As a volunteer based organization the COS is always looking
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.
To learn more about the College take time to read our new
Brochure.
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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.
Congratulations to our new Board members:
Pradip Mehta, President
Hosney Abdelgelil, VP of Global Services
Chris Carson, VP of Scheduling Excellence
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 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.
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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