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It's raining Project Management conferences in Bangalore
If you are a Project Management professional in Bangalore or anywhere in the Indian sub continent its time – to get out of you cubicles and pause your meetings to block your calendars!
It’s raining PM conferences in Bangalore! – 3 of them this year!
Its a great time for you to get out there and meet your peers from various organizations, share experiences, challenges, share tool expertise and best practices.
All this only indicate the demand for PM practitioners to come together and share. After all Bangalore is the hub of a lot of IT, Space, Construction, Aeronautics among other industries.
PML conference by QAI – May 30 – 31, 2008
This conference by QAI promises 2 days of action packed at Le Meridien with 12 plenary speakers and 18 papers and practices. The highlight of the conference is the Project Management Leadership Award – “Leadership Recognized“. There is a panel discussion on the “Emerging challenges for Indian project managers in global context”. One of the interesting talks is by Tarak Bajaj of Delphi on “Project Management for TATA Nano Electronics cluster”. The conference cover only the IT industry. Conference fee is Rs. 7500. 14 PDUs for participation.
SPM ICON 2008 by QSIT – July 17 – 19, 2008 Batman ipod
QSIT’s conference at Leela Palace is 2 day conference with one earlier day covering tutorials. There are 4 tutorials on the 17th of July on rather familiar PM topics. There are 2 key notes – Lakshmi Narayanan (Chairman, NASSCOM) and
Raj Kalady (PMI). There are 10 key talks and 12 paper presentations. The is also a panel discussion on the topic “Managing Projects in a Global context” (almost identical to the PML panel discussion!!! sign of the times?!). 26 PDUs for 3 days.
PMPC 2008 by PMI Bangalore – September 18 – 20, 2008
The Project Management Practitioner’s conference 2008 (PMPC) – This is one of the most awaited and prestigious PM conference of the year organized by PMI Bangalore at “The Capitol”. The conference has been announced to be held from 18th to 20th of September this year.
Killing Zoe video The conference seeks to bring together Project Management practitioners and the key stakeholders namely – Industry, Academia, Government and Society. The conference seeks to brings Project management learnings from large projects from various industries.
Last year’s conference had – 3 days, 7 keynotes, 28 speakers, 3 panel discussions and 10 industries
. Some of the key speakers of last year included T.R.Anand (Satyam), N.S.Parthasarathy (MindTree), Dr. Prahlada (DRDO), Sqn. Ldr. B.C. Srikanta (ADA), Stéphane Vesval (EADS) amongst others. зоофилия тв
(Disclosure: the blog post author is associated with PMI Bangalore)
More the merrier
The numerous PM conferences only underscore the need for better Program and Project and the huge demand for PM practitioners in the burgeoning IT services industry. And it is interesting to note that vendors like Serena and iPlan are sponsoring more than one event. And don’t be surprised if all of these run full capacity.
The demand for Project management is simply there in abundance to fuel all these conferences!
PMI Bangalore celebrates a year of learning and sharing
PMI Bangalore chapter is celebrating a year of ongoing learning and sharing in Project Management practices amongst practitioners on the 18th of October, 2007. PM Footprints is our fortnightly session wherein practitioners have been meeting to share experiences, challenges and best practices in project management across industries.
We have been meeting….
Every fortnight
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27 talks
18 organizations
Same place and same time
Its been one great year of learning and sharing…
To celebrate this high point of learning, we are having the PM Footprints 1st Anniversary meeting where we are inviting distinguished speakers from leading academic institutions in Bangalore. We are privileged to have the following speak at this occasion.
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Prof. S. Sadagopan, Founder Director IIIT-Bangalore |
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Prof. K B Akhilesh Pale Rider divx Indian Institute of Science. |
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Mr. Shankar Venkatagiri Asst. Professor IIM Bangalore |
If you are in Bangalore on the18th of October and are in the profession of Project Management you should be there. For more details…. check the PMI Bangalore chapter website. You can also contact me at +91 98451 47383.
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Slideshare.net is a good source for Project Management content
SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing presentations on the web. Is a popular service that has been on the internet for a year now. I am a regular user of this site for a variety of content.
I was pleasantly surprised to find some good content on Project Management. Here is a sampling of some interesting stuff I found there…
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I found this one on managing schedule risk interesting…
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And a whole lot more….
- Project Management – State of the Art
- 10 Things Project Managers can do to Improve Cash Flow
- Project Failure modes – Lessons from the field
- Using MS project 2003
- Critical chain Project Management
- Agile Project Management with Scrum
- Lessons from IT and non-IT projects
- Vendor Management Kill Me Later movies
- Distributed Project Delivery model based on RUP
- Project Mgmt. for Technical Communication Professionals
Slideshare is a great way to share you project management experience and also glean some good learning from other practitioners.
