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for volunteers to help with the specific committees. Please see the
Call for Volunteers page for additional information.
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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2008 5th Annual Conference
The 2008 conference will be held May 4th through May 7th
at The Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.
The theme will be Scheduling: The Winds of Change.
The PSP Exam will be offered on Sunday, May 4, 2008 at the conference this year. The early application deadline will be March 10, 2008 and the absolute deadline date will be March 24, 2008.
We are pleased to acknolwdge that one of our Director-at-Large, Pradip Mehta’s, CCE, PSP, EVP, PMP
article on "Effective Implementation of a Project Control System" was selected as one of the two technical articles
in the 50th Anniversary issue of the Cost Engineering Journal published last month.
His paper examines some of the human and sociological elements which contribute to the success or failure of a
Project Control System. It also touches on ways in which project control professionals can maximize their effectiveness
during project execution.
This article is a compilation of seven different presentations that he has given on this particular topic at different
venues. These presentations are acknowledged and listed in the journal.
If you are not a member of the AACEI (Association for Advancement in Cost Engineering International), you may obtain
a copy of his article by visiting www.pubsales@aacei.org for a nominal fee.
Congrats to Pradip!
PMI has announced a new project scheduling credential that will be brought to the
market soon.
PMI will be launching this new credential in the second quarter of 2008. The pilot will be conducted
between May 30th and July 31st 2008. The first 100 candidates to sit for the exam will
receive 50% off the price of the exam and will be entered into one of the four regional drawings for a chance to win $1,000.
You can find a link to the handbook here.
Take time to read up
on the happenings at SEI here.
Russell Archibald co-authored and recently presented a paper at the
PMI latin American Congress.
The paper is titled The Application of SDPM, Critical Chain and Portfolio Project Management Principles
to the Construction of the 670 km Urucu/Manaus (Petrobras) Pipeline.
Congratulations to all who worked with the PMI specialty credential team!
From Harry Stefanou PMI Director, Market and Business Development:
The specialty credential team would like to extend its thanks to the College of Scheduling for all
of your volunteers’ work on the new credential for project scheduling. Without our volunteer subject
matter experts, development of our credentials would not be possible. As a result of the hard work
completed by some of your members, PMI has been able continue the development of the project scheduling credential.
Some of the events your members participated in include:
Scheduling Focus Group: 2 of 10 members (20%)
Item Writers: 13 of 28 writers (46%)
Just over 860 College of Scheduling members contacted for exam specification input
On Friday, 12 October, a general announcement will be going out to PMI stakeholders regarding the development of the project
risk management and project scheduling credentials and their launch in 2008.
Again, PMI would like to acknowledge the contribution of your members and thank them for volunteering and participating
in the development of our high-stakes credential in project scheduling.
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.
SEI UPDATE
There are 175 topics from the table of contents for
the SEI Volume 1, Best Practices and Guidelines
(BPG) for Scheduling. Of those, about 50 are
open and in topic development.
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 ourdiscussion 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.
Congratulations to Murray Woolf! His new book is now available! Be sure to check out the great things
he is doing with ICS at his website.
With all of the exciting things happening with him and all of the questions I receive asking "what ever
happened to Murray" I decided to ask him for an interview and he accepted.
There are currently nine employment opportunities available. Five new posting added April 23rd.You can
read the details on ourPMICOS Job
Listings page.
These listings are kept active for 3 months.
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.
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12th Annual Information Systems SIG (ISSIG) Professional Development Symposium '08
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