PMI Great Lakes Chapter Newsletter February 2008 Newsletter Editor: John M Schnable PMI GLC Announcement – February 11 Dinner Meeting The Great Lakes Chapter is pleased to welcome Ted Barth. Mr. Barth's topic is "Is your Product Development Process Performing to the Competitive Time to Market Trends?” For more detail on this month’s dinner meeting topic and to register, please visit: http://www.pmiglc.org/pd/mtg_08_02.html Location: Southfield Marriott Time: Check-in ~ 6:00pm Dinner ~ 6:30pm Presentation ~ 7:30pm PDU Code C011-021108 PMI GLC - Continuation of February Forum online New Forum Format… February 11 and 12-14 Title: Face-to-face forum Date: February 11 Time: 5:30-6:25 $20 (Member), $25 (Non-member); 1 PDU Review best practices of PMBOK 3rd edition and other major PMI standards Title: Online Forum Date: February 12-14 $20 (Member), $25 (non-member); 1 PDU Review best practices of PMBOK 3rd edition and other major PMI standards. Includes the power point presentation shown in the Monday session and extensive discussions on the PMBOK best practices. The discussions will focus on the application of best practices. Participant must be prepared to access the Web site Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and participate in the threaded discussions all three days Access is available at your convenience, 24 hours per day. Participants are not required to access at any specific time Online participants will receive the URL and entry code for accessing the Web site on Monday, February 11, by e-mail. Members may register for the February 11 dinner meeting only, the February 11 forum only, the dinner meeting and forum, the February 12-14 online forum only, or any combination of the above. Register now by clicking on www.pmiglc.org. PMI-GLC Announcement – Up Coming Events February 12 Advanced Topics Seminar 1: Breakdown Structure; Project Manager February 19 Advanced Topics Seminar 2: Work Breakdown Structure; Program Manager February 26 Advanced Topics Seminar 3: Work Breakdown Structure; Portfolio Manager PMI-GLC Announcement – April 23, 2008 Symposium The 2008 PMI GLC Symposium Team is proud to announce the title, date and location of our 2008 Symposium: Title: Diversity: A Successful Approach Date: April 23, 2008 Location: Sterling Inn Conference and Banquet Center 34911 Van Dyke Avenue Sterling Heights, MI 48312 http://www.pmiglc.org/pd/2008symposium/index.html Advertisement Personalized Productions Specializing in Customized Training Come to One of Our Unique Networking Opportunities The Next event is Resource Management with Microsoft Project Offered on 3/1/2008 PMIGLC Member Price: $50 Number of PDUs: 3 http://www.personalizedproductions.com Laugh, Learn, and Earn PDU's!  Finding and resolving over-allocations, setting up a shared resource pool, resource management using Project Server and Portfolio Server. Call For 2008 PMI Great Lakes Chapter Dinner Meeting Speakers The PMI Great Lakes Chapter is looking for dynamic, informative speakers to present at our monthly dinner meetings in 2008. Contact the Director, Dinner meetings at dinnermeeting@pmiglc.org for information. Subscription Information To update your email address or to stop receiving electronic mailing from PMI, please go to the national PMI website (www.pmi.org) and set your preferences in the Members section.