John Cable
College Park, MD, USA


Director, Project Management Center for Excellence
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
John Cable is Director of the Project Management Center for Excellence in the A.J. Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he is also a professor and teacher of several graduate courses in project management. His program at the University of Maryland offers masters and PhD level programs focused on project management. With more than 1,300 seats filled annually with students from many countries, including more than 40 PhD students, the program is the largest graduate program in project management at a major university in the United States.
John Cable served in the newly formed U.S. Department of Energy in 1980, where he was involved with developing energy standards for buildings, methods for measuring energy consumption, and managing primary research in energy conservation. As an architect and builder, Mr. Cable founded and led John Cable Associates in 1984, a design build firm. In 1999 he was recruited by the University of Maryland’s Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering to create and manage a graduate program in project management. In his role as founder and director of the Project Management Center for Excellence at Maryland, the program has grown to offer an undergraduate minor, master’s degrees, and a doctoral program. Information about the Project Management Center for Project Management at the University of Maryland can be found at www.pm.umd.edu.
In 2002, PMI formed the Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Educational Programs (GAC). Mr. Cable was appointed to that inaugural board where he served as vice chair. In 2006, he was elected as chairman, a role he held through 2012. As Chair of the PMI GAC, John led the accreditation of 86 project management educational programs at 40 institutions in 15 countries in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and the Asia Pacific Region. John was awarded PMI’s 2012 Distinguished Contribution Award for his leadership at the GAC. He can be contacted at jcable@umd.edu.
Articles and Papers
- The Entrepreneur Within: Achieving success with your projects with an entrepreneurial mindset - Commentary - Cable -
- Embracing the Agile Mindset in Any Project Environment - Commentary - Cable -
- History of the Project Management Program at the University of Maryland - Case Study - Cable -
- Cyber Security for the Project Manager: Am I at Risk? - Commentary - Cable -
- What is Innovation Project Management? - Commentary - Cable -
- Diverse Teams are More Successful - Commentary - Cable -
- If you Build it, will they come? It Depends! Do you have a strategy? - Commentary - Cable -
- Managing in Times of Crisis - Commentary - Cable -
- The Workplace Moving Forward: How the Pandemic Changed the Workplace - Commentary - Cable -
- What Have We Learned? (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- What is Active Learning? Tips for designing and managing an active classroom - Series Article - Cable -
- Combining Behavioral Science with Project Management: The Road to Improvement - Commentary - Cable -
- Non-Verbal Communications in Teleconferencing - Series Article - Cable -
- Speaker Guidance: Present Like a Pro - Series Article - Cable -
- Managing Effective Meetings – Virtual or In Person - Series Article - Cable -
- Individual Time Management (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- Can you Increase Student Engagement? A Beta Test of Yellowdig! (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- Do You MOOC? (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- Video Production Guidance (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- Can Virtual Classes be Better than in Person? - Series Article - Cable -
- Facilitating Virtual Classes (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- Blended Learning Classroom Guidance (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- The Future of Academia in a Virtual Environment (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- Best Practices for Managing & Engaging Project Stakeholders - Second Edition - Khan, Cable, Skibniewski -
- Tips for Working at Home (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- Video Conference Etiquette (Converting to Online Teaching) - Series Article - Cable -
- Converting to Online Teaching: A series of short guidance articles for educators and institutions – Introduction to the Series - Series Article - Cable -
- Tips for Working at Home - Advisory Article - Cable -
- The Project Stakeholder Analysis Process - Second Edition - Khan, Cable, Skibniewski -
- The Project Stakeholder Management and Engagement Strategy Spectrum: An Empirical Exploration - Second Edition - Khan, Skibniewski, Cable -
- Understanding Project Stakeholder Psychology: The Path to Effective Stakeholder Management and Engagement - Second Editions - Khan, Skibniewski, Cable -
- Eight Principles of Effective Online Teaching - Featured Papers - Cable, Cheung -
- A Governance Framework for Managing and Engaging Project Stakeholders - Second Editions - Cable, Skibniewski, Khan -
- Positive Workplace: Enhancing Individual and Team Productivity - Second Editions - Cable, Davis -