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Editor’s NoteEditor’s NoteDear Friends,

Wish you all very Happy New year

from PMI Bangalore India

Chapter !!!

New Year is a time when everyone

has a special enthusiasm of starting a new

beginning by taking resolutions. However for

most, it last for few weeks to months and for very

few it lasts for a life time. We do resolutions, we

celebrate hard and then go back to work and start

our BAU (Business as Usual) i.e. routine work and

following same routine. Due to some or the other

reason we have to go on and leave behind some of

the thoughts we developed, some of dreams we

visualized in that festive mood. Suddenly the

energy of doing some professional enhancement,

achieve some new certifications, doing some new

innovation, thinking about some new automation

gets buried and BAU starts.

The very zest of the inner strength is one's inner

voice which we ignore sometimes and loose

precious experiences. One who becomes

successful in keeping that spark alive is the one

who will succeed. Reason is very simple, s/he has

courage to realise things and not only dreaming.

As it says “There are differences in word and

deed” and the one who is committed to do what he

says will definitely achieve the pinnacles of

success. With this New Year let all of us take a very

simple pledge to keep that spark alive within. A

small step towards following a small dream. A

small step to do knowledge enhancement. A small

step to learn few new things this year. A small step

to gain one certification in our area of interest.

This list will go on and on and every one will have

his/her at least one such small step.

These small steps are nothing but a good project

- Capt. L. N. Prasad

PM Footprints:

PM E&C Footprints:

During the month of December one PM ndFootprints session was held on 22 December 2016.

Mr. Prashanth H Southekal,

Managing Principal DBP-Institute,

Calgary, Canada, spoke on the

topic "Data for Business

Performance".

On Saturday ththe 17 December 2016,

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plan, which is executed well and backed by a

strong sense of purpose and motivation by the

person. Each of the resolution for improvements,

be it knowledge enhancement or related to

adopting a healthy life style can be though as a

project which needs to planned, executed and

monitored for deviation. And once the project is

complete, it needs to sustained (like certification

or healthy life style), like an operations. The

conversion of a new year wish (or resolution)

into something that last for a lifetime needs

planning, execution and sustenance just like what

we do for projects. As we start our year, lets

identify such development projects for ourselves

and make sure we put execute them well. It is the

successful execution of such projects that would

bring smiles on our faces at the end of this year

and give us a sense of fulfilment. Wish you good

luck for your professional enhancement, a new

certifications, a new innovation, a new

automation or anything that you have been

dreaming about but did not find a right time to

start.

Happy Reading

Thanks and Best Wishes

Soumen De, PMP

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Content Acknowledgment : Ms. Namita Gupta

Volume - 4 - Issue 10

Jan. 2017

Chapter News

- Capt. L. N. Prasad

PM Accomplishment

PM Open Space

You think you know your

customers . . .

- Vartika Kashyap

Get me 200 rejections

and let’s talk . . .

- Tathagat Varma

The Source of all

Leadership

- Peter de Jager

The Lighter Side of PM

- Rajiv

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Q. This Law describes

how and to what extent

the stress levels (or

m e n t a l a r o u s a l s )

impacts performance of

any person.

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Editorial Board

Murali Santhanam, PMP

Namita Gupta, PMP, PMI-ACP

Rama K, PMP, PMI-ACP

Shikha Vaidh, PMP, PMI-ACP

Soumen De, PMP

Sujata Sahu, PMP

Chapter News E&C Footprints was held. Mr. N Sridhar,

Operations Director Facilities and

Building Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (FABS)

gave a talk on "Change Management

Challenges for a Complex Industrial

Project".

The second speaker for the day was

Lt.Col. L. Shri Harsha, PgMp, Project

Management Consultant & Technical

Arbitrator. He spoke on the topic

"Crafting Your Professional Career”.

Both the talks were well received and

nearly 60 members attended the program.

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We are happy to learn that Sri S.S.V.Raghavan - PMP, a

Past Vice-President of the Bangalore Chapter of PMI,

was honoured recently with “Distinguished Member

Award” by the Indian Institute of Materials Management

at its National Convention at Hyderabad on November th25 , 2016. This was in recognition of his contribution

towards the development of Materials Management

profession for nearly 40 years in various capacities – as

Faculty Member, Examiner, Executive Committee

Member and Hony. Editor of its official magazine, to

name a few. Since he was unable to make the trip to

Hyderabad to receive the Award personally, it was

presented at the Annual Conference of the Bangalore

Branch (“Supply Chain And Logistics Exposition” - thSCALE 2016) on the 16 December at Hotel Lalit

Ashok. The Distinguished Member Award is a HIGHER

grade of membership compared to Fellowship which

Mr. Raghavan has already been awarded in 1995.

We are sure readers are aware of his contribution to the PM profession as well - as

Faculty in the PMP QUEST Sessions, as the Vice-President in charge of the PMP

QUEST training programs and later Special Programs (PM ENRICH), and as Content

Reviewer in various PMPCs in which he has facilitated the visit of some well-known

dignitaries.

We heartily congratulate and thank him for sharing his happiness with us, and are

sure more accolades would follow. For the nonce, we wish him good health, the

pre-requisite for achieving everything else.

IIMM was an Association named as IAMM in 1977, and after it

received a Charter from the Govt. of India around 30 years ago, its name was

changed to IIMM. Presently it has 45 Branches all over India (Unlike PMI,

"Chapters" are sub-sects of "Branches" in IIMM), It runs educational courses in

various disciplines leading to Graduate and Post-Graduate Diplomas in Materials Management (GDMM and PGDMM), both recognized

by the Govt. of India, apart from short term Certification Courses in Supply Chain Management, Store-keeping, Foreign Trade, etc.

Like ICWA, ICS and ICAI, they prepare their own "Study Notes" for these courses most of the times, one of which Mr. Raghavan had

the honour to author in 1995. IIMM also has collaboration arrangements with selected Universities in preparing the syllabus and

conducting contact classes for their MBA courses in Supply Chain Management. As in PMI, they have an annual National Conference

(NATCOM) and Bangalore Branch's own SCALE (SUPPLY CHAIN AND LOGISTICS EXPOSITION - similar to our PMPC).

About IIMM:

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SAP Labs India and Project Management Institute Bangalore

Chapter (PMIBC) presented the PM Open Space on Wednesday, ththe 14 December, 2016 at SAP Labs India, Whitefield.

PM Open Space is a corporate initiative among likeminded

corporates who wish to share knowledge among the

professionals across Bangalore and Whitefield in particular.

Leading corporates like HP, Huawei, ABB, SAP, E&Y and PMI BC

(to name a few) are part of this team. This program is

conducted once a quarter and this session in particular was the

4th consecutive one this year.

The event was inaugurated with a Keynote Address by

Mr. Rajnish Prasad (VP and Head – Custom Development

Execution – APJ and Greater China, SAP Labs India).

“Everything is a project and for me, it was series of activities.

Thanks to PMI for explaining all about Project to everyone”,

Mr. Rajnish said. He shared his experience that a project is a

project if it has some tangible outcome. If it doesn't satisfy

some KPI, it can't be called a project.

Padma Shri Dr. M. Annadurai, Director – ISRO Satellite Center,

Bangalore was the power speaker for the session.

Dr. Annadurai who has played a pivotal role in executing some

of the most ambitious

projects of ISRO, namely

the India Remote

Sensing Missions,

Chandrayaan 1 and 2,

Mars orbiter mission also

known as Mangalyaan.

He spoke on the topic

“Beyond the Horizon: A

Path less travelled” and unravelled the key facets of managing

complex multi-stakeholder programs, effective cost

management, review mechanisms, failure handling and quality

processes to be kept in mind while executing large scale

projects.

He shared how the project and program management is used

as the ISRO's stepping stone for next level of achievements.

Started with a little recap of India in Space - 141 mission has

been realized so far, 79 foreign spacecraft from 21 countries

has been launched. A complete self-

reliance in space has been achieved and

India ranks no 1 in application of space

to affect common man's life. Possibility

of ISRO going to moon was first

mentioned way back in May 1999, in

2008 it was announced that Mars is next

big Mission and if everything goes well it

will be reality by 2013-2014. The

mission accomplished on time.

A big achievement was at cost front, the

amount spent was 10% of money of the

project of same size by other countries. NASA takes about 7 –

8 years to complete one project and ISRO takes 3 – 4 years to

complete one project. NASA started 4 years earlier that ISRO

completed Mangalyaan at the same time but with different

budgets.

A well-managed project which was planned to launch the

satellite depending on the strategic position of the MARS when

it is closest to earth, as any additional velocity and additional

propellant comes with additional cost. If not launched in 2013

then needed 400 kg more propellant (1350kg instead of

850kg). Missing the proper timing means missing the

opportunity.

However, there were some challenges but “Mars Orbitor

Mission” treated those challenges as opportunity. The entire

project was fragmented in various parts and parallel teams

worked for it. A master schedule was followed by each of them

starting from Jan 2013 to Nov 2014 and in the end, like a

jigsaw puzzle they all came together to made the project

successful.

Understanding the atmosphere of the MARS program. There

could be consequences if study not done properly.

Proper planning and instruction to the team about what will

they do after going to mars.

Dr. Annadurai stated some of the challenges with the

project as:

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- Vartika Kashyap

Social media is a great example of this. It

has emerged as the potential goldmine

for businesses. A business without a

strong social media presence cannot

expect to be on top of the game in

today's scenario.

But, you need to figure out which

platform out of all is best suited for your

brand. There is no point in putting

meticulous efforts on building your brand

on Instagram, when your potential

audience have proclivity towards twitter.

You need to fetch the numbers. Run the

metrics. And, figure out where your

potential audience are present. Based on

that create a branding strategy.

Customer feedback is the most important

thing for a business. A big mistake,

however, that marketing teams make is

to focus only on the negative feedback.

We have all heard about the stories of

successful business learning from their

mistakes. And, making the most of

negative feedback from their customers

to reach on top.

Yes, it is important to consider negative

feedback to find the areas of

improvement. But, you cannot always

look down upon the positive feedback

from your loyal customers.

You need to treat both positive and

negative feedback equal. While negative

feedback works as a source of

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to customer feedback?

How much importance do you give

improvement from your current

levels. Positive feedback helps to

capture the attention of new users.

Acquiring customer data is a great

way to analyze customer behavior.

You might use various methods to

gather customer feedback and

their behavioral statistics. For

instance, feedback forms, analytics

and more. But, what next? What are you

going to do with these numbers? Do you

have a plan in mind on how to use this

data?

Remember, customer data is of no use as

long as you have an actionable plan on

how to make the most out of it. You

might be sitting on a huge pile of data

from customer information. But, as long

as you don't know what's next, this data

is of no value.

You must know how to analyze this data.

Based on the analysis you must take

actions. These actions will help to

improve not just your product/service,

but its brand value as well.

Knowing your customer is not just about

creating a product that fits within their

needs. But, it is more about making sure

that the customers know you are well-

versed with those needs. The points

mentioned above will help you to achieve

that.

Once you know the customer, you can

create branding strategies to connect

with them. And, sell your product service

as a problem solver!

I hope you are able to resonate with the

thought. And, if you are still failing to

make your brand's presence felt in the

market, then the tips mentioned above

will come to help.

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to use that feedback?

o you have actionable plan

“All of your customers are partner in

your mission”. Whenever someone

asks me about how a business can

keep customers happy, this quote

from Shep Hyken comes out from my

mouth.

A customer will pay for your product

or services. But, only if you are

offering a solution for some problem

that he/she is facing. The question is

how will you sell a solution when you

don't know the problem?

This is the reason why it becomes

imperative for you to know your

customer. So, how well do you know your

customers? I am going to share some

points here that will help you to get

answer to this question -

Business is always a two-way

communication. Your actions and your

brand must resonate with whatever the

customer says. And, it must reciprocate.

Take a small example here. If you are

running a project management tool

targeting managers, you cannot use too

many informal verbatim in brand building

activities. You must stick to a more

formal communication. Similarly, if you

are into something fun, then you cannot

afford to be formal in your brand

message.

In a way, you must speak in a language

that the customer speaks to strike that

chord. This will help to leave an

impression and fetch his attention

towards your brand.

The days when a telephonic support was

the only way for customers to reach a

brand are long gone. We are in an age

where you must make your brand's

presence felt wherever the customers

are.

• Do you speak the same language as

they do?

• Are you present where your

customers are?

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probably twisted and adapted it so many

times that what you are now serving is

what people are comfortable with. In

short, you are matching their thoughts.

But what if you want to change their

thinking, or show them a vision so

radical, they can't even imagine it in their

dreams? As Charles Kettering said "Every

great improvement has come after

repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes

out right the first time. Failures, repeated

failures, are finger posts on the road to

achievement. One fails forward toward

success".

What doesn't kill you, only makes

you stronger. If you actually go out and

talk to 200 people and don't give up, not

only your own story will get much

cleaner, your own conviction about the

idea will be sky-high. So, if you are still

standing tall after those 200 rejections,

then boy, do you have something in you -

apart from the idea! If not for anything

else, just go out and make those 200

naysayers eat crow...

Vincent van Gogh painted 800 paintings,

but sold only one during his lifetime (that

too, to a friend), Walt Disney was

rejected 302 times, Col Sanders was

rejected 1009 times for his famous secret

chicken recipe, JK Rowling was rejected

12 times...the list simply goes on...What

if any of them had decided to stop

pursuing their ideas at the first, or

second or the third rejection, or worse

still - adapted their ideas to the

feedback? As George Bernard Shaw

famously said, "The reasonable man

adapts himself to the world; the

unreasonable one persists in trying to

adapt the world to himself. Therefore all

progress depends on the unreasonable

man".

Finally, don't 'think' to please others!

If the only reason you 'think' is so that

you could think along what others are

thinking, you might as well not think at

all! Life is too precious to be lived in

'more of same' format.

My wife and I were recently discussing an

interesting initiative with our son. He and

his friends have this big, bold and really

audacious idea about including children

and young citizens under the age of

eighteen into the governance process

even though they are not allowed to cast

their "vote" - after all, why should the

democracy be reserved only for the

voting class? Just because they can't

vote, none of the political parties even

acknowledge their 'presence', much less

engage with them for a dialog (never

mind that at 44%, they constitute our

largest 'minority’). The worst part - they

will grow up to be the newest voters

without any awareness whatsoever into

the political process! This year alone, we

added 100 million first-time voters, and

yet, as a country, we have no mechanism

to tap them young, and engage with

them into the nation-building process.

Their idea has a merit, for our country

has 500 million citizens under the age of

18, and very aptly, they call it "18minus".

They are currently working on how to

take their idea forward, and have come

up with a bunch of ideas, and some of

them have good merit while some of

them seemed to be populist measures -

stuff that might get you a headline in a

city daily but might not take them closer

to the goal. While letting them figure out

what's best for them, I was urging him to

think really B-I-G, when I ended up

blurting -

"Get me 200 rejections and let's talk..."

After I said it, I started thinking the

meaning of what I just said, and the

more I thought about it, the more it

made sense to me. Here are some self-

conversations on it:

Rejection means you are thinking

new. Nothing new here, but sadly, we

still ignore this basic tenet. Quite often,

we take a self-serving initial hypothesis

that very closely matches our own ideas

about the world, and test it inside familiar

territory (friends, family, neighbors,

coworkers, etc.) and if it succeeds, we

end up blissfully believing that we now

have external validation to our idea, so

let's proceed with it. In our hearts, we

badly want that validation, that social

approval to go ahead and chase the pot

of gold at the end of the rainbow. Getting

a rejection is not only a heartbreak event,

it also potentially jeopardizes our

relationship with those closest to us (and

that very thought perhaps either stops us

from sharing highly contentious ideas

with them, or them sharing their true

feedback on our idea?).

However, when you are thinking really

big, something radically different,

something totally new to the world,

anything other than a rejection only

means you are simply doing a linear

thinking. If people wholeheartedly (or

even partially) say yes to your idea, it

only means what you are telling them

matches their existing mental models,

and hence they believe that might be a

good idea. It is also very likely that there

might be many more already thinking on

similar lines.

Repeated rejections are awesome! In

a random sample of respondents, there

will always be a mixed bag of opinions

about your idea. However, if you are

thinking really big, you are more likely to

hear a resounding NO from just about

everyone. Suppose you hear the first NO,

what do you do? You probably 'listen' to

that feedback and 'adapt' your idea to

suit what people might be looking for -

you basically try to conform to what

people expect. So, the next time, you are

more likely to get a feeble YES than a

strong NO. You keep iterating till you

come to the point when there is a

resounding YES to your idea and that's

when you've hit home run. However,

what happened to your big bold

audacious idea in that process? You

- Tathagat Varma

Get me 200 rejections and let's talk... PM Article

leadership anywhere in our organizations.

There's a consequence to this trend.

Leadership is by definition, also about

followers. Followers display the

characteristics of their leaders. If the

Leader is 'dedicated/ hardworking/

trustworthy/determined/loyal' then so will

be the followers. Today one of the great

management complaints is the lack of

dedication, trustworthiness, loyalty,

determination etc. of 'Generation ?'

(Choose a letter of your choice from the

available alphabet)

I wonder what's going on… more to the

point… I wonder which came first, the

lack of motivated followers in our

organizations, or the lack of leadership

attributes worth following in our

organizations?

Organizations exist for only one reason…

they exist to fulfill a 'purpose'. That

purpose differs from organization to

organization of course, but each

organization has a purpose. Almost by

their nature they require 'followers' in the

form of employees who work together to

achieve that purpose. If we ask our

employees what their purpose is… would

the responses we collect display the same

consistency of purpose as would the

responses from a room full of Terry Fox

followers? Gandhi followers? MLK

followers?

We tend to think about leadership in

terms of individuals and forget that

organizations must demonstrate

leadership traits if we are to reasonably

expect our employees – followers all – to

exhibit loyalty, dedication, hard work,

determination.

Leadership isn't an idle topic. It's a vital

topic for every organization. Without

leadership, we're not making progress,

we're merely marking time.

"(c) 2017 Peter de Jager - reprinted with

permission. Peter is a keynote speaker and

workshop facilities, You can contact Peter

at: [email protected] and see

more of his work at:

www.Vimeo.com/technobility"

“Are Leaders born or made?” That's an

old question. It's been asked before –

many times – and it'll be asked again –

many times. Even so it's worth exploring,

we might not uncover anything new but it

might serve as an exercise – especially if

we measure ourselves against our

findings.

Head to the Internet and search for the

term 'Leadership Attributes' and you'll

find a few tens of thousands of attempts

to list the

'Key'/'Prime'/'Major'/'Crucial'/'Critical' etc.

attributes. Here are a few of these

selected at random.

Obviously, while there are some common

threads here, these types of lists span

the wide spectrum of human personality.

This shouldn't surprise us too much. We

are each drawn to certain types of

leaders and their leadership skills differ.

Churchill was not the same type of leader

as was Gandhi, George G. Bush was not

the same type of leader as Barrack

Obama. Not only does each leader differ

in 'style' but also in purpose and

direction.

To complicate matters? There have been

leaders with huge followings, who

initiated monstrous change in the world,

and who led the world in directions many

of us would not have chosen by choice –

yet to mention them by name as 'Great

Leaders' – immediately initiates heated

discussions about what it means to be a

'good leader' or to be 'good at leading'.

The leadership discussion is a necessary

one in all organizations, if only for the

fact that there seems to be a shortage of

leaders in our organizations, communities

and society in general.

At the core of every 'leadership attribute'

list are two traits, mostly assumed, often

unmentioned on the internet lists.

- Peter de Jager

1) A personal passion for some goal that

isn't currently being accomplished.

2) An ability to communicate that goal to

others so that there is something to

work towards.

With passion comes determination,

initiative, courage, dedication etc. One

could argue that passion makes us so

focused on what we want to achieve, that

the question of 'courage' never arises.

When a parent rushes into a burning

build to save their child – does 'courage'

figure into their decision? Or is it 'merely'

an overwhelming focus on their goal?

“Save my child!” regardless of any other

consequences. When Terry Fox ran across

Canada, was it 'courage', or a single

minded focus on a personal objective that

would brook no interference?

When it comes to the secondary trait, the

'ability to communicate', this doesn't

always present itself in the form of words.

It's often 'nothing but' the creation of a

highly visible example. Once again Terry

Fox comes to mind. His actions have had

a persistent and growing legacy – and

while his words still sound in our ears –

it's his actions, and the images of him on

his lonely run, that continue to swell his

following year after year.

These examples of leadership might seem

a bit removed from the office

environment, but we need leaders

amongst the corridors and cubicles as

much as we need them on the world

stage. There are some other attributes of

leadership which are important. Fairness,

Responsibility, Trust, Consistency, Clear

Vision etc. It's not just that there's a lack

of leaders in our organizations, there's a

growing lack of any of the attributes of

The Source of all Leadership

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PM Enrich for E&C Forum: PMI

Bangalore India Chapter organized a one

day workshop on “Lean Project

Management Best Practices” - for

establishing a reliable construction rdtimeline. The work shop was held on 3

December 2016.

The Program was conducted by Mr. Tony

Jacob, PMP, MIE, PMI-PBA, who is a Civil

Engineer from NSS College of Engineering,

Palakkad (Calicut University) and PGDCM

from XIME, Bangalore.

Workshop gave an insight about the Lean

Construction & Project Management

concepts and methods to understand the

real reasons behind challenge and ways to

improve construction.

A. performance increases with physiological or

mental arousal, but only up to a point. When

levels of arousal become too high,

performance decreases. The process is

often illustrated graphically as a bell-shaped

curve which increases and then decreases

with higher levels of arousal. Research has

found that different tasks require different

levels of arousal for optimal performance.

For example, difficult or intellectually

demanding tasks may require a lower level

of arousal (to facilitate concentration),

whereas tasks demanding stamina or

persistence may be performed better with

higher levels of arousal (to increase

motivation).

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Multiple vendors to supply and integrate all the parts

Keep the weight of the spacecraft to under 850kgs

Configuring the systems separately and assembling them to a complete system

It was a very first mission to the MARS, everything was supposed to be specific to it.

Still, the project took care of the time and the cost, some designs of parts were taken

from existing satellite, tinkering it slightly. A new upgrade with minimum hardware

requirement proved a successful strategy as only few items were done from scratch

which needed to follow the process to get quality certificate.

Even the software was reused from other missions. Lessons learnt from elsewhere e.g.

USA, Russia etc played an important part in managing the project in a cost efficient

manner. The mission was launched on 5th November 2013. The satellite reached Mars

in 9 months where the target was 400 km away and continuously moving further away

with the speed of 29 km/sec. A precisely done onboard calibration with geometric

calculation was required which makes the launch more challenging as one thinks. India

has one fixed launch pad from Sriharikota only. But the point of injection depends on

current location of the Earth and MARS which was not same as Sriharikota. To solve

the problem of launching, ISRO deployed 2 ships near South Africa to manage the

exact loaction.

Today ISRO is launching every month one satellite and the plan is to launch 3 satellites

in every 2 months by 2018. Dr. Annadurai counted the benefits of project Mars are in

the field of broadcast, communication, meteorological, earth observation, forest

monitoring, water monitoring, agriculture and soil monitoring, ocean and fishing zone

monitoring and in other developments. Despite all that, the big hardware designed for

the mission can be used everywhere now as the quality is ensured. Now other projects

can focus on particular area of testing only and reduce the cost of quality.

In brief, Mars mission was the test bed for all other projects which will reduce the

effort and budget for them. Bottom line is that confidence is gained by the country to

launch other projects in cost effective and successful manner, it has given confidence

to the industry partner to increase the capacity. Today the ISRO strategy and standard

is being followed across the globe placing India in a leadership position! !

From ABB –

Flt.Lt. (Retd.) Sheena S Minhas, Head HR, ABB GISPL

Dr. Venkateswaran Narayanan, Head - Competence Development, ABB India Ltd

From HPE -

Mr. Sriranga Nadiger, Director, HPE India R & D

From SAP Labs India –

Mr. Mahesh H Nayak, COO, SAP Labs India

Mr. Rajnish Prasad, Head, SAP Custom Development (APJ & China)


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PM Member’s Corner

The Lighter Side of PM

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The Culture Change Solution

2. 5-Jan-17 12:00 PM EST Risk Identification Techniques: Beyond Brainstorming

3. 9-Jan-17 1:00 PM EST Business Agility Transformation - It's not about Agile, it's about Agility!

4. 10-Jan-17 12:00 PM EDT The Agile/Project Management/DevOps Leveraged Triangle

5. 10-Jan-17 12:00 PM EST RapidStartPMO - A New Approach to Delivering Strategy and

Driving Enterprise Transformation

6. 10-Jan-17 1:00 PM EST Honing your Project Management Skills for the Consulting Industry

7. 11-Jan-17 12:00 PM EST Power Relationships in Team Interactions RESCHEDULED

8. 12-Jan-17 1:00 PM EST No More Slackers!! Building a Culture of Accountability within

Your Project Team

9. 17-Jan-17 1:00 PM EST November Book Club Q&A Closing Webinar - Project Management

Simplified: A Step-by-Step Process

10. 18-Jan-17 12:00 PM EST Risk Management in the Construction Sector

11. 20-Jan-17 1:00-2:00 PM EST Waterfall to Agile - How To Change Your Documentation Style

12. 25-Jan-17 1:00-2:00 PM EST Mastering Difficult Conversations

13. 25-Jan-17 12:00 PM EST Project and Program Turnaround

14. 26-Jan-17 3:00 PM EST Project HEADWAY: PMO's, As If Value Mattered

We welcome all new

members and thank

members who have

r e n e w e d t h e i r

membership.

Appended is the list of

few FREE web-based

seminars (webinars)

for January 2017, we

have shared same list

to your registered

email; this is a good

opportunity to earn

PDUs and claim at

PMI to maintain your

credentials.

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