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Issue No.6, June 2007
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Your
regional point of contact for all PMI needs:
PMI Regional
Service Centre Asia Pacific
73 Bukit Timah Road
#03-01 Rex
House
Singapore
229832
Tel: +65 6330 6733
Fax: +65 6336 2263
The Asia Pacific Service Centre is open Monday through Friday,
9:00 a.m.
– 6:00 p.m., Singapore
time.
PMI
Asia Pacific Web pages
Direct your enquiries to Asia Pacific Service Centre
e-mail: customercare.asiapac@pmi.org
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There
are 33,804 members as of April, representing over 14 percent of total
PMI membership.
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PMI
chapters and PMI Registered Education Providers can help you fulfil
the project management education hours for the Project Management
Professional (PMP®) and Certified Associate in Project
Management (CAPM®) examinations.
The PMI Registered Education Provider Programme (R.E.P.) offers
educational training in project management.
Find
a provider near you.
Locate a chapter near you.
Please contact Asia Pacific Customer Care, if you need
assistance.
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Examination
Paper and
Pencil Examination dates for Project Management Professional (PMP®)
and Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM®)
exams in places where computer-based testing centres are unavailable,
unless otherwise stated.
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Australia
Adelaide, South Australia
Canberra, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Queensland
Sydney,
Australia
Western
Australia
Hong Kong
India
Bangalore,
India
Chennai
Mumbai
North India
Pearl City,
Hyderabad
Pune-Deccan,
India
Trivandrum Kerala
Jakarta,
Indonesia
Tokyo, Japan
Malaysia
New Zealand
Pakistan
Islamabad,
Pakistan
Lahore, Pakistan
Karachi, Pakistan
Manila, Philippines
Singapore
Sri Lanka,
Colombo
Taipei, Taiwan
Bangkok, Thailand
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Event
Highlights
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PMI
Component Updates
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What's
New
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The
Value of Best Practices in Project Management
Harold
Kerzner, PhD, MS, MBA
Projects have
become the new approach in business management. The methodology of
project management involves business processes.
Therefore, says
Harold Kerzner, PhD, MS, MBA, it is crucial to capture best practices
for constant improvements in work efficiencies, estimation accuracies
and waste reduction.
With its
abilities to strengthen the organisation’s reputation and gain
new business, project management is further justified for an
organisation’s survival.
Dr. Kerzner,
the author of the international best-selling textbook Project Management: A
Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling and Controlling,
lists many places to find best practices, such as periodicals, seminars
and graduate-level theses. One of the examples is A Guide to the Project
Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Third
Edition.
What is the
best starting point? Dr. Kerzner believes that you have to seek out and
discover best practices. A good place to begin is with your
company’s definition of success and excellence in project
management — every company and industry may have its own criteria
and definition.
In order to
capture best practices, it is not wise to wait until the end of the
project to review successes and failures before making improvements.
Dr. Kerzner
attributes failures in best practices to the lack of stability, clarity
or understanding of the best practice. Other causes include incorrect
use of best practices, or identification of a best practice that lacks
rigour or is based on erroneous judgment.
Dr. Kerzner
will hold seminars
titled Achieving
Project Management Excellence in Shanghai, Beijing
and Hong Kong in August this year.
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PMI
Component Mentor Programme Strengthens
Presence in Asia Pacific
The PMI
Component Mentor Programme will magnify its presence in Asia Pacific to
meet the needs of the expansive region more effectively and promote
organisational growth. Thorugh the programme, region component mentors
provide guidance, advice and information to component leaders to
enhance component management and leadership development.
Beginning on 1
January 2008, the programme in the Asia Pacific region will realign
from its current two regions to four regions, adding two new mentor
positions in 2008:
The new
regional structure taking effect on 1 January 2008 is:
Region 9 –
Northeast Asia:
Hong Kong, Japan,
Macau, Korea,
Taiwan
Region 10
– Australia/New Zealand
Region 11
– Western Asia:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, Maldives, Nepal,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Region 15 -
South East Asia:
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Malaysia, Philippines,
Singapore, Thailand, Timor, Vietnam
The four
mentors within Asia Pacific will have their specific region/areas to
oversee. However, they may choose to collaborate and support one
another in various ways. PMI Global Operations Centre and Asia Pacific
Regional Service Centre in Singapore will support all
mentors.
Besides
offering additional leadership opportunities, more component mentors in
the field are an advantage to PMI volunteer leaders. The new regional
structure will allow greater flexibility to manage geographic distances
and time zones and greater possibilities for networking, face-to-face
events and collaboration.
Recruitment for
vacant component mentor positions in 2008, including regions 9, 11, and
15, began in April. For more information please refer to PMI Volunteer Opportunities website. Following
validation on minimal requirements, an application package will be sent
to qualified candidates who register on the Volunteer site. All
eligible and motivated volunteer leaders should not miss this opportunity.
For more
information about the Component Mentor Programme, volunteer opportunities or PMI’s
component activities in the Asia Pacific region, please contact Region
9 Mentor Sajith Madapatu, PMP,
Region 10 Mentor Gordon
Bartlett, PMP or PMI Component Mentor Program Coordinator Nancy Berger.
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PMI Hong Kong Chapter Calls for More Volunteerism
PMI Hong Kong
Chapter held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 17 March. More than
100 members saw the election of new committee members.
New President
Raymond Wong, PMP, rallied members to keep up their support to achieve
the “33+Vision”, which aims to expand membership
to 3,000 within three years for three locations in the Pearl River
Delta region.
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(back
row from left) Eddie Lam, PMP, VP Volunteer Development; Kevin Chui,
Advisor, PMP; Alex Sin, PMP, VP Sponsorship; Karen Ip, PMP, VP
Finance; Rossana Ho,PMP, Executive VP External; Rose Chu VP Program;
Colin Chan, PMP, VP Membership; Ken Li, PMP, VP Education; Sindy Yau,
PMP, Secretary
(front
row from left): Clement Yeung, PMP, Advisor; Alex Chan, Advisor;
Raymond Wong, PMP, President; Raymond Cheng, Advisor; Patty Wong,
Immediate Past President
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The new Vice
President of Volunteer Development Eddie Lam, PMP, gave a rousing
presentation on “Leadership Development Through Participation as
Volunteers” and called for more member participation.
PMI believes
that volunteerism adds value to professional development, and Mr. Lam
reinforced the philosophy by introducing the integrated leadership
development programmes PMI offers: Leadership Institute Meetings,
Leadership institute Masters Class and PMI Learn.
Rising
membership numbers is a testimony of the philosophy’s strength.
At the chapter’s inception in June 1997, there were only six
members. Today, PMI Hong Kong Chapter registers more than 1,100
members.
Members find
the advantages of their volunteer participation to be far reaching.
These advantages include the ability to: earn Professional Development
Units (PDUs), enhance their credibility and professional
development, maximise networking opportunities and be part of
establishing worldwide standards.
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The
AGM received warm response from more than 100 participants
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Sindy Yau, PMP
Chapter Secretary
PMI Hong Kong Chapter
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Understanding
Project Risk Management
 Project Risk Management
Author: Compulink Systems Ltd
Publisher: Compulink Systems Ltd
Format: CD-ROM
ISBN: 9788190298001
PMI Member
Price: $75.05
Project Risk
Management
contains the most essential information about risk management. It
offers a clear and effective way for project managers and other senior
executives to gain understanding of and to apply risk management to
their projects.
This CD-ROM is
designed to:
- Empower users to gain a logical and
conceptual understanding of risk
- Define project risk and project risk
management
- Describe the various stages of the risk
management framework as outlined in A Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK
® Guide)—Third Edition
- Understand and apply techniques used in risk
management processes and apply risk management strategies in
actual work situations
Order this product now from the PMI Bookstore.
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PMI Asia Pacific
Service Centre Welcomes New Staff
Dennis
Hapatinga, Tarnbir Kaur and Rachel Hee are the newest additions to the
regional community of PMI staff.
Integrated
Services Specialist Dennis Hapatinga will work with a team of language
experts in membership processing and fulfilment, taking charge of
operations and professional development.
Mr. Hapatinga
has a bachelor's degree in business administration, having majored in
marketing management from the De La Salle University
in Dasmariñas, Philippines.
He also has seven years of experience in marketing, strategic account
management and events at local and regional levels for various
non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
Tarnbir Kaur joins PMI as community relations
liaison. She will work closely with the chapters to build and enhance
the component network regionally and will support component activities
and development.
Ms. Kaur holds
an MBA in marketing from the Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies
in Pune, India
and a master's in economics from Pune
University from India.
She has more than five years of experience in corporate and non-profit
management and has worked with a multitude of organisations within Singapore.
Rachel Hee supports Registered
Education Providers (R.E.P.s) activities at the PMI Asia Pacific
Service Centre. She handes R.E.P. enquiries, conducts R.E.P.
presentations, facilitates quality reviews of applications and
processes completed applications.
Ms. Hee has
more than seven years of experience working with a myriad of cultures
and social backgrounds. She graduated from the University of Melbourne
with double majors in psychology and criminology.
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PMI Research Conference 2008:
Call for Papers and Student Posters is Now Open.
The future of
project management is now! Take part in shaping the profession –
submit your research paper or student poster for the fifth biennial PMI
Research Conference 2008.
This is a
unique opportunity to present your research findings to an elite group
of as many as 400 high level practitioners, academics and researchers.
Complete submission guidelines are now available. Call for
papers and student posters closes 1 November, 2007. For more
information please contact PMI Research Coordinator Eva Goldman.
PMI Research
Request for Proposals is Now Open.
The PMI
Research Department is holding an open Request for Proposals (RFP) to
enrich, stimulate and support cutting-edge research into specifically
chosen topics. PMI will fund seven projects for this RFP. Interested
academics, researchers and senior project managers are invited to
submit their proposals during the open period.
Research Topics and RFP Schedule are now available. For more
information please contact PMI Research Coordinator Jean Marie Martin.
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is an official publication of PMI and the PMI Asia Pacific Service
Centre.
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