Join the Project Management Career Connections Team

What’s in it For Me?

· Are you looking to enhance your project management resume?

· Are you currently in the job market and want to expand your networking opportunities?

· Are you currently working and want to support PMI Mass Bay chapter and your company?

· Do you need to earn PDUs to keep up with PMP certification requirements?

If you've answered yes to any of these questions, then now is the time to get involved with your local PMI Chapter. Make a difference and meet some great people in the process!

How Do I Sign Up?

To participate on the Project Management Career Connections Team (PMCC), please contact:
June Morrison at CareerConnections@pmimassbay.org

To participate in the Corporate Relations Outreach Campaign, please contact:
Lalig Musserian at laligmusserian@verizon.net.

To learn about other volunteer opportunities with our chapter, please contact:
Bryon J. Lavalla at volunteers@pmimassbay.org.

Or stop by the Career Connections Table at our next Chapter meeting to learn more.

Each month PMI Mass Bay will provide you with a list of the education programs being presented by the other PMI chapters in our region.

Southern New England
September 20, 2006
Risk Management
Presenter: Michael C. Nollet, MBA, PMP ®
http://www.snec-pmi.org

Ocean State
October 12, 2006
How do widely dispersed project teams collaborate safely and securely?
Presenter: Eric Leighton, President/CEO of LoadSpring Solutions
http://www.oceanstatepmi.org/newsite/events.html

New Hampshire
September 20, 2006
Titanic Lessons Learned for IT Projects
Presenter: Mark Kozak-Holland
http://www.pmi-nh.org/meetings.htm  

• Are your new product projects always a success? 
• Increased product success directly relates to:

–     Increased Profit
–     Better use of Resources
–     Improved Customer Satisfaction
–     The Bottom Line:  MORE MONEY! 

A new industry research project focuses upstream to where the overall new product development begins, to the segment that has been termed the, “The Fuzzy Front End.”  Tom Carbone, PMP, is conducting a research project for his Ph.D. dissertation from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  The call is out for those who want to learn more about improving their success on new product projects.  Participate in the study and benefit from key research in this area. Participants in the study will also benefit from individual customized reports for their organization.  

Note:  Respondent data is held in strict confidence in accordance with University regulation.  Neither the dissertation nor any published reports will specific participants’ results be called out. 
You can read more about the study and Tom’s background on Tom’s website:
                                                www.tomcarbone.com
Contact Tom about participation in the study:  Tom.Carbone@tomcarbone.com
 
Tom Carbone will speak at the PMI Mass Bay Chapter meeting on October 12, 2006.

At a ceremony held 17 July during PMI Research Conference 2006 in Montreal, Canada, Global Accreditation Center (GAC) for Project Management Chair John H. Cable, R.A., PMP, announced that Boston University Metropolitan College in Massachusetts, USA, and University of Management and Technology in Arlington, Virginia, USA, have received GAC Accreditation for graduate programs in project management. The GAC assures the quality of project management degree programs at the graduate and undergraduate level.

At Boston University, GAC accredited the Master of Science in Project Management; Master of Science in Administrative Studies and Master of Science in Computer Information Systems.