About The Author
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R. Max Wideman. P.Eng.
Fellow Institution of Civil Engineers (UK)
Fellow Engineering Institute of Canada
Fellow Canadian Society of Civil Engineering
Fellow Project Management Institute
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Max Wideman is a registered professional engineer specializing in
project management consulting. He is an internationally recognized
speaker and has presented seminars and papers in eleven different
countries on a variety of project management topics. During his
career he has had hands-on experience as a corporate executive,
project director and project manager for a range of clients.
He has seen the project management process from the perspective
of owner, developer, engineer, contractor and government agent.
His projects include heavy engineering and building construction
as well as software, systems, social and environmental projects.
Max has been active in the US-based Project Management Institute
(PMI®) for many years including being elected
to President and Chairman of the PMI Board. In the mid-1980s, he
led a team of eighty PMI volunteers from across North America to
document the Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge.
It was approved and published by PMI in 1987, since superseded by
'A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge', publications
which provided the basis for PMI’s Project Management Professional
certification program.
He is author of many papers and several books on project management:
A Framework for Project and Program Management Integration
(Editor, Project Management Institute, 1991); Project and Program
Risk Management, (Editor, Project Management Institute, 1992);
and Cost Control of Capital Projects, (Second Edition
1995, BiTech Publishers, Vancouver, BC, Canada.) His latest
book is A Management Framework for Project, Program and Portfolio
Integration. (Trafford Publishing, Victoria, BC, Canada,
2004)
In addition, he has contributed chapters to authoritative project
management books: Project Risk Managment in Project Management
Handbook (PMI/Jossey-Bass 1998); and Professional and Personal
Development Management: A Practical Approach to Education and
Training in Project
Management for the Business Professional: A Comprehensive Guide
(John Wiley 2001); How to Motivate All Stakeholders
to Work Together in Field Guide to Project Management (2nd.
Edition, Wiley, 2004).
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