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Just 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.

We met as the PMI New Media Council four times. What a great group of people. Here they are:

Cornelius Fichtner

The PM Podcast

Elizabeth Herrin

A Girl's Guide to Project Management

Josh Nankviel

PM Student

Dave Garrett

Project Management 2.0

Chalyce Nollsch

Project Management Bistro

Hal Macomber

Reforming Project Management

Jerry Manas

PMThink! Project Management Thought Leadership

Raven Young

Raven's Brain

I'll do the proper introductions later. In the meantime add the above people to your RSS reader or subscribe by email.

The intent of COPs is to make the leading edge and best practices available to a broader population.

Last highlight…PMI Special Interest Groups are dead; long live Special Interest Groups. PMI is replacing them with virtual communities of practice (COP).The intent is to make the leading edge and best practices available to a broader population. Three COPs have been piloted. PMI is working out some issues. Their plan is to launch 4 COPs/Qtr until all are launched. One of the first will be a new group for Agile. Woo hoo!