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 The PMI College of Scheduling is the only worldwide organization dedicated solely to advancing the techniques, practice and profession of Project Scheduling. The College is working within PMI to build upon PMI’s many years of Scheduling Proceedings, Body of Knowledge, and expertise in establishing practice standards for the Project Management profession. The College is involved in all aspects and applications of the vitally important function of Project Scheduling, and we invite you to join us as we further the interests of our profession. Membership is open to all members of PMI.

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Take advantage of our Early Bird rates through April 16th.

PMI College of Scheduling is pleased to announce our 7th Annual Conference being held May 2-5, 2010 at the Fairmont Palliser Hotel in Calgary.

Come celebrate 100 Years of Scheduling with us at the only conference focused exclusively on Scheduling.

Join us for this exciting and informative 3-day conference and see how organizations everywhere are obtaining remarkable business value from Project Scheduling.

Learn how worldwide organizations are advancing the techniques, practice and profession of Project Scheduling and establishing practice standards for the Project Management profession.

Key Highlights:

  • Update on the Scheduling Excellence Initiative – from the Best Practices group
  • Ask the Scheduling Experts and Participate in Town Hall meetings
  • LEARN how other scheduling professionals develop baseline schedules, create Work Breakdown Structures, cost load schedules, and perform schedule risk management
  • PARTICIPATE with other experienced schedulers to debate technical details of best practices for scheduling and claims
  • GROW your network of scheduling resources at the only global conference focused entirely on scheduling
  • Learn about available scheduling credentials and test onsite
  • Come earn hours towards industry re-certifications such as PMI’s PMP & SP, AACEi’s PSP, CMAA’s CCM, etc.
  • Learn about state-of-the-art Scheduling Solutions in the Partner Pavilion

    Event Location:
    The Fairmont Palliser
    133 9th Avenue SW
    Calgary, Alberta
    Canada
    T2P2M3

    Conference Rates:
    PMICOS/CMAA/CII/AGC Members Registration: Early Bird Rate until April 16 - $800.00 (USD) This is an all access pass that covers your full attendance at the conference. It includes all evening events, daily conference meals, attendance to all sessions and to the exhibit hall. (CMAA is the Construction Management Association of America, CII is The Construction Industry Institute and AGC is the Associated General Contractors of America

    Non-Member Registration: Early Bird Rate until April 16 - $900.00 (USD) This is an all access pass that covers your full attendance at the conference. It includes all evening events, daily conference meals, attendance to all sessions and to the exhibit hall.

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  • Congratulations to our new Board members:

    Pradip Mehta, President
    Hosney Abdelgelil, VP of Global Services
    Chris Carson, VP of Scheduling Excellence

    On-Demand Learning

    PMICOS - Scheduling with the Masters -

    Thank you for joining us for our Fall session. Stay tuned to find out when our series of webinars will begin again.

    See our Fall'09 Schedule!
    9/23 - (COMPLETE) Igor Starkov, Tokmo Solutions - available via Archive
    10/14 - (COMPLETE)(originally scheduled for 10/7) Cindy Zingarello, Steelray Software
    10/21 - (COMPLETE) Eric Uyttewaal, Project Pro - available via Archive
    11/4 - (COMPLETE) Tal Levanon, Hidden Critical Paths (HCP)
    11/18 - (COMPLETE)Dan Patterson, Project Acumen
    12/2 - (COMPLETE)Pat Weaver, Mosaic Project Services


    Past Webinars may be viewed via the On-Demand Learning page.




    SEI Best Practices and Guidelines Development

    Get involved with the SEI Best Practices!

    So far...
  • 163 volunteers have posted comments

  • Another 103 signed up, never posted

  • Over 1,000 comments posted
  • 16 Topics in Topic Peer Review
  • 74 Topics in various stages of Development
  • 72 Topics set up, ready to start Development

  • To get your Smoothprojects password contact   Laura Williams
    or   Chris Carson .



    What's New (Posted December 4, 2009)

    Are you planning on taking the PMI-SP examination? The Boston Univ. training arm has put out a PMI-SP training course. If you want to find out more go to http://www.butrain.com/share/scedesc.asp?CID=15908.


    Congratulations to David Hulett, PhD on the publishing of his new book "Practical Schedule Risk Analysis". The book is published by Gower Publishing Company. Look for upcoming reviews of this book soon!


    There is currently ONE employment opportunity available. You can read the details on ourPMICOS Job Listings page.

    These listings are kept active for 3 months.


    New Topic set up in PMICOS Forum There is a new forum topic called "Standards" that will support and provide an opportunity for the COS membership to comment on the 1st Edition of the PMI Practice Standard for Scheduling and provide constructive input to the development of the 2nd Edition. Mike Mosley will be moderator for this topic.

    Do not pass up this opportunity to shape the future of the scheduling profession.


    The bulletin board is back online! Be sure to sign up and share you thoughts, questions, and concerns with the entire scheduling community! Register to take advantage of our discussion forums. By requiring moderator approval to join we hope to alleviate the inappropriate postings. If you consider a posting inappropriate please e-mail the   PMICOS Webmaster.


    Topic of the Month

     

    Check out the December Topic of the Month titled Earned Schedule…an emerging enhancement to EVM By Walt Lipke and Kym Henderson. The artical was initially published in Crosstalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, November 2006 issue.

     

    Call for Papers

    The College of Scheduling encourages the membership to submit papers for upcoming issues of the Topic of The Month. We hope to keep the Topic of the Month an interesting place for schedulers to view relevant practices, theories and information about CPM scheduling.

    We welcome topics related to scheduling practices, scheduling software, schedule analyses, information technology and other pertinent topics.

     

    To get your topic posted please contact Tom Fertitta at thomasfertitta@TDF-LLC.com or 571-203-7183.


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