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Thursday, August 14, 2008
More than 20 Presentations at Day 2 at PMI Global Congress - Latin America at Sao Paulo, Brazil
Reported by Ana Maria Rodriguez in Sao Paulo
Day 2 at the PMI Global Congress in Sao Paulo was a day full of valuable knowledge. With 24 presentations in three different languages, most topics of modern project management were presented with an incredible well-organized schedule. Main topics presented on Tuesday, 12 August included experiences with PMOs, Earned Value Technique, Leadership, Communications, Project Start, Team Building, Enterprise Resource Planning, and others.
Most attendees are very satisfied with the broad amount of topics of the presentations. Presenters from all over Latin America and also from the United States shared their best practices.
Mr. Peter Mello (pictured right), PMForum’s international correspondent in Brazil, offered a very clear and interesting presentation on Project Management Tools. On it, he synthesized all tools that must be used in a project to improve its performance, software tools, cash flow management, risk simulation, trend analysis.
The software Spider Project Professional was also introduced to the audience by Peter, showing it as a very useful tool for applying important concepts such as resources and budget constraints and also managing and presenting all types of project information in an easy way to make decisions.
The Project Management Institute (PMI®) is the leading advocate for the project management profession globally. Founded in 1969, PMI has more than 400,000 members and credential holders in 174 countries. PMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP) credential is the world’s most widely recognized project management certification. For more information, visit www.pmi.org.
Four PMI Global Congresses are held each year, in the Asia Pacific region, Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region, in North America and in Latin America.PMI Global Congresses are often the largest project management related events in the world and include educational seminars, tracks of professional paper presentations, vendor exhibitions, networking and social events, and professional meetings. PMI also conducts regional leadership meetings in connection with each Global Congress, at which leaders of PMI components, committees and operations staff meet on PMI business. For more information about PMI Global Congresses, visit: http://congresses.pmi.org/ .
Day 2 at the PMI Global Congress in Sao Paulo was a day full of valuable knowledge. With 24 presentations in three different languages, most topics of modern project management were presented with an incredible well-organized schedule. Main topics presented on Tuesday, 12 August included experiences with PMOs, Earned Value Technique, Leadership, Communications, Project Start, Team Building, Enterprise Resource Planning, and others.
Most attendees are very satisfied with the broad amount of topics of the presentations. Presenters from all over Latin America and also from the United States shared their best practices.
The software Spider Project Professional was also introduced to the audience by Peter, showing it as a very useful tool for applying important concepts such as resources and budget constraints and also managing and presenting all types of project information in an easy way to make decisions.
Four PMI Global Congresses are held each year, in the Asia Pacific region, Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region, in North America and in Latin America.PMI Global Congresses are often the largest project management related events in the world and include educational seminars, tracks of professional paper presentations, vendor exhibitions, networking and social events, and professional meetings. PMI also conducts regional leadership meetings in connection with each Global Congress, at which leaders of PMI components, committees and operations staff meet on PMI business. For more information about PMI Global Congresses, visit: http://congresses.pmi.org/ .
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