PMI IS Community of Practice (IS CoP)

Vasilj Petrovic, PgMP, PMP, P.EngDirector, Professional Development

PMI Information Systems Community of Practice

July 2012

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PMI IS CoP Board

ChairThangavel

Subbu

Director, TechnologyYong Li

Director,Professional Development

Vasilj Petrovic

Director,Knowledge Management

and OutreachValdery Junior

Director, Communications

Prakash Subramanian

Director, CommunityJeff Garwood

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PMI IS CoP – Webinar Series• Provides a monthly opportunity to learn from a dynamic group of highly regarded leaders in Project Management.

• Enables you to expand your skills and to stay current in critical knowledge areas.

• Learn tips and techniques that can be immediately applied to increase your project success.

• Earn 1 PDU for each monthly webinar

For more information on upcoming webinars, please visit: http://is.vc.pmi.org

Ella Blue, MS, PMPAssociate Director-Webinarsella.blue@vcleader.pmi.org

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PMI IS CoP – Recorded Webinars

• As part of its professional development initiatives, the IS CoP would like to promote unfettered access to its valuable Webinar content by providing them in the form of recorded webinars.

• This will enhance learning opportunities by allowing several dozen premier webinar presentations to be accessible 24x7, thus catering to diverse audiences.

• The aim is to foster continuous learning and awareness in project management by making available presentations from distinguished professionals from around the world.

• Attendees can also earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) towards maintaining their PMP credential.

Please visit the Webinars page at http://is.vc.pmi.org/Webinars.aspx for all therecorded webinars.

Satya Sridhar, MCA, MS, PMPAssociate Director-Recorded Webinars

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PMI IS CoP – Virtual Professional Development Program

Our mandate is:To meet the professional development needs

of our membersTo reach a wide spectrum of our members

through virtual events.Plan and host virtual events that can be

attended by all members irrespective of theirgeographic location or time zone.

Invite prominent IS/IT project managementspeakers and thought leaders to virtual events toshare their insights, knowledge and experiencewith our members.

To volunteer please contact:Jaideep Kala, Associate Director – VPDS Program

Jaideep.kala@vcleader.pmi.org

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Mentoring ProgramThere is no doubt that an individual who has been mentored will develop and perform much better than a non-mentored individual. Mentoring is the development process of building experience base needed in Project Management to separate success from failure.

Participants registered will be able to:– Earn PDUs or guidance to become PMP certified– Solve complex problems within your work environment– Help advance your career path or build your business– Lead you to new prospects– Allow you to establish a long term coaching relationship

To learn more about our mentoring program, please visit our Community web page http://is.vc.pmi.org/

Sherif Ayad, MSc in MIS, PMPAssociate Director-Mentoring Program

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Podcast ProgramAs part of the Professional Development initiatives, the IS CoP is publishing video interviews of prominent project managers working on IT/IS.

The objective of the IS CoP with this initiative is to provide some learning possibilities in a more informal way as you can view and listen to these interviews anytime and almost every where.

The IS Cop also offers the possibility of earning PDU’s. Further details are available on the PMI IS CoP website http://is.vc.pmi.org/.

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Luis Seabra Coelho, PMPAssociate Director – Podcast Program

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PhD Support Program• Support the PhD candidates to survey our membership to aid in their

data collection• Share results with our membership of the survey within a reasonable

amount of time• Provide the communication details to the IS – CoP communications

team for better member participation• Support members with PDU details, if any, that can be earned for the

survey.• Keep a track of member participation for the survey and share the

details of the same.

Dhiraj Bellara, PMPAssociate Director - PhD Support ProgramPMI IS CoP

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Professional Development Award

Award is to recognize excellent project management in the Information Systems arena.Global Recognition Award.Open to all Information Systems professionals.Nomination procedure and criteria will be found soon at PMI IS CoP website.

James Oni, PhD, MIET, CEng, PMP

Associate Director

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PDU Credit for Today’s Webinar1. You will be granted 1 PDU for your participation in today’s program. You will

receive a system generated email once your PDU claim has been processed. Please allow 1 week after the webinar.

2. To ensure the system is able to process your PDU credit:– Register with your PMI Member ID NOT your PMP Certification # – Register with your full name as listed on your PMI Membership.– List the PMI Certification that you hold when registering such as PMP or

PgMP. PDUs are only processed for certification holders– Attend the Webinar Program for a minimum of 40 minutes

3. If you do not receive an email that your PDU claim has been automatically processed, then you will need to submit a claim for your participation in this event. Use PDU Category A, Component ID=S010 and this event information for the submission.

4. Visit our website for more info on claiming PDUs for the webinars: http://is.vc.pmi.org

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How to Download Webinar Materials

A PDF of today’s presentation is available for download under Supporting Materials. Click the Supporting Materials button located under the webinar presentation slide to download the PDF file now.

These Supporting Materials will also be available for download later when you view the Recorded Webinars at: http://is.vc.pmi.org/Webinars.aspx

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Contribute an Article for Publication in our PMI ISCoP Newsletter

• We invite you to share your project management experiences and best practices with our community. Pull up your sleeves and send us your entries on your most challenging PM experiences by July 25th, 2012

• Send your entries to prakash.v@vcleader.pmi.org.The winning entry's author will be awarded a gift card, and publication of the article in our next newsletter. Best entries will be posted in our IS CoP blog.