Dear Readers,

Welcome to the 2014 issue of Organisational Project Management (OPM) journal that has evolved from the Journal of Project Program and Portfolio Management published by the UTSePress since 2010.

As explained in the last issue of JPPM we decided to make some improvements to the journal by changing its name, widening its scope and improving the time of publishing based on a review of our last four years of publishing JPPPM.

OPM will continue to cover project, program and portfolio management but its scope will expand to cover other aspects of organisational project management including (but not limited to) linking strategy to projects, change management, governance, leadership, innovation, project marketing, maturity models, and also how projects are managed in different types of organizations such as private, public and community organizations. The title change is timely as the Project Management Institute has just released a practice guide for Organizational Project Management.

We will also publish ‘just in time’ or in other words articles, practice papers and case studies will be published soon after they are reviewed and revised to the satisfaction of the editorial team. We will have one main issue for each year. The final table of contents for a year will be compiled at the end of the year. In the meantime authors’ contributions will be published with a volume and page number so that their papers can be cited with full details.

We will also publish special issues on behalf of conference organizers, special interest groups and researchers who want to use our services as we have done in the past. These will be published as a separate issue during the year in collaboration with special issue editors.

We will not be copy editing your paper as mainly volunteers do this right now and it delays our publication. If the paper submitted needs a lot of copyediting we will send it back to the authors to clean it up before sending it to the reviewers. If it is reasonably well written we will get it reviewed and send back the comments to the authors with a recommendation for copyediting, where required, at their cost. In principle we do not want to charge authors for copy editing services while at the same time we want to publish good quality papers.

We look forward to your continued support for our efforts to publish an Open Source Journal as part of the Public Knowledge Project whose which is “a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing”. https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/

I would like to thank Daniel Adler and Scott Abbott for helping me to set up OPM in its new format. Daniel also came up with the idea for the new cover. Enjoy!

Warm regards

Shankar Sankaran
Editor
Professor – Organisational Project Management, University of Technology, Sydney
shankar.sankaran@uts.edu.au