PMI Silver Spring Chapter

 The PMI Silver Spring Chapter regrets to inform you that our Wednesday, February 10 Meeting featuring Dr. Rico is

Canceled

due to the anticipated SNOWSTORM

Tuesday evening...Stay Tuned!

We will contact you if you have already registered.

Please join us on Wednesday evening, February 10, 2010 to welcome Dr. David Rico, who will provide a brief introduction to Agile Methods, an overview of popular Agile Methods, and a brief survey of the benefits of Agile Methods as reported by major industry studies (including rarely seen, late-breaking economic data and results from the top consulting firms). He will present a survey of costs and benefits, a suite of metrics for quantifying business value, a discussion of parametric models, a methodology for estimating ROI, and a comparison of 11 major Agile and Traditional Methods. The results of this briefing have been published in a major international journal and a new book entitled, "The Business Value of Agile Software Methods: Maximizing ROI with Just-in-Time Processes and Documentation."

Carl's Corner (Nancy's Corner?)
by Carl, er NANCY Pritchard, PMP (January 2, 2010)

Projects are an adventure...a virtual DisneyWorld of experiences!  So when my lovely wife, Nancy and I went to Disney I asked her to take over my column for a month.  If you think of your project as a Disney experience, I'm sure you'll appreciate the correlation.

Please join us for the January M2D2 meeting at Noon on Monday, January 25, 2010, at the USDA Cafeteria Conference Room in Washington, DC, to welcome Michelle Scheuerman, PMP, Client Executive with HP supporting the Department of Homeland Security. Michelle will be speaking about "Communications Management - It all starts here!" 

To register for this event, click here.

WELCOME to the Silver Spring Chapter, a registered component of the Project Management Institute®, the world's leading not-for-profit association for the project management profession.

The Silver Spring Chapter provides an open forum for professionals in the field of project management in Silver Spring, Maryland and the surrounding Washington, DC metropolitan area to promote the principles of the Project Management Institute through networking with other project managers, sharing project experiences, providing and receiving training, and supporting project managers in their certification and continuing professional development efforts. Our community of project management practitioners is ever alert to the needs of the journey, following the path of awareness, and like swans, our members glide on, leaving behind their former resting places.

Our chapter normally meets at the Blair Mansion Inn in Silver Spring, Maryland, on the second Wednesday evening of the month (unless otherwise indicated). The monthly meetings are determined by traditional methods of calculation, and are not always the same as the precise astronomical occurrences. Therefore, please consult this website for periodic updates. Cost of an evening event is $35, which includes dinner and the presentation by our guest speaker.