PMI Global Congress 2008 Highlights
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Just a few highlights from the Project Management Congress for you. I attended a 6-hour working session on the Project Management Institute, PMI®, 4-year study on the value of investing in the discipline, practices, and training in project management. We followed that with a 75-minute private conversation with the two principal researchers, Mark Mullaly and Janice Thomas. In short, while only one of the 65 firms studied attempted to calculate an ROI, nearly every firm was able to identify real value. I'll share some of the details in a following post.
PMI Special Interest Groups are dead; long live Special Interest Groups.
Colin Powell was the keynote speaker on Sunday afternoon for a crowd of 3,000. That followed his Obama endorsement on Meet the Press Sunday morning. The general was there to speak about leadership. He challenged project managers to bring leadership to every project team. He kept our attention with one story after another and his great humor. I counted 4 standing ovations. I've ordered his book My American Journey.
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