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September 8 - Team Building in a Matrixed Environment, with Karen Davey-WinterSeptember 8, 2010 (Wednesday evening): Karen Davey-Winter - Team-Building in a Matrixed Environment
Mark your calendars, and plan to join us for our September 8, 2010 monthly PMISSC meeting, featuring Karen Davey-Winter of Work Life Coaching, who will be speaking about Team Building in a Matrix Environment. Location: Blair Mansion Inn, 7711 Eastern Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20912. Cost will be $35 for payment in advance, $40 at the door, and the event will be worth 1.5 PDUs. Punch the date into your Blackberries and your Outlook Calendars, and plan to join us for a great evening as we sort out the tangled web of building teams in a matrixed project management environment. To register for this event, click here. For more details on this event, click here. Update on the September 25 - October 30 PMP Prep Course in Columbia, MD
Cost of Early Bird Registration (from now until September 30) is $250 for one day, or $400 for both days. Plan early and register NOW!, because on October 1, the cost will go up to $300 for one day of training, or $500 for both days. To register for this event, click here. (Note: You may sign up for one, or the other, or both of the seminars) The Basic Seminar on Risk Management (October 28) will take you step-by-step through the risk management process, from planning, identification, qualification, and quantification, to response development and response control. You'll learn the value of adhering to the process and pursuing risk management in a cohesive, orderly fashion. In the Advanced Risk Management seminar on October 29, Carl will take you through the advanced concepts of setting organizational thresholds and triggers, building risk models and working with the newest concepts in risk management, including David Hillson's Risk Breakdown Structure. As a component of the program, you'll build a sample risk model. For more details on this signature event, and about Carl Pritchard, click here. Reinventing Challenging Clients in Tough Economic TimesCarl's Corner Reinventing Challenging Clients in Tough Economic Times by Carl Pritchard, PMP, PMI-RMP Consulting is tough business to begin with, but in challenging economic times, the traditional concerns of adequate margins, client base and future business are amplified multifold. PMI Silver Spring Chapter: Building for the Future
A Message from the President, Rusty Richards My first memory of attending a PMI Silver Spring chapter meeting is from sometime in 2002, in the back room of a little restaurant in a strip mall up in Olney, MD. There were about fifteen people at the meeting. Although a number of individuals were named as Board members, only one of them, as I recall – the founding President, Bobby Blevins – was present at that and subsequent meetings. The chapter had no website, a small mailing list (fewer than a couple hundred individuals), no place to meet on a regular basis, no consistent schedule of meetings or speakers, and no chapter newsletter. Welcome!
The Silver Spring Chapter provides an open forum for professionals in the field of project management in Silver Spring, Maryland and the surrounding Washington, DC metropolitan area to promote the principles of the Project Management Institute through networking with other project managers, sharing project experiences, providing and receiving training, and supporting project managers in their certification and continuing professional development efforts. Our community of project management practitioners is ever alert to the needs of the journey, following the path of awareness, and like swans, our members glide on, leaving behind their former resting places. Our chapter normally meets at the Blair Mansion Inn in Silver Spring, Maryland, on the second Wednesday evening of the month (unless otherwise indicated). The monthly meetings are determined by traditional methods of calculation, and are not always the same as the precise astronomical occurrences. Therefore, please consult this website for periodic updates. Cost of an evening event is $35, which includes dinner and the presentation by our guest speaker, as well as our fervent hope that you will find a parking space if you arrive late. |
Team structures, even in well-ordered, functionally-structured organizations, are inherently complex. Today's matrixed organizations make that complexity even greater, resulting in multiple loyalties among matrix project team members, and if the team is not cohesive, these divided loyalties can be harmful to the success of the project. 
The jointly-sponsored PMI Silver Spring / Baltimore Chapter PMP Prep Course (lasting six successive Saturdays) starts on September 25, and runs through October 30. The course will be held in the Columbia area, and costs $799 for PMI Silver Spring or Baltimore Chapter members, $899 for all other PMI members, $999 for anyone who is not a member of PMI. For details and registration, 
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The Baltimore and Silver Spring Chapters of the Project Management Institute (PMI), in conjunction with the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) Training Centers, cordially invite you to join us for our Fall Semester Dinner Meeting at 6:00 PM on Monday evening, October 11, 2010. Our guest presenter for the evening, Mr. Theofanis Giotis, is President of PMI Greece, and served as the Project Manager in charge of the $175 million Acropolis Museum Project, which took 8 years to complete. 
It's still two months down the road, but it's not too soon to plan now to attend the 
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