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The International Standard Organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland is the most important organization in the world that creates standards and regulations in the industry. The ISO works with the support of the national and regional standard organizations in the world as ASME, DIN, JIS and the European Standard CEN. In the case of the project management, there is an American organization called Project Management Institute which has an extensive list of members in the field of project management and has developed in the past a framework of recommended procedure for it members to execute projects in opportunity and time. In 2012, the ISO and the PMI developed a new standard, the ISO 21500:2012, a guidance of project management useful for all the project managers of the world using as reference the experience and recommendations of the PMI. The guidance has the goal to align existent standards as 1006:2003 and 1007:2003 of quality management and 31000:2009 of risk management. The standard 21500:2012 is available for all the project engineers of the world (Gasiorowski-Denis, 2012).
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Paul Giammalvo of the Project Management Institute wrote for the Project Management Institute the experiences about the Continuous Improvement Process, based on the data of the Critical Path Method of the project schedule. The experience is referred to an experience in the execution of a project of ten years in the Minas Oil Field in Indonesia. The length of the project gave the experience to develop a Continuous Improvement Process using the data of measurements, process flow charts, diagrams and the weekly status of the project. The project execution has an intrinsic risk that must be managed and tracked with the goal to improve the process and take the experience for other projects in the future (Giammalvo, 1996).
Reference List
Gasiorowski-Denis, E. (10 October, 2012). New ISO standard on project management. Retrieved from ISO: http://www.iso.org/iso/news.htm?refid=Ref1662
Giammalvo, P. D. (June, 1996). Implementation Of A Continuous Process Improvement Program Using Data From CPM Schedules. Retrieved from PMI: http://www.pmi.org/learning/implementation-continuous-process-improvement-program-5350
