Antje Funck has been EU Representative since 2012 and she played a key role in the successful establishment of the IAPM’s Frankfurt office. In addition to coordinating the IAPM’s strategic marketing activities, Antje also supported and advised its Senior Officials.

It all started because of plans to fell trees. Now the occupation of a small park in the centre of Istanbul has triggered an unprecedented wave of protest involving millions of people. The civil war-like images of Taksim Square prompted journalist Martin Droschke to talk to Roland Ottmann.

IAPM EU Representative Antje Funck has developed a set of instructions involving seven steps to help project managers to identify the main causes of crises and either avoid or defuse them. Even the best project managers aren’t immune to crises, so we’ve posted Antje Funck’s instructions as a PDF. You can download them, print them out, send them to friends and colleagues or put them up on the bulletin board.

What do the experts read and recommend? At irregular intervals we ask trainers, academics and project managers to recommend key books to us. The books recommended by Dr. Roland Ottmann, founder of Ottmann & Partner Management Consulting and Chairman of the IAPM’s Council of Experts, contribute to providing project managers with the understanding of global political, social and economic interrelationships that they need to be successful in trans-national projects.

Two international project management associations have updated their certification knowledge guides almost simultaneously. The International Association of Project Managers (IAPM) published the updated version of its guide to Scrum and agile project management in March 2013. Just a few weeks earlier, the 5th edition of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) was published.

Knowledge is something you can never have enough of, whether you’re an experienced project manager or a newcomer. Here are some practical tips from a genuine project management expert. Today’s expert is Dr. Russel Archibald, a world-renowned author of much-acclaimed project management text books and an honorary member of the IAPM.

Kanban has evolved impressively over the last few years. The IT sector today appreciates it as an agile project management method that is often used in conjunction with other agile methods. The Lean Kanban North America Conference, the world's most influential forum for lean management experts which takes place in Chicago between 28 April and 2 May, will continue to drive this development. Volker Duetsch answered four questions for us.

Renowned project management expert Dr. Roland Ottmann has been appointed as the IAPM’s Chairman of the Council of Experts Ottmann has been acting as advisor to the association since 2010 and, prior to that, he was a member of the German and international PM Awards jury for several years.

What do the experts read and recommend? At sporadic intervals we ask trainers, academics and project managers to recommend outstanding books to us. The first recommendations come from Hans Stromeyer, manager of award-winning aerospace projects in the 1990s and currently President and CEO of the consultancy and training firm Stromeyer & Partners, which provides training to project managers for IAPM certification.

The IAPM (International Association of Project Managers) has another success story to report. When the KSPG Group implemented a restructuring programme in 2012, it selected a number of project managers in its automotive units KS Aluminium-Technologie GmbH (ATAG) and KS Kolbenschmidt GmbH for IAPM certification.

It’s 500 pages long, logically structured and comprehensive in every detail. US agile project management trainer and former Managing Director of the Scrum Alliance, Kenneth S. Rubin, published this genuinely mammoth book in summer 2012.