Participation in a noble cause. Visit to the Red Cross Home for the Disabled

Date: 28 January 2012, Saturday Time: 10am to 1pm Location: Red Cross Home for the Disabled - 8 Lengkok Bahru #04-01 Family Link @ Lengkok Bahru S(159052)

Each of us as Project Managers, may have done well for the year, bringing success to the organization that we serve .... take pride in the contribution that we have made in the development of our profession. But while we enjoy our success, we must not forget our responsibility to the community that we live in. Devoting some of our time and resources particularly to the less fortunate to bring them comfort and joy in this trying times. 

This year, the Singapore Chapter of PMI will be visiting the Red Cross Home for the Disabled at 8 Lengkok Bahru #04-01 Family Link @ Lengkok Bahru S(159052) on Saturday, January 28th 2012 at 10.00 am. We are bringing comfort and joy to them for the coming Chinese New Year with some goodies and host them to a lunch.

We look forward to your participation in this noble cause. Do come with your family as it will be good social education for our children.

Challenge The Boss or Stand Down? (2 PDUs)

A rising-star executive calculates his response to A hypercritical superior.

Tom Green, an aggressive young sales executive at self-service kiosk company D7 Displays, has been promoted to senior marketing specialist by Shannon McDonald, his division VP. Shannon had warned Tom that she was taking a chance with him and that he'd have to learn fast and work well with his new boss, Frank Davis, who wouldn't have chosen Tom for the position. On the job, Tom finds himself at odds with Frank and challenges him openly at a well-attended meeting. Frank begins to formally document deficiencies in Tom's performance, and McDonald falls in line with Frank. With his back against the wall, Tom must carefully consider his next move.

Review present dilemmas faced by leaders in real world and look at solutions offered from experts.

Presenter:

Jeffrey Foo is an entrepreneurial professional with more than 20 years of management, programs/projects and training experience. He is a PMP®, PRINCE2® Practitioner, MSP® Practitioner, ITIL Expert and ISO 20000 Certified Consultant. Some of his recent projects include engagement with senior officials from East Africian countries on aspects of project governance and finance management and with leading global OEM provider of digital storage technology and largest independent supplier of disk drive capital equipment in the area of project management and IT service management. Prior to founding JTD Consultancy, he was with Intel Technology Asia and managed multi-million dollar/multi-year projects and programs around the Asia Pacific region. He holds Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computing with Management and had trained thousands of professionals in PMP® and ITIL among others.

Merry Christmas and Happy 2012 ahead to all our members!

The time is here again for celebration and also to thank all our members for their support throughout the year. 

We will be having our Annual Member's Night on the 17 February 2012. 

Besides dinner, you can also look forward for some entertainment as well as lucky draw prizes for our lucky members. So hurry, reserve your seat now!

Event: SPMI Annual Member's Night 2012

Date: 17 February 2012, Friday

Time: 7pm to 10pm, Registration starts 6:30pm

Location: Novotel Singapore Clarke Quay, Phoenix Grand Ballroom, Level 6

As this event is strictly for PMI Singapore Chapter (SPMI) Members, kindly log-in with your username and password to enable to proceed with the registration.

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Rescue Troubled Project (2 PDUs)

Featured speaker - Mr Nah Wee Yang, Director of Knowledge Method

You just received a voice mail… “Good evening, Project Manager. There is a project, chartered by the Chairman, is in trouble and in danger of total failure. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to rescue the project.”

Any project at any organization with any team can fail. However, projects never go from being well managed, on-budget and on-schedule to outright failure overnight. There is always a transition period during which time the project is ―troubled. It is during this time that a window of opportunity exists in which the project can potentially be rescued, and is likely the last chance to save the project.

In this session, the speaker will highlight various symptoms of “troubled” projects; list the categories of failures; and model the “rescue” process. He will also share his experiences in Project Rescue Team (he call it the Project SWAT Team) in troubled projects.

The speaker will also share his views on the other imperatives in project management, looking beyond the PMBOK Guide: the Project Portfolio Management; Creativity and Innovation for Project Managers.

About the Speaker

Wee Yang has 20 years of project management experience. He is a PMP, Certified IT Project Manager (CITPM), and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Prior to founding Knowledge Method, he was with Reuters Asia and KMPG Consulting, managed multi-million dollar / multi-year projects and programs, including Bank Modernization Programs in Indo-China, funded by the World Bank. In addition, his experience in setting-up and working in “Project SWAT Team” has given him field exposure to various troubled project situations.

Learning from Projects: Conducting a Post-Mortem Analysis (2 PDUs)

The creation of temporary enterprises for project-based work has become an increasingly salient feature of the new economy. These organizations specialize in execution of certain type of projects while leveraging their unique competencies, industry best practices and learning from their past projects. The end of a project offers firms a window of opportunity to learn from the many things that went right and wrong over a project’s duration. While each project journey is unique in its own way, there are often many scenarios where past experience of dealing similar situations comes very handy to handle them more effectively and efficiently in future. 

Often learning from firm’s past projects acts as most important key differentiating factor while positioning their organization as preferred partner/vendor. The purpose of this session is to discuss and understand process of postmortem analysis which has been used very successfully by Microsoft and other software developers for learning from past projects. This Harvard Case Study based session will also provide you an opportunity to apply and share your post project analysis techniques which you are using in your organization to explore projects key learning.

Facilitators:

Jaiveer Singh, PMP, Senior Program Manager with HCL Technologies managing large ICT programs for more than 15 years for global organisations and he has also conducted many project management and productivity enhancement workshops for knowledge workers. He has also lead EPM solution implementation and PMO consulting assignments. He holds MBA in International Business, and has done Leadership Program from Harvard Business School and Quality Auditing program from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a certified Project Management Professional from PMI, USA.

Chand K Vishwakarma, PMP, Senior Manager- Projects & Operations with KIT Digital Inc, managing complex large scale Broadcast System Integration projects. He has more than 8 years of project management experience in various industries. He is a core member of regional PMO at KIT Digital and has conducted multiple project management trainings He holds a Master Degree from National University of Singapore, and a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology. He is a certified Project Management Professional from PMI, USA.

Thank you for your support in our Symposium! Trivias and Questions

With more than 850 delegates, sponsors, exhibitors, chapter leaders, VIPs, organizers and volunteers, who attended this year's symposium our many, many, thanks and deep appreciation for your support in our symposium. A lot of work and heart has been put up by all those involved to make our symposium a success. It would take a long web page just to lists all of them, but you know, and we know, who you are and thank you very much !!

I would also like to apologise to the delegates, if I have not spent so much time with you as I would like to have. We have been very busy directing the symposium for all of you, up to the last closing minutes. Now that the heavy burden of responsibility has been lifted from my shoulder's, I'll personally try to make-up, in our coming events and gatherings. My number below is always open, should you need some advise on PMI Certifications, REPs and maybe just for a simple advice or conversation. Still more to come !

The next symposium committee, the next SPMI Board Members, continuing and new supporters and friends, hope to bring you, a better and grander event for next year's 2012 Symposium.

Now, we would like to wind-up and answer some of the questions and some interesting trivia you might need to know about our concluded symposium event....