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Contents
Presidentrsquos Column 2
Welcome to the March Edition 2
Our Sponsors 3
Events Calendar 4
Take our PMP Exam Coaching Class Autumn 2014 edition 4
From the desk of the Director Events 5
PMI Netherlands Summit 3rd
Edition 6
PMI Frankfurt Chapter presents Project Zone Congress 7
Free webinar Strategic project portfolio planning with a realistic resource management 7
Focus on PM Research 8
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members 9
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile project What tools and techniques are available 9
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now 10
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched 10
PMI Journals 11
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars April 11
Letrsquos stay in touch 12
Project Management Humor 13
March 2014
Volume 43 Issue 3
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
2
Presidentrsquos Column
This time just a few words from me I was very busy over the last couples of weeks
finalizing the program for our 2014 Summit Of course I am biased as I am member of the
program board for this Summit but belief me it is a program worthwhile at least viewing
if not considering participating We already have close to 70 subscriptions without even
having the full program announced Pretty convincing donrsquot you think See for yourself
via wwwpmi-netherlands-summitcom and keep an eye on this site for the next weeks or
so as we will announce the full program shortly Hope we will meet and greet at this
event
Furthermore I was working with our secretary to release our first annual report We
completely underestimated how much work this was but we had fun putting it together
Hope you enjoy it and hopefully it will help in creating a different more inspiring annual
meeting as that call from several members initiated this As we completely underestimated the amount of
work and we definitely needed to release it before our annual meeting on the 26th we were not able to
capture more content form members and sponsors to add picture and so on Nevertheless I think we should
continue delivering annual reports but that is also up to you So let us know what you think of it A perhaps you
would like to volunteer for next edition I think we could do with an editorial committee for this annual report
But first letrsquos find out if you appreciate the annual report
Thatrsquos it for now Letrsquos keep up to good work Enjoy being a project manager enjoy being part of the PMI
community in the Netherlands
Welcome to the March Edition
I have the pleasure to welcome you to the March PMI Netherlands Chapter
Newsletter This time the issue is a little bit thinner than usual but you will
not be disappointed since as every month we have the Focus on PM Research
column written by Dr Peter M Storm who wrote article about learning from
experiences
We encourage you to take a look at upcoming events chapter meetings
Summit and PMP exam Coaching Class
We have also few news from PMIorg and as always PM Humor
Cover De Eersteling in Hoofddorp
Małgorzata Krakowian Director Marketing and Communications
Editorial Office
Małgorzata Krakowian
Karen Obi
Contact communicationpmi-netherlands-chapterorg
Cees Pijs President
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
3
Our Sponsors
Thank you to all our sponsors for their generous support
GOLDEN SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS
FACILITY SPONSORS
Want to become our sponsor Please check our website for more information
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
4
Events Calendar
Take our PMP Exam Coaching Class
Autumn 2014 edition We are happy to announce that next PMP Exam Coaching Class will take place on
11 October 1 November 15 November 29 November
Registration for the next PMP Exam Coaching Class is now open
Deadline for registration 24th September 1400
Already certified
Please forward this information to your colleagues
PMI Netherlands Chapter Other
March 2014
26 Annual Chapter Meeting and World-cafe session
More info
April 2014
5 PMP Exam Coaching Class 44 More info
9 Chapter Meeting Agile Project Management
Details soon
May 2014
Chapter Meeting Decision making in political sensitive environments
Details soon
June 2014
12 PMI Netherlands Summit More info
October 2014 11 PMP Exam Coaching Class 14 More info
November 2014 1 PMP Exam Coaching Class 24 More info
15 PMP Exam Coaching Class 34 More info
29 PMP Exam Coaching Class 44 More info
April 2014
21 Northern Star Consulting - Certified ScrumMaster class at Zeist
More info
22 Threon - PMI Risk Management Professional More info
28 PMI Frankfurt Project Zone Congress More info May 2014
22-23 - New trends in Project Management - Agile and Lean Development (Sopot Poland)
More info
June 2014
10 Northern Star Consulting - Certified ScrumMaster class at Zeist
More info
September 2014
10 Threon - CAPM Certification Prep More info
November 2014
13 Synergy 2014 ndash PMI UK Conference (London UK)
More info
26 Threon - Project Portfolio Management More info
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
5
From the desk of the Director Events
Dear PMINLCH Member
When writing this Irsquom really looking forward to our upcoming Annual
Meeting We are harvesting the knowledge and experience of our
members to explore trends in the Project Management world In a
world-cafeacute setting we will have a workshop like event which will allow
our members to explore how they should and could develop
themselves and how the chapter can best support them Perhaps this
will result in some novice and creative new wave in the Dutch project
management world
For the April chapter event were investigating to have the meeting at the INSynQ office in
Eindhoven The INSynQ office is nicely situated in the Kennedy tower close to the railway
station and with a lot of parking space close by As soon as there are more details available
this will be communicated through our social media channels
Then in May due to the nice opportunity Kembit is offering us we have another event in
Eindhoven an interesting lecture on decision making in political sensitive environments by
prof Allard van Riel (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) who approaches the topic from
academic perspective followed by real life experiences of an alderman of the municipal of
Eindhoven
Wersquoll keep you posted about the details Hope to see you there
Henk-Jan Molenkamp
Director Events
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
6
PMI Netherlands Summit 3rd Edition
After the very successful and well-received first two editions the PMI Netherlands Chapter and CKC Seminars organize the 3
rd Edition of PMI Netherlands Summit on June 12
th 2014 at FIGI in Zeist
The PMI Netherlands Summit is the platform for ambitious Project Program and Portfolio professionals
To inspire and to be inspired The program provides high quality content to the project management community presented by national and international thought leaders and experts Central theme of the third edition is The thin line between project success amp failure
Members of the PMI Netherlands Chapter receive a special discount Sign up with your membership code and pay only euro 195- excl VAT
Check PMI Netherlands Summit webpage for more information
Silver Sponsors
An inspiring program of the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 is guaranteed with keynote speakers such as
Jim Lawless One of the Worlds leading inspirational speakers author of Taming Tigers and CEO of the Velocity Corporation
Dr Thomas Juli Managing Director Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners
Martijn Jong Partner amp Director AMI Consultancy
Visitors of PMI Netherlands Summit
2014 receive a free copy of ldquoTaming Tigers Do things you
never thought you couldrdquo by Jim Lawless
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
7
PMI Frankfurt Chapter presents Project Zone Congress
Free webinar Strategic project portfolio planning with
a realistic resource management
We would like to invite you on behalf of PMI Frankfurt Chapter to free webinar on April 9th at 2pm about
Strategic project portfolio planning with a realistic resource management
See more
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
8
Focus on PM Research
Welcome to the Focus on PM Research column of this Newsletter The idea is to brief you about thought-provoking results from research studies about Project Management around the world Sometimes the news item will be brand new sometimes not The purpose is to give you a benchmark to compare against your own insights What do project managers learn from their experiences We know that project management is very much a ldquolearning by doingrdquo profession That means that PMrsquos learn most of what they know about their job from their own experiences in reality Much more than from the formal training they received (if they had any such training) Recently I presented the results from our PMI sponsored research on this subject For those of you who could not attend the session I will summarize these findings The leading questions of our investigation were
1 How and why do people become project managers 2 What do project managers learn from their experiences 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development 4 What kind of support do they miss most
We interviewed 31 project managers in the Netherlands and the UK A majority of them work in the fields of ICT or Building amp Construction Some of the interesting conclusions are
1 People generally do not plan to become a project manager They sort of drift into it Typical answers to the question of ldquoHow did you become a project managerrdquo are ldquoI started doing things like organizing and coordinating the project because I like doing those things and nobody else did itrdquo and ldquoMy supervisor noted that I was taking this up and asked me if I wanted to become a project managerrdquo When asked ldquoWhat attracts you most in being a project managerrdquo our respondents indicated in large majority that they valued ldquoGetting to resultsrdquo ldquoWorking with as teamrdquo and ldquoVariety of challengesrdquo more than anything else
2 Project managers learn mostly about
How to deal with different expectations regarding their role
How to carry responsibility without having appropriate authority
How to manage conflicting interests
How to manage by leadership rather than expertise 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development
Sharing experiences with colleagues
Mentoring by senior line of project managers
Guided project evaluation 4 The kind of support they miss most is
Lack of a clear career development policy
Limited choice in choosing a next project assignment
Do these results align with your experiences Irsquod love to hear about it What we found most surprising is that although experiential learning is the major way to learn the job for project
Dr Peter M Storm
KennisampCo AMI consultancy Linkedin Everest manager blog
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
9
managers almost all of the learning experiences they told us about happened by coincidence and that HRM did not take any interest in finding out what they learned Source Liselore Havermans Chantal Savelsbergh Peter Storm and Henk Broekema Development Paths of Project Managers PMI (to be published in 2014)
Cheers and hellip keep learning from your own experiences
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their
credential in February
Name Credential
Great job
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile
project What tools and techniques are available
When answering Q2 we have advocated considering Agile project management as a separate (PM) project
management method to be used in project environments that are characterized by uncertainty This is caused
by the novelty of the domain of the project to the organization andor new technologies that are being used
(technology is unknown)
Positioning of PM methods adapted model from RD Stacey
In this white paper we try to find an answer for Q 3 How to run an Agile project what tools and techniques
are available When finding the answers to several sub questions we used the course book for passing the
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam This book is written by Mike Griffiths
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Agile framework
3 Agile project management process groups
a Agile management principles
b Agile process groups
c Agile project management elements
Read more (pdf)
Richard Aerts PMP
Bart Kirkels PMP
Frans Westendorp PMP
Mr Bas Ensink op Kemna PMP
Gregor Notten PMP
Ronald Siepkes PMP
Emile De Jong PMP
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
9
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
2
Presidentrsquos Column
This time just a few words from me I was very busy over the last couples of weeks
finalizing the program for our 2014 Summit Of course I am biased as I am member of the
program board for this Summit but belief me it is a program worthwhile at least viewing
if not considering participating We already have close to 70 subscriptions without even
having the full program announced Pretty convincing donrsquot you think See for yourself
via wwwpmi-netherlands-summitcom and keep an eye on this site for the next weeks or
so as we will announce the full program shortly Hope we will meet and greet at this
event
Furthermore I was working with our secretary to release our first annual report We
completely underestimated how much work this was but we had fun putting it together
Hope you enjoy it and hopefully it will help in creating a different more inspiring annual
meeting as that call from several members initiated this As we completely underestimated the amount of
work and we definitely needed to release it before our annual meeting on the 26th we were not able to
capture more content form members and sponsors to add picture and so on Nevertheless I think we should
continue delivering annual reports but that is also up to you So let us know what you think of it A perhaps you
would like to volunteer for next edition I think we could do with an editorial committee for this annual report
But first letrsquos find out if you appreciate the annual report
Thatrsquos it for now Letrsquos keep up to good work Enjoy being a project manager enjoy being part of the PMI
community in the Netherlands
Welcome to the March Edition
I have the pleasure to welcome you to the March PMI Netherlands Chapter
Newsletter This time the issue is a little bit thinner than usual but you will
not be disappointed since as every month we have the Focus on PM Research
column written by Dr Peter M Storm who wrote article about learning from
experiences
We encourage you to take a look at upcoming events chapter meetings
Summit and PMP exam Coaching Class
We have also few news from PMIorg and as always PM Humor
Cover De Eersteling in Hoofddorp
Małgorzata Krakowian Director Marketing and Communications
Editorial Office
Małgorzata Krakowian
Karen Obi
Contact communicationpmi-netherlands-chapterorg
Cees Pijs President
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
3
Our Sponsors
Thank you to all our sponsors for their generous support
GOLDEN SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS
FACILITY SPONSORS
Want to become our sponsor Please check our website for more information
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
4
Events Calendar
Take our PMP Exam Coaching Class
Autumn 2014 edition We are happy to announce that next PMP Exam Coaching Class will take place on
11 October 1 November 15 November 29 November
Registration for the next PMP Exam Coaching Class is now open
Deadline for registration 24th September 1400
Already certified
Please forward this information to your colleagues
PMI Netherlands Chapter Other
March 2014
26 Annual Chapter Meeting and World-cafe session
More info
April 2014
5 PMP Exam Coaching Class 44 More info
9 Chapter Meeting Agile Project Management
Details soon
May 2014
Chapter Meeting Decision making in political sensitive environments
Details soon
June 2014
12 PMI Netherlands Summit More info
October 2014 11 PMP Exam Coaching Class 14 More info
November 2014 1 PMP Exam Coaching Class 24 More info
15 PMP Exam Coaching Class 34 More info
29 PMP Exam Coaching Class 44 More info
April 2014
21 Northern Star Consulting - Certified ScrumMaster class at Zeist
More info
22 Threon - PMI Risk Management Professional More info
28 PMI Frankfurt Project Zone Congress More info May 2014
22-23 - New trends in Project Management - Agile and Lean Development (Sopot Poland)
More info
June 2014
10 Northern Star Consulting - Certified ScrumMaster class at Zeist
More info
September 2014
10 Threon - CAPM Certification Prep More info
November 2014
13 Synergy 2014 ndash PMI UK Conference (London UK)
More info
26 Threon - Project Portfolio Management More info
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
5
From the desk of the Director Events
Dear PMINLCH Member
When writing this Irsquom really looking forward to our upcoming Annual
Meeting We are harvesting the knowledge and experience of our
members to explore trends in the Project Management world In a
world-cafeacute setting we will have a workshop like event which will allow
our members to explore how they should and could develop
themselves and how the chapter can best support them Perhaps this
will result in some novice and creative new wave in the Dutch project
management world
For the April chapter event were investigating to have the meeting at the INSynQ office in
Eindhoven The INSynQ office is nicely situated in the Kennedy tower close to the railway
station and with a lot of parking space close by As soon as there are more details available
this will be communicated through our social media channels
Then in May due to the nice opportunity Kembit is offering us we have another event in
Eindhoven an interesting lecture on decision making in political sensitive environments by
prof Allard van Riel (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) who approaches the topic from
academic perspective followed by real life experiences of an alderman of the municipal of
Eindhoven
Wersquoll keep you posted about the details Hope to see you there
Henk-Jan Molenkamp
Director Events
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
6
PMI Netherlands Summit 3rd Edition
After the very successful and well-received first two editions the PMI Netherlands Chapter and CKC Seminars organize the 3
rd Edition of PMI Netherlands Summit on June 12
th 2014 at FIGI in Zeist
The PMI Netherlands Summit is the platform for ambitious Project Program and Portfolio professionals
To inspire and to be inspired The program provides high quality content to the project management community presented by national and international thought leaders and experts Central theme of the third edition is The thin line between project success amp failure
Members of the PMI Netherlands Chapter receive a special discount Sign up with your membership code and pay only euro 195- excl VAT
Check PMI Netherlands Summit webpage for more information
Silver Sponsors
An inspiring program of the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 is guaranteed with keynote speakers such as
Jim Lawless One of the Worlds leading inspirational speakers author of Taming Tigers and CEO of the Velocity Corporation
Dr Thomas Juli Managing Director Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners
Martijn Jong Partner amp Director AMI Consultancy
Visitors of PMI Netherlands Summit
2014 receive a free copy of ldquoTaming Tigers Do things you
never thought you couldrdquo by Jim Lawless
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
7
PMI Frankfurt Chapter presents Project Zone Congress
Free webinar Strategic project portfolio planning with
a realistic resource management
We would like to invite you on behalf of PMI Frankfurt Chapter to free webinar on April 9th at 2pm about
Strategic project portfolio planning with a realistic resource management
See more
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
8
Focus on PM Research
Welcome to the Focus on PM Research column of this Newsletter The idea is to brief you about thought-provoking results from research studies about Project Management around the world Sometimes the news item will be brand new sometimes not The purpose is to give you a benchmark to compare against your own insights What do project managers learn from their experiences We know that project management is very much a ldquolearning by doingrdquo profession That means that PMrsquos learn most of what they know about their job from their own experiences in reality Much more than from the formal training they received (if they had any such training) Recently I presented the results from our PMI sponsored research on this subject For those of you who could not attend the session I will summarize these findings The leading questions of our investigation were
1 How and why do people become project managers 2 What do project managers learn from their experiences 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development 4 What kind of support do they miss most
We interviewed 31 project managers in the Netherlands and the UK A majority of them work in the fields of ICT or Building amp Construction Some of the interesting conclusions are
1 People generally do not plan to become a project manager They sort of drift into it Typical answers to the question of ldquoHow did you become a project managerrdquo are ldquoI started doing things like organizing and coordinating the project because I like doing those things and nobody else did itrdquo and ldquoMy supervisor noted that I was taking this up and asked me if I wanted to become a project managerrdquo When asked ldquoWhat attracts you most in being a project managerrdquo our respondents indicated in large majority that they valued ldquoGetting to resultsrdquo ldquoWorking with as teamrdquo and ldquoVariety of challengesrdquo more than anything else
2 Project managers learn mostly about
How to deal with different expectations regarding their role
How to carry responsibility without having appropriate authority
How to manage conflicting interests
How to manage by leadership rather than expertise 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development
Sharing experiences with colleagues
Mentoring by senior line of project managers
Guided project evaluation 4 The kind of support they miss most is
Lack of a clear career development policy
Limited choice in choosing a next project assignment
Do these results align with your experiences Irsquod love to hear about it What we found most surprising is that although experiential learning is the major way to learn the job for project
Dr Peter M Storm
KennisampCo AMI consultancy Linkedin Everest manager blog
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
9
managers almost all of the learning experiences they told us about happened by coincidence and that HRM did not take any interest in finding out what they learned Source Liselore Havermans Chantal Savelsbergh Peter Storm and Henk Broekema Development Paths of Project Managers PMI (to be published in 2014)
Cheers and hellip keep learning from your own experiences
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their
credential in February
Name Credential
Great job
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile
project What tools and techniques are available
When answering Q2 we have advocated considering Agile project management as a separate (PM) project
management method to be used in project environments that are characterized by uncertainty This is caused
by the novelty of the domain of the project to the organization andor new technologies that are being used
(technology is unknown)
Positioning of PM methods adapted model from RD Stacey
In this white paper we try to find an answer for Q 3 How to run an Agile project what tools and techniques
are available When finding the answers to several sub questions we used the course book for passing the
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam This book is written by Mike Griffiths
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Agile framework
3 Agile project management process groups
a Agile management principles
b Agile process groups
c Agile project management elements
Read more (pdf)
Richard Aerts PMP
Bart Kirkels PMP
Frans Westendorp PMP
Mr Bas Ensink op Kemna PMP
Gregor Notten PMP
Ronald Siepkes PMP
Emile De Jong PMP
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
9
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
3
Our Sponsors
Thank you to all our sponsors for their generous support
GOLDEN SPONSORS
SILVER SPONSORS
FACILITY SPONSORS
Want to become our sponsor Please check our website for more information
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
4
Events Calendar
Take our PMP Exam Coaching Class
Autumn 2014 edition We are happy to announce that next PMP Exam Coaching Class will take place on
11 October 1 November 15 November 29 November
Registration for the next PMP Exam Coaching Class is now open
Deadline for registration 24th September 1400
Already certified
Please forward this information to your colleagues
PMI Netherlands Chapter Other
March 2014
26 Annual Chapter Meeting and World-cafe session
More info
April 2014
5 PMP Exam Coaching Class 44 More info
9 Chapter Meeting Agile Project Management
Details soon
May 2014
Chapter Meeting Decision making in political sensitive environments
Details soon
June 2014
12 PMI Netherlands Summit More info
October 2014 11 PMP Exam Coaching Class 14 More info
November 2014 1 PMP Exam Coaching Class 24 More info
15 PMP Exam Coaching Class 34 More info
29 PMP Exam Coaching Class 44 More info
April 2014
21 Northern Star Consulting - Certified ScrumMaster class at Zeist
More info
22 Threon - PMI Risk Management Professional More info
28 PMI Frankfurt Project Zone Congress More info May 2014
22-23 - New trends in Project Management - Agile and Lean Development (Sopot Poland)
More info
June 2014
10 Northern Star Consulting - Certified ScrumMaster class at Zeist
More info
September 2014
10 Threon - CAPM Certification Prep More info
November 2014
13 Synergy 2014 ndash PMI UK Conference (London UK)
More info
26 Threon - Project Portfolio Management More info
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
5
From the desk of the Director Events
Dear PMINLCH Member
When writing this Irsquom really looking forward to our upcoming Annual
Meeting We are harvesting the knowledge and experience of our
members to explore trends in the Project Management world In a
world-cafeacute setting we will have a workshop like event which will allow
our members to explore how they should and could develop
themselves and how the chapter can best support them Perhaps this
will result in some novice and creative new wave in the Dutch project
management world
For the April chapter event were investigating to have the meeting at the INSynQ office in
Eindhoven The INSynQ office is nicely situated in the Kennedy tower close to the railway
station and with a lot of parking space close by As soon as there are more details available
this will be communicated through our social media channels
Then in May due to the nice opportunity Kembit is offering us we have another event in
Eindhoven an interesting lecture on decision making in political sensitive environments by
prof Allard van Riel (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) who approaches the topic from
academic perspective followed by real life experiences of an alderman of the municipal of
Eindhoven
Wersquoll keep you posted about the details Hope to see you there
Henk-Jan Molenkamp
Director Events
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
6
PMI Netherlands Summit 3rd Edition
After the very successful and well-received first two editions the PMI Netherlands Chapter and CKC Seminars organize the 3
rd Edition of PMI Netherlands Summit on June 12
th 2014 at FIGI in Zeist
The PMI Netherlands Summit is the platform for ambitious Project Program and Portfolio professionals
To inspire and to be inspired The program provides high quality content to the project management community presented by national and international thought leaders and experts Central theme of the third edition is The thin line between project success amp failure
Members of the PMI Netherlands Chapter receive a special discount Sign up with your membership code and pay only euro 195- excl VAT
Check PMI Netherlands Summit webpage for more information
Silver Sponsors
An inspiring program of the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 is guaranteed with keynote speakers such as
Jim Lawless One of the Worlds leading inspirational speakers author of Taming Tigers and CEO of the Velocity Corporation
Dr Thomas Juli Managing Director Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners
Martijn Jong Partner amp Director AMI Consultancy
Visitors of PMI Netherlands Summit
2014 receive a free copy of ldquoTaming Tigers Do things you
never thought you couldrdquo by Jim Lawless
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
7
PMI Frankfurt Chapter presents Project Zone Congress
Free webinar Strategic project portfolio planning with
a realistic resource management
We would like to invite you on behalf of PMI Frankfurt Chapter to free webinar on April 9th at 2pm about
Strategic project portfolio planning with a realistic resource management
See more
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
8
Focus on PM Research
Welcome to the Focus on PM Research column of this Newsletter The idea is to brief you about thought-provoking results from research studies about Project Management around the world Sometimes the news item will be brand new sometimes not The purpose is to give you a benchmark to compare against your own insights What do project managers learn from their experiences We know that project management is very much a ldquolearning by doingrdquo profession That means that PMrsquos learn most of what they know about their job from their own experiences in reality Much more than from the formal training they received (if they had any such training) Recently I presented the results from our PMI sponsored research on this subject For those of you who could not attend the session I will summarize these findings The leading questions of our investigation were
1 How and why do people become project managers 2 What do project managers learn from their experiences 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development 4 What kind of support do they miss most
We interviewed 31 project managers in the Netherlands and the UK A majority of them work in the fields of ICT or Building amp Construction Some of the interesting conclusions are
1 People generally do not plan to become a project manager They sort of drift into it Typical answers to the question of ldquoHow did you become a project managerrdquo are ldquoI started doing things like organizing and coordinating the project because I like doing those things and nobody else did itrdquo and ldquoMy supervisor noted that I was taking this up and asked me if I wanted to become a project managerrdquo When asked ldquoWhat attracts you most in being a project managerrdquo our respondents indicated in large majority that they valued ldquoGetting to resultsrdquo ldquoWorking with as teamrdquo and ldquoVariety of challengesrdquo more than anything else
2 Project managers learn mostly about
How to deal with different expectations regarding their role
How to carry responsibility without having appropriate authority
How to manage conflicting interests
How to manage by leadership rather than expertise 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development
Sharing experiences with colleagues
Mentoring by senior line of project managers
Guided project evaluation 4 The kind of support they miss most is
Lack of a clear career development policy
Limited choice in choosing a next project assignment
Do these results align with your experiences Irsquod love to hear about it What we found most surprising is that although experiential learning is the major way to learn the job for project
Dr Peter M Storm
KennisampCo AMI consultancy Linkedin Everest manager blog
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
9
managers almost all of the learning experiences they told us about happened by coincidence and that HRM did not take any interest in finding out what they learned Source Liselore Havermans Chantal Savelsbergh Peter Storm and Henk Broekema Development Paths of Project Managers PMI (to be published in 2014)
Cheers and hellip keep learning from your own experiences
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their
credential in February
Name Credential
Great job
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile
project What tools and techniques are available
When answering Q2 we have advocated considering Agile project management as a separate (PM) project
management method to be used in project environments that are characterized by uncertainty This is caused
by the novelty of the domain of the project to the organization andor new technologies that are being used
(technology is unknown)
Positioning of PM methods adapted model from RD Stacey
In this white paper we try to find an answer for Q 3 How to run an Agile project what tools and techniques
are available When finding the answers to several sub questions we used the course book for passing the
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam This book is written by Mike Griffiths
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Agile framework
3 Agile project management process groups
a Agile management principles
b Agile process groups
c Agile project management elements
Read more (pdf)
Richard Aerts PMP
Bart Kirkels PMP
Frans Westendorp PMP
Mr Bas Ensink op Kemna PMP
Gregor Notten PMP
Ronald Siepkes PMP
Emile De Jong PMP
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
9
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
4
Events Calendar
Take our PMP Exam Coaching Class
Autumn 2014 edition We are happy to announce that next PMP Exam Coaching Class will take place on
11 October 1 November 15 November 29 November
Registration for the next PMP Exam Coaching Class is now open
Deadline for registration 24th September 1400
Already certified
Please forward this information to your colleagues
PMI Netherlands Chapter Other
March 2014
26 Annual Chapter Meeting and World-cafe session
More info
April 2014
5 PMP Exam Coaching Class 44 More info
9 Chapter Meeting Agile Project Management
Details soon
May 2014
Chapter Meeting Decision making in political sensitive environments
Details soon
June 2014
12 PMI Netherlands Summit More info
October 2014 11 PMP Exam Coaching Class 14 More info
November 2014 1 PMP Exam Coaching Class 24 More info
15 PMP Exam Coaching Class 34 More info
29 PMP Exam Coaching Class 44 More info
April 2014
21 Northern Star Consulting - Certified ScrumMaster class at Zeist
More info
22 Threon - PMI Risk Management Professional More info
28 PMI Frankfurt Project Zone Congress More info May 2014
22-23 - New trends in Project Management - Agile and Lean Development (Sopot Poland)
More info
June 2014
10 Northern Star Consulting - Certified ScrumMaster class at Zeist
More info
September 2014
10 Threon - CAPM Certification Prep More info
November 2014
13 Synergy 2014 ndash PMI UK Conference (London UK)
More info
26 Threon - Project Portfolio Management More info
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
5
From the desk of the Director Events
Dear PMINLCH Member
When writing this Irsquom really looking forward to our upcoming Annual
Meeting We are harvesting the knowledge and experience of our
members to explore trends in the Project Management world In a
world-cafeacute setting we will have a workshop like event which will allow
our members to explore how they should and could develop
themselves and how the chapter can best support them Perhaps this
will result in some novice and creative new wave in the Dutch project
management world
For the April chapter event were investigating to have the meeting at the INSynQ office in
Eindhoven The INSynQ office is nicely situated in the Kennedy tower close to the railway
station and with a lot of parking space close by As soon as there are more details available
this will be communicated through our social media channels
Then in May due to the nice opportunity Kembit is offering us we have another event in
Eindhoven an interesting lecture on decision making in political sensitive environments by
prof Allard van Riel (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) who approaches the topic from
academic perspective followed by real life experiences of an alderman of the municipal of
Eindhoven
Wersquoll keep you posted about the details Hope to see you there
Henk-Jan Molenkamp
Director Events
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
6
PMI Netherlands Summit 3rd Edition
After the very successful and well-received first two editions the PMI Netherlands Chapter and CKC Seminars organize the 3
rd Edition of PMI Netherlands Summit on June 12
th 2014 at FIGI in Zeist
The PMI Netherlands Summit is the platform for ambitious Project Program and Portfolio professionals
To inspire and to be inspired The program provides high quality content to the project management community presented by national and international thought leaders and experts Central theme of the third edition is The thin line between project success amp failure
Members of the PMI Netherlands Chapter receive a special discount Sign up with your membership code and pay only euro 195- excl VAT
Check PMI Netherlands Summit webpage for more information
Silver Sponsors
An inspiring program of the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 is guaranteed with keynote speakers such as
Jim Lawless One of the Worlds leading inspirational speakers author of Taming Tigers and CEO of the Velocity Corporation
Dr Thomas Juli Managing Director Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners
Martijn Jong Partner amp Director AMI Consultancy
Visitors of PMI Netherlands Summit
2014 receive a free copy of ldquoTaming Tigers Do things you
never thought you couldrdquo by Jim Lawless
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
7
PMI Frankfurt Chapter presents Project Zone Congress
Free webinar Strategic project portfolio planning with
a realistic resource management
We would like to invite you on behalf of PMI Frankfurt Chapter to free webinar on April 9th at 2pm about
Strategic project portfolio planning with a realistic resource management
See more
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
8
Focus on PM Research
Welcome to the Focus on PM Research column of this Newsletter The idea is to brief you about thought-provoking results from research studies about Project Management around the world Sometimes the news item will be brand new sometimes not The purpose is to give you a benchmark to compare against your own insights What do project managers learn from their experiences We know that project management is very much a ldquolearning by doingrdquo profession That means that PMrsquos learn most of what they know about their job from their own experiences in reality Much more than from the formal training they received (if they had any such training) Recently I presented the results from our PMI sponsored research on this subject For those of you who could not attend the session I will summarize these findings The leading questions of our investigation were
1 How and why do people become project managers 2 What do project managers learn from their experiences 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development 4 What kind of support do they miss most
We interviewed 31 project managers in the Netherlands and the UK A majority of them work in the fields of ICT or Building amp Construction Some of the interesting conclusions are
1 People generally do not plan to become a project manager They sort of drift into it Typical answers to the question of ldquoHow did you become a project managerrdquo are ldquoI started doing things like organizing and coordinating the project because I like doing those things and nobody else did itrdquo and ldquoMy supervisor noted that I was taking this up and asked me if I wanted to become a project managerrdquo When asked ldquoWhat attracts you most in being a project managerrdquo our respondents indicated in large majority that they valued ldquoGetting to resultsrdquo ldquoWorking with as teamrdquo and ldquoVariety of challengesrdquo more than anything else
2 Project managers learn mostly about
How to deal with different expectations regarding their role
How to carry responsibility without having appropriate authority
How to manage conflicting interests
How to manage by leadership rather than expertise 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development
Sharing experiences with colleagues
Mentoring by senior line of project managers
Guided project evaluation 4 The kind of support they miss most is
Lack of a clear career development policy
Limited choice in choosing a next project assignment
Do these results align with your experiences Irsquod love to hear about it What we found most surprising is that although experiential learning is the major way to learn the job for project
Dr Peter M Storm
KennisampCo AMI consultancy Linkedin Everest manager blog
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
9
managers almost all of the learning experiences they told us about happened by coincidence and that HRM did not take any interest in finding out what they learned Source Liselore Havermans Chantal Savelsbergh Peter Storm and Henk Broekema Development Paths of Project Managers PMI (to be published in 2014)
Cheers and hellip keep learning from your own experiences
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their
credential in February
Name Credential
Great job
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile
project What tools and techniques are available
When answering Q2 we have advocated considering Agile project management as a separate (PM) project
management method to be used in project environments that are characterized by uncertainty This is caused
by the novelty of the domain of the project to the organization andor new technologies that are being used
(technology is unknown)
Positioning of PM methods adapted model from RD Stacey
In this white paper we try to find an answer for Q 3 How to run an Agile project what tools and techniques
are available When finding the answers to several sub questions we used the course book for passing the
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam This book is written by Mike Griffiths
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Agile framework
3 Agile project management process groups
a Agile management principles
b Agile process groups
c Agile project management elements
Read more (pdf)
Richard Aerts PMP
Bart Kirkels PMP
Frans Westendorp PMP
Mr Bas Ensink op Kemna PMP
Gregor Notten PMP
Ronald Siepkes PMP
Emile De Jong PMP
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
9
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
5
From the desk of the Director Events
Dear PMINLCH Member
When writing this Irsquom really looking forward to our upcoming Annual
Meeting We are harvesting the knowledge and experience of our
members to explore trends in the Project Management world In a
world-cafeacute setting we will have a workshop like event which will allow
our members to explore how they should and could develop
themselves and how the chapter can best support them Perhaps this
will result in some novice and creative new wave in the Dutch project
management world
For the April chapter event were investigating to have the meeting at the INSynQ office in
Eindhoven The INSynQ office is nicely situated in the Kennedy tower close to the railway
station and with a lot of parking space close by As soon as there are more details available
this will be communicated through our social media channels
Then in May due to the nice opportunity Kembit is offering us we have another event in
Eindhoven an interesting lecture on decision making in political sensitive environments by
prof Allard van Riel (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) who approaches the topic from
academic perspective followed by real life experiences of an alderman of the municipal of
Eindhoven
Wersquoll keep you posted about the details Hope to see you there
Henk-Jan Molenkamp
Director Events
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
6
PMI Netherlands Summit 3rd Edition
After the very successful and well-received first two editions the PMI Netherlands Chapter and CKC Seminars organize the 3
rd Edition of PMI Netherlands Summit on June 12
th 2014 at FIGI in Zeist
The PMI Netherlands Summit is the platform for ambitious Project Program and Portfolio professionals
To inspire and to be inspired The program provides high quality content to the project management community presented by national and international thought leaders and experts Central theme of the third edition is The thin line between project success amp failure
Members of the PMI Netherlands Chapter receive a special discount Sign up with your membership code and pay only euro 195- excl VAT
Check PMI Netherlands Summit webpage for more information
Silver Sponsors
An inspiring program of the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 is guaranteed with keynote speakers such as
Jim Lawless One of the Worlds leading inspirational speakers author of Taming Tigers and CEO of the Velocity Corporation
Dr Thomas Juli Managing Director Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners
Martijn Jong Partner amp Director AMI Consultancy
Visitors of PMI Netherlands Summit
2014 receive a free copy of ldquoTaming Tigers Do things you
never thought you couldrdquo by Jim Lawless
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
7
PMI Frankfurt Chapter presents Project Zone Congress
Free webinar Strategic project portfolio planning with
a realistic resource management
We would like to invite you on behalf of PMI Frankfurt Chapter to free webinar on April 9th at 2pm about
Strategic project portfolio planning with a realistic resource management
See more
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
8
Focus on PM Research
Welcome to the Focus on PM Research column of this Newsletter The idea is to brief you about thought-provoking results from research studies about Project Management around the world Sometimes the news item will be brand new sometimes not The purpose is to give you a benchmark to compare against your own insights What do project managers learn from their experiences We know that project management is very much a ldquolearning by doingrdquo profession That means that PMrsquos learn most of what they know about their job from their own experiences in reality Much more than from the formal training they received (if they had any such training) Recently I presented the results from our PMI sponsored research on this subject For those of you who could not attend the session I will summarize these findings The leading questions of our investigation were
1 How and why do people become project managers 2 What do project managers learn from their experiences 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development 4 What kind of support do they miss most
We interviewed 31 project managers in the Netherlands and the UK A majority of them work in the fields of ICT or Building amp Construction Some of the interesting conclusions are
1 People generally do not plan to become a project manager They sort of drift into it Typical answers to the question of ldquoHow did you become a project managerrdquo are ldquoI started doing things like organizing and coordinating the project because I like doing those things and nobody else did itrdquo and ldquoMy supervisor noted that I was taking this up and asked me if I wanted to become a project managerrdquo When asked ldquoWhat attracts you most in being a project managerrdquo our respondents indicated in large majority that they valued ldquoGetting to resultsrdquo ldquoWorking with as teamrdquo and ldquoVariety of challengesrdquo more than anything else
2 Project managers learn mostly about
How to deal with different expectations regarding their role
How to carry responsibility without having appropriate authority
How to manage conflicting interests
How to manage by leadership rather than expertise 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development
Sharing experiences with colleagues
Mentoring by senior line of project managers
Guided project evaluation 4 The kind of support they miss most is
Lack of a clear career development policy
Limited choice in choosing a next project assignment
Do these results align with your experiences Irsquod love to hear about it What we found most surprising is that although experiential learning is the major way to learn the job for project
Dr Peter M Storm
KennisampCo AMI consultancy Linkedin Everest manager blog
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
9
managers almost all of the learning experiences they told us about happened by coincidence and that HRM did not take any interest in finding out what they learned Source Liselore Havermans Chantal Savelsbergh Peter Storm and Henk Broekema Development Paths of Project Managers PMI (to be published in 2014)
Cheers and hellip keep learning from your own experiences
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their
credential in February
Name Credential
Great job
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile
project What tools and techniques are available
When answering Q2 we have advocated considering Agile project management as a separate (PM) project
management method to be used in project environments that are characterized by uncertainty This is caused
by the novelty of the domain of the project to the organization andor new technologies that are being used
(technology is unknown)
Positioning of PM methods adapted model from RD Stacey
In this white paper we try to find an answer for Q 3 How to run an Agile project what tools and techniques
are available When finding the answers to several sub questions we used the course book for passing the
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam This book is written by Mike Griffiths
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Agile framework
3 Agile project management process groups
a Agile management principles
b Agile process groups
c Agile project management elements
Read more (pdf)
Richard Aerts PMP
Bart Kirkels PMP
Frans Westendorp PMP
Mr Bas Ensink op Kemna PMP
Gregor Notten PMP
Ronald Siepkes PMP
Emile De Jong PMP
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
9
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
6
PMI Netherlands Summit 3rd Edition
After the very successful and well-received first two editions the PMI Netherlands Chapter and CKC Seminars organize the 3
rd Edition of PMI Netherlands Summit on June 12
th 2014 at FIGI in Zeist
The PMI Netherlands Summit is the platform for ambitious Project Program and Portfolio professionals
To inspire and to be inspired The program provides high quality content to the project management community presented by national and international thought leaders and experts Central theme of the third edition is The thin line between project success amp failure
Members of the PMI Netherlands Chapter receive a special discount Sign up with your membership code and pay only euro 195- excl VAT
Check PMI Netherlands Summit webpage for more information
Silver Sponsors
An inspiring program of the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 is guaranteed with keynote speakers such as
Jim Lawless One of the Worlds leading inspirational speakers author of Taming Tigers and CEO of the Velocity Corporation
Dr Thomas Juli Managing Director Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners
Martijn Jong Partner amp Director AMI Consultancy
Visitors of PMI Netherlands Summit
2014 receive a free copy of ldquoTaming Tigers Do things you
never thought you couldrdquo by Jim Lawless
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
7
PMI Frankfurt Chapter presents Project Zone Congress
Free webinar Strategic project portfolio planning with
a realistic resource management
We would like to invite you on behalf of PMI Frankfurt Chapter to free webinar on April 9th at 2pm about
Strategic project portfolio planning with a realistic resource management
See more
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
8
Focus on PM Research
Welcome to the Focus on PM Research column of this Newsletter The idea is to brief you about thought-provoking results from research studies about Project Management around the world Sometimes the news item will be brand new sometimes not The purpose is to give you a benchmark to compare against your own insights What do project managers learn from their experiences We know that project management is very much a ldquolearning by doingrdquo profession That means that PMrsquos learn most of what they know about their job from their own experiences in reality Much more than from the formal training they received (if they had any such training) Recently I presented the results from our PMI sponsored research on this subject For those of you who could not attend the session I will summarize these findings The leading questions of our investigation were
1 How and why do people become project managers 2 What do project managers learn from their experiences 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development 4 What kind of support do they miss most
We interviewed 31 project managers in the Netherlands and the UK A majority of them work in the fields of ICT or Building amp Construction Some of the interesting conclusions are
1 People generally do not plan to become a project manager They sort of drift into it Typical answers to the question of ldquoHow did you become a project managerrdquo are ldquoI started doing things like organizing and coordinating the project because I like doing those things and nobody else did itrdquo and ldquoMy supervisor noted that I was taking this up and asked me if I wanted to become a project managerrdquo When asked ldquoWhat attracts you most in being a project managerrdquo our respondents indicated in large majority that they valued ldquoGetting to resultsrdquo ldquoWorking with as teamrdquo and ldquoVariety of challengesrdquo more than anything else
2 Project managers learn mostly about
How to deal with different expectations regarding their role
How to carry responsibility without having appropriate authority
How to manage conflicting interests
How to manage by leadership rather than expertise 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development
Sharing experiences with colleagues
Mentoring by senior line of project managers
Guided project evaluation 4 The kind of support they miss most is
Lack of a clear career development policy
Limited choice in choosing a next project assignment
Do these results align with your experiences Irsquod love to hear about it What we found most surprising is that although experiential learning is the major way to learn the job for project
Dr Peter M Storm
KennisampCo AMI consultancy Linkedin Everest manager blog
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
9
managers almost all of the learning experiences they told us about happened by coincidence and that HRM did not take any interest in finding out what they learned Source Liselore Havermans Chantal Savelsbergh Peter Storm and Henk Broekema Development Paths of Project Managers PMI (to be published in 2014)
Cheers and hellip keep learning from your own experiences
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their
credential in February
Name Credential
Great job
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile
project What tools and techniques are available
When answering Q2 we have advocated considering Agile project management as a separate (PM) project
management method to be used in project environments that are characterized by uncertainty This is caused
by the novelty of the domain of the project to the organization andor new technologies that are being used
(technology is unknown)
Positioning of PM methods adapted model from RD Stacey
In this white paper we try to find an answer for Q 3 How to run an Agile project what tools and techniques
are available When finding the answers to several sub questions we used the course book for passing the
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam This book is written by Mike Griffiths
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Agile framework
3 Agile project management process groups
a Agile management principles
b Agile process groups
c Agile project management elements
Read more (pdf)
Richard Aerts PMP
Bart Kirkels PMP
Frans Westendorp PMP
Mr Bas Ensink op Kemna PMP
Gregor Notten PMP
Ronald Siepkes PMP
Emile De Jong PMP
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
9
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
7
PMI Frankfurt Chapter presents Project Zone Congress
Free webinar Strategic project portfolio planning with
a realistic resource management
We would like to invite you on behalf of PMI Frankfurt Chapter to free webinar on April 9th at 2pm about
Strategic project portfolio planning with a realistic resource management
See more
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
8
Focus on PM Research
Welcome to the Focus on PM Research column of this Newsletter The idea is to brief you about thought-provoking results from research studies about Project Management around the world Sometimes the news item will be brand new sometimes not The purpose is to give you a benchmark to compare against your own insights What do project managers learn from their experiences We know that project management is very much a ldquolearning by doingrdquo profession That means that PMrsquos learn most of what they know about their job from their own experiences in reality Much more than from the formal training they received (if they had any such training) Recently I presented the results from our PMI sponsored research on this subject For those of you who could not attend the session I will summarize these findings The leading questions of our investigation were
1 How and why do people become project managers 2 What do project managers learn from their experiences 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development 4 What kind of support do they miss most
We interviewed 31 project managers in the Netherlands and the UK A majority of them work in the fields of ICT or Building amp Construction Some of the interesting conclusions are
1 People generally do not plan to become a project manager They sort of drift into it Typical answers to the question of ldquoHow did you become a project managerrdquo are ldquoI started doing things like organizing and coordinating the project because I like doing those things and nobody else did itrdquo and ldquoMy supervisor noted that I was taking this up and asked me if I wanted to become a project managerrdquo When asked ldquoWhat attracts you most in being a project managerrdquo our respondents indicated in large majority that they valued ldquoGetting to resultsrdquo ldquoWorking with as teamrdquo and ldquoVariety of challengesrdquo more than anything else
2 Project managers learn mostly about
How to deal with different expectations regarding their role
How to carry responsibility without having appropriate authority
How to manage conflicting interests
How to manage by leadership rather than expertise 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development
Sharing experiences with colleagues
Mentoring by senior line of project managers
Guided project evaluation 4 The kind of support they miss most is
Lack of a clear career development policy
Limited choice in choosing a next project assignment
Do these results align with your experiences Irsquod love to hear about it What we found most surprising is that although experiential learning is the major way to learn the job for project
Dr Peter M Storm
KennisampCo AMI consultancy Linkedin Everest manager blog
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
9
managers almost all of the learning experiences they told us about happened by coincidence and that HRM did not take any interest in finding out what they learned Source Liselore Havermans Chantal Savelsbergh Peter Storm and Henk Broekema Development Paths of Project Managers PMI (to be published in 2014)
Cheers and hellip keep learning from your own experiences
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their
credential in February
Name Credential
Great job
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile
project What tools and techniques are available
When answering Q2 we have advocated considering Agile project management as a separate (PM) project
management method to be used in project environments that are characterized by uncertainty This is caused
by the novelty of the domain of the project to the organization andor new technologies that are being used
(technology is unknown)
Positioning of PM methods adapted model from RD Stacey
In this white paper we try to find an answer for Q 3 How to run an Agile project what tools and techniques
are available When finding the answers to several sub questions we used the course book for passing the
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam This book is written by Mike Griffiths
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Agile framework
3 Agile project management process groups
a Agile management principles
b Agile process groups
c Agile project management elements
Read more (pdf)
Richard Aerts PMP
Bart Kirkels PMP
Frans Westendorp PMP
Mr Bas Ensink op Kemna PMP
Gregor Notten PMP
Ronald Siepkes PMP
Emile De Jong PMP
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
9
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
8
Focus on PM Research
Welcome to the Focus on PM Research column of this Newsletter The idea is to brief you about thought-provoking results from research studies about Project Management around the world Sometimes the news item will be brand new sometimes not The purpose is to give you a benchmark to compare against your own insights What do project managers learn from their experiences We know that project management is very much a ldquolearning by doingrdquo profession That means that PMrsquos learn most of what they know about their job from their own experiences in reality Much more than from the formal training they received (if they had any such training) Recently I presented the results from our PMI sponsored research on this subject For those of you who could not attend the session I will summarize these findings The leading questions of our investigation were
1 How and why do people become project managers 2 What do project managers learn from their experiences 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development 4 What kind of support do they miss most
We interviewed 31 project managers in the Netherlands and the UK A majority of them work in the fields of ICT or Building amp Construction Some of the interesting conclusions are
1 People generally do not plan to become a project manager They sort of drift into it Typical answers to the question of ldquoHow did you become a project managerrdquo are ldquoI started doing things like organizing and coordinating the project because I like doing those things and nobody else did itrdquo and ldquoMy supervisor noted that I was taking this up and asked me if I wanted to become a project managerrdquo When asked ldquoWhat attracts you most in being a project managerrdquo our respondents indicated in large majority that they valued ldquoGetting to resultsrdquo ldquoWorking with as teamrdquo and ldquoVariety of challengesrdquo more than anything else
2 Project managers learn mostly about
How to deal with different expectations regarding their role
How to carry responsibility without having appropriate authority
How to manage conflicting interests
How to manage by leadership rather than expertise 3 What stimulates project managers in their professional development
Sharing experiences with colleagues
Mentoring by senior line of project managers
Guided project evaluation 4 The kind of support they miss most is
Lack of a clear career development policy
Limited choice in choosing a next project assignment
Do these results align with your experiences Irsquod love to hear about it What we found most surprising is that although experiential learning is the major way to learn the job for project
Dr Peter M Storm
KennisampCo AMI consultancy Linkedin Everest manager blog
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
9
managers almost all of the learning experiences they told us about happened by coincidence and that HRM did not take any interest in finding out what they learned Source Liselore Havermans Chantal Savelsbergh Peter Storm and Henk Broekema Development Paths of Project Managers PMI (to be published in 2014)
Cheers and hellip keep learning from your own experiences
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their
credential in February
Name Credential
Great job
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile
project What tools and techniques are available
When answering Q2 we have advocated considering Agile project management as a separate (PM) project
management method to be used in project environments that are characterized by uncertainty This is caused
by the novelty of the domain of the project to the organization andor new technologies that are being used
(technology is unknown)
Positioning of PM methods adapted model from RD Stacey
In this white paper we try to find an answer for Q 3 How to run an Agile project what tools and techniques
are available When finding the answers to several sub questions we used the course book for passing the
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam This book is written by Mike Griffiths
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Agile framework
3 Agile project management process groups
a Agile management principles
b Agile process groups
c Agile project management elements
Read more (pdf)
Richard Aerts PMP
Bart Kirkels PMP
Frans Westendorp PMP
Mr Bas Ensink op Kemna PMP
Gregor Notten PMP
Ronald Siepkes PMP
Emile De Jong PMP
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
9
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
9
managers almost all of the learning experiences they told us about happened by coincidence and that HRM did not take any interest in finding out what they learned Source Liselore Havermans Chantal Savelsbergh Peter Storm and Henk Broekema Development Paths of Project Managers PMI (to be published in 2014)
Cheers and hellip keep learning from your own experiences
Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their
credential in February
Name Credential
Great job
Agile LIWg White paper Chapter 3 How to run an Agile
project What tools and techniques are available
When answering Q2 we have advocated considering Agile project management as a separate (PM) project
management method to be used in project environments that are characterized by uncertainty This is caused
by the novelty of the domain of the project to the organization andor new technologies that are being used
(technology is unknown)
Positioning of PM methods adapted model from RD Stacey
In this white paper we try to find an answer for Q 3 How to run an Agile project what tools and techniques
are available When finding the answers to several sub questions we used the course book for passing the
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner Exam This book is written by Mike Griffiths
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Agile framework
3 Agile project management process groups
a Agile management principles
b Agile process groups
c Agile project management elements
Read more (pdf)
Richard Aerts PMP
Bart Kirkels PMP
Frans Westendorp PMP
Mr Bas Ensink op Kemna PMP
Gregor Notten PMP
Ronald Siepkes PMP
Emile De Jong PMP
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
Inside Story Headline
This story can fit 150-200 words
One benefit of using your newsletter
as a promotional tool is that you can
reuse content from other marketing
materials such as press releases
market studies and reports
While your main goal of distributing a
newsletter might be to sell your
product or service the key to a
successful newsletter is making it
useful to your readers
A great way to add useful content to
your newsletter is to develop and
write your own articles or include a
calendar of upcoming events or a
special offer that promotes a new
product
You can also research articles or find
ldquofillerrdquo articles by accessing the
World Wide Web You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short
Much of the content you put in your
newsletter can also be used for your
Web site Microsoft Publisher offers a
simple way to convert your
newsletter to a Web publication So
when yoursquore finished writing your
newsletter convert it to a Web site
and post it
9
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
10
Free Complexity Practice Guide on PMIorg Now
Elements of complexity have always existed in projects and programs The challenge today is that those
elements of complexity have been amplified by the pace of technological change the global environment and
the fact that risks can be bigger when projects and programs go wrong
How organizations anticipate comprehend and navigate complexity determines their successes and failures
The Navigating Complexity A Practice Guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners at all levels
of experience on how to manage programs and projects impacted by complexity It is currently available free
online for a limited time
The practice guide along with the market research and other resources is designed to help practitioners and
organizations understand and navigate complexity using principles tools and techniques referenced in A Guide
to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOKreg Guide) ndash Fifth Edition and other PMI foundational
standards
Chapter Member Satisfaction Survey Launched
We would like to encourage you to participate in the annual Chapter Satisfaction Survey emailed by PMIorg
The survey will take approximately 10 minutes and will close on Tuesday 1 April 2014 at 1100 pm US
Eastern Daylight Time (GMT ndash4)
All chapter members received an email with a link to the 2014 Chapter Satisfaction Survey Members of more
than one chapter received one email survey invitation per chapter
Individual feedback is kept completely confidential
This survey is a complementary one to the PMI Netherland Chapter survey you filled in by the end of last year
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
11
PMI Journals
PMIs Communities of Practice Webinars
April PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members and at no additional
cost
Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar
2 Risk Energetics Sustainable Risk Management David Hillson
3 Managing Change in Organizations A Practice Guide
5 Maintaining Aging Infrastructure
8 Designing Process Maps amp Implementing an OBPM Program
8 Market Research - The Job To Be Done
14 Essential Communication Skills for the Government PM
22 Good Estimates and Bad Biases Eight Traps to Avoid
23 Webinar - Great Project LeadershipFive Essentials
24 Itrsquos the Goal Not the Role The Work of Agile PM and BA
25 Project Sponsors in Government The Good Bad and the Ugly
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
12
Letrsquos stay in touch
Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
httppmi-netherlands-chapterorg
You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
httpwwwlinkedincomgroupsPMI-Netherlands-Chapter-130083
share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
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know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
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Our webpage is the main source of information about the PMI Netherlands Chapter
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You can also sign up here to get Chapter news on your email
Join our LinkedIn group
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share your thoughts and join discussions We will also inform you about Chapter events Newletters issues
and other PMI news
You can also follow our company page
httpwwwlinkedincomcompanypmi-netherlands-chapter
Check out our Facebook Fan page
httpswwwfacebookcomPMINetherlandsChapter
which was set up to inform you about recent news and for community building purposes We will let you
know about Chapter events Newletters issues and share with you our meetingsrsquo impressions
Besides the website LinkedIn and Facebook you can follow us on Twitter httpstwittercompminlch
On a regular basis we send tweets to inform you about Chapter events news from PMI etc Have a look
and give it a go and join other followers Looking forward to tweet-connect
If you miss our Chapter meeting or want to hear it again now you can check our YouTube channel where
we publish recordings from our events httpwwwyoutubecomuserPMINetherlands
To make reading our newsletters more convenient for you wersquove created an Issue account where you can
find all our newsletters httpissuucompmi_netherlands_Chapter
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor
PMI Netherlands Chapter | Postbus 90261 | 1006 BG Amsterdam - Vakvereniging voor Project- Programma- en Portfoliomanagers
wwwPMI-Netherlands-Chapterorg
13
Project Management Humor