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President's Message

Spring 2010 Edition

We have had a winter with lot of snow and we are excited about some signs of spring. We are ready to host a Virtual Learning Summit on April 8th. More details and registration at http://www.iil.com/pmihv/.
 
We are now also partnered with EMU to offer a PMP Preparation and MSProject Class in the winter term.  This is an approved class under the 'No Workers Left Behind' Program - so if you know somebody between jobs, please let them know that they could qualify to get government funding for this class.
 
Following are the  board members for the current year :
 
President – Nic Jain
VP of Programs - Ed Pelic
VP of Finance - Lamont Manley
VP of Membership - Bill Mahoney 
VP of Communications - Jeff Buckthorpe 
VP of Administration - Kevin O'Brien
VP of Training - Lanka van Dort
The board is always looking for new ways to provide as much value to the membership as possible, through interesting chapter meetings, affordable PDU opportunities and the general interactive nature of our chapter. If you have any suggestions on how we could improve our value to you, the members, please contact me, or any of the board members for that matter.
Don’t forget, there are plenty of opportunities to earn inexpensive PDUs, all it requires is a little time on your part. See any of the VPs about being on committees or helping with some of the extracurricular activities to earn those valuable PDUs. Also, if you are a Project Manager by trade, you can declare up to 15 PDU’s per cycle (5 per year) for professional experience.
 
PMI Housekeeping:
• Check out the PMI Career path link and learn about the CAPM, PMP, and PgMP. http://www.pmi.org/info/PDC_CareerPath_Landingpg.asp
• Keep up-to-date with project management events. http://www.pmi.org/info/AP_ComingPMEvents.asp
 
N. (Nic) Jain, PMP
President – Michigan Huron Valley Chapter
PMIHVCPres@pmi-hvc.org.



Next Chapter Meeting
Improving Work-Breakdown-Structures Using Techniques Commonly Seen on Agile Software Teams
3/15/2010 6:00 PM

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Improving Work-Breakdown-Structures Using Techniques Commonly Seen on Agile Software Teams
Presented by James Goebel
 
Many project management practices are only as effective as the project's underlying project work-breakdown-structure (WBS).  Therefore, it is likely that improving the quality of your WBS will increase the effectiveness of many project management activities.
 
Through hands-on learning exercises this session explores how some of the techniques used by Agile Software teams can be used to facilitate the construction of a more effective WBS, even for projects outside of information technology.
 
This presentation will help you:
  • Identify the project challenges created by having a poor work-breakdown-structure.
  • Articulate the qualities that lead to an effective work-breakdown-structure.
  • Identify several facilitation techniques to improve the quality of a project's work-breakdown-structure.

James Goebel, co-founder of Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has practiced object-oriented software technology for more than a decade as a developer, architect, project manager, and mentor.
 
His work in commercial software development has spanned several domains including bio-informatics, medical imaging, vehicle monitoring, test generation, and online bill presentment. He led the year-long change process that dramatically improved one company's product development process. These changes included converting the programming team to Extreme Programming practices and establishing a human interaction design team. James is currently a fulltime member of an Extreme Programming (XP) team that is using XP developer practices within the framework of a Rational Unified Process® project.
 
He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Licensed Residential Builder.

 


 
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