Upcoming Events
PMI 50th Anniversary Celebration
Join us for an historic celebration dinner, honoring PMI's 50th Anniversary! This event will reflect on the past, explaining the motivation for founding PMI. With this bit of history as a backdrop, we will then take a look at what the future holds for the project management profession.
PMI's first formal meeting was held right in your backyard, on the premises of Georgia Tech, in the fall of 1969. PMI Atlanta is honoring the birthplace of PMI by holding this special event at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, a world class event facility, situated on campus in midtown Atlanta. The night will be filled with networking opportunities, presentations, and a chance to show off your dance moves!
"You Can Power the Change in the World"
Leaders from the PMI Atlanta Chapter will highlight PMI's Global Celebration of Service, and show how the Atlanta chapter leads by example in the form of giving back to the community.
Keynote Presentation "Reflections on Project Management and PMI" - James Snyder, PMI Founder 7:00pm-8:00pm
James will discuss how the profession has matured over the last few decades. Where did we come from and how did PMI play a role in building a new profession. This look back at the people, places, and environment will not only tell us about our history but will help us to understand where project management may be headed and how you can influence that direction.
He is a Founder of Project Management Institute, Fellow of the Institute, Volunteer Executive Director for 15 years, President, Chairman of the Board, and active participant in the activities of the Institute. He has been awarded the PMI Man of the Year Award and is an Honorary Life Member of the Institute. He received the 2010 James J O’Brien Lifetime Achievement Award from the PMI College of Scheduling. Jim is a founding member of the Delaware Valley Chapter, the Pharmaceuticals Special Interest Group, and the College of Scheduling. As a member of the PMI Global Project Action Team (1999 - 2000) he work to help structure the Institute to meet the challenges of 2000 and beyond. He was also a member of the Publications Board of the Institute. The James R. Snyder Knowledge and Wisdom Center at PMI Headquarters is named in his honor. He has served as both a member and Chair of the Educational Foundation. The PMIEF Student Paper Award is named in his honor. He is also serving as advisor and administrator to the PMI Delaware Valley Chapter.
Celebration & Social Hour 8:00pm-9:00pm+
After all of the festivities, we will open up the dance floor and turn up the music. What better way to cap off the evening to celebrate this historic occasion!
Agile Forum - 190820
"The GROW Coaching Model"
presented by Sydney Ryanczak and Tammy Schubert, Cisco Systems
The Agile Forum meetings offer an opportunity for professional networking and knowledge sharing with other agile practitioners as well as provide a learning environment for professionals interested in learning about agile techniques. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Presentation
The GROW Coaching Model provides a basic framework for Product Owners and Scrum Masters to work with teams and individuals in the spirit of continuous improvement.
The GROW Model has proved successful all over the world to a diverse mix of people with a variety of backgrounds and experiences. It forms the most common basis of coaching in many organizations and universities globally.
Due to the outstanding results the GROW Model has achieved with helping people personally and professionally within global organizations, it is now one of the most popular principal pillars utilized within the international coaching community as a whole
Training Overview:
- What is it?
- How to use it?
- Practical application
Healthcare Forum - 190821
"Moving the Needle: From Outcomes to Impacts in the Philanthropy Sector"
presented by Jason Chernock, Director, MedShare
The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum has 9 planned sessions throughout 2019. Proposed topics include IT & IT PMO in Healthcare, Healthcare SME/Domain Forums such as Clinical, Laboratory, Research, Tomorrow's Healthcare & Government practices/law, Thought Leadership in Healthcare, and Innovation in Healthcare Technology.
Presentation
MedShare is a humanitarian aid organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people, communities and our planet by sourcing and directly delivering surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need around the world.
Over the past five years MedShare embarked on a new path, moving from a traditional nonprofit model to become a global impact organization. The forum presentation will outline the journey our organization has been on, the challenges we’ve had along the way, and the successes we’ve realize.
PMI Atlanta Toastmasters Meeting - 190822
If you would like to earn PDUs while improving your communications and leadership skills, this opportunity is for you! PMI Atlanta has teamed up with Toastmasters International to offer you a chance to hone your public speaking, critical listening, and leadership skills in a supportive environment. You will also have an opportunity to practice speaking off-the-cuff, giving and receiving feedback, emceeing a meeting, and many other valuable business skills. Since this club is exclusively for PMI Atlanta members, you will also have an opportunity to develop bonds within the PMI community.
Governance Forum - 190828
The Governance Forum provides value to the PMI Atlanta community by offering participants:
Discussion of field-tested best practices, Decisions frameworks to assess culture and apply optimal strategy, Key takeaways to “take to work tomorrow” to maximize realization of value through introduction and standardization of best practices in the oversight and execution of projects, programs, and portfolios.
Presentation
TBA
PMP / CAPM Exam Prep Boot Camp - Online - 2019707
Date: Fridays (4 hours a week, over 6 weeks) September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11, 2019
Time: 1:30pm - 5:30pm EST
Location: Online! WebEx Virtual Class (Note: PM Enterprises will provide the URL and Dial-In information in advance of the session.)
Earn 35 PDUs!
PM Enterprises (a PMI Registered Education Provider) is proud to partner with the PMI Atlanta Chapter to offer an online, instructor-led PMP/CAPM Exam Preparation Boot Camp. This high-quality course is unique in its level of participant interaction, activities, and exercises that engage participants and ensure understanding and retention of all exam concepts. The course is delivered via WebEx allowing you to conveniently participate from your home or office. In addition, all sessions are recorded and can be reviewed for up to four weeks after the last class.
Architectural, Engineering, & Construction (AEC) Forum - 190910
The PMI Atlanta AEC Forum is a focus group that hosts regular events with ranging topics in the architectural, engineering, and construction fields. We will show the importance of solid project management in these related fields of study.
Presentation
TBA
PMI Atlanta Toastmasters - 190912
If you would like to earn PDUs while improving your communications and leadership skills, this opportunity is for you! PMI Atlanta has teamed up with Toastmasters International to offer you a chance to hone your public speaking, critical listening, and leadership skills in a supportive environment. You will also have an opportunity to practice speaking off-the-cuff, giving and receiving feedback, emceeing a meeting, and many other valuable business skills. Since this club is exclusively for PMI Atlanta members, you will also have an opportunity to develop bonds within the PMI community.
Creativity and Innovation for Project and Program Managers - 2019605
Date: Friday, September 13, 2019 - Saturday, September 14, 2019
Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm
Location: Location: Hilton Garden Inn-Atlanta-Perimeter Center at 1501 Lake Hearn Drive, Atlanta, GA 30319
In the current global economic climate, organizations are forced to “innovate or die.” Only innovative organizations can survive the highly competitive global market. As organizations utilize programs and projects to achieve their strategies and goals, program and project managers have a major role to play in driving an organizational culture of creativity and innovation.
This seminar focuses on leadership competencies required for project / program managers to manage their teams most effectively and drive an organizational culture of creativity and innovation: developing their (own) individual creative skills, unleashing their teams’ creative and innovative potentials and building on creativity to drive innovation (both sustaining innovation and disruptive innovation) in their organization.
An innovation framework for project management will be introduced – a structured approach for program and project managers to utilize in starting and delivering innovation projects. Participants will explore ways to implement innovation using open innovation and innovation platforms.
Earn 16 PDUs (8 Strategic PDUs + 8 Leadership PDUs) with 14 (classroom) hours and pre-seminar reading assignments. Take advantage of discounted rates for PMI members.
Continental breakfast will be served at 8:00 am and snacks will be served for afternoon break.
This seminar has also been offered by the same instructor, Victoria S. Kumar, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO, SA for PMI SeminarsWorld as a two-day seminar.
Agile Forum - 190917
"Fear Is the Value Killer"
presented by Rob Gordick, Daugherty Business Solutions/Sr. Principal
The Agile Forum meetings offer an opportunity for professional networking and knowledge sharing with other agile practitioners as well as provide a learning environment for professionals interested in learning about agile techniques. Everyone is welcome to participate.
Presentation
How happiness, trust & security enables great teams.
To deliver great value to the customer, software product teams must be able to; build & deploy, measure, and learn as fast as possible. To truly embrace a ‘continuous improvement’ culture, key values must be nurtured and strengthened. If our goal is to maximize value delivery, then our ‘people-focused’ objectives should continuously reduce wasteful behaviors.
In this session, we’ll identify and discuss core values of strong agile and lean minded delivery teams. You will learn coaching techniques, to help teams understand their desired values compared against its practiced values. We’ll discuss methods to measure and track these values over time. Then, together, learn ways to help teams self-regulate their behavior. Along the way, key practices encouraging great values will be examined, including ways to help spot and adjust poor values which inhibit a team’s full potential.
Finally, we’ll look at how trust, happiness, and psychological security interrelate with Lean and Agile approaches (e.g., Scrum, XP, Kanban) and how conquering fear at the personal and team level significantly enables a team to achieve its maximum potential.
(Note: New Venue Address Below)
Matrix Resources Inc., 400 Perimeter Terraces, Suite 300, Atlanta, Georgia 30346
Chapter News
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“Change is Guaranteed…Don’t Look Away”: March Healthcare Forum Summary
Written by Claudia Greene, PMP PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum enjoyed an informative and interactive presentation on Change and Change Leadership delivered by Charles Johnson. Charles’ career spans many years in customer service assignments including Sales, Management, and Operations, integrating technologies such as Sales Force, Mobility, Business Intelligence, Big Data and advanced analytics to bring a better experience and solve customer and employee challenges. Charles began his presentation with...
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“Managing Global Projects”: February AEC Forum Summary
Written By Theresa McCoy The Architecture Engineering & Construction Forum hosted Monica Varriale, Global Strategy and Program Development Leader, for an engaging discussion on Managing Global Projects. Monica outlined the innovation process in moving from global to regional and finally country specific execution in a cross-functional team environment. Within this process there are four key areas that drive project success, which is particularly important for global project execution. These...
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