Software and other project management practices in India / S. Srinivasan, Chinmay Jain, and Bopaya Bidanda -- The Sydney 2000 Olympic Games / Brian R. Kooyman and Jonathan A. Shahady -- Project management in Aotearoa (New Zealand) / Stephen Harrison -- An evaluation of major infrastructure projects in France: a "project finance" perspective / Christophe N. Bredillet -- The role of project management in Spanish projects / Alfonso Bucero -- Managing projects financed by international lending agencies / Robert Youker -- Managing transnational projects / Miles Shepherd -- Managing projects in health systems / Beaufort B. Longest -- Managing international project management training / Clayman C. Myers -- Cross-cultural project management on major-sized global oil and gas plant projects / Hiroshi Tanaka -- Elements of successful project management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology / Thomas R. Rhodes -- Project management success at the Central Intelligence Agency / Sean E. O'Hara -- Strategies and results in the design and implementation of a project management program for a state government / Tim Jaques and Jonathan Weinstein -- Evaluating project management effectiveness of Boston big dig and Three Gorges Dam in China / Young Hoon Kwak -- Project risk management for Alaska oil and gas capital projects / Mike Fisher and Jang W. Ra -- Legal considerations in managing a nuclear plant decommissioning / Randall L. Speck -- Using integrated project management to improve outsourcing strategy and business results / Gregory A. Garrett -- Connecting projects to corporate strategy / Paul Varella and Kam Jugdev -- PMO creation within financial services companies / Robert Chaves -- The evolution of project office and portfolio management at American Modern Insurance Group, Cincinnati, Ohio / Mark Heitkamp and Lee Pinkerton -- A faith-based response to catastrophic disaster: an overview of Southern Baptist disaster relief planning and logistics in Hurricane Katrina / Jim Burton -- The firefly fiasco: a case study in project management failure / Bud Baker -- Lessons learned always have a price tag / Marty Burke -- China's shenzhou spaceship project / Xue Yan and Qian Fupei -- Project management in connection to entrepreneurship and network organizations / Brane Semolic and Jure Kovac -- Project management certification: frequently asked questions and experiences of the project management community / Brigitte Schaden -- The chief architect and the art of project management / David Holyoke -- The Tao of nimble project management: a real world approach / Donna Fitzgerald -- Advancing project management professionalism and culture in your company / Morten Fangel -- Management by project of the fast-growing organization in dynamic environment / Sergey Bushuyev -- Project management using earned value management / Wayne F. Abba -- It's a long road to organizational maturity / John H. Scanlin.