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 If you were given the opportunity to make a positive difference in your world, wouldn’t you grab it? If you were offered a way to change the future of scheduling for the better, wouldn’t you jump at the challenge? Here is your chance - I hope you’ll agree that you can’t pass it up.
In some ways similar to the accounting crisis in the United States, there are all too many examples of unreliable reporting and a lack of intellectual rigor and discipline in the scheduling arena. Your membership in the PMI College of Scheduling is, therefore, critical to seeing that this changes. The goal of the College of Scheduling is to promote accurate, honest schedules throughout the world in order to reverse the trends mistakenly (and at times intentionally) created by years of abuse and neglect. It is the College’s objective to establish:
 Standards of practice in preparing, executing and maintaining network analysis systems;
Communication and protocol standards for scheduling software makers to ensure the integrity of such systems; and standards for validating the qualifications of “scheduling practitioners” and “scheduling experts.”
It has been said that "it is . . . the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it." As an experienced leader in the industry, you share a responsibility with other leaders to enhance confidence in the integrity of schedules. By sharing project experiences, and providing education and training in scheduling and time management, you and other college members will help to establish a knowledge base on which current and future generations may draw.
As someone involved extensively in the scheduling arena since 1966, I urge you to be a part of this dynamic organization. You will have an opportunity to put your own ideas into practice and potentially change the way scheduling is perceived in every industry in the world.
We have assembled a distinguished Board of Directors to lead this effort including Gordon Davis, Dick Faris, Jim O’Brien, Stuart Ockman and Jon Wickwire; and we are well on our way to completing the chartering process for the College within PMI. Our initial draft of an approach to achieving this vision is enclosed. However, we need your help to make this possible and to carry forward the challenge of professional and ethical scheduling practices. Make your vision part of scheduling reality. Join the College of Scheduling as a charter member today.
Jon Wickwire
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