PMI Mass Bay Chapter, Inc. December 19, 2008 VOLUME 4 ISSUE 3   HOME TOPICS Chapter News Chapter Calendar PMI News Partner Organization Events Our Newsletter Sponsors Our Meeting Sponsor CONTENTS Creating Functional Team Leadership: The Fine Art of Herding Cats December 2006 Chapter Meeting Speaker News Meeting Sponsor - OnDemand Software News from PMI Newsletter Sponsor - Cheetah Learning Master's Certificate Newsletter Sponsor - Cheetah Learning PMP Exam Prep October Speaker Review - Tom Carbone, PMP & graduate student at U. Alabama PMCC Networking Proposal PMI Mass Bay Chapter PMP 2-Day Prep Class President’s Letter - November 2006 Regional Chapter Events Report from the PMI Leadership Conference in Seattle, WA Survey Respondents Say No to Light Dinner Fare ARCHIVE October 2006 September 28, 2006 Vol. 4 Issue 2 September 2006 September 1, 2006 Vol. 4 Issue 1 June 2006 May 30, 2006 Vol. 3 Issue 10 May 2006 April 26, 2006 Vol. 3 Issue 9 April 2006 March 22, 2006 Vol. 3 Issue 8 March 2006 February 23, 2006 Vol. 3 Issue 7 February 2006 January 23, 2006 Vol. 3 Issue 6 January 2006 January 5, 2006 Vol. 3 Issue 5 December 2005 November 28, 2005 Vol. 3 Issue 4 Issue 3, November 2005 October 21, 2005 Vol. 3 Issue 3 Issue 2, October 2005 October 2, 2005 Vol. 3 Issue 2 Issue 1, September 2005 September 1, 2005 Vol. 3 Issue 1 Issue 10, June 2005 May 22, 2005 Vol. 2 Issue 10 Issue 9, May 2005 April 16, 2005 Vol. 2 Issue 9 Issue 8, April 2005 March 17, 2005 Vol. 2 Issue 8 Issue 7, March 2005 February 12, 2005 Vol. 2 Issue 7 Issue 6, February 2005 December 29, 2004 Vol. 2 Issue 6 Issue 5, January 2005 December 18, 2004 Vol. 2 Issue 5 Issue 4, December 2004 November 17, 2004 Vol. 2 Issue 4 Issue 3, November 2004 October 24, 2004 Vol. 2 Issue 3 [MORE] SUBSCRIBE Email Address: Send As HTML First Name: Last Name: PMI Member ID# (if N/A, enter 0): PMP (Y/N): Select sub-lists: Chapter News President’s Letter - November 2006 The Heart of the Chapter - Volunteering and Teamwork by Linda F. Desmond, PMP, President When I think of our chapter and its volunteers, the first thing that comes to mind is teamwork - people working together cooperatively. The Mass Bay Chapter is large, and as your Board of Directors, we have a 3-year strategic plan and ambitious goals. Without teamwork we would not be able to fulfill those objectives and serve you, our members.   Primary characteristics needed for a team are respect for and trust in each other. This produces a willingness to step in and help when colleagues may have work or attend to family obligations and are temporarily unable to fulfill their volunteer commitments. It is not always easy to assume additional work, but we support each other knowing that “our turn will come” and it will be reciprocated. Because we are an organization based on volunteers and not paid employees, we need to be more flexible and understand the many different roles we play so we can be responsive and backfill for each other.   We all know the importance of good communication. In our “non-PMI lives” we don’t work for the same companies or live in the same community. Thus we often don’t see each other except for the monthly board and chapter meetings.  We are the quintessential virtual team. Through email and conference calls we work together listening to our fellow volunteers, sharing ideas, brainstorming, learning from our sister chapters' experiences, and sharing knowledge from PMI Global. We do this to enhance the benefits of your membership:  training events, organizing PMP study groups, low cost PDUs, help with job searches, opportunities to network, and providing volunteer opportunities. [FULL STORY]   PMCC Networking Proposal Networking for Career Advancement and Job Search Support mailto:CareerConnections@pmimassbay.org by Diane Kemsley, PMCC volunteer The Project Management Career Connection's Team is considering new ways to facilitate networking amongst our many talented members. The current idea under discussion is how to provide an opportunity for members to corrale during the cocktail hour preceding a Chapter Meeting.    Some members have previously requested the opportunity to meet with other people in their discipline.  Others have expressed a desire to dialogue with  colleagues who have common challenges in the workplace or meet with people who are in the same stages of  job search or PMP certification.   Would you like to network with a purpose?  Do you have specific questions, topics or issues that you would like to bounce off of your Mass Bay Chapter comrades? If ,the answer to any of these questions is yes, please email us at CareerConnections@pmimassbay.org with your interests, ideas and any suggested topics.   With enough member interest, we can design an offering that meets the demand. Once we identify some juicy topics for discussion, we need a few folks to help us facilitate these discussions.  This should come naturally to many of you, so don't be bashful!  And remember, this is all in the name of meeting new people in a comfortable, low pressure and fun setting. [FULL STORY]   Survey Respondents Say No to Light Dinner Fare by Ann O’Connell, PMP, Programs Chair, PMI MassBay Chapter Approximately half of the attendees from the October meeting filled out the survey designed to measure satisfaction with the speaker, the venue, and interest in training programs the chapter would like to sponsor.    To highlight some of the results:     Fifty-five (55) percent favored keeping the traditional dinner format. Twenty –two (22) percent showed a preference for a lighter fare, and twenty-two percent were uncertain. The majority of members surveyed rated the Marriott food as excellent or good. [FULL STORY]   October Speaker Review - Tom Carbone, PMP & graduate student at U. Alabama The Marriage between Product Development and Project Management http:/www.tomcarbone.com by Holli Jones-White, PMP, PMI Mass Bay Newsletter Editor Tom Carbone’s presentation on Product and Project Management achieved a rare synthesis where with the aid of his new and improved methodology has nearly seamlessly combined the process of product development with project management. In a fascinating talk, Carbone drew the audience through the history of product development and management. He presented a generic model of product development processing that has been in use for many years where poor communication and processes eventually lead a 50-70% product success at the very best. Today’s reality is that of the $2.3 trillion spent annually on projects in product development, most of which are NOT aligned with corporate goals!   In general, 1 in 3 and up to 3 in 4 product launches are failures. Why? As Carbone’s study and research show there are several reasons for these failures. Foremost is that the average product development lifecycle is dramatically decreasing timewise. Second, about 2/3 of most business concepts lack innovation, and the likelihood of meeting growth needs in the next five years is about 33% at best. [FULL STORY]   Published by PMI Mass Bay Chapter, Inc. Copyright © 2006 PMI Mass Bay Chapter, Inc.. All rights reserved. Website: www.pmimassbay.org / Email: info@pmimassbay.org / Edited by: Michelle Runge, PMP, Director of Marketing and Communications TELL A FRIEND View Archive

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