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Project Management Journal,
Publish POIMS

0606 -
0606 -    ..
0607 - Summary/Objective
0608 -
060801 - Follow up
060802 -
060803 - Received ref DRT 1 line 11, from the Editor, Francis Webster,
060804 - indicating an interest in publishing something on POIMS.
060805 -
060806 -
060808 -  ..
0609 -
0610 -
0611 - Analysis
0612 -
061201 - Francis says he and Jeff feel the POIMS article should be published in
061202 - PM Network instead of PMJ.  It can be published in PM Network, about
061203 - next April; publication in PMJ could not occur for over a year.
061205 -  ..
061206 - They want to make it part of a "Focused Issue" on software.
061207 -
061208 -
061209 -   I wonder if this will diffuse the intent of the article to improve
061210 -   the craft of "management?"
061211 -
061212 -   The ideas about deliberative analysis, management data entry,
061213 -   integrating scheduling and reporting, integrating time, information,
061214 -   document and contact management, the ideas about report content,
061215 -   internal v. external practice, are all software neutral.
061217 -    ..
061218 -   Concepts about Subjects and Functions, and the correlation between
061219 -   them, which is not treated, but is implied in the article, is soft-
061220 -   ware netural.
061221 -   ..
061222 -   The notion of investing "intellectual capital," is not
061223 -   necessarily related to software, although automation makes it
061224 -   practical to accomplish in the management context.
061226 -    ..
061227 -   This seems clear from the remarks on 890513 by Boeing's Dr.  Little
061228 -   at the PMI Seminar in Seattle that managers have to be willing to
061229 -   change their practice as technology advances, but that he was unable
061230 -   to explain how it could be done other than to suggest that middle
061231 -   managers learn to type, ref SDS 1 K226 183.
061233 -    ..
061234 -   Question:  how will the practice of management differ in 20 years
061235 -   from what managers do today?
061236 -
061238 -  ..
061239 - Fran says the POIMS article will be submitted to the editor for the
061240 - Software Focus issue, and that it will be trimmed to four pages.
061241 -
061242 -   Four pages is adequate to cite concepts, as set out in the initial
061243 -   submission, ref OF 2, but may not fully address Jeff Pinto's points
061244 -   at ref SDS 2 line 56.
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061248 -  ..
061249 - Software References
061250 -
061251 -   I am unsure about this point, since only Lotus and IBM are mentioned
061252 -   (pg 1), and they are very well known.
061253 -
061254 -   It seems more reasonable that Francis feels we are citing a variety
061255 -   of software products to accomplish the various aspects of POIMS, and
061256 -   this is not the intent of the article.
061257 -
061258 -
061259 -
061261 -  ..
061262 - Use "PIM" in place of POIMS.
061263 -
061264 -   Francis wants to use "PIM" in place of POIMS.
061265 -
061266 -   If PIM encompasses the ideas attributed to POIMS in the article, I
061267 -   have no objection to the proposed change.  I believe, however, that
061268 -   there are no PIM products that come close to the range of features
061269 -   of POIMS technology.
061271 -    ..
061272 -   A central thesis of the article is that POIMS is a new technology.
061273 -   It extends PIM in the way that CPM extends bar chart scheduling
061274 -   technology, or as Arabic numerals extend Roman numerals, and the
061275 -   printing press improves upon writing books on parchment.
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