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PMI Obfuscation and the PMBOK

PMI keeps a very tight control on the PMBOK(c). I've already mentioned that there is no such thing as a  free PMBOK download, at least for several years. This is understandable as it is probably one of their key sources of income and only an idiot would give their works away for free... Um... oh, yeah, I have ads. Clickety click.

But, as Glen has pointed out while PMI is controlling access into the PMBOK, they are also controlling access OUT of the PMBOK. He lists the 5 items referenced by the PMBOK: "A dictionary, two ISO standards, a PMI Journal Paper and a Handbook.". For something billed as "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" it appears very thin on the guiding part. Indeed, in an academic setting it would be rejected as being under-researched. How does PMI support the claims implicit in the PMBOK? A cynic might say that they are just making things up. Of course I am not THAT cynical. I know that this stuff came from somewhere and that books and papers (as well as experience) are the actual "Body of Knowledge" so that is why it seems so strange.

Is it to avoid a conflict of interest and to escape from charges of favoritism? Or is it that they want no one to leave the island of information under their control? Anybody know the reason?

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Comments (2)

Julio Garcia del Junco:

Spain, Seville to June 13, 2006.

Dear Mr.

We are astonished for the treatment that they are devoting oneself to him Pfeffer's works and Sutton on the Based Administration in proof. There is investigators' group for in Europe that we are working on the Administration Based in the proof from the year 1999.

I attach you like example the first jobs once 2000, 2001 were divulged by us in the years internationally, and 2002:

1) “Teaching of Business Administration Trough Evidence Based Management” Academy of Management, Toronto 2000;

2) “Cased Method and Evidence – Based Administration ( EBMa ), Meeting Point University Teaching Innovation” in Complex Demands on Teaching Require Innovation, Edited by Hans E. Klein ( 2000 ), OMNI PRESS, MADISON, Wisconsin United Status of America, pp ( 63-77 );

3) “Evidence Based Management ( EBMa ): To Tool for Self Managed Learning " in Higher Education. International Council for Innovation in Higher Education, ICIE Toronto, Canada ( 2001 );

4) Evidence-Based Administration and Case Method for Knowledge management”, in Creative Teaching, Edited by Hans E. Klein. OMNI PRESS, MADISON. Wisconsin, United States of America, pp (90-106).


These are only some examples to quote the first works, but I attach you a list of publications of other works of the same theme. Obviously we dare to indicate than the first investigators that transfer of specific way The Based medicine in the proof to Business Administration, are my team and I from Europe.

To the wait of his kind news and trusting that the recognition due to science be done to you have him under consideration the information that I provide him.

Thank you very much for everything,


Julio García del Junco
Professor of Business Administration
Administration Department of Companies and Marketing
Faculty of Cost-Reducing and Entrepreneurial Sciences (University of Seville)
Avda. Raymond and Cajal, 1.
41018 Seville
Spain
Tfno. (34) 954 553670- (34) 954 557575
Fax: (34) 954 556 989

Julio Garcia del Junco:

Julio Garcia del Junco:
"Evidence Based Administration and Case Method for Knowledge Management". in "Creative Teaching". Wisconsin. Omni Press Madison, Edited by Hans E. Klein. 2004. Page. 90-106.

Julio Garcia del Junco, Arturo Calvo de Mora Smith:
"Evidence Bases Management for Managing Knowledge in Learning Organizations". in "Novos Desafios Na Gestâo: Inovaçâo Ou Renovaçâo". Covilhâ, Portugal. Universidade da Beira Interior. Vol. 8. 2002. Pág. 343-354. ISBN: 972-9209-83-9

Julio Garcia del Junco:
"Case Method and Evidence-Based Administration (EBMa) Meeting Point in University Teaching Innovation". "Complex Demands on Teaching Require Innovation". Needham (Boston) USA. 2000. Pag. 63-76. ISBN: 1-877868-16-7

Julio Garcia del Junco, Arturo Calvo de Mora Smith:
"Evidence Based Administration: and Application of Evidence Based Medicine in Enterprise World Manager Formation". Cuban Journal of Health Information and Communiction. Vol. 12. 2004. Pag. 122-151

Julio Garcia del Junco, Arturo Calvo de Mora, J. Garcia:
"La Administración Basada en la Evidencia para la Gestión del Conocimiento y la Toma de Decisiones en las Learning Organization". Revista Alta Dirección. Vol. 38. Núm. 222. 2002. Pág. 55-64

Julio Garcia del Junco, Cristobal Casanueva Rocha:
"Administración Basada en la Evidencia (ABE): una Nueva Herramienta para el Directivo". Revista Dirección y Organización. 2000. Pag. 20-30

Julio Garcia del Junco, Cristobal Casanueva Rocha:
"La Administración Basada en la Evidencia. Alta Dirección". Vol. 36. Núm. 210. 2000. Pág. 53-64

Julio Garcia del Junco, Cristobal Casanueva Rocha:
"La Administración Basada en la Evidencia (ABE) y su Aplicación a la Formación de Directivos". Revista Capital Humano. Vol. 13. Núm. 129. 2000. Pag. 32-40

Julio Garcia del Junco, Cristobal Casanueva Rocha:
"ABE: una Herramienta de Apoyo a las Decisiones Financieras". Revista Banca Española. 1999. Pág. 18-999

Julio Garcia del Junco:
"La Toma de Decisiones en el Mundo del Envase". Revista Envaspres. 1999. Pág. 56-60

Arturo Calvo de Mora, Julio Garcia del Junco, Kati Lieberman:
"Aplicación de las Nuevas Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación en el Proceso Enseñanza-Aprendizaje: la Administración Basada en la Evidencia". XIV Jornadas Hispano Lusas de Gestao Cientifica. Gerir a Competitividade Regional (14). Num. 14. Universidade Dos Açores - Ponta Delgada- Portugal. Universidad de las Azores. 2004. Pág. 2233-2248. ISBN: 972-8612-16-8

Julio Garcia del Junco, Arturo Calvo de Mora, Jose Ignacio Rufino Rus:
"Evidence-Based Administration and Case Method for Management Knowledge". Creative Teaching. Wacra Conference (). Mannheim (Germany). Hans E. Klein. 2002. Page. 91-105

Julio Garcia del Junco:
"Evidence-Based Management for Managing Knowledge in Learning Organizations". XII Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de Gestao Cientifica. Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de Gestao Cientifica. Num. 12. Covilha, Portugal. Universidad de Beira Interior. 2002. Pág. 343-354. ISBN: 972-9209-92-8

Julio Garcia del Junco:
"Evidence-Based Administration en la Enseñanza de la Dirección de Empresas". Academy of Management Meeting -Toronto 2000-. Academy of Management Meeting. Toronto (Canada). 0. 2000. Pag. 100-120

Juan Domingo Ganaza Vargas, Julio Garcia del Junco, Jaime Ortega Gutierrez, Juan Carlos Baena Rodriguez, Federico Basaña Agarrado, Francisco Jose Gonzalez Dominguez, Francisco Espasandin Bustelo:
Case Method and Evidence-Based Administration (EBEa), Meeting Point in University Teaching Innovation . Infonav: Un prototipo de Sistema de Información para la Navegación. Seminario Anual de Automatica, Electronica Industrial e Instrumentacion. Alcala Henares. 1999


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