PMI Huron Valley Chapter

Register today for the 2012 PMI Huron Valley Chapter Professional Development Day!

The 2012 Professional Development Day is presented by the Huron Valley Chapter of the Project Management Institute.

This event will feature exciting presentations and discussion on topics critical to Project Managers by two highly-regarded and experienced speakers:

• Rick Morris - will present topics from his book "Stop Playing Games".  Rick is an ITIL Practitioner, consultant, author, mentor, and owner of R2 Consulting.  He holds the PMP (Project Management Professional), MPM (Masters of Project Management), OPM3, Six Sigma Green Belt, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, TQM, ATM-S, ITIL, and ISO certifications. Rick has worked for organizations such as GE, Xerox, and CA and has consulted to numerous clients in a wide variety of industries including financial services, entertainment, construction, non-profit, hospitality, pharmaceutical, retail, and manufacturing. Rick has two books (“The Everything Project Management Book” and “Project Management That Works!”) that were released in 2008.

• Wayne Turmel - will present "3 Reasons Virtual Teams Fail - and what to do about it."  Wayne is a sought-after speaker at professional conferences, and is a writer and regular contributor to the "Thought Leader's" column on www.management-issues.com, the world's leading management web site.  He is the president of Greatwebmeetings.com, as well as the host of one of the world's most successful business podcasts- The Cranky Middle Manager Show.

This event is open to all PMI members and will provide 7 PDU credits for attendance.

Date: February 27, 2012

Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm with luncheon provided

Location: Holiday Inn near the University of Michigan, 3600 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 [hotel website]

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*NOTE: PMI-HVC Chapter Members - please login to this website prior to registering for the event in order to receive your HVC Member discount. If you have not previously logged in to the HVC website, your user ID is the first initial of your first name and the first seven characters (or less) of your last name. Your password is your PMI ID number.  If you just joined PMI-HVC, please allow 24 hours for your registration to become active.

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The PMI Huron Valley Chapter will be offering a Winter 2012 PMP Prep Class in partnership with Eastern Michigan University. This class will help prepare attendees for taking the PMP certification test based on Version 4 of the PMI PMBOK . The class spans a two week period, meeting on Saturday's, Tuesday's, & Thursday's. It will be held at Eastern Mich Univ's Livonia campus on the southwest corner of I-275 and Six Mile Rd.

The dates for the next class will be:

• Saturday February 11, 18, & 25       9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Tuesday February 14 & 21              6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
• Thursday February 16 & 23             6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

The cost of the class is $750 for PMI members and $950 for non-members. You must attend all of the sessions to receive your certificate for completing the class. To register for the class, please follow this link to EMU's website https://secure.ce.emich.edu/ppat/. For more information, please contact our VP of Training, Craig M. Karagitz, PMP, MSEM.

There are new requirements for maintaining your certification that go into effect 3/1/11. We will go into more detail in subsequent articles, but the important thing right now is that you know that there are changes which can affect how you renew your certification.

If you want the full picture, this is all laid out in the PMP Handbook, in the section called Continuing Certification Requirements. You can read this (but not download it) here. The Handbook contains a lot of useful information for PMPs, so may want to bookmark this site for future reference.   

President - Ed Pelic, PMP
Past President - Nic Jain, PMP
VP of Programs - Kathleen Michaud, PMP
VP of Finance - Lamont Manley, PMP
VP of Membership - Bill Mahoney, PMP
VP of Communications - Jeff Buckthorpe, PMP
VP of Administration - Helene Gidley, PMP
VP of Training - Craig M. Karagitz, PMP, MSEM

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