The Milestone Our Upcoming Evening Program
The Board of Directors invites you to join us for the February 23, 2005, PMI-NEIC Evening Program! Note the new day of the week - Wednesday.
Our featured speaker will present Volunteerism: How has it impacted our community? What is the future?
Sandi Kemmish is the Program Officer for the Lincoln Financial Group Foundation. In her role with Lincoln Foundation and Corporate Public Involvement, Sandi reviews all the grant submissions to the foundation on a quarterly basis. She also organizes employee volunteer activities such as their upcoming Habitat house build and food drives for shelters. Currently, Sandi is overseeing the company's centennial activities in Fort Wayne.
- Choice of Swiss Steak or Almond Crusted Orange Roughy, Signature Salad, Rice Pilaf, Green Beans, Lemon Meringue Pie - please indicate your dinner selection in the Comments area on the RSVP form
- Don Hall's Guest House, 1313 West Washington Center Road, Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Social time 5:30pm, Dinner 6:00pm, Program 7:00pm
Our Most Recent Evening Program
After a satisfying pork loin dinner, everyone settled in to listen to the story of Providence Communications, LLC. Jessica’s passion for promoting the wealth of health care services and expertise available in Northeast Indiana, fueled by her family’s connection to the medical profession, inspired her to develop a monthly magazine for women.
When Richard and Jessica teamed up, responsibility for one magazine turned in to two! Plus, there were calendars and maps and more. The second magazine, the Fort Wayne Business Journal, published monthly, has a circulation of 10,000 copies.
Lynette, the Sales Director, shared many tips about successful advertising. It is clear that she has a passion for making advertising work for their clients.
So, what does this story have to do with the NEIC and project management in general? View pictures and read more to find out.
Chapter News
Paula says Hello!
Current Membership Count: 111.
New Members - Welcome: Dave Braun (International Truck), Kathi Keeterle (LFA), James Kerschner (ICON), Clyde Lonsbury (ICON), Greg McCormick, Gary Miller (Trinity Health - Indy), Wanda Minter (DePuy), Scott Mullins (International Truck), John Trumbower (International Truck)
New PMPs - Way to Go! Gary Barnett and Steven Squires
Chapter PMP Percentage: 51%
Our chapter offers an online, interactive PMP class (via http://www.pmp-online.org) which many people have taken advantage of over the years.
It's an eight-week class that covers the PMBOK guide from cover to cover and includes each detail, plus information that is commonly found on the PMP exam. The class also offers over 400 sample exam questions and answers to help you prepare for the exam.
We've had students from India, the UAE, Macau, Brazil, Italy, Prince Edward Island, many parts of Canada, all across the US, as well as other countries. That's one benefit of an online course, there's no specific time that everyone has to meet in order to attend.
One mystery seems to be what to do after the class to prepare for the PMP exam. PMI has a rather complete and thorough application process. The class supplies several spreadsheets and tools to help organize your material in order to qualify for the exam the first time. Essentially, you'll need a certificate that shows you completed the class, you'll need a completed PMI application (can be accomplished online) and perhaps proof of other credentials. I recommend this entire process take about 30 days. More than that and you start losing your classroom learning and less than that and you don't have enough time to prepare for the exam. During the 30 days, you should take every example problem you can find (not just the ones from the class!). You should complete your application and submit it. PMI reacts very quickly to applications and you'll have approval to sit for your exam within a week or so. The secret to passing is to continue to practice exam questions until you can answer each one confidently.
We love to hear back from students that have passed the exam, and often do! We don't advertise the class; we don't even list it on other web sites. The vast majority of our students (for years now) have come via word of mouth. That speaks volumes for the quality.
News Bites
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Did you know that eSeminarsWorldSM courses are offered in a unique online learning environment that facilitate interaction with expert instructors and other professional project mangers from around the world? These convenient, easy-to-access courses utilize e-mail, discussion boards, questions, group assignments and chats to create ongoing exchanges between the instructor and course participants. By spending just one hour a day online, for four days a week, you can complete a course no matter how busy your schedule! Course length is between two and five weeks, depending upon the course selected. Course topics are as diverse as PMI’s traditional face-to-face Seminars World® offerings. With completion rates in excess of 90 percent and very high participant satisfaction ratings, many are enrolling in their second and third consecutive eSeminarsWorld courses. Share the news! And make plans now to register! (kathleen.rossman@pmi.org)
Next program: 18-21 February 2005; Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; An unequalled opportunity to expand your skills and knowledge base in project management.
Mark your calendars! Look for more details on the congress web site beginning Tuesday, 1 March 2005.
Feature Book/Word of the Month
2004 Recipient of the PMI Professional Development Product of the Year Award!
Book purchasers gain access to free templates and additional risk information on our new RMC Risk Web site. Very different than anything else available, this book is a must, a primary text for risk management courses, and for those people who want a clear and effective way to apply risk management to their projects. You will learn things you can apply to your projects NOW.
desultory \DEH-sul-tor-ee\ adjective
*1 : marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose
2 : not connected with the main subject
3 : disappointing in progress, performance, or quality
Example sentence: "His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge which would astonish his professors." (Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet") Be the first to submit a sentence you write with this word to the newsletter editor and win a prize at the next evening program!
Taken from Merriam-Webster Word of the Day
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