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ISSUE 10 OCTOBER 2014 VOLUME 4

2014 PMI Award for Chapter of the Year (Category IV)

The PMI Houston Chapter President and Board of Directors would like to thank all the chapter volunteers for contributions towards the 2014 PMI Chapter of the Year Award. Congratulations to all that helped to win this award. PMI takes great pleasure in informing you that the PMI Houston Chapter is a recipient of the 2014 PMI® Award for Chapter of the Year (Category IV). This award is being given in recognition for the 2013 activities, initiatives and commitment to promoting project management in your community. This award honors and recognizes chapters who have made the greatest contribution to the development and implementation of the ends of the Project Management Institute. 2014 COY Award Letter Houston CAT IV

Frontline myPMIH news

FRONTLINE: PMI HOUSTON, CHAPTER OF

THE YEAR

COMING IN OCTOBER: MEETING SCHEDULE…....2, 3 TRAINING & PROGRAMS...4 OCTOBER MEETINGS…5 - 9

MESSAGE CENTER:

BOARD OF DIRECTOR ELECTIONS

RESULTS…………………………......10 - 13 PMI HOUSTON SCHOLARSHIP……….14 THOUGHT LEADERSHIP IN PROJECT

MANAGEMENT...……………………...15 PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOASTMASTERS ........ ……………..16, 17 CLASSIFIEDS…………………….…....18 SPONSOR COMMUNICATION…............19 - 22

SPONSORS…....................................23

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PMI® Houston Meetings - Venues and Standard Times

Venue Time Description

North Venue Los Cucos Mexican Café

22391 Tomball Parkway (State Highway 249)

Houston, Texas 77070, TX 77070 Events

Monthly on second Tuesday Pre-dinner meeting 5:30 to 6:30 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. Pre-dinner meeting is free to attend.

Monthly on second Tuesday Dinner meeting 6:30 to 8:00 PM

Dinner Meeting with guest speaker. Cost: $25 for members and $30 for non-members. Walk-ins are an additional $10.

Galleria Area HESS Club

5430 Westheimer Road Houston, TX 77056

http://www.hessclub.com

Monthly on second Wednesday Pre-dinner meeting 5:30 to 6:30 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. Pre-dinner meeting is free to attend.

Monthly on second Wednesday Dinner meeting 6:30 to 8:00 PM

Dinner Meeting with guest speaker. Cost: $25 for members and $30 for non-members. Walk-ins are an additional $10.

Southwest Schlumberger

Sugar Land Campus 210 Schlumberger Drive

Monthly on third Wednesday Time: 5:30 to 6:30 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. This meeting is free to attend.

The Woodlands Sam Houston State University

Center 3380 College Park Drive, 4th

Floor The Woodlands, TX 77384

Monthly on third Tuesday Time: 6:00 to 7:00 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. This meeting is free to attend. *Newest PMI Houston meeting venue.

Downtown Houston Library

To Be Announced

Monthly on last Thursday Time: 5:30 to 6:30 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. This meeting is free to attend.

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For additional details and registration information visit PMI Houston Events

PMI® Houston Toastmaster Club Meetings Times and Locations

Toastmaster Club Name Location Time

Houston Galleria Project Management Toastmasters

Houston Baptist University

Atwood 2 Building, Room

215

7502 Fondren Rd.

Houston, TX 77074

First, Third, and Fifth Wednesday

6:30 to 8:00PM

North Houston Project Management Toastmasters

Denny's Restaurant

12697 N Gessner Dr

Houston, Texas, 77064

First, Third, and Fifth Tuesday

6:15 to 8:00PM

Southwest Project Management Toastmasters 210 Schlumberger Drive

Sugarland, Texas 77478

Second and Forth Wednesday

6:30 to 8:00PM

PMI Houston Networking

Toastmaster Club Name Location Time

PMI Houston Networking Stay Tuned! Stay Tuned!

West - Agile SYSCO

1390 Enclave Parkway Building 1390, Houston, TX 77077-20255

Joint meeting with Agile Leadership Network (ALN) Houston Chapter, formerly APLN.

Quarterly on third Thursday Time: 6:00 to 8:00 PM

Presentation with guest speaker This meeting is free to attend. For latest schedule and registration please visit ALN Houston at www.aplnhouston.org ALN meets monthly. Meetings in March, June, September, and December are promoted jointly by PMIH and ALN.

Brazos Valley College Station, TX

Every other month.

Presentation with guest speaker. This meeting is free to attend.

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Professional Development Opportunities in October

Date Class Location Cost Register

October 13, 2014

8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Project Management Framework: Organizing,

Planning, and Controlling Projects

Tri Tech Surveying Company

10401 Westoffice Drive Houston, TX 77042

Houston Chapter Member

Earlybird: $ 950.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1050.00

Non-Member

Earlybird: $ 1150.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1250.00

Register

October 18, 2014

8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

6 Saturday PMP Prep Course - October

Fluor Enterprises

1 Fluor Daniel Dr Sugar Land, TX 77478

Houston Chapter Member

Earlybird: $ 1400 (ends two weeks before the course) Regular: $ 1500.00

Non-Member

Earlybird: $ 1600.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1700.00

Register

October 20, 2014

8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013

EPMA

300 West Loop South, Suite 500

Bellaire, TX 77401

$1995.00 Register

October 27, 2014

8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013,

Essentials

EPMA

300 West Loop South, Suite 500

Bellaire, TX 77401

$995.00 Register

November 10, 2014

8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013,

Advanced

EPMA

300 West Loop South, Suite 500

Bellaire, TX 77401

$995.00 Register

November 12, 2014

8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Prep Course - November

Tri Tech Surveying Company

10401 Westoffice Drive Houston, TX 77042

Houston Chapter Member

Earlybird: $ 950.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1050.00

Non-Member

Earlybird: $ 1150.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1250.00

Register

To see the full list of course offerings please visit the Events tab - http://www.pmihouston.org/meetinginfo.php

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PMI Tulsa Professional Development Conference

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North and Galleria Dinner Meeting

Location The North Dinner Meeting will be held at: Los Cucos Mexican Café 22391 Tomball Parkway (State Highway 249) Houston, Texas 77070, TX 77070 Directions

Meeting Agenda

5:30 pm to 6:30 pm Pre-dinner Speaker Presentation

6:30 pm to 7:00 pm Networking, Dinner Opens, Chapter Announcements

7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Dinner Speaker Presentation

Pre-Dinner Presentation:

Leadership vs. Management?

Which is more important for a Project Manager to be in today's business climate; a leader or a manager? Can you be both? Should you? There are distinct differences between leaders and managers and in today's dynamic project teams it is critical to understand the difference. • PM should be able to Inspire • Lead by example. • Demonstrate Dispute Resolution and Negotiation skills Do you foot the Bill? How do you measure up?

Speaker: R.W. (Bill) Sullivan, PE, PMP Extensive international and domestic project management experience with full profit and loss responsibilities within the engineering, procurement, and construction industries. Experienced setting up Project Management Offices (PMO), taking projects from initial concept to turnkey completion, from both the contractor and owners’ positions. Skilled providing personnel management, planning, scheduling, cost control and reporting, change order estimates, progress reports, and material and construction cost estimates in accordance with quality control requirements. Extensive knowledge executing pipeline and compressor stations, off-shore oil and gas pipelines, petrochemical plants, district utilities systems, and independent power plants. Sizes of individual project budgets have ranged from $100K to over $1.7 billion. Bill has been a Registered Engineer in several states and the UK since 1979 and a PMP since 1997. He is a member Toastmaster’s project management clubs with an educational level of “Distinguished Toastmaster”.

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Dinner Presentation:

They Always Fire the Coach: Effective Leadership that Wins!

In today’s performance-based workplaces, leading a team to victory is not just desirable, it is necessary. A large part of the success of any project derives from the team’s ability to play well together. This requires knowing ones position, and for the coach, knowing how to lead talent. This presentation provides strategies to improve team dynamics and ensure a victory. Participants will learn objective-setting and communication skills that win the game.

Leave the session with:

• Fresh ideas for teambuilding to start the game off right

• Techniques to motivate, monitor, and moderate your project teams

Dinner Meeting Speaker:

North Meeting - Register Now

Galleria Meeting - Register Now

Speaker: Alana M. Hill, PMP

Alana M. Hill, PMP is an engineer and certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with cross functional

business process experience in upstream oil and gas. Recognized for her excellent communication and leadership

skills, she is a passionate speaker, author, trainer, and mentor with strong team?building skills. Ms. Hill holds a B.S. in

Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Ms. Hill began her career as a Field Engineer in South Texas for Schlumberger, where she led an oilfield services

crew. She relocated to Sugar Land, TX where she led numerous projects of varying size and scope. In her ten years

with the oilfield giant, Ms. Hill progressed from lead Field Invoicing Process Engineer to Program Manager for

Training Technologies. In 2006, she established a consulting practice and provides business and technical consulting

in the Talent Management space.

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Southwest Meeting

Southwest Meeting: Adapting Project Management Practices to Unconventional Oil

and Gas

Unconventional Oil and Gas capital projects need a way to plan and execute in a highly dynamic, thin margin environment; a way that draws upon ‘classic’ PM principles, but makes the ‘system’ fit for purpose. To explore this, we’ll discuss three things: 1.Contextual differences from offshore (or, major, complex projects) to onshore (or, smaller, not as complex but very fast moving projects); 2.Challenges in planning, and executing in the onshore environment; and 3.Approaches and tools used to meet those challenges. Takeaways – listen for how YOUR context faces similar challenges, and be thinking of how YOU can adapt YOUR PM practices to meet them.

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Speaker: Mark Schaaf Mark Schaaf’s career in project management spans more than thirty years. His experience covers a wide spectrum of project management roles and contexts spanning multiple industries, continents and cultures. Mark has managed IT, software development, new product commercialization, and organizational change projects, created PM methodologies, established PMO's, and served as a strategic advisor for the application of PM practices to improve business effectiveness. His employers include Eastman Kodak, Brunel Energy, Unocal, Chevron, and Occidental Petroleum. He is currently with Statoil as Manager, Functional Strategies, with responsibility for US Onshore Project Development, Technology Development, and Organizational and Operational Excellence improvement strategies.

Register Now

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Woodlands Meeting

Woodlands Meeting: Hats Off to Leadership

As project managers, many of us find ourselves in a position where we have to wear many hats to drive our project to success. Ultimately, our role as the project manager is to deliver a well-run, successful project. However, from the beginning to the end we find ourselves playing many roles from analyst to protector, den mother to executive and even therapist. Yes there's a need for us to be multi-talented and versatile, but playing all these roles at once can become very difficult. Perhaps a better alternative is to simply provide great leadership. Leadership includes all of the necessary ingredients for producing extraordinary results. This session will focus on what the qualities are that a leader must have to deliver outstanding performance through others. Participants will leave the session with: • A better understanding of what makes a project manager extraordinary • Become familiar with the four components of leadership

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Speaker: Kevin Cullen Kevin has over 25 years of experience providing business consulting, training and development to individuals and Fortune 500 companies. Kevin specializes in the training and development of business leaders worldwide. Kevin’s expertise and commitment to the development of leadership skills within an organization has allowed business leaders to define and seize growth opportunities, rapidly improve performance, and attain specific measurable business He has trained and worked with leaders in every level of an organization to design, deliver and implement change initiatives to produce exceptional business results. Kevin is the President of Leadera Consulting group who specializes in assisting business leaders to achieve surprising performance in their organization through collaboration and engagement of their people. For more information please contact Kevin at kcullen@leaderacg.com or visit www.leaderacg.com.

Register Now

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2015 Board of Director Election Results

SVP Internal Operations 2014 - Sharon Greiff, PMP

I am currently serving as the SVP – Internal Operation at PMI Houston; a position I was appointed to in January

2014. Prior to this appointment, my volunteer efforts for PMI Houston have included serving as

VP of Financial Affairs for three years, Project Manager for the PMI Houston Annual conference

in 2009 and serving on various committees and projects for the past several years. I have a

great interest in "giving back" to both my professional and personal pursuits and consider it an

honor to serve as a Board Member for the PMI Houston Organization.

My professional background includes experience in the Oil & Gas, Mining, Financial and

Automotive industries as both a Project Manager and as a Program Manager. I am currently engaged at Lyondell

Basell, one of the world's premier plastics, chemicals and refining companies, as a Senior Project Manager. I hold

a bachelor's degree in business from the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh and a master's

degree in business/information technology from the University of Houston.

SVP Internal Operations 2015 - Richard Freilich, PMP

I've been involved in our Chapter since 2007 and was elected VP Finance 2008-2009 and 2010-2011 where I

gathered an outstanding team to design and deploy a low cost, Best of Breed, Non-Profit accounting system which

is completely Web-based. This permitted our diverse and well-traveled Board members (we still have to make a

living after all) to be able to conduct Chapter financial business no matter where we traveled in the world.

Separation of Duties is a very important aspect for financial integrity and thanks to my outstanding team of

volunteers, was able to structure the Finance Committee to provide our Chapter this high level of security and

contributed to PMI Houston being awarded Chapter of the Year. Our fully scalable model was recognized by PMI

Global and I was honored to present Financial Management in Virtual space (or Finally Paperless!) at the 2010 PMI

Global Congress NA.

PMI Houston is the largest secret organization in Houston. I believe that innovation is the key to better serve the

Membership and Houston Community by raising awareness, providing robust job/career space, outreach to

businesses and education, and to become THE resource for all things Project Management. This can be

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accomplished with a planned multi-step approach which will need to be part of a 5-year Strategic Plan yet to be

developed. In addition to being a PMP, I hold an MBA and MS in Computer Systems from Baylor University.

VP Finance - Venkat Maddikayala, PMP

Venkat R. Maddikayala, PMP is an Entrepreneur, Founder, President and CEO of V3Main Technologies who has

over 17 years of experiencing managing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Experienced in managing Agile and Waterfall projects ranging from $100k to over $2M, Venkat

delivers projects ahead of schedule and under budget, with specialty of migration of projects from

Waterfall to Agile methodology. Venkat is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and

SCRUM Master.

Active member of PMI organization since March 2006 and obtained PMP credentials in April 2007. Served as a

Finance Committee volunteer for PMI Houston Chapter since March 2013. Obtained Master’s Degree in Computer

science (specialized in computer applications) August 1996 from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.

An enthusiastic Toastmaster and much focused on exploring new ideas, strategic planning, and cloud computing

and agile project management.

VP Membership - Amy Stonesifer

Married to Brian Stonesifer for 24 years

Native Houstonian

University of St Thomas Alum

Live in Sugar Land

PMI Houston volunteer experience:

Current: Director of Volunteers, Membership committee and Twitter Moderator

Conference Committee: 2014 Volunteer Chair, 2013 Chair Last chance campaign

I have volunteered and held leadership positions at my church and community.

• Christ United Methodist Church Leadership Council Work Area Chair 2006 to 2012

• USO Houston volunteer and Advisory board member 2010 - 2011

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• Rodeo Houston Barbeque Cook Off Committee Volunteer Judge 2003 - 2008

• Tedx Sugar Land Volunteer 2012

Work history:

Application Analyst & Scrum Master at Memorial Hermann Tech Services working on projects that assist the

organization supporting meeting health care service needs. (Since Aug 2013)

Project Manager at Entertainment Publications managing IT projects supporting sales organization.

Project Manager with proven skills leading cross functional teams to achieve projects on schedule and on budget.

Recognized for strong interpersonal skills, team building and coaching. Effective and proven skills in Training,

Communication and Presentations. Ability to see the big picture in planning and issue management. Go to person in

the organization for critical projects and issues. Nicknamed by colleagues "Houston We have a problem" (17 years)

VP eBusiness - Justin Coe, PMP

Justin has been a member of the PMI Houston Chapter since March 2013. He began volunteering as the Director of

Communications and was appointed as the Vice President of eBusiness and Technologies in

April 2014. Previously he was a member of the PMI Mile Hi Chapter and a founding member of

a small independent organization for project management professionals in Western Nebraska.

Justin has over 15 years of experience in information systems with an emphasis in project

management, strategic development, and technology implementations. He has worked in diverse industries

including government, retail, software development and Fortune 500 oil and gas companies.

Justin is a strong advocate for the Project Management Profession. He holds PMI's Certified Associate in Project

Management (CAPM) certification and the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification. His educational

background includes a BS degree in Information Technology and the pursuit of a Master’s degree in Project

Management.

VP Outreach - Alexis King, PMP

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Alexis is currently an Engineering Program Manager with Hewlett- Packard. Alexis has been with the company over

25 years, working in various program management roles, but predominantly in engineering,

service and customer support.

Alexis is one of a few individuals that helped begin the PMI Houston North venue in 2004. Since

2004 she has served as a volunteer for PMI Houston and was also the Communications Director

for the North Venue from 2004 – 2006 working directly with the PMI Houston board of

directors. She has been a member of PMI Houston and a PMP since 2004. Alexis’s volunteer

duties included monthly distribution of the PMI Newsletter and the registration for the PMI North Venue.

In addition to an interest in project management she helps coordinate MD Anderson and Gulf Coast Blood drives

when needed.

Alexis lives with her husband Hank in north Houston area. They have two grown sons, one grown daughter and a

total of 5 grandchildren.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies LSC

Certificate in Project Management - George Washington University

PMP certified, Agile CSM certified, Six Sigma White Belt

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PMI Houston Scholarship

PMI Houston Scholarship

In celebration of our 40th Anniversary, PMI Houston Chapter will award 20 scholarships at $2,000 each for the year 2014. That

is equal to $40,000 total for “40 Celebrating 40”

To be eligible for the scholarship, applicants must be enrolled in or applying to an accredited project management degree program or a program in a related field benefitting from project management, with the following order of priority:

1. Any individual residing in the Greater Houston area, USA, who is attending or planning to attend an accredited college or university program in the Greater Houston area. The Greater Houston area is defined as the following counties: Austin, Burleson, Fort Bend, Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker, Waller, and Washington.

2. Any individual residing in the Greater Houston area, USA, who is attending or planning to attend an accredited college or university program anywhere. Again, the Greater Houston area is defined as the following counties: Austin, Burleson, Fort Bend, Grimes, Harris, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Walker, Waller, and Washington.

3. Any individual residing in the state of Texas, USA, who is attending or planning to attend an accredited college or university program anywhere.

Application Deadline is 27th of October 2014

Please apply for the scholarship at this link:

http://www.pmihouston.org/content.php?page=2014_Scholarship

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Thought Leadership in Project Management

This month’s article Challenging Classic Project Management: Turning Project Uncertainties Into Business Opportunities

describes the study performed by the authors Thomas G. Letcher, Barbara H. Edington and Ting Gao. The aim of this study was

to identify classes of opportunities and the related circumstances in which they occur throughout the implementation of projects, in

order to probe the importance of uncertainties in the conception of opportunities.

The exploratory case study consisted of 20 categorized projects to explore the perception of risks, uncertainties and

opportunities and how they impact project results and influence the creation of project value. Classic project management does

not visibly make a distinction between risks (known unknowns) and uncertainties (unknown unknowns). As stated by the authors,

uncertainties do not necessarily lead to negative results and taking this into account, they present a definition of project value

opportunities as “a potential to alter the quality and/or exceed the predefined stakeholder value of a project”.

The categories of opportunities identified in the study are: technical innovation, opportunities in implementation process,

business opportunity and future project business opportunity. To take advantage of these opportunities, in order to add value to

the project, usually a redefinition of the baseline is needed. Regarding the sources of project uncertainties identified, they were

classified as contextual turbulences (e.g. dynamic markets, regulatory uncertainty), stakeholders (e.g. customer, vendors, etc.),

technological uncertainties, organizational uncertainties (e.g. corporate merge), project uncertainties (e.g. unrecognized

complexity) and malpractice (e.g. deficiency in the application of project management standards). The authors also noted that

some opportunities and uncertainties were misperceived by the interviewees. For instance, considering the project itself as an

opportunity and declaring the risks as uncertainties.

From the analysis of the authors, the review of the cases indicated that the identified opportunities were always related to

uncertainties. Then, it was proposed that “opportunity could be discovered or created from uncertainties in project settings” and

“project managers who can perceive uncertainties have a higher likelihood to discover and explore opportunities”. Moreover, the

findings led to propose that “project managers with a business-oriented mindset are more likely to identify opportunities and their

exploitation is beneficial for project value”.

As mentioned before, the lack of lucid difference between risk and uncertainty in classical project management leaves

room for misperceptions at project and enterprise levels. Project managers perform risk management based on minimizing variation

from the baseline. However, they usually don’t consider the identification of uncertainties that could lead to opportunities. The

authors suggest the steps to recognize opportunities, starting from the identification of uncertainties that fall in the categories listed

previously. It was affirmed that there is a need to refocus the management perspective from “goal adherence to value creation”,

since the baseline is defined initially without consciousness of uncertainty. The authors suggest that even if it is responsibility of

the project manager to identify opportunities, the senior managers should promote the project manager’s authority to “engage in

value-enhancing opportunity identification and exploitation”.

The authors concluded that counting on project managers with business perspective may be a significant element for

maximizing the potential value of a project to the enterprise. Then, education should be oriented in encouraging a business attitude

to think ahead of the constraints and to generate value further than initial expectations.

Featured Column by Carmen Pascente, PMP

carmenpascente@gmail.com

Reference: Lechler, T. G., Edington, B. H., Gao, T. (2012). Challenging Classic Project Management: Turning Project Uncertainties Into Business Opportunities. Project Management Journal, 43 (6), 59-69.

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Project Management Toastmasters Clubs

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOASTMASTERS CLUBS THRIVE IN HOUSTON

Let’s face it. Whether it’s verbal or non-verbal, communication isn’t optional. It’s an essential skill, and project managers in the

Houston area are joining unique Toastmasters clubs to build the skills and confidence needed to express themselves in any

situation.

As a member of a Project Management Toastmasters club, you can learn to:

Excel at job interviews

Give powerful business presentations

Effectively teach classes or training sessions

Lead successful meetings or seminars

Present persuasive arguments, summations or brainstorming

Our first two PM Toastmasters clubs started in late 2008 and were actually chartered in March & April of 2009. They are located

in North Houston and the Galleria area to serve the project management community in the northwest and central Houston areas.

A third club was recently chartered in Sugar Land and membership is growing steadily. "We realized the need for a third club to

serve the West and Southwest Houston area and the response was very positive. Within a few weeks we were able to charter a

new club and we have added several members each month," explained Bruce Garrett, Southwest club president.

Project Management Toastmasters clubs are open to all, but members are predominately professional project managers. We

welcome people from all backgrounds and professions. "These clubs are unique and give professionals the opportunity to build

communication and leadership skills,” noted VP of Public Relations, Kim Montes.

Houston Area Project Management Toastmasters Clubs are sponsored by PMI Houston and aligned with the goals of PMI

International, and certified PMPs receive Professional Development Units (PDU’s) for participation.

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Southwest Houston Project Management Toastmasters

Schlumberger Sugar Land Campus

The Forum

210 Schlumberger Dr Sugar Land, TX 77478

2nd & 4th Wednesdays

6:00pm – Networking 6:30pm – Meeting Starts

North Houston Project Management Toastmasters Denny’s Restaurant 12697 Gessner Rd Houston, TX 77064 South of FM 1960 off FM249 1st, 3rd & 5th Tuesdays 6:00pm – Networking 6:30pm – Meeting Starts

Houston Galleria Project Management Toastmasters Houston Baptist University Atwood 2 Bldg, Rm 202 7502 Fondren Rd Houston, TX 77074 1st, 3rd & 5th Wednesdays 6:00pm – Networking 6:30pm – Meeting Starts

Visit a meeting to discover the benefits of membership!

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Classifieds Senior Pipeline Project Engineer NiSource Job Posting Aug. 27, 2014

IT, Lead Infrastructure Project Manager - Houston, TX Shell Job Posting

Sep. 19, 2014

Manager – Project Cost Control Darby Consulting Job Posting

Sep. 25, 2014

Sr. Manager – Project Cost Control Darby Consulting Job Posting

Sep. 25, 2014

Manager – Project Planning & Scheduling Darby Consulting Job Posting

Sep. 25, 2014

Sr. Manager – Project Planning & Scheduling Darby Consulting Job Posting

Sep. 25, 2014

Electronic Health Records PMO Opportunity Dean's Professional Services Job Posting

Oct. 3, 2014

Visit http://www.pmihouston.org/classifieds.php for all job listings. If you have a job opening that you would like to promote through the PMI Houston Chapter, please email the following information to director.comm@pmihouston.org.

Title

Company

Ad Expiration Date

Detailed Job Description

Your ad will be posted on the PMI Houston Chapter website and featured in weekly and monthly newsletter communications.

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Sponsor Communications

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cost effective schedule risk analysis solution that runs directly against your P6 database so data is saved in a single place.

Some of the features include:

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Realistic Plans for Project Success

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Heat Up Agile With LitheSpeed

Don't Miss this Year's Executive

Summit

We are so excited for our 2nd Annual Agile DC Executive Summit! With

speakers such as Gill Haus and Elliot Susel (AoL), Dave Merkel

(FireEye), Jonathan Young (National Geographic), Tim Buntel (Cigital)

and Max Keeler (Motley Fool) you do not want to miss this event! Held

at the beautiful CIT in Dulles, speakers will talk about their attempts at

starting and then nurturing agility in their own organizations. Network with

speakers and sponsors to get details and helpful hints for you own

enterprise. Register today!

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AgileDC 2014

LitheSpeed will sponsor the AgileDC conference in Washington DC again

this year on October 21st. AgileDC is the largest Agile community

organized event in the DC metro area and is bringing together thought-

leaders and practitioners from government, not-for-profits and private

industry to grow the local software community. We hope to see you there!

Agile Development Conference East

Meet LitheSpeed in Orlando on November 9th. LitheSpeed will be

teaching multiple classes at the event; CSM + PMI-ACP extension (Sanjiv

Augustine), CSPO (Arlen Bankston) and SAFe Agilist Certification (Bob

Payne). Discover the latest in agile methods, technologies, tools, and

leadership principles from thought leaders who deliver inspiring keynotes,

and in-depth tutorials. Register Today!

Certified ScrumMaster Training

Prepare to earn your ScrumMaster

certification and, more importantly, learn

how to lead your teams through complex

situations and projects. You'll also earn 16 PDUs and eligibility to take the

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) Exam.

Nov 4-5 - (Houston, TX) - Register

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Certified Scrum Product Owner

Training

Master the most difficult role in Scrum.

LitheSpeed’s expert-led training will

earn you 16 PDUs, a product owner certification and

a Scrum Alliance membership.

Dec 2-3 (Austin, TX) - Register

Visit LitheSpeed.com for a full schedule of upcoming classes and

info about private agile training.

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