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ISSUE 9 September 2015 VOLUME 5

PMI Houston’s Scopeathon: Ready for Reading Volunteering

PMI Houston’s first-ever scopeathon is a 4 hour event October 18, where 150 PMI Houston members will

donate their time and expertise to help 50 area nonprofits working on literacy.

To learn more and register to participate, visit http://www.abillionpluschange.org/events/ready-reading-project-

management-day-service.

During this event sponsored by HP, project managers working in teams will provide speed consulting to nonprofit

leaders, with the end result being a well-defined scope of work and project plan that nonprofits can then use to address

specific challenges.

Project managers cut across industries but are less common in the nonprofit world, often due to a lack of resources.

With each volunteer contributing 4 hours in October to giving back to these nonprofits, we are looking at 600 hours of

project management time contributed to nonprofits working on literacy.

Consider signing up today to help a good cause:

http://web.charityengine.net/Default.aspx?tsid=2920

Frontline myPMIH news

FRONTLINE: PMI HOUSTON’S SCOPEATHON: READY FOR

READING VOLUNTEERING

COMING IN SEPTEMBER: MEETING SCHEDULE.…...2, 3 TRAINING & PROGRAMS...4 MEETINGS…………....….5 - 8

PMI HOUSTON CHAPTER ELECTIONS .10 PMIH EDUCATION FOUNDATION AWARDS

SCHOLARSHIPS...…….……………….11 PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOASTMASTERS………………..……..12 CLASSIFIEDS…………………….…....13 SPONSOR COMMUNICATION…............14, 15

SPONSORS…....................................16

PUZZLE…..........................................17

MESSAGE CENTER: THOUGHT LEADERSHIP IN PROJECT

MANAGEMENT...……………….9 THE PMP® EXAM IS CHANGING SOON

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Visit PMI Houston Meetings for the ‘latest’ meeting details

PMI® Houston Meetings - Venues and Standard Times

Venue Time Description

North Venue Peli Peli

110 Vintage Park Blvd (back of Vintage complex) - Private

Room Houston, TX 77070

Events

Monthly on second Tuesday Pre-dinner meeting 5:30 to 6:30 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. Pre-dinner meeting is free to attend.

Monthly on second Tuesday Dinner meeting 6:30 to 8:00 PM

Dinner Meeting with guest speaker. Cost: $25 for members and $30 for non-members. Walk-ins are an additional $10.

Galleria Area HESS Club

5430 Westheimer Road Houston, TX 77056

http://www.hessclub.com

Monthly on second Wednesday Pre-dinner meeting 5:30 to 6:30 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. Pre-dinner meeting is free to attend.

Monthly on second Wednesday Dinner meeting 6:30 to 8:00 PM

Dinner Meeting with guest speaker. Cost: $25 for members and $30 for non-members. Walk-ins are an additional $10.

Southwest Schlumberger

Sugar Land Campus 210 Schlumberger Drive

Monthly on third Wednesday Time: 5:30 to 6:30 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. This meeting is free to attend.

The Woodlands Sam Houston State University

Center 3380 College Park Drive, 4th

Floor The Woodlands, TX 77384

Monthly on third Tuesday Time: 6:00 to 7:00 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. This meeting is free to attend. *Newest PMI Houston meeting venue.

Downtown CenterPoint Energy Plaza

1111 Louisiana Street Houston, TX 77002

Monthly on last Thursday Time: 5:30 to 6:30 PM

Presentation with guest speaker. This meeting is free to attend.

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For additional details and registration information visit PMI Houston Events

PMI® Houston Toastmaster Club Meetings Times and Locations

Toastmaster Club Name Location Time

Houston Galleria Project Management Toastmasters

Houston Baptist University

Atwood 2 Building, Room 215

7502 Fondren Rd. Houston, TX 77074

First, Third, and Fifth Wednesday

6:30 to 8:00PM

North Houston Project Management Toastmasters

Denny's Restaurant 12697 N Gessner Dr

Houston, Texas, 77064

First, Third, and Fifth Tuesday 6:15 to 8:00PM

Southwest Project Management Toastmasters

210 Schlumberger Drive Sugarland,

Texas 77478

Second and Fourth Wednesday

6:30 to 8:00PM

Woodlands PM Toastmasters

Sam Houston State University Center

3380 College Park Drive, 4th Floor

The Woodlands, TX 77384

2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month. 6:15pm to 8:00pm

West - Agile SYSCO

1390 Enclave Parkway Building 1390, Houston, TX 77077-20255

Joint meeting with Agile Leadership Network (ALN) Houston Chapter, formerly APLN.

Quarterly on third Thursday Time: 6:00 to 8:00 PM

Presentation with guest speaker This meeting is free to attend. For latest schedule and registration please visit ALN Houston at www.aplnhouston.org ALN meets monthly. Meetings in March, June, September, and December are promoted jointly by PMIH and ALN.

Brazos Valley College Station, TX

Every other month.

Presentation with guest speaker. This meeting is free to attend.

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Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities

Date Class Location Cost Register

September 9, 2015

8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Prep Course - September

Tri Tech Surveying Company

10401 Westoffice Drive Houston, TX 77042

Houston Chapter Member

Earlybird: $ 1025.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1125.00

Non-Member

Earlybird: $ 1225.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1325.00

Register

September 28, 2015

8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

PMP & CAPM Prep Course - September

Tri Tech Surveying Company

10401 Westoffice Drive Houston, TX 77042

Houston Chapter Member

Earlybird: $ 1400.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1500.00

Non-Member

Earlybird: $ 1600.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1700.00

Register

October 05, 2015

8:30 AM to 4:30 PM

Project Management Fundamentals –

October

Tri Tech Surveying Company

10401 Westoffice Drive Houston, TX 77042

Houston Chapter Member

Earlybird: $ 950.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1050.00

Non-Member

Earlybird: $ 1150.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1250.00

Register

October 10, 2015

8:30 AM to 4:00 PM

PMP & CAPM Prep Course - October

Fluor Enterprises

1 Fluor Daniel Dr Sugar Land, TX 77478

Houston Chapter Member

Earlybird: $ 1400.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1500.00

Non-Member

Earlybird: $ 1600.00 (ends two weeks before the course)

Regular: $ 1700.00

Register

To see the full list of course offerings please visit the Events tab - http://www.pmihouston.org/meetinginfo.php

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North and Galleria Dinner Meeting

Meeting Agenda 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm Pre-dinner Speaker Presentation 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm Networking, Dinner Opens, and Chapter Announcements 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Dinner Speaker Presentation

Dinner Presentation:

Construction Project Management Versus PMBOK

I passed the PMP in Summer 2005. Today, I own a multi-million dollar construction project management consulting firm. This presentation will explain how I took a background in Chemical Engineering and business management, coupled it with the PMBOK best practices, and am currently managing more than $700M USD in active construction projects in Texas alone.

Dinner Meeting Speaker:

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Speaker: Troi Taylor

Troi is President and a founding member at TCM. With more than 15-years of progressive executive project management experience on an international platform, Troi is responsible for project oversight and client engagement.

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Southwest Meeting

Location: Schlumberger Sugar Land Campus Forum Cafe 210 Schlumberger Drive From 5:30-6:30 pm

Presentation: Managing Conflict and Communication in the Workplace This session will discuss how to effectively resolve conflicts in the workplace, potential reasons for conflicts and escalations as well as insight on how to become a better and more well-rounded employee while improving your chances for promotional opportunities.

Speaker:

Southwest Meeting - Register Now

Speaker: Juanita Hines

A graduate of North Carolina's esteemed Appalachian State University, Ms. Hines obtained her Bachelors of Science in Communications with a concentration in Public Relations. She has always been dedicated to helping people and encouraging individual and professional empowerment. With more than ten years of training and development experience, she has been responsible for instructing people on all levels of the employment spectrum within vast industries and professions. She has also had the privilege of providing recruiting support and placing individuals within some of the largest and most reputable Fortune 500, non-profit and independent companies across vast professional sectors. A few of the clients that she has directly supported include: BearingPoint, Booz/Allen/Hamilton, Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), KPMG, among other internationally recognized Global Oil & Gas corporations and travel companies. Ms. Hines has taken the breadth of knowledge and experience that she has gleaned from the corporate sector and she provides an array of trainings that spans from helping students to prepare for post-secondary education and employee development seminars to training employees and small business owners on effective techniques to build their careers and businesses. She has spoken with a vast array of audiences, within various geographic locations extending from Texas to New York with people from diverse backgrounds, which has transcended socio-economic classes, races, experience levels and ages. As a speaker, she has provided member-empowerment workshops for a variety of educational institutions, non-profit and professional development organizations including, but not limited to: University of Houston College of Bauer, Houston Area Urban Leagues Young Professionals and Houston Business Development Inc. Topics selection has ranged from “Elevating Your Career to the Next Level,” “Using LinkedIn as an Active or Passive Job Seeker” and “Networking Your Way to Success.” She provides organizationally-customized employee development workshops that have included topics such as “Effectively Resolving Conflict in the Workplace,” “Dressing for Success” and “Enhancing Employees Emotional Intelligence” that have helped to heighten employee performance, development and increase employee retention.

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Brazos Valley Meeting

Location: Improving Enterprises 1700 Research Parkway #260 College Station, TX 77845

Presentation: Necessary Bridges: Public Speaking and Storytelling for Project Managers and Engineers In this talk Rashid will: 1. Evangelize public speaking and storytelling (PS&ST) 2. Persuade the audience to upgrade their commitment to PS&ST expertise. 3. Argue that PS&ST expertise foreshadows communication and leadership prowess. 4. Discuss glossophobia (fear of public speaking) its origins and how to manage it. He will also debunk some myths associated with it. 5. Propose that PS&ST is a “connection” enabler The world of project management and engineering is too disassociated from the world of PS&ST. Having always seen himself as an ambassador for his storied and challenging professions, Rashid N. Kapadia has made it a life mission to bridge these two estranged worlds. President Eisenhower observed Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Rashid inadvertently discovered that PS&ST expertise is part of the neurobiological code powering this essential leadership art.

Speaker:

Brazos Valley Meeting - Register Now

Speaker: Rashid N. Kapadia

Rashid N. Kapadia, a marine engineer and project manager for decades, discovered the transformational power of public speaking, storytelling and oratory after joining a Project Management Institute (Houston) sponsored Toastmasters club, He also discovered, to his surprise and dismay, that too many project managers, I.T. professionals, engineers and other “technical experts” seriously underappreciate—even shun—these transformative skills.

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Woodlands Meeting

Location: The Sam Houston State University Woodlands Center 3380 College Park Drive, 4th Floor The Woodlands, TX 77384

Presentation: The Delegation Dilemma Are you driving home from work way too late . . . once again?

• Have you even gotten to what’s really important? • Are you constantly watching over your employees, making decisions for them and putting out fires? • Have you delegated things, but they never seem to get done • right? Do you spend more time checking than it takes to do it yourself?

Speaker:

Woodlands Meeting - Register Now

Speaker: Kim Sawyer

Kim Sawyer has over twenty years of diverse experience, with expertise in the area of leadership, professional and business effectiveness and entrepreneurship. He coaches and facilitates key business people and teams to create greater wealth for their organizations and themselves. Kim accomplishes this primarily by means of one-on-one coaching and his Success-Group™ team coaching program. In addition, He facilitates meetings, business retreats and special events and provides specialty training in coaching and leadership skills. Kim holds a BBA in Entrepreneurship from the University of Houston and an MS in Organizational Development and Change Management from the University of Texas. He has been published and interviewed in the Houston Chronicle and other news publications, appeared on CNN Business Radio and speaks frequently to professional and industry organizations across the country. A representative sample of Kim’s clients include: Continental Airlines; JP Morgan Chase Bank; British Broadcasting Corporation; IBM; Chevron-Texaco; Winstead, Sechrest and Minick Law Firm; Rice University’s Jones School of Business; The City of Lake Jackson, Texas; The Council on Alcohol and Drugs – Houston; and numerous regional entrepreneurs.

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Thought Leadership in Project Management

This month’s article elaborates on the study carried out by the authors Thomas Gillier, Sophie Hooge and Gérald Piat

about Framing value management for creative projects: An expansive perspective. The authors propose a Value Management

(VM) framework focused on the evaluation and management of creative projects that are based on innovative fields of knowledge

(technologies, creating new products categories; markets, conceiving new ones; business models, transforming industrial

structures), which value is not known by the time the project starts, but it is formulated through the project. The literature have

exposed that projects that have high level of innovativeness and consequently, high level of uncertainty, need management

principles that differ significantly from those used for managing routine projects. The study explores what is the value to be managed

in creative projects, how is this value managed and for whom it is managed.

The authors carried out a collaborative management research at Renault and the creative project that served as a basis

for the study was the “Low Carbon Emission Mobility” (LCEM), intended to develop new businesses for the next generation of

electric vehicles. The single case was investigated through direct observation. Then, multiple data collection methods and

triangulation techniques were applied to formulate the framework. A first part of the creative project involved the identification of

strategic knowledge areas and their availability for the firm (available, on-going learning and missing knowledge). The developed

analytical framework is based on the Concept-Knowledge theory of innovative design reasoning (Gillier et al., 2010; Hatchuel and

Weil, 2009).

In first place, the authors suggest that the value to be managed can be found through the investigation of the common

unknown, founding the field that motivates all members individual’ learning. This will be performed by learning missing knowledge

(through identification of knowledge gaps), imagining new concepts (to impulse the investigation of missing knowledge) and building

new evaluation criteria (identifying individual learning interests and preferences). In second place, regarding the way that value is

managed in creative projects, the authors propose the design of value comparing the distance (conceptual gap) between the

dominant designs and associated rules to break and later, explore new design paths and monitor that distance between the

innovation field and the dominant design. In third place, to identify for whom the value is managed, the authors propose the

identification and involvement of potential beneficiaries, including internal R&D stakeholders and other valuable stakeholders. Also

in this respect, the authors suggest the building of new ecosystems, through the identification of potential beneficiaries of the new

design paths and the commitment of internal decision makers on a disruptive strategy of learning.

In conclusion, the authors’ analysis showed that VM in creative projects requires a completely different framework

compared to regular projects. The evaluation of creative projects is not possible through the measuring of financial results and

adherence to cost/quality norms and so, it requires new indicators of the innovativeness (e.g. number of new design rules). Also,

the way to manage value during the project life cycle differs in the sense that in regular projects, the involved people monitor and

adjust their activities to meet the final goal. In creative projects, the expected final state is unknown, and then the individuals do

not adjust their activities to the final state, but to the initial state to be changed. Taking this into account, the authors developed the

framework for VM in creative projects, through the identification of what is the value to be managed, how is this value going to be

managed and for whom it will be managed.

Featured Column by Carmen Pascente, PMP carmenpascente@gmail.com

Reference: Gillier, T., Hooge, S., Piat, G. (2015). Framing value management for creative projects: An expansive perspective. International Journal of Project Management, 33, 947-960.

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The PMP® Exam is Changing Soon

The PMP® Exam is Changing Soon ~ What You Need to Know By now, you've probably already heard that the PMP® exam is changing on November 1, 2015. 2015 PMP Exam Changes The Project Management Institute has created a webinar to explain: • Why the PMP exam is changing • What's been updated and why • How these changes impact the PMP exam content • The difference between an RDS update and a PMBOK® Guide update Be sure to watch the webinar to learn about these upcoming changes.

Watch the PMP Exam Change Webinar

PMI Houston Chapter Elections

PMI Houston members, the chapter elections have started. An email from nominations@pmihouston.org title Election

Open!! – PMI Houston Chapter – 2016 Board of Directors Election and Bylaws Ratification contains the voting

instructions.

You are voting on the updated Bylaws and the 2016 open board positions.

You have until September 18 to vote.

Thank you

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PMIH Education Foundation Awards Scholarships

PMI Houston Education Foundation Awards $40,000 in Scholarships

The Project Management Institute (PMI) Houston Education Foundation has awarded $2000 scholarships to 20 Houston-area undergraduate and graduate students in fields emphasizing the importance of project management. These generous scholarships support students and are also one of the many ways that the organization fosters excellence in the project management profession. The application process was competitive and PMIHEF Academic Outreach Director, David Thomas, spoke enthusiastically about the program. “This is the first year our scholarship program will be run by the PMI Houston Educational Foundation and the second year that PMI Houston has a great opportunity to give back to the local Project Management community. We first awarded $40,000 to celebrate PMI Houston's 40 years of service to the community in 2014. This year brings another $40,000 in scholarships to further the education of the next generation of Project Managers.” SHSU Associate Professor of Management, Dr. Pamela Zelbst, expressed her gratitude for the PMI Houston Education Foundation’s support. “In 2014 and 2015, a total of 32 scholarships have been or will be awarded to Sam Houston State University students in the College of Business Administration. We thank PMI Houston for their generous support of our students.” Scholarship recipient and Sam Houston State University (SHSU) student David VanHorn explained that in addition to working full time as a Project Manager, he is a full-time student and will soon earn a M.S. in Project Management. “The scholarship is not just a financial benefit - it is a great opportunity that really means something to me.” After a few more years of work experience, VanHorn plans to return to school for a Ph.D. in Operations Management and hopes to use his project management skills to give back to the community. Amanda Jezierski is also a current student at SHSU with plans to graduate with an MBA in December 2015. The aspect of project management that Jezierski enjoys most is turning needs into qualitative and quantifiable results. “I am very grateful to use the scholarship from the PMI Houston Education Foundation to help pay for my last semester's tuition at SHSU. I look forward to learning more about project management as a discipline and hope to use the skills towards a project management career in the future.” This year’s scholarships will be awarded through the recently established PMI Houston Educational Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For more information about the PMI Houston Education Foundation, please visit www.pmihef.org. Congratulations to the 2015 Scholarship Recipients! Sam Houston State University Amanda Jezierski Austin Somers Cameron Dennington Christian Darthard Crystal Currie David VanHorn Debbie Nichols Hermella Dejene Kady Woods Kayanne Warzon Maria Lopez Martez Jones Nataliya Povarenkina Subash Maharjan

University of Houston Bolaji Ajisegiri Burak Cankaya Mohit Borde Soma Grover Sparsh Varma Vishal Gulati

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Project Management Toastmasters Clubs

THE NEW WOODLANDS PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOASTMASTERS CLUB STARTED IN MAY

The PMI-Houston Board of Directors has approved the sponsorship and funding for a new Project Management Toastmasters club that will meet in the Woodlands. The Woodlands Project Management Toastmasters club’s meetings will align with the Woodland’s monthly PMI-H venue. The club will begin having meetings in May 2015 and will meet twice monthly on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday evenings of each month, starting at 6:15pm for networking and 6:30pm meeting start time. Meeting location is tentatively planned to be in the same meeting room where the monthly PMI meetings are held - Sam Houston State University – Woodlands campus. Project Management Toastmasters clubs are open to all, but members are predominately professional project managers. The clubs welcome people from all backgrounds and professions. Houston Area Project Management Toastmasters Clubs are sponsored by PMI Houston and aligned with the goals of PMI International. Certified PMPs receive Professional Development Units (PDU’s) for participation. As a member of a Project Management Toastmasters club, you can learn to:

Excel at job interviews

Give powerful business presentations

Effectively teach classes or training sessions

Lead successful meetings or seminars

Present persuasive arguments, summations or brainstorming

Southwest Houston Project Management Toastmasters

Schlumberger Sugar Land Campus

The Forum

210 Schlumberger Dr Sugar Land, TX 77478

2nd & 4th Wednesdays

6:15pm – Networking 6:30pm – Meeting Starts

North Houston Project Management Toastmasters Denny’s Restaurant 12697 Gessner Rd Houston, TX 77064 South of FM 1960 off FM249 1st, 3rd & 5th Tuesdays 6:00pm – Networking 6:30pm – Meeting Starts

Houston Galleria Project Management Toastmasters Houston Baptist University Atwood 2 Bldg, Rm 202 7502 Fondren Rd Houston, TX 77074 1st, 3rd & 5th Wednesdays 6:00pm – Networking 6:30pm – Meeting Starts

Visit a meeting to discover the benefits of membership!

Woodlands Project Management Toastmasters

Sam Houston State University Center

3380 College Park Drive, 4th Floor The Woodlands, TX 77384

2nd & 4th Tuesday

6:15pm – 8:00pm

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Classifieds

Northeast Lakeview College Project Facilitator Job Posting Aug. 13, 2015 Director of Project Management - Power Distribution ABB (www.abb.com) Job Posting Aug. 4, 2015

Project Manager DIGISONICS INC Job Posting Jul. 31, 2015

Project Manager, Bond IT Projects FORT BEND ISD Job Posting Jul. 30, 2015

Organizational Change Management Specialist I Service Corporation International (SCI) Job Posting Jul. 27, 2015

Project Management Professional Operational Sustainability LLC Job Posting Jul. 3, 2015

Visit http://www.pmihouston.org/classifieds.php for all job listings. If you have a job opening that you would like to promote through the PMI Houston Chapter, please email the following information to director.comm@pmihouston.org.

Title

Company

Ad Expiration Date

Detailed Job Description

Your ad will be posted on the PMI Houston Chapter website and featured in weekly and monthly newsletter communications.

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Sponsor Communications

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