PMI Atlanta is excited to offer 2 courses by Amazon #1 Best Selling author John G. Stenbeck, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP, Founder of GR8PM, Inc. (pronounced “Great PM”). His most recent book – The Agile Almanac – was ranked the Amazon #1 Best Seller in Agile Project Management and the Amazon #2 Best Seller in Project Management, where it trails only the PMBOK Guide. He has been a guest on Good Morning America, the Today Show and the Oprah Winfrey Show. He has been featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union.

John begins with Agile 201 - Advanced Agile Best Practices (2/25), an advanced-level seminar for Project Managers with a solid Scrum or Agile foundation seeking a demanding, interactive exchange on leading the enterprise-level agile environment. This class is completely focused on successfully scaling and applying agile project management in the real world.

In his Crash Course in Leadership (2/26), you will learn the quantitatively-proven keys that unlock the combination to your personal powerhouse. You will also learn how to define the roadmap that unlocks the full development of all your potential and write the code that harnesses all of your resources to exponentially improve your results.

Don't miss out on these courses! Visit each event page to register.

PMI Atlanta is pleased to announce February’s Volunteer of the Month – congratulations, Doris Dade!

For over 13 years Doris has served magnanimously as a volunteer for the PMI Atlanta Chapter. She has served in several key roles for several years, the Programs Team previously, and currently the Certification & Education Team. With Doris' infectious positive personality and energetic leadership, she was able to successfully plan and execute the first "Professional Development Day", that the PMI Atlanta Chapter hosted. Moving forward, she's excited about the progress the chapter is making in growing it's digital footprint in multiple areas and further continuing to find new and innovative courses to offer the PMI community online.

Doris' personal catchphrase……."Teamwork Makes the Dream Work"…... fully embodies her superlative commitment to the project management profession and has undeniably contributed to her continued level of success within the PM field and throughout her tenure of volunteering at PMI Atlanta.

In addition to being an exemplar PMI Atlanta volunteer, in her leisure time she enjoys gourmet dining experiences, reading and watching television shows and movies that pique her interests. Doris encourages members to volunteer to share their time, skill and knowledge with others because, as she states "because it feels good". With that attitude, Doris is certainly a paragon of volunteering we should all strive for.

Read and learn more about her below and what she enjoys about volunteering for PMI Atlanta.

1. What has been your favorite or most rewarding volunteer experience with PMI Atlanta?
My favorite and most rewarding experience was planning and successfully executing the first Professional Development Day the chapter hosted. This event required many volunteers - the ATL PMI community, including friends and family contributed. At that time, it was the largest PMI event I’d been involved in. “Teamwork makes the dream work”

This fall PMI conducted a chapter contest to determine which chapter would get the most number of members to participate in the 2015 Global Congress in Orlando, Florida.  PMI Global just announced a tie for first place between the Atlanta and Washington, DC chapters.  

by Mike Ososki, PMP, Public Relations Committee

Be encouraged. Can we “make Atlanta the most economically dynamic and competitive city in the world?” This is the goal for Dr. Eloisa Klementich, Managing Director Business Development of Invest Atlanta. Eloisa’s energetic presentation at PMI Atlanta’s January Dinner may well make a believer out of you, too, that the objective is achievable.

Invest Atlanta is Atlanta’s Development Authority, a government-owned corporation originally created in 1976 as AEDC. Its mission is to strengthen Atlanta’s economy, enhance global competitiveness, and attract and sustain community investment. Its goal of a dynamic, growing economy is a deeply complex mix to balance between investment, housing, infrastructure, transportation, education, technology, and innovation in a 7-year average business life cycle of the bigger picture peak/trough recurrent economic cycles of recession and recovery. No one said it would be easy.