Quarterly Meeting of the PMI Houston - Brazos Valley Venue

The next Brazos Valley venue meeting will be held at the Capsher location on July 16, 2012 at 6:00pm.  Join us now and take your Project Management career to the next level.

This meeting is free to attend.

Address: 1604 Crescent Pointe College Station, TX 77845

For more information about this event please contact:

Don R. Gilman, P.E., PMP

Project Manager

Project Management Office - IT Risk Management

Network & Information Security - TAMU IT 

Ofc 979.862.6421
dgilman@tamu.edu

Presentation: The Agile Minded Professional – 7 Habits to Agility Success

As a Project Manager, your success is dependent on your mastery of many skills, both hard skills as well as soft skills.  In today’s business environnment, are these skills enough?  Are you dispensable or indispensable?  Are you agile enough to adapt to significant demands, changing business environments and external pressures?

Do you only execute orders or do you provide value above and beyond what’s expected?  Are you called on because you can execute a plan or because you can create value out of complex situations?  Become indispensable as a project manager by raising your agility intellligence through the seven habits shared in this presentation.

The great news of these seven habits is that they can all be learned and practiced.  This presentation will share habits that will improve your ability to create value and innovate, habits that will distinguish you from dispensable project managers.

Speaker:  Eddie Merla, PMP, CSP is a Project Management Consultant, Scrum Professional, and Trainer with over 25 years of hands-on Project Management experience.  He has implemented project management programs for multiple organizations and in multiple industries. His project management experiences include North America, Europe, the Middle East, South America and Asia.  He has assisted clients with the implementation of project management strategies and best practices.  He has also implemented organizational structures to support large projects and organizations to improve delivery of project and program results. He is also experienced in implementing Agile project management techniques, including “SCRUM,” to help clients improve their product development cycle time.

As a trainer and coach, Eddie Merla has trained several thousand project management professionals throughout the world on project management, leadership and soft skills topics.  He has been a frequent speaker at the Project Management Institute (PMI®) Global Congresses including the Latin America Congress, the EMEA Congress, the Asia Pacific Congress and the North America Congress. Eddie has delivered seminars in ten countries.

Professional Development Units (PDUs)

There are no specific PDU codes for events that award up to 2 PDUs. This meeting awards 1 PDU. Below is the procedure for getting credit for this event towards your PMP/PgMP recertification:

1. Go to the PDU entry site and log in with your credentials
2. On left navigation bar click on "Report professional development units (PDUs)" (3rd link)
3. For PDU Catgy select "Cat 3: Registered Education Provider program/PMI Component Event"
4. For Activity Type select "Report a Component 1-2 PDU Event" and click on "Next"
5. On Component Search page enter C012 (CZero12) as Component ID and click on Search
6. On Search Results page click on the C012 link
7. Enter meeting date as "Activity date completed" and the presentation title as "Activity title"
8. On PDU quantities page enter 1 as "PDUs claimed"
9. On Confirmation page click on the check box agreeing the claim is accurate. Submit