As Chapter leaders, our mission is to facilitate activities that help our members grow in the Project Management profession. During the January Dinner Meeting, we conducted a live poll to solicit feedback about how you feel we can further elevate our profession in the community and how we can better serve your needs. We also asked you to fill out a questionnaire telling us what you would like to stop doing as a Chapter and what you would like to keep doing as a Chapter.
I am happy to share a summary of the live poll and questionnaire results with you as well as some of the changes that have been made as a result of your feedback. The live poll results revealed that networking opportunities are valued most during the Dinner Meetings and the cost of the Dinner Meetings the least; you’d like to hear more topics related to project management methodologies and attendance is influenced most by location. You asked us to stop conducting surveys while you are eating and serving boring meals during Dinner Meetings. You also informed us that the Dinner Meeting location “really sucks” due to traffic. Alternatively, the top 3 items you want to keep doing are networking, having interesting speakers, and having great professional growth events.
By Ben Heisler
Despite ice and snow threatening the roadways, the PMI Atlanta Technology Forum had an exciting February meeting with guest speaker John A. Salguero speaking on the topic "Can a Creative Mind Defeat a Criminal Mind in Cyber-warfare?” The meeting also had a special greeting from Nagendra Roy of Aptude, who are hosting a Hadoop Jump Start in Atlanta for PMPs and C-Level executives in March.
Following networking among technology and project management professionals, the main presentation was by John A. Salguero, Chair of PMI Atlanta Athens Committee and who has experience in leadership and on the ground when it comes to technology. He brought his experience to share about how to be more mindful of computer security. After CNBC dubbed 2014 as the “Year of the Hack,” with over 1 billion records compromised worldwide, Salguero pressed the attendees with how important it is to keep information assets safe and how information technology security starts with human security.
by Mike Ososki, PMP, Communications Committee
It’s hard to imagine more big-picture content being packed into one Dunwoody Dinner presentation. Yet with a title like “Project Managers as Senior Executives,” Dr. Frank Harper did an admirable job to cover the ground. As a subtitle tie-in to PMI, it’s “A.G.I.L.E. L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P with a G.R.I.P.,” and to add a bit of zip, Dr. Harper’s sub-subtitle is “A Twenty-first Century Strategic Hustler™ Leadership Behavior Framework.” Whew—even the titling well portends the volume of content ahead.
Frank has achieved an incredible 96% project success rate with an amazingly long list of marquee clients. To begin, he categorizes from the perspectives of strategy, posture, and culture. For example ...
From there, we embark on a series of high level, big-picture diagrams and flow charts, including ...
PMP exam preparation through study group sessions led by peers and facilitated by a PMP certified mentor
Note: Each participant will be required to participate in a presentation to the group. Details will be given at the first meeting.
PMI Atlanta is pleased to announce our March Volunteer of the Month. Congratulations, Chiquetta West! If you’ve attended a PMI Atlanta dinner meeting or networking event, you’ve probably had the pleasure of interacting with Chiquetta. She’s become known as one of our volunteers who we can depend on to service registration several times throughout the year with a smile. It’s no wonder volunteering with registration has been her favorite experience with the organization. Read on to learn how volunteering has impacted Chiquetta’s professional development and the PMI Atlanta initiatives she’s most excited about.
What has been your favorite or most rewarding volunteer experience with PMI Atlanta?
I have been volunteering with the Atlanta Chapter for two (2) years working the registration tables at various meetings. I enjoy working with registration because it gives me a chance to meet and interact with people that work in different capacities of project management. Through these interactions, I have met a lot of wonderful people that are more advanced in this profession and have provided a lot of information on how to manage my projects and advance in my career.