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SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER!
This Winter/Fall we had some very interesting speakers at our meetings. As you can see below in the "recent meetings" area, our speakers this year have all been PMPs, three of them have been Ph. D.s and we had a few authors as well. Topics ranged from new product development, personal development, project management in Iraq, Scrum/Agile and Infobrella Software. Our meetings will resume in September. We are always looking for good speakers with good topics. Five of our speakers this year have been members of our chapter. If you want to earn five PDUs and have dinner on us, send a note to info@pmihvc.org
ANNUAL REGION 4 MEETING
The annual Region 4 meeting was held in King ofPrussia, PA (suburb of Philadelphia near Valley Forge) which was hosted by the Deleware Valley Chapter. Bob Nasser, Peggy McKeon and Nick Raccioppo attend the meeting at the Sheraton Park Ridge, meeting with component leaders (chapter officers) from New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. We got a tour of the PMI North American Service Center (aka headquarters) on Campus Blvd in Newtown Square, PA. A trip report will be published.
OUR RECENT MEETINGS| June 2008 Meeting
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| The June meeting featured a presentation and live demo of Infobrella Software (www.infobrella.com), which allows you to store information about projets, tasks or references all in one place, either by link or copying them in. For those of you who missed it, the presentation is available HERE May 2008 Meeting
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| On May 13, 2008, Dr. Katherine Betz presented a very interesting and hot topic of SCRUM and it's use in rapid application development. This method consists of several sprints at the end of which a useable tested component of the software is available to end users. This allows the user to realize what they "might have" asked for in the requirements,before it's the end of a two year project and it's too late or too expensive to change. Katherine has provided us with a copy of her powerpoint presentation in PDF format. View the presentation April 2008 Meeting
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On April 8, 2008, member Larry Kirwan PMP presented a very interesting story of how project management was and is being used to rebuild certain areas of Iraq after stability is established. Larry pointed out areas where there are good stories of things that are occuring in Iraq and showed several photographs of areas restored and described several restoration projects where standard PMI project management processes were used.
| March Meeting
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On March 19, John Bassler, Ph. D, presented Pitfalls of New Product Development to a group of approximately 20 members. Click here to view/download the presentation. For the full presentation with speaker notes, please contact
Nick Raccioppo.
| February Meeting
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On February 27, Timothy L. Johnson PMP, author of "Gust: The "Tale" Wind of Office Politics" and "Race Through the Forest: A Project Management Fable",spoke to 27 members on the topic of "What your project team isn't telling you". Timothy made signed copies of his two books available to members at a discounted price. The books are also fo sale at Amazon.com.
| Check out Timothy's website is at www.carpefactum.com where he mentions his trip to New York City and to the Hudson Valley Chapter. January Meeting
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On January 8, John Wargo spoke to a group of 18 members at Greenbaum & Gilhooley's.
| December Annual Membership Meeting
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The December annual membership meeting was held at Ship's Lantern in Milton NY. Elections were held for three open board seats.
| Election Results
A silent auction was held, raising $115 for the PMI Members Helping Members Fund. November 2007 Meeting
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| Robert Prol, PMP presented the "Project Complexity Scoring Model" or Picksum to 21 attendees at Greenbaum & Gilhooleys. Robert is Senior director in the Business Transformation Office for Gartner, Inc. in Stamford, CT (Speaker Bio) October Meeting
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| Twenty two members enjoyed a talk given by Rob Zanfardion, a Senior Project/Program Manager on "What do you do around here?" (Click here for Rob's bio)
| Twenty three chapter members and some of their guests enjoyed a gourmet meal at the Caterina de Medici at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park.
| Steven Lynn, a PMIHVC member, presented the results of his PhD dissertation based on research he did analysing the results of a survey in which PMIHVC members were invited to participate. The paper was a very interesting study on the impacts of certain best practices on the value add of project management. We will be posting an abstract here on this website shortly. The abstract will also be published in the July issue of PMI's PM Network magazine, in the in the July issue in the Stakeholder delivery section.
| Fred Shaeffer spoke on the project of "Walkway over the Hudson". This is a project to convert the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge into a walkway between Poughkeepsie and Highland. Fred is the chair of the board of Walkway Over the Hudson. Visit their website at www.walkway.org for contact information and interesting information and coming events in late April and also in June of this year.
| Stewart Dutfield, a member and Professor of Integrated Studies at Marist College gave an interesting talk about using Project Management outside the workplace and gave us an update on the PMI Education Foundation and how it is promoting project management in schools.
| Our January meeting was held at Greenbaum and Gilhooley's. The speaker was Ron Sauers and he brought the attendees up to date on the Beacon Revitalization. Ron showed many slides of the beacon waterfront projects going on including a hotel and new ferry dock. He also passed out literature on various organizations working to build the Beacon waterfront area. |