PMI Chapter Collaboration
March 13 , 2013 - Memphis
2009: PMI Award for Component Leadership
2008: PMI Volunteer Leader of the Year
2007: Component of the Year (Chapter Category II) in the World
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Agenda
This presentation will cover:
• Our vision.
• PMI Pune chapter Drives.
• Observations in our geography.
• Challenges / best practices for our chapter.
• Benefits to our members.
• What we are looking for in this chapter to chapter tie up.
• Benefits of this collaboration.
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Our Vision
Nurture for excellence!!
To become PMI’s Asia Pacific center of activity by providing a regional
platform for accumulating, sharing and cultivating project management
knowledge and nurturing expertise & excellence.
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About PMI Pune
Beyond all boundaries!!
Pune Chapter is not limited by geographic boundaries. It has the record of
having the highest no of online attendees. For the On Target 2013 it was
telecast live and a record number of 4500 people from 51 different
countries attended online. Also a part of the larger Team India – which
comprises of all the chapters in India.
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PMI Pune-Deccan India Chapter
• Established in 2003 PMI Pune - Deccan India Chapter is one of the
fastest growing PMI chapters in Asia Region.
• Primary area of operation of the Chapter is Pune city and Deccan
region of Maharashtra state.
• Chapter has a paid membership of over 750 and chapter Yahoo Group
(online community) has a reach of over 10000.
• 2009: PMI Award for Component Leadership to our past President
Girish Kelkar where the chapter has seen good growth.
• 2008: PMI Volunteer Leader of the Year to Shantanu Bhamare
• 2007: Component of the Year (Chapter Category II) in the World for
Chapter of the year award.
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Chapter Drives
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Innovation and Operations Excellence Forum (IOEF)
Project Management Seminars
CXO club
Ambassador program
Gyan Lahiri
Academic track
NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming
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Academic Track
• Overlapping with Academic – several MBA College visits for
guest lectures on “Industry – Academia Gap”, Cyber Security &
Safety, Personality development, communication – public
speaking.
• Pre-Placement mock interviews, Problem solving – creative
Poster making solutions & mind maps.
• Offers Mentorship programs to various MBA college students for
their academic projects.
• Conducted UDAAN for Track 2013 - an inter institute project
competition to encourage MBA students to creatively contribute
to business and social emphatics.
• Assist to bridge Academics-Industry gaps
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Innovations and Operations Excellence
• Forum for Large and Medium scale Enterprises.
• Participation of Senior managers from IT and NON IT
segment.
• Tailoring PM knowledge for specific areas [ Scope, Quality,
Risk, Time & Cost, Procurement ] etc. with several
organizations RBI officers, Indian Railways, specific industry
verticals
• Series of interactive talks for TOC – Theory of Constraints.
Why should PMs learn theory of constraints.
• Monthly meet and seminars on 3rd Saturday.
• Brainstorming sessions during each seminar.
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CXO Club / Ambassador Programs
• CxO club to engage senior executives in different industry
verticals who work with PMs.
• Organize CXO meet for discussion on project/ program/ portfolio
management and discuss challenges faced.
• Suggestions are given by these senior people to PMI on how to
mitigate these challenges.
Ambassador programs:
• Conduct Ambassador Program to promote the PMI activities and
benefits in various organizations.
• Volunteers working as champions in their respective
organization.
• Example - Organized project management month in Cap Gemini
and also conducted agile workshops.
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Gyan Lahiri
• GyanLahari is an initiative through which we are committed to
work towards nurturing and building of Leadership competency
among high school students.
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We believe that leadership and innovation are essential for
effective project management and it is a critical need for
organizations, not only in India, but all over the world. These
qualities are best developed in children before adolescence sets
in and continue to be developed along the way, as identity
formation happens well into adulthood.
• To shape our Nation we need Industry and Nation Ready
Leaders. We have to put in effort for making leadership a way of
life right from early age. Gyan Lahari is one such effort.
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Gyan Lahiri - Highlights
• Students Leadership day 3rd Feb 2012 with attendance of 500
students across 15 schools (Key Note Speaker Padmashri
Award Winner- Anu Aga)
• Bicycle Project (Ran in 4 schools in Pune, to collect unused
bicycles, repair them and send them to needy)
• Vermiculture Project (Ran by kids at Mritunjay Society Kothrud,
Pune to decompose ‘wet waste’)
• CFC bulbs decomposition Project (VikhePatil School,
Lahegaon)
• Students Leadership Day, August 2012 (Harali Village,
participation of 350 students across 5 schools)
• Students Leadership Conference in Feb 2013 in Raigad
covering 4 schools and 300 students.
• GYAN LAHARI EVENTS ARE FREE FOR ALL THE SCHOOLS
and STUDENTS
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NLP / Huna
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) / Huna (secret ) is a tool to
utilize full potential of your brain.
• Discussion on how we need to configure our minds according to
the roles we play.
• Paradigm shift in our behaviors, attitudes and our beliefs.
• Now used widely in corporate world and educational institutions.
• Some of the important techniques used are
 Anchoring
 Chunking
 Mirroring
 Modeling
 Reframing
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Programs
• Chapter conducts Project Management Seminar every 2nd
Saturday. These seminars have become tradition for local
Project Management Professional due to its consistency.
Chapter recently completed 100th Seminar in Jan 2013.
• Ad-hoc seminars whenever there are SMEs visiting Pune
• Special seminars in corporates to cover captive audience.
• Annual OnTarget Event conducted during Jan-Feb every year
across four tracks.
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OnTarget conference
OnTarget is the Chapters Annual event for business leaders,
practicing project managers, senior leaders in government,
professional organizations, academicians and students of schools
and colleges.
Speakers include eminent leaders from Industry, Academia and
professionals. This was telecast live and 4500 online attendees
were there. High-profile audiences of Leaders, Decision makers,
Program Managers and Students from various sectors.
It runs across four tracks
1. Professional Track
2. Gyan Lahari
3. NLP
4. Academics
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Observations in our geography
• Increased focus on Agile – Lot of companies have started using
Agile.
• Growing need for quicker and adaptive solutions to tech problems
is pushing firms to adopt the Agile method
• Lot of start up companies are coming up as India has a lot of
talent. Indian entrepreneurs are well educated and highly skilled.
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Key challenges faced by PMI Pune
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How to get new members
Retention of existing members.
How to have more volunteers for the various iniatives.
How to be involved at the organisation level
Mitigation of these challenges:
• New subscription plans to increase the base.
• Increase awareness of PMI in the corporate world through
ambassadors ( volunteers)
• New Volunteer engagement plans to join as directors ,
managers and ambassadors , contributing the community and
mentoring the students.
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Chapter Members Benefits
• Quarterly newsletter – contains various articles on project
management written by chapter members, international experts.
Theme based articles like agile, cloud computing.
• Members specific event - Professional Development Day
exclusively for members in November.
• Purchasing PMI books – 40 % off.
• Job assistance – partner with placement agency.
• Webinars in partnership with the partners.
• Joint benefits through alliance with other organisations.
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Collaboration between Pune and
Memphis chapters
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Speaker exchange between the two chapters.
Collaboration announcement on the website and display the logo and
the title of the other chapter.
Newsletter exchange between the chapters.
Articles for the newsletter – members allowed to contribute articles to
both the chapters.
Webinar – To make arrangements to include the other chapter in their
webinars.
Technical paper review – invite other chapter members to participate in
technical paper review committee.
Best practices sharing between the chapters – interact with each other
regularly and discuss topics of mutual interest.
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Benefits of Collaboration
• Opportunity to share latest trends /information on project
management across the world.
• Speaker exchange – being a convenient, cost effective way of
gaining insight into what is happening in other regions .
• Members in both chapters get a chance to expand their
horizons, broaden their scope.
• Members can contribute articles to the quarterly newsletter.
• Members attend on target and webinars of sister chapter.
• Sharing of knowledge archives.
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Important links
• Old archives access
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Sovenier/Knowledge%20Articles
• Link of quarterly newsletter.
http://pmipunechapter.org.dnnmax.com/Publications/NewsLetter/ta
bid/132/Default.aspx
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Join us at
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Let’s
Collaborate
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