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Dear Colleagues, Let me take this opportunity to wish you all a safe and healthy life. It is my pleasure and privilege to share with you the new and refreshing SPANDANA , our own newsletter. We, as a Chapter have completed 19 years and during these years of our journey, we have achieved quite a few milestones. We are thankful to our seniors, both volunteers and the leaders who have steered this organization for the last 19 years.
There has been an urge from the members of PMIPCC to make this chapter more vibrant, more responsive and relevant for them and their professional career. Hence it was decided to restart one of our flagships – SPANDANA . We desire that the new Spandana will prove to be a platform where all members can participate and share their project experiences, their impression of contemporary books, their views on work-life balance and so on. Be it a tech article, a project case -study, a humorous sketch, or a moving ode – they all count. We certainly do not wish Spandana to be a one-way channel or chapter mouthpiece. We are confident that it would serve the desired purpose and we look forward to your contribution and suggestions to take this initiative to the next level. Lastly, the COVID-19 virus has caused immense damage to business, commerce and industrial production. It has shaken the way we work and live and restricted all of us to the four walls. As agonizing and distressing as this isolation is, it is our only option to remain healthy and virus-free. I urge all of you to stay safe and strong.
Happy Reading.
B Madhav Reddy
EDITORIAL BOARD
Layouts, Design & Release: Jonathan Justus (Jo), Anusaila
Crosswords, Puzzles & PM in everyday life: Ahmed Sheriff, Phaneendra Vinnakota Roshan
PMIPCC Updates: Suma Pattar, Roshan, Deepti Mishra
Interview(s): Sita M Durvasula, Gokul Kolipaka
Cartoons & Drawings: Gokul Kolipaka, Naga Saujanya Yelisetty, Prashanth Kumar Sreram
Advisory Articles collection Reviewers
B Madhav Reddy Jonathan Justus (Jo) Sita M Durvasula Sita M Durvasula Vithal Peraka Sunanda Gundavajhala Suma Pattar Devi Sri Dommeti Phaneendra Vinnakota Ahmed Sheriff
President’s Message
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Reflections 2019
PMNC ‘19- The chapter hosted the PM
National Conference for the 3rd time since
2009, which brings in members and
attendees from across the country. The
unique format of the program was well
appreciated by the attendees. Sessions on
Start-ups, Digital Transformation, Infrastructure and TED
talks were the highlight of the conference. This event was
well appreciated by the Honorable Vice-President of India –
Shri Venkaiah Naidu as well. Teamwork of PMI India, 40+
dedicated volunteers, inter chapter col-
laboration on promotions and registra-
tions brought out the spirit of the National
Conference.
Incidentally, the year 2019 marked golden
jubilee of the existence of PMI as well, the
event well celebrated to conclude the
PMNC’19.
Project
Management
book in
Braille
PMIEF & SLCB - As a part of the Chapter
student leadership advocacy and PMIEF
activities, the team, consisting of 15+
volunteers conducted workshops with students
on Communication skills, Exam preparation,
Leadership, Storytelling.
Our Chapter covered 36 schools, contributed
around 100 hours, and impacted a total of 2491
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Reflections 2019
Community advancement / Nation Building activities - The National Institute of Rural
Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRD & PR), an
autonomous organisation under the Union Ministry
of Rural Development manages various projects
related to rural development. NIRD and PMI India
collaborated for creating templates and
projectizing the best practices of Project
Management in the areas related to rural
development and Panchayat raj. A team of
enthusiastic PMI members went on a field trip to
model villages, Ralegan Siddhi & Hiware Bazar and
met Shri Anna Hazare and Shri Popat Rao Pawar.
Academy - The academy wing has been busy
with conducting around 21 workshops, covering
around 600+ trainees which includes 350+ PMP
aspirants, 200+ CAPM aspirants and other PM
advocacy programs.
Corporate Alliances - In addition to Deloitte, we have forged relationships with new organizations
such as CtrlS, Cotiviti, GVK Bio, BHEL, Smartdrive, NPC/STPI among others in the advocacy of PMP
certification preparation workshops.
Regional language translation of PMI Code of Ethics and professional Conduct - PMIPCC Ethics passionate volunteer team, comprising of , Avani B, Ravi Shankar, Vish-nu V, Phalguna Ramaraju, Bhaskar Reddy G, Sunanda G and BC Rao un-der the direction of Dr.Deepa Bhide has successfully completed the translation of the following Ethical documents from English to Telu-gu.
1. Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
2. Ethics Value Card
3. Ethical Decision-Making Framework (EDMF) - For More details : https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/ethics/pmi-code-of-ethics.pdf?
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Women in Project Management
omen have always played an integral role in the way the world has moved forward. Be it, at
home or corporate, the dedication and the efforts of women have been commendable.
Women have shown great interest in helping the community to grow as PMs. The books, presentations,
papers, etc. by them that are coming forth are helping thousands of aspirants to clear PMP exams.
There are many women globally leading initiatives to shine a spotlight on women, including one of the
largest initiatives launched on Twitter in 2017 by Dr Kirstin Ferguson called #CelebratingWomen, which
resulted in a book in 2018 called Woman Kind.
Cartwright & Gales (1995) studies found that “women have significantly more of a team management
style than men, characterized by a high regard for people, and high regard for task. They m a y a l s o
h a v e a m o r e h e i g h t e n e d s e n s e o f awareness and greater sense of cultural incongruence and
gender exclusion.
Empathy/Compassion – It can be argued that women are more sensitive in caring and showing
concern for their staff than men. They can be seen as more capable in interpreting problems and
bringing order to their area and are better able to maintain tight control – crucial areas of project
management. Very similar skills can be seen in both motherhood and project management. When
managing projects we see tradeoffs between cost, time and scope. When women manage their lives, we
see them balancing household tasks, activities of the children and official work.
The rise of female project managers is leading to new
approaches and how projects are carried out and
managed. This involves leadership style, meeting style,
communication style, team composition and
development, motivation of people, dealing with
complexity, coping with challenges and risks, project
reporting, and so on
Roshan is in digital marketing,
online sales, training and
operations management. He
believes in work ethics and always
strives to work for the growth of
organization and exceeding
expectations
Roshan
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Across 1. Ani could have a natural liking with fifty (8) 6. A standard of time, I, have a fellow member for a quantitative Assessment (8) 7. What you need to do, you may find with a circle in south west (3) 8. Grate a egg to sum up (9) 11. Five hundred Roman Brides could be vendors (7) Down 1. Ants emerge into a sort of bindings (10) 2. Not slow, on a rough path could save time (9) 3. In this stage, team members start supporting the team in morning (7) 4. Attestation may have an examination (4) 5. Flat ring, may create a delay (5) 9. Tracing may lead to the responsibility assignments (4) 10. Dig the Roman head to create the matrix (4) Answers in last page!
When is the last time you shouted “Why don’t you put things at the
proper place? “ Searching for your pair of socks
Affinity Diagrams: A technique that allows large number of ideas to
be classified into groups for review and analysis (Ref: PMBOK6 –
Glossary)
This is a tool and technique used in Collect requirements process. For
example requirements collected from different geographical areas for
a global project may be noted down location wise. This ensures
collection of requirements completely.
The wardrobes, store rooms, kitchens in our homes are affinity dia-
grams. The encyclopedias, thesaurus, dictionaries, menu cards,
libraries, medical shops, malls, grocery stores are all affinity dia-
Crossword
Project Management in Everyday Life
Ahmed Sheriff PMP, CMQ/OE, FLMI, ACS, PSM He held the positions of District Informatics Officer in National Informatics Center (NIC), Senior Manager for Y2K Projects in Visual Soft and AVP in Conseco Data Services. Currently he is a free lance consultant for Project Management and PMP Certification. He has published several articles, stories and poems in Telugu both in Print media and digital media. Linked in: csasheriff
Ahmed Sheriff
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I would recommend this book to every
leader and project manager, who needs to take a decision in complex scenarios. In the context of thinking, decision making and discussions this book can provide a powerful insight that, at present might be obscured by the ‘cognitive biases (heuristics)’. It provides a recipe to train our brain, avoid the ‘heuristics’ and understand the statistics to take an informed decision.
The book discusses about two types of thinking: -
After reading this book, one will come to a realisation that, we as humans are not as rational as we think.
Chapter II “Heuristics and Biases” is the interesting part of this book. It delves into how the brain evolved to form biases by heuristics, so that it can work frugally. Personally, I like “anchoring effect (is when a value is often set by anchors or imprints which, we use as mental reference points when making decisions)” which, was showcased rather beautifully in the movie “Focus (2015)”.
I hope that, the concepts discovered, documented and discussed by the author in the book, led to an alternative form of indoctrination which, when one gets trained to understand one’s weaknesses, will help to take a better decision.
Goodreads link
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13062120-thinking-fast-and-slow
Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow
System 2 • Effortful, slow and conscious eg. Multi-
plication of 672 X 758, driving in a new place to reach one’s destination.
• Reliable, as one has to analyse and re-
ally apply one’s brain to obtain the so-lution.
Gokul Kolipaka
is a Scientist, project manager and an
analyst in Healthcare and Pharma
industry spanning across R&D, opera-
tions and IT domains. Also, A photog-
rapher, amateur film maker and yoga
instructor.
“A reliable way to make
people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact”.
System 1 • Is automatic, fast and unconscious eg.
Multiplication of 2 X 2, a regular drive to home from work.
• Prone to errors, as it is developed over
the history of human evolution and de-pends on heuristics or biases.
Gokul Kolipaka
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International Women’s Day #StrikeThePose challenge #pmiR11wd
PMIR11WD challenge - was initiated by our chapter to raise awareness on the International Women's Day theme this year, #EachForEqual ran for 2 weeks with the active support from the entire PMI Region 11 family - chapter members,
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International Women’s Day #StrikeThePose challenge #pmiR11wd
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Star Volunteers of Q1 2020
Gokul Kolipaka: has volunteered for many ini-
tiatives for our chapter, be it on Social media,
PMIEF, Friends Of Farmers & Spandana Editorial
board.
N Brahmanandam: has done a great job in
implementing PMIEF initiatives in the remote vil-
lages of Andhra Pradesh and conducting the
leadership building activities among the school
students.
Member Engagement – Year 2020 had a great
start with the chapter winning awards under 3
different categories, all due to the members
loyalty, engagement and contribution. It is
humbling and increases the chapter’s
responsibility to engage the members with more
meaningful activities and provide value addition.
Masterclass initiative- was launched by the
chapter to enable knowledge sharing sessions as
an added benefit for our members, – till date
conducted events on PMO, Agile, MS Project,
PMP Prep.
Buddy program – which pairs up PMP aspirants
to PMP credential achievers, who have
volunteered their time to help/guide these fellow
chapter members in their exam prep journey.
Was launched just last month, and saw a good
response from the participants too.
Associations: Collaborative efforts with HMA
(Hyderabad Management Association), TWED,
Institute of Product Leadership, ESCI, LVPEI, etc
for cross promotion of respective programs so
that our members would be able to avail the
benefits.
Virtual Engagement Strategy: We are all
paddling our way through challenging times with
COVID 19 and learning to cope with the new norm
of staying at home & staying connected. At the
Chapter level, we are churning ideas and
transforming our offerings to help maximize the
opportunities for our members
Excited to announce the launch of “PMIPCC Virtu-
al Events” - a series of webinars on various
handpicked topics & urge you to register for
these events. More info on these would be
shared through our Social media handles.
Chapter Updates
Volunteer Engagement: Volunteers are the
backbone for any Not-for-profit Organisations
like PMIPCC and we are happy to announce that
we have a strong base of around 60 committed
volunteers. The volunteer engagement has been
optimised more this year, with a dedicated
process to it, streamlining all the opportunities
through VRMS portal, https://vrms.pmi.org/. A
snapshot of all active opportunities
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Upcoming Trainings List:
• PMP Live Virtual Preparatory Workshop
( 2nd May till 10th May)
• ACP Live Virtual Preparatory Workshop
( 30-31st May)
ISLD Celebrations: International students
Leadership Day was celebrated on February 3rd
2020 at NICMAR Hyderabad and at various schools
Chapter Elections: Our chapter completed the
election process for open positions of the PMIPCC
Board and we are happy to announce that Suma P
& Manohar Y got re-elected and Saujanya Y joins
the Board. Please find below the composition of
the board and their portfolios
Chapter Updates
PMI Announcements
• We have compiled a variety of free resources,
virtual events and even a sneak peek of new
digital offerings to help you connect with the
global community, build skills and prepare to
advance in a post-COVID-19 world. Please
share these resources and check back often for
updates at https://www.pmi.org/about/
coronavirus-single-source-message/virtual-
resource-hub
• Now, the PMP Exam can be taken from the
safety & comfort of your home/office.
• The PMP Exam is now divided into 2 parts, with
an optional break of upto 10 minutes separating
them.
• For residents in India, PMI will be charging &
collecting Membership fees (both new & renew-
al) in INR. An 18% GST will be applicable on the
same.
PMIEF Offerings to Students: For the juniors in
our homes and communities, PMIEF brings in a no
cost engaging opportunity – PM Fiction Books can
be downloaded from https://pmief.org/library/
resources/project-management-fiction-books-for
-youth-ages-10-12
Portfolio Name Email
President B Madhav Reddy [email protected]
Vice President C Venkata Reddy [email protected]
General Secretary Komal Mathur [email protected]
Treasurer Aravind Chembeti [email protected]
PMIEF Liaison Bhaskar Reddy G [email protected]
Social Media Monika Muddamshetty [email protected]
Academy Manohar Yerraguntla [email protected]
Membership Suma Pattar [email protected]
Corporate Outreach Sairam Chamarthi [email protected]
Volunteering Sita M Durvasula [email protected]
Business Development N Saujanya Yelisetty [email protected]
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PMI – Project Management Institute
PCC – Pearl City Chapter
PMNC – Project Management National Conference
TED – Technology, Entertainment, Design
PMIEF – Project Management Institute Educational Foundation
SLCB – Student Leadership Competency Building
NIRD & PR – National Institute of Rural Development & Pancha-yat Raj
PMBOK – Project Management Book of Knowledge
PMIR11WD – Project Management Institute Region 11 Women’s Day
ISLD - International Students Leadership Day
TWED – Tribal Welfare Engineering Department
ESCI – Engineering Staff College of India
LVPEI – Lakshmi Vara Prasad Eye Institute
VRMS – Volunteer Resource Management Service
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