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December 2001 ISSIG Bits Email

Greetings PMI-ISSIG Members!

ISSIG Rolls out new website services!

As you may know, PMI ISSIG has been working for sometime now on improving the services offered to our membership online.  We’ve made great strides recently with the rollout of our new “Members Only” section of the site.  Herein, you will find volunteer opportunities, resume posting services, a knowledge repository and much more.  Simply login by using your own PMI member number as your username and the initial password of ****** and the database will be checked to confirm you’re a member.  Once authorized, you will be able to set your password yourself.  It’s that easy.  Get out there and enjoy!

Our apologies…

The PMI ISSIG Board would like to apologize if you suffered from the receipt of any unwanted email(s) automatically generated by our new list server software on or around November 19, 2001.  In an effort to upgrade our ISP services and our website offerings, we had to move our list server to a new server and utilized new software which inadvertently triggered unwanted email messages.  We’ve corrected this by installing the same software we’ve used successfully for the past 2 years.

If you don't want to be on the ISSIG mailing list, please send an email to mailto:imailsrv@pmi-issig.org with a blank subject and the body should contain "Unsubscribe ISSIG-Members".  If you already unsubscribed, please do so again as the old list server was not functioning properly.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

We strive to limit our emails to our membership to once per month so as to not take advantage to our most popular means of communication—email.  Please let us know if you have any questions: info@pmi-issig.org or webmaster@pmi-issig.org.

Mark your calendars for PDS’02!

Adventures In

Project Management

Come and Join Us

July 28 - 30, 2002 in Orlando, Florida

Visit www.pmi-issig.org for more information

New PhD Candidate Survey sponsored by PMI ISSIG:

Introducing Ralf Mueller, our latest PhD candidate in a very successful series of surveys hosted by PMI ISSIG to further the academic study of Project Management.  Do your part by clicking one of the links that best applies to where you work below:

Firms selling IT projects click here

Firms buying IT projects click here

PS: This part-time doctoral research study is conducted together with a UK University. The researcher is employed by NCR Corporation. However, no names, e-mail addresses or phone numbers of individuals or organizations will be provided to NCR or any other organization.

PMI Europe 2002

Call for Papers

Deadline for Abstracts: December 31, 2001

Members can now submit abstracts for PMI Europe 2002, 19 - 20 June, Noga Hilton, Cannes live on the websitehttp://www.pmieurope2002.com

Abstract submission closes 31st December 2001.  We are also pleased to announce that Bertrand Piccard - the first person to circumnavigate the globe non-stop in a hot air balloon and recently awarded France's highest decoration the 'Legion d'Honneur'  - will be our Keynote Speaker at the event. Join us as a Delegate - discounted delegate rates are available for registrations before 31st December 2001. To register visit http://www.pmieurope2002.com

12^th International Conference on Software Quality - October 28-30, 2002 – Preliminary Call for Papers and Workshops

The 12^th International Conference on Software Quality will be held October 28-30, 2002 in Ottawa, Canada.  The conference is presented by the ASQ Software Division and hosted by the ASQ Ottawa Valley Section 0407.  Visit http://www.asq-software.org or http://www.icsq.org for more information on submitting papers, conducting workshops, volunteering, exhibits and sponsorship. 

News from Local PMI-ISSIG Affiliates

The Local PMI-ISSIG Initiative is a new program designed to provide organized support to local PMI-ISSIG activities in conjunction with local Chapters.

PMI-ISSIG encourages all PMI Chapters to consider taking advantage of the resources and support offered through this program. To review our online introduction packet, please go to http://205.219.197.58

You can also contact the PMI-ISSIG Membership Service Center for information at 724-778-3425, toll-free, US and Canada, at 1-877-667-8707 or e-mail at simmonsg@amerinetcentral.org

Washington, DC Chapter

The Washington, D.C. Chapter now has a Local PMI-ISSIG Affiliate.  During the recent Chapter meeting, the formation of the affiliate was announced by the Chapter President, CJ Walker and the Local PMI-ISSIG Representative, Rao Tilak. The announcement was received enthusiastically and over 20 Chapter members expressed strong interest in joining the Local PMI-ISSIG Affiliate. A planning and kickoff meeting for the Local Affiliate is being planned for January 2002.  For further information, please contact Rao Tilak by phone at 703-456-5019 or by email at rao.tilak@eds.com.

ISLIG-RIO Holds its First Meeting

On November 22 an attendance of 80 IS Professionals made ISLIG-Rio’s first meeting a success.  Host Claudio Santos, PMP, impressed the audience with “Project Office – From Concept to Practice – The CAIXA Experience; ISLIG’s Rio ISSIG liaison Mauricio Aguiar, CFPS presented “southernSCOPE: The Australian Project Management Solution”; and finally Walther Krause, PMP, PMI-Rio’s Vice President of Communications, brought together the SW-CMM and the PMBOK in his high acclaimed presentation, “Maturity in Systems Development Project Management.” Photographs and the presentations in Portuguese may be downloaded from ISLIG-Rio’s web site at www.bfpug.com.br/islig-rio.

Calendar Bits

PMI Europe 2002

Call for Papers

Deadline for Abstracts: December 31, 2001

A Call for Papers has been announced for the PMI Project Management Festival to be held June 19-20, 2002 at the Noga Hilton, Cannes France. The event is organized by the PMI France-Sud Chapter.

The technical program includes the following tracks:

·         Knowledge Management

·         Value Management

·         Best Practice

·         Tools and Techniques for Project Management

·         New Ideas, Emerging Techniques and Research Topics

·         Programme Management

·         Enterprise Project Management

·         Soft Skills for Project Management

·         Risk Management

Abstracts can be submitted by completing the online registration form at www.pmieurope2002.com The deadline for abstracts is December 31, 2001. Authors will be notified of acceptance by January 31, 2002. Full papers will be required no later than March 31, 2002.

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