Overview

The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum promotes the art and science of the project management industry best practices. This Forum provides continuing education with cutting-edge project management topics specific to the Healthcare industry, with emphasis on improving the delivery and efficiency of health services. The ultimate goal of this Forum is to share ideas, thoughts and concepts, while promoting leadership opportunities with the Healthcare project management discipline.

Value Statement

The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum promotes the art and science of the project management industry best practices. This forum provides continuing education with cutting-edge project management topics specific to the Healthcare industry, with emphasis on improving the delivery and efficiency of health services. ​

The ultimate goal of this forum is to share ideas, thoughts and concepts, while promoting leadership opportunities with the Healthcare project management discipline.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsor

Industry Resources

TAG Health

Twitter

@PMIATLHealth

Overview

The PMI Atlanta Governance Forum provides an opportunity for project managers to learn about governance and advanced topics, including program management and portfolio management in a small group setting of similar minded professionals.

This Forum has established a premier collaboration and networking experience for Project/Program Managers and those involved with PMOs – to share challenges, trends, leading practices, and thought leadership.

Governance practitioners typically include members from strategic, corporate, and operational management. Attendees will find this forum beneficial and should gain invaluable, just-in-time insight for existing business challenges. Please find some helpful links below for additional guidance related to governance.

Value Statement

The Governance Forum provides value to the PMI Atlanta community by offering participants:

• Decisions frameworks to assess culture and apply optimal strategy
• Key takeaways to “take to work tomorrow”
• Discussion of field-tested best practices in the oversight and execution of projects, programs, and portfolios

 Special Thanks to Our Sponsor

Frameworks

Calder Moir
COBIT 
Agile/Lean Path

Certification 

ISACA.org

Standards

ISO.org

Industry Resources

Disciplined Agile Delivery
OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
Gartner Webinars

Twitter

@PMIATLGov

by Mike Ososki, PMP – PMI Atlanta Events Writer

Thank you, Brittany Williams, Antoine Odom, Ron Grant, and ~25 participants! After about a year hiatus, PMI Atlanta’s Special Interest Entertainment Forum group is back, covering a wide range of entertainment-related industries—film, TV, radio, events, music, sports, theater, gaming, fashion and more—it’s a lot.

The spirit of our meeting was wide open, headlined with “Your Voice in the Spotlight.” Questions were asked and polls taken about:

• Content Formats, such as webinars, panels, podcasts, case studies, workshops, et
• Key Topics, like AI, Agile, Risk, Immersive Experiences, Sustainability, etc
• Ideal Speakers—from which industry? Tech? Creative? Live events?

Plus, plenty of open discussion and Q&A.

When you consider these industries, it’s usually from the consumer perspective, having most to do with your personal and specific interests in their various product offerings. Your mind doesn’t go to project management. But please know for sure that the boatloads of content, product and value we get from these ventures would not happen without our kind of high-quality PM skills.

Think of the world of entertainment as an elite club. In the higher levels, it absolutely is, with powerful potential fame and fortune in play. For most of us, it feels like it’s on a different planet than IT, healthcare, finance, and other more practical industries. That’s because as consumers, we tend to focus on the final deliverable: the movie, the game, the song, etc. Still, under the hood and before the release of final product, aspects like stakeholders, scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, etc. are always very much a part of the entertainment industry’s inner workings. It’s just

that the PM practices are often handed down “from one club member to another,” and can vary significantly from the prescribed ways of PMI and PMPs.

It would be great to have some project managers who are employed now in the entertainment industry get involved with our Entertainment Forum. Who knows who to help make this happen?

by Mike Ososki, PMP

Jack Cebe has his hands full. As President and CEO of Stitch Inc., his work is to oversee, manage and guide The Stitch, an ambitious community-building reconnection project in the northern heart of downtown Atlanta.

Other cities have had great success with similar projects. The Stitch includes new development, infrastructure, policies, and programs emanating from a new 17-acre iconic, community park that completely covers the 75/85 Downtown Connector. Its vision is to spark a vibrant and family-friendly neighborhood area, with a promise to:

• Ignite an estimated $5B in Private Sector Investment to Redevelop 50+ Acres of Downtown
• Catalyze an estimated 25,000 Multi-Family Homes
• Support other Major Developments by Attracting Permanent Residents to Downtown

The project encompasses a wide variety of attractive amenities:

As you can imagine, the stakeholders and involved parties are many and varied, totaling 6000+ engaged individuals: the local residential community, Stitch, Inc., ADID (Atlanta Downtown Improvement District), CAP (Central Atlanta Progress), GDOT, NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act), a new SSD (Special Services District), engineers, architects, designers, governmental entities, investors, and a myriad of other business and personal interests.

$50M in funding has been secured so far for design and construction, plus $3-4M annually from The Stitch SSD for admin. and operations. Inter-agency agreements to build & operate The Stitch are completed, and Phase-1 is a 5-acre park that can begin construction in mid-2027.

Phase-1 is “the heart of the park,” providing elements such as Downtown Green, Perennial Gardens, Terrace Meander, Piedmont Playground, Shade Pavillion, and Fog Forest—with specialty lighting and interactive play features.

Phase-1 consists of 3 design components:

• Interstate caping structure - delivered by GDOT
• Park features- delivered by Stitch Inc.
• 7 street projects – delivered by ADID

Shovel-ready design & NEPA certification is expected by this summer.

As a unique Special Services District, The Stitch ...

• Targets support from properties and businesses that will accrue direct benefits
• Estimates a 7.5% – 15% value increase for properties within ½ mile
• Captures multifamily residential rental properties not currently assessed by CID
• Is statutorily designed for redevelopment and infrastructure capital or operations needs
• Provides a reliable funding stream over the lifetime of the project
• Does not require a broad referendum or caucus of electors, but a City council action
• Is a proven tool already used for the highly successful Atlanta Beltline & The Battery / Truist Park

It would seem that there is only upside for Atlanta in this significant undertaking.

The next Special Interest Joint Dinner Meeting will be Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Registration will open soon.