December meeting cancelled due to inclement weather.
PMI December Meeting Wednesday, December 5th Normandie Farm Restaurant
Hello Project Management Professionals,
We are proud to offer our next dinner meeting at Normandie Farm Restaurant located at 10710 Falls Road, Potomac, MD (Phone: 301-983-8838, web site http://www.popovers.com ) on Wednesday, December 5, 2007.
DIRECTIONS: Take Rt 270 to the Falls Road exit. Proceed south towards Potomac. Normandie Farm is 3 1/2 miles on the right.
Alternate directions: take the beltway, I-495 to Exit 39. Proceed west on River Road 3 1/2 miles. Turn right onto Falls Road and proceed 3/4 mile to Normandie Farm on the left.
AGENDA:
5:00 to 6:30 PM Informal Social/Networking - A cash bar will be available 6:30 to 7:45 PM Dinner 7:45 to 8:00 PM Announcements and Introductions 8:00 to 9:00 PM Presentation by Jack Ferraro, PMP on Project Manager as Generalist: Project Manager as Obsolete! –What You Need to Know
Jack is the founder of MyProjectAdvisor, a project management services company that provides project management training and leadership development. He has 15 years of adult training and education experience and has conducted training sessions and developed leadership workshops for project managers. Jack has 18 years of experience working with project teams with extensive experience managing complex enterprise technology and business process improvement projects. Jack is a consultant, trainer and mentor for project managers and teams seeking to excel at strategic project management. He has designed a leadership development program to help project managers build their leadership skills and important personal competencies. Jack conducts workshops and coaches project managers and teams in a dynamic fashion. Jack is a PMI member since 1999, and is a member of the Washington, DC, PMI chapter. Jack was a volunteer on PMI’s OPM3 project and frequently writes and lectures on project management leadership trends. Jack is the author of a ground breaking project management leadership book, The Service-based Project Leader, to be published in 2007.
TOPIC: Project Manager as Generalist: Project Manager as Obsolete! –What You Need to Know Find out why the development of project management global industry standards, the availability of highly-educated low-cost labor, disruption of basic supply and demand laws and information overload is driving specialization of project management functions –and what you must do to prevent becoming an obsolete generalist. Attendees will learn and practice the five steps to specialization in project management, recognize driving forces behind specialization and its impact on your career and how to adapt to the new emerging roles. Project managers are experiencing rapid commoditization of skills and pressure to keep the cost of project services down. This is changing the landscape for the practicing project manager; many will focus on a specialized expert area, such as risk, scheduling or procurement. Others will focus on project administration, controls and reporting, while still others will find demands for consultative or leadership skills. Specialization increases competition and some skills will be more valuable than others depending on customer needs and project characteristics. Attend this meeting and gain information you need to navigate your project management career through today’s rapidly changing project management environment.
So please bring your boss, coworkers, spouse, or anyone else who you believe would be interested or could benefit from attending this great dinner meeting. This dinner meeting presentation will be worth one "category 3" PDU.
The cost for dinner is $30 for PMI Montgomery County, MD Chapter members and $40 for all others. Payment by cash or check is expected at the door of the meeting.
Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any others who you think may be interested in attending.
