Chapter Meetings (slides and video now available)

Thanks to our Director Programs and a little bit of technology, our presentations are now available to view as streamed web-content. You'll find this on our meetings page.

Next Meeting - 19th November 2008 at the Irish Club. 

The PMIQ Chapter 2008 Annual General Meeting

followed by:

Graham Scott - "Managing Relationship Risk in Projects".

This presentation highlights the need for effective management of relationships in projects. It covers relationships from a risk management perspective and shows how to develop a rigorous planned approach that will impact on delivery outcomes through effective group dynamics; interface management and good leadership methodologies.

The presentation is focused on a number of key points:

1.      What is relationship effectiveness / ineffectiveness
2.      What is risk from this perspective
3.      How to mitigate this risk
4.      Using a rigorous planned approach.

The presentation will use case examples; appropriate audience participation / discussion and presenter input.

The outcomes of the presentation would be that participants would have a broad knowledge of how to go about adding value in their projects through applying specific process and strategies.  

Graham Scott is an Organisational Psychologist with Masters qualifications. Prior to studying Psychology Graham worked in the Construction Industry at trade and Management levels. For the past thirteen years Graham has being working in Projects mostly in recovery around "communication" and "people issues". Graham has recently developed a rigorous approach to relationship management through a rigorous planned approach using a risk framework.

Graham lectures in the Master of Project Management at QUT. He has lectured in the MBA at QUT, is an accredited mediator with the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators. Graham is an accomplished speaker and has spoken at conferences and congress across Australia and internationally.

If you plan to attend please RSVP to admin@pmiqld.net.au.

See our Meetings Page for the presentation slides from previous meetings and further details on this and future dates.....

Thanks to Richard Egelstaff for a most interesting presentation on Project Management education at our September meeting.

As promised here is the link offered by one of our members on the course of the 8 professors!

www.apicollege.edu.au (Australian Pacific International School)

PMIQ Evening Discussion Groups

The first Discussion Group hosted by Parsons Brinckerhoff (www.pbworld.com): “If only someone had told me......................” was successfully completed on the 1st October. Look out for the next one.

The PMIQ Evening Discussion Groups are intended to be quite different from the regular chapter meetings and indeed a typical presentation. They are a forum for lively discussion around a Project Management Issue.

Hays Salary Survey 2008

Details of the latest Hays Salary Survey were presented at the July chapter meeting. You can download the cutdown version of the report HERE.

5-Steps Scheduling Training Course

PMIQ has arranged with Melbourne-based REP Mosaic Project Services Pty. Ltd. for this course to be run in Brisbane on Thursday 30 October 2008.

There has been an excellent response to this course and as such all 20 places have been secured.

See our Education Events page for more information.

Certification Study Group

PMP AND CAPM STUDY GROUPS STARTED 24 JULY -

The next round of PMP and CAPM study groups are underway, following last weeks kick-off information session at The Irish Club. A copy of the slides can be downloaded here.

Study groups are self-help activities run by the participants themselves and coached by a certified PMP. Each session consists of a topic prepared and presented by a participant, practice questions and of course networking with practising project managers.

Study groups are free and exclusive to all PMIQ members and are a great way to help you prepare for your PMP and CAPM exams. The study groups started on 24 July and run on Thursday nights from 5.30pm – 7pm up to the exam on 15 November.

Please contact our Certification Directors Gillian Brown or Leon Tighe as soon as possible at certification@pmiqld.net.au if you would like any additional information.

See the Study Group page for full details of the schedule.

Conferences and Events

Updates to follow...

Membership update
(to 31 Oct 08)

Net change in October: +2

See the Membership page for more information including how to join. 

Download our Chapter Brochure for more details.

Manage your PMI account

Keep your details current to ensure we can contact you.

Login to the  PMI with your member ID and password and Go To My Profile.

Chapter Newsletters

Download Sep-Oct 08 Newsletter  (160kb) or go to the Newsletters page for past  issues. 

PMPs, click here for the Qld Chapter guide to claiming your PDUs.

PMP Certification

The next full round of Study Groups started in July 08 for an exam in November. More...

Want to verify someone's claim to have a PMI credential (PMP, CAPM, PgMP)?  Search for the name in the worldwide
PMI Online Credential Registry.

PMI Knowledge and Wisdom Center 

Also known as the Virtual Library, this PMI member resource is an important source of relevant, reliable and timely information about project management.

The Knowledge & Wisdom Center helps to advance project management practice and learning by cataloging PMI-published literature, managing the electronic repository of PMI conference and periodical literature, and assisting project management practitioners in finding the information they need.

(requires member login)

Research Surveys

PMI's Research Portal provides links to research surveys on various project management-related topics.  You are encouraged to participate; your input is strictly voluntary, and you may choose the surveys that best suit your interests and qualifications.

Log in to the  PMI website and click on Research for more information.