DPC SIG Elections to Open Soon

The DPC SIG Board of Director elections will be held in August. Watch your email for candidate bios and ballot. Be sure to vote!!

Have a Project Management Question?

We Just May Have the Answer!

The DPC SIG has enlisted the support of Subject Matter Experts from around the world to address your project management-related questions. Questions and answers will appear in upcoming issues of the DPC SIG newsletter and monthly bulletin.

Submit Your Question to VCMarketing@dpcsig.org.
Be sure to include your name and contact information in the email.

Here's a Recently Posed Question
There are projects; big and small. For big projects there is no particular problem, the PMBOK® Guide is the backbone to follow - initiating through closing process groups. But, with regard to the small projects (may be less than a year), it can represent a considerable volume for one year. How, then, to manage such small projects? Is there a methodology, a process and/or a toolbox to consult for managing such small projects? View the current list of questions and answers.

DPC SIG Lapel Pins Available for Members

As a token of the DPC SIG's appreciation for your participation in the SIG, we would like to send you a lapel pin. We encourage all members to wear the pin at PMI® chapter and international events and to look for, and network with, other DPC SIG members wearing their pins. Show your pride in the DPC SIG!

Request a DPC SIG pin - Be sure to include your mailing address.

Too Much Travel for PDUs?

Each course in the University of Wisconsin-Platteville's online Master of Science in Project Management is worth 45 PDUs and 3credits toward the graduate degree. Gain the advanced PM skills and cross-functional business knowledge you need to advance in your career. UW-Platteville is an accredited, public institution and part of the world-renowned University of Wisconsin system. For 10 years, our completely online MSPM has helped project managers prepare for the next step in their career.

Learn more: www.uwplatt.edu/disted/degrees/pm/

Trouble Projects SIG to Offer a Webinar on July 29, 2008

Project Communications and the Terror of Troubled Projects Sponsored by Capability Alignment Professionals, Inc.

The phone rings, startling you. You pick it up and answer, "No, I don't know when I'll be home" Pleading with the schedule once again and agonizing over tomorrow's 9 AM status meeting, the cold knot in your stomach grows. How could this project have gone so wrong?

Troubled projects are a part of the learning process for project managers. In this webinar, we'll share with you a framework to help:

1. Recognize warning signs of projects prone to problems.
2. Communication methods that will make you more successful and keep your projects out of trouble.
3. Steps to take when projects start going bad.
4. Things to try when everything's stuck in the tar-pits.

Join us for a web seminar on July 29, 2008. The event will be repeated three times. You will have the opportunity to ask questions at all sessions.

Space is limited. Reserve your seat now:

First Presentation - 7 AM EDT

Second Presentation - 12 PM EDT

Third Presentation - 8 PM EDT

Registration Now Open for PMI® Atlanta and La Crosse Chapters Professional Development Days 2008

PMI® Atlanta Chapter PDD 2008
Professional Development Days 2008 will be held August 13 - 16 at the Cobb Galleria Center in Atlanta, GA. The PMI® Atlanta Chapter invites you to network with other project managers, participate in our workshops, and attend an all-day symposium featuring nationally-recognized keynote and endnote speakers and industry experts presenting on a variety of timely topics.

PDD 2008 has been expanded to include a comprehensive curriculum of one, two and three-day workshops that will be offered Wednesday - Friday in advance of the Saturday Symposium.

View Complete Details and Register!
We know you will enjoy great hands-on project management interactions and gain in-depth project management skills and knowledge during this exciting event.

PMI® La Crosse Chapter PDD 2008
Professional Development Days 2008 will be held September 15-18, 2008 at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. The PMI® La Crosse Chapter invites you to network with other project managers, participate in our workshops, and attend an all-day symposium featuring nationally-recognized keynote and endnote speakers and industry experts presenting on a variety of timely topics.

In recognition of the PMI® La Crosse Chapter's fifth anniversary, this year's PDD theme is "Celebrating Five Years of Project Management Professionalism."

View Complete Details and Register!
Register today to attend PDD 2008 and join us in the celebration. We know you will enjoy great hands-on project management interactions and gain in-depth project management skills and knowledge during this exciting event.

COAA to Offer Owners Leadership Conferences

The Construction Owner's Association of America (COAA) is offering the following Owners Leadership Conference:

COAA Fall Owners Leadership Conference
Topic to be announced
2-4 December, 2008
Tampa, Florida, USA