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

Some of us report to work with self-limiting thoughts of being only an employee for an employer. In our so-called perfect world, we’d rather not be there “doing what we have to” to make a living. This kind of grudging mindset and spirit can contribute significantly to daily unhappiness.

Making the slight but highly impactful shift to think of our employer as a customer can bring great benefit. It’s the healthier perspective and more positive lens that independent entrepreneurs and good consultants see through all the time.

Here are some great examples of thought shifts you may consider:

We were privileged at last month’s chapter meeting to hear from Mr. Chris Kopp, who successfully made that liberating shift some years ago, metamorphosing from chicken to lion. He encouraged us to “run your career like a business, without quitting your job,” practicing entrepreneurship inside your organization.

If you want to do this well, you must understand what your company offers and increase the ROI. Look at it from 4 perspectives: Operations, Marketing, Finance, And Sales.

In Operations, what you do is what your employer customer pays for. Seek to simplify, eliminate, automate, and delegate. Ask questions like, “What should we be doing that we’re not doing?,” and vice-versa. 

Marketing is who you reach. It attracts and engages your company customers, generates leads and builds a positive brand image. You reach those who know about what you do. Your audience is ready for you to say something. Do it!

Sales is how you grow, and this happens through opportunity, experience and revenue. It’s the process of generating revenue by selling your services to your customers employer. Grow your skill set to be rare, in-demand and valuable, like this bear did:

And finally, Finance is what you earn and how you thrive. It ensures availability of funds, assesses profitability and supports strategic decision-making.  Know how much your company is worth. Download the PMI Salary Survey and use the tool. Visit Glassdoor and utilize AI.

Another useful tool is www.Project-Central.com, a business profitability, productivity and efficiency firm that can make you look great.

Ancient wisdom : The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. Then 2nd best time is today.

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?