PMI Atlanta would like to congratulate our new Directors to the Executive Board!
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Bill Kay, PMP, MSOL Director-At-Large |
The Executive Board is currently seeking candidates for Vice Chair. Please EMAIL US for additional information.
As we near the end of 2015, PMI Atlanta's Executive Board of Directors would like to share the Financial Report for January through November 2015. We thank our members for their support and look forward to serving you in 2016!
PMI Atlanta is pleased to announce December’s Volunteer of the Month – congratulations, Carleton Moten!
For the past several years Carleton has served in various capacities for the Industry Forums Committee and has achieved outstanding success in each role, his most recent assignment was AVP for this committee. Carleton is a born leader and modern P.T. Barnum, a great master of advertising, promotion, communication and charisma. Under his auspices, the Industry Forums Committee footprint has grown exponentially, including event attendance, corporate sponsorships and professional engagement, as well as personally drafting many other volunteers for roles in the PMI Atlanta Chapter. This level of diligence and foresight is what spurs comments like the one below about our meritorious December VOM.
"Carleton is a POWERHOUSE! The amount of time and energy he put into building and supporting the Industry Forums is CRAZY!" - quote from a current committee VP
In his leisure time he enjoys his most relaxing activity, which is watching movies. And although he enjoys a variety of movie genre's he openly admits he's grown very fond of romantic dramas, and openly admits one of his favorites…….The Bridges of Madison County (awesome movie & book), gets him to sob every time. How can we not love, admire and appreciate a fellow volunteer who bares their soul so openly like that to our entire PMI Atlanta organization.
Carleton's PMI Atlanta philosophy sums it all up………"PMI Atlanta affords a wonderful opportunity to work with committed individuals, all of whom are stretching themselves in important ways to grow themselves, PMI Atlanta, and the profession." What an insightful and tremendous thought process that is worthy of reverberating to each member throughout our PMI Atlanta Chapter and beyond.
Read and learn more about him below and what he enjoys about volunteering for PMI Atlanta.
by Mike Ososki, PMP, Public Relations Committee
The perfect theme for Veteran’s Day holiday was celebrated last Monday at the PMI Dunwoody Dinner. Veterans Mike Williams, Dave Harrington, and Craig Bergwall made their persuasive presentation to consider vets as perhaps one of the better PM hiring choices for industry. Also presenting by video was Vanessa Richardson, owner of Cygnal Consulting, sharing her great transitional success story.
Last year, PMI joined with the Dept. of Defense’s Defense Acquisition University (DAU) to support and aid the DoD/DAU’s “...Acquisition, Technology and Logistics workforce with a professional career path and consistency of training content and opportunity.” (www.dau.mil) The variety of PMI certification specializations (BA, Project, Program, Portfolio, Risk, Agile, Schedule, Org. Maturity) translate especially well to the various military specializations.
We are now in the middle of a massive planned military RIF (Reduction-in-Force): 1.2 million personnel exiting service between 2012-2017. How will they transition? What will they do as civilians? No one argues that ex-Army, Marine, Air Force and Navy are generally well-trained in discipline, leadership, motivation, and a wide variety of valuable practical skills—and these can include project management.
Other inherent, desirable characteristics are flexibility to relocate, diversity, adaptability, high performance under pressure, security clearances / drug-free, quick learning, educated, tech-savvy, strong ability to read situations, and the famously positive can-do attitude. Here in Atlanta, we are proud that Coca-Cola and Home Depot know the value, and routinely hire veterans. Many IT industry headquarters are here, too, and may do well to implement the same practice.
By: Glenn Boylan, PMP
The October Technology Forum featured a very informative presentation by John Salguero titled “Is Your Data Talking to You? And, Are You Listening?” about big data and how to manage big data projects.
Steve Kruger welcomed everyone to the meeting, and thanked Hewlett-Packard for hosting our forum. This was the last Technology Forum to be held at H-P this year.
Steven then turned the meeting over to Mr. Salguero for his presentation. John started with a quiz, asking the audience, which is the most important part of “Big Data”, the “Big” part, the “Data” part, both, or neither?
The answer was neither. John explained that the most important thing about big data is what organizations do with it. Effective use requires the right data, the right questions, the right model, the right people, and the right decisions. For most organizations, this will require a significant culture change.