PMI Silver Spring Chapter

September 8, 2010 (Wednesday evening): Karen Davey-Winter - Team-Building in a Matrixed Environment
 
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. 

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

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, click here.
 
September 8-9, 2010: Two-Day Certified ScrumMaster Training in Washington, DC, with Sanjiv Augustine, President of LitheSpeed
 
On September 8-9, Sanjiv Augustine, President of LitheSpeed, will conduct a two-day Certified ScrumMaster training class at the Mikrotek facility in Washington, DC (1101 Vermont Ave. N.W., Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005). Cost: $1,395; Use discount code 'PMI' (without quotes) to receive a 15% discount. For details (and a link to registration), click here.
 

September 28-29: Back-to-Back Seminars in Silver Spring on Government Contracting, with James F. Garrett and David P. Christovich
 
On September 28 and 29, James F. Garrett and David P. Christovich, Ph.D. will conduct back-to back seminars on government contracting, at the new Silver Spring Civic Building at Veterans Plaza (One Veterans Place, Silver Spring, MD 20910). For details on the September 28 half-day seminar on "Growing Your Business with Federal Government Contracts" (cost: $95), click here. For details on the September 29 all-day seminar on "Pursuing and Winning Government Contracts" (cost: $195), click here.
 
October 11, 2010 (Monday evening): PMI - UMBC Special Dinner Event - The Acropolois Museum Project
 
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. Location: University Center (UC) Ballroom, UMBC. Cost: $10 (Free to UMBC Students and Staff). This event is worth 1 PDU. For more details on this event, click here. To register, click here.
 
October 28-29, 2010: Basic & Advanced Risk Management Seminars in Silver Spring, with Carl Pritchard

It's still two months down the road, but it's not too soon to plan now to attend the October 28-29 Basic & Advanced seminars on Risk Management, led by Carl Pritchard, one of the world's leading practitioners in the field of risk management. This will be an unforgettable training experience, as Carl leads you in a highly interactive, tools-based workshop to improve your risk identification and management skills. The seminars, sponsored and hosted by PMI Silver Spring Chapter, will be held in Silver Spring, MD.  
 
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.
 
And yes: You'll be able to sign up for one, or the other, or both of the seminars. Look for details (including cost, specific location and registration) in the coming days.