PMFORUM Breaking News

Reported by Peter Mello in Brazil

Ginger Levin, PhD, PgMP, PMP, CAPM, OPM3 Assessor & Consultant will be presenting "Project Portfolio Guidelines for Success" in an event promoted by PMI Chapter Rio de Janeiro and PMI Chapter São Paulo.

The participants will get a copy of the Portfolio Management Tools and Techniques and 7 PDUs. Information about how to participate can be found at http://www.pmirio.org.br/

The seminars will be presented in two dates:

June, 23:
São Paulo - Hotel Blue Tree
Faria Lima (Av. Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 3.989)

June, 24:
Firjan - Rio de Janeiro
(Av. Graça Aranha, 1 Centro)

The Standard for Portfolio Management was designed to provide a guide to those processes generally recognized as good practices in portfolio management and focuses on portfolio management as it relates to the disciplines of program and project management. Published in 2006, the standard is an expansion on A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK^® Guide)—Third Edition and the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3^®).

The Standard for Portfolio Management — Second Edition is being developed and is scheduled to be complete during the fourth quarter of 2008
The information here presented was collected from an e-mail message sent by PMI Chapter São Paulo on June 10th and the PMI website posted below.

More information can be found at: http://www.pmi.org/Resources/Pages/Library-of-PMI-Global-Standards.aspx (English)

Peter Mello, SpS, PMP International Correspondent - Brazil Based in São Paulo State Peter Mello, SpS, PMP is an International Correspondent for PMForum in Brasil. He is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and a Senior Consultant for X25 Treinamento e Consultoria (X25), based in Brasilia, Brazil. He provides project management training and consulting services to governmental and industrial organizations in Brazil. Peter presently works with a portfolio of projects in the Petroleum & Gas industry. His professional experience also includes project and risk management for large projects in the IT Industry and Government, and scheduling optimization using critical chain and Success Driven Project Management concepts. More information about Peter can be seen at http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm. He can be contacted at peter.mello@x25.com.br.