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In addition to our earlier listing of courses from MIT, more free online university courses of interest to project managers are available:
Open University
University of California - Irvine
For those of you who have missed them (check your junk mail folders in your email software), we are now making back issues of our PMAC Newsletter available online. They can be found by clicking on "Publications" in our main web site navbar, and then choosing "PMAC Newsletter". Or, you can click here.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made several of their courses on Project Management available for FREE online. Online materials vary from course to course but may include: course notes, assignments, video or audio recordings of lectures, and more.
The College of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT has made following project management courses available to the public:
PMPs can claim these FREE PDUs under category 4 (other providers).
The latest issue of the IPMA Newsletter is now available for free download by PMAC members. To get access to the current and back issues, please log in to our Members Forum section of this web site.
Also available are current and back issues of the IPMA Perspectives magazine and the IPMA PM Research Journal. Both are available in our Members Forum section.
For those who don't know, the International Project Management Association is the overall governing body accrediting national project management associations in over 50 countries around the world. The IPMA sets international project management competence/performance standards which PMAC uses to assess Canadian project managers.
Kevin Aguanno, our Vice President, has released a new article on how to better succeed when managing projects across cultures and across countries. To access the article and leave your feedback, click on the link below:
Article - Multi-Cultural Project Management
Why do we still have troubled projects? One would think that after decades of formal project management training, organizational PM maturity models, individual PM competence development models, and countless magazines, books, and seminars that we would have figured this one out by now. Our projects are still plagued by the same troubling issues, yet we never seem to see them coming until it is too late.
In this entertaining webinar, project management practitioner Donald Pillittere illustrates a model fo analyzing barriers to project success with examples from his long career. The webinar is FREE for members of PMAC and ASAPM and $10 for non-members.
[Details and Online Registration]
The IRNOP 2011 Project Management Research Conference, with theme "The Expanding Domain of Project Research", will be held in Montreal, Canada during 19-22 June 2011. IRNOP has now issued a Call for Paper for the conference. The International Research Network on Organizing by Projects (IRNOP) was founded in 1993 and has developed into a vibrant worldwide research network www.irnop.org. The University of Quebec at Montreal's Project Management Research Chair will host the IRNOP 2011 Research Conference, to celebrate the 10th edition of IRNOP.
The theme is broad enough to welcome papers, round-table or workshop themes and student posters presenting and discussing a wide spectrum of topics.
Call for Papers is now issued, with the following deadlines :
February 7th, 2011 - Paper Submissions
February 14th, 2011 - Round tables, seminars or workshop proposals
February 14th, 2011 - Student short papers and posters
For preparing for the Certified Project Management Associate (IPMA Level-D) certification exam, the PMAC recommends The Project Manager's Portable Handbook by David I. Cleland and Lewis R. Ireland, published by McGraw-Hill. Previously, PMAC had recommended the 2nd edition of this book; however, the publisher has just released the 3rd revised edition of this book, with a 2011 copyright date.
Please use the new version of this book for your CPMA/IPMA Level-D exam prep studies.
Berteig Consulting has announced four new course dates for 2010 for its PMAC-accredited Agile Project Management course. This course meets the training prerequisite for students to write the PMAC Certified Agile Project Manager (Cert.APM) exam. The 3-day course costs $1650 per student.
All four new course dates are located in Toronto, Ontario, but Berteig consulting offers courses across Canada as well as in the USA and Asia. We expect that additional course locations will be covered when the company announces its 2011 training schedule.
[Course Information and Registration].
The Project Management Association of Canada wishes to recognize the top project managers in our profession.
Fellowship in the association recognizes those who have made a significant contribution to the development of the art and science of project, programme or portfolio management, either as a practitioner, teacher, or researcher. It is the highest level of membership awarded by the association and carries with it the right to use the post nominal letters FPMAC, Fellow of the Project Management Association of Canada.
All applications for fellowship are considered by the PMAC Board of Directors. Fellowship is normally awarded to individuals who have been a regular member of the association for at least five years, although exceptions are being made at this time for those who have been members in good standing for at least the past two years. To be considered by the Board of Directors for fellowship, please review the rules and procedures on our PMAC Fellowship Program page.
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