, N.J. ¯ Research shows that even well-managed projects that have followed the conventional guidelines in the discipline of project management, often fail to meet their objectives. Many project teams today discover that they need to develop their own solutions on top of the standard techniques to cope with their project’s dynamic changes, uncertainty, or complexity.

In this Oct. 22 presentation, Stevens Institute of Technology Professor Aaron J. Shenhar will suggest that the conventional techniques that are common in project management today provide only the basic, although necessary, building blocks for understanding what project management is all about; yet they are not enough to guarantee a project’s success. He will present what he terms “the current myths,” on which the traditional guidelines are based, contrasting them with the dynamic realities of project management. The talk will take place Monday, Oct. 22, 2007, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m., at The Babbio Center, Room 104, located at 6th and River Streets on the Stevens campus in Hoboken, N.J. Refreshments will be served.

Dr. Aaron J. Shenhar is the institute professor of management and the founder of the project management program at Stevens Institute of Technology. He holds degrees in engineering and management from Stanford University and the Technion in Israel. He is a recipient of the Engineering Manager of the Year Award of IEEE, and the PMI Research Achievement Award. Dr. Shenhar accumulated more than 20 years of technical and management experience at a leading high-tech organization in the defense industry in Israel. In his academic career, he has published more than 150 publications in innovation management, project management, and the management of professional workers. He served as a consultant to leading high-technology organizations such as 3M, Honeywell, Dow Jones, NASA, BMI, Liz Claiborne, IAI, and the US Army. He is the co-author of the recent book, “Reinventing Project Management,” with Dov Dvir, published by the Harvard Business School Press.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value. Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,040 undergraduate and 3,085 graduate students, and a worldwide online enrollment of 2,250, with a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty of 140 and more than 200 full-time special faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.

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