2017

Winner

• CAMH

  The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health is Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. The PMO supports portfolios across the organization and ensures alignment with the vision of CAMH. They have an enterprise reporting strategy to ensure accuracy in their clinical and financial dashboards and information. Their initiatives have helped improve patient safety and operational procedures.

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Finalists

• Henkels & McCoy Group, Inc.

  Henkels & McCoy’s PMO is aligned with the Enterprise’s strategic objectives of customer satisfaction, contract compliance, and profit retention. In partnership with other company functions, HMG’s PMO developed and implemented processes and procedures to ensure consistency in practice, maintain safety and quality, and measure performance.

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• MetLife

  MetLife’s Enterprise Application Development PMO works to support strategic initiatives, ensuring solutions that simplify operations and benefit their customers. They have become trusted advisors focused on Portfolio Management, Process Effectiveness, Project Operations and Workforce Planning. Accomplishments include the alignment of the portfolio, budget visibility, and centralizing the tools that are used.

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Winner

• Hanford Double Shell Tank AY-102 Recovery Project

  Washington River Protection Solutions, LLC

  Budget: US$107.3 million

  Hanford, Washington, USA

  Highlight: Tank AY-102 is a 1 million gallon capacity double shell tank commissioned in 1971 storing radioactive and chemical waste. In August 2012, this storage tank was found to be leaking nuclear waste. The nuclear waste needed to be removed and transferred to a double-shell tank for safe storage. The project closed ahead of scheduled and US$8.7 million under budget.

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Finalists

• Gahcho Kué Project

  De Beers Canada / Hatch Ltd.

  Budget: CA$1.1 billion

  Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

  Highlight: De Beer’s Gahcho Kué mine was built deep in Canada’s Northwest Territories just below the Arctic Circle. The project was to build a diamond mine and production facility in one of the world’s harshest climates. The facility started production two months early.

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• University Link Light Rail Extension

  Sound Transit

  Budget: US$1.8 billion

  Seattle, Washington, USA

  Highlight: Seattle Washington is the second worst city in the U.S. for time commuters are stuck in traffic. In order to reduce rising roadway congestion, this project was implemented to extend the light rail system 3.2 miles (5 kilometers) via underground tunnels. The rail line opened six months ahead of schedule, and the project closed US$200 million under budget.

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Winners

• Alfonso Bucero, PMI-RMP, PMP, PfMP, PMI Fellow

• Sriramasundararajan Rajagopalan, PhD, PMI-ACP, PMI-RMP, PMI-SP, PMP

Winners

• Linda Vella, BA, PMP, PMI Fellow

• Eugene C. Bounds, CSM, PMP, PMI Fellow

Winners

• ICT fitout delivered ‘As a Service’ for 1 William Street

  Dimension Data Australia

  Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• AP Farm Ventilation Upgrades Project

  Washington River Protection Solutions

  Richland, Washington, USA

• Tank 12 Closure

  Savannah River Remediation

  Aiken, South Carolina, USA

Winner

• Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

  by GEN (Ret) Stanley McChrystal U.S. Army, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell

Winners

• Gerald O. Sablo, Jr., BS, MS

  2017 North America Recipient

  Project Ethics: The Promise and the Reality

  This paper is a fictional case study consisting of four vignettes of how Contract Project Management, Inc., trained in the Project Management Institute’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, deals with a variety of questionable ethical behaviors found on one particular project undertaken by contract.

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• Neil C. Robinson, PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, CELTA, MACS

  2017 EMEA Recipient

  Life is a Project: Project Management as an Enabling Life Skill

  This paper introduces the concept of teaching basic project management skills as a useful tool for empowering newcomers with greater capability to define, plan and achieve personal objectives in a culturally challenging environment.

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Winners

• Floating in Space? On the Strangeness of Exploratory Projects

  By Sylvain Lenfle, PhD

• The Projectification of Everything: Projects as a Human Condition

  By Anders Jensen, PhD, Christian Thuesen, PhD, and Joana Geraldi, PhD

Winner

• Making Projects Critical: Svetlana Cicmil, PhD | Johann Packendorff, PhD | Damian Hodgson, PhD | Monica Lindgren, PhD

Winner

• Vijay Kanabar, PhD, PMP (Boston University)