Dear readers,

In Q1 2018 PMI Denmark had its General Assembly in Kulturhuset on Islands Brygge, including both a secret speaker and a nice dinner afterwards at restaurant Au Bistrot. This time the General Assembly also included approving new bylaws, and the election of a bigger and stronger board than ever before. The event went very well, and in this newsletter you can both see pictures and read more about the General Assembly and the dinner.

In the coming quarter (Q2) PMI Denmark will focus on Agile. We have an event on the 26th of April with Kristian Haugaard who will talk about scaling agile under the headline “Can big be beautiful?”. You can read more about the event on the PMI Denmark website here. Please remember to sign up for the event as usual.
More Q2 events on Agile will be published in the weeks to come.

In April PMI Denmark offers for the first time CAPM training for a group of 25 young professionals and students. This is an exciting new initiative in alignment with the new 2020 strategy. The training starts in the beginning of April, so  you can expect to hear more in the next newsletter. If it goes well, PMI Denmark will consider whether to continue it on a more regular basis.

With all the ambitious initiatives that are being started, there is always the need for fellow PM's who want to help with writing newsletter articles, plan and manage events, find speakers for conferences, etc. Should you be interested in any of this, then reach out to PMI Denmark on info@pmi-dk.org and remember that good things happen when you get involved with PMI 😊.

Enjoy the reading!
Best regards,
The PMI Denmark Board

General Assembly 2018 – A look back to 2017 and exciting plans ahead

On March 7th 2018, more than 40 Chapter Members gathered at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge in Copenhagen for the yearly General Assembly. It is always an event most of us look forward to reviewing the achievements over the past 12 months and set the targets for the current year.

In addition, then this year the bylaws were also changed to prepare the organization for the years to come. Among others, several new board positions were created which will help the organization with the energy needed to achieve the ambitious plans for the coming years. 

PMI Event on January 30th, 2019

Speaker: Skib Bowman 

Written by Elena Farnè

On the 30th of January from 17.00 - 19.00 at Rambøll, Ørestad PMI Denmark have invited Skip Bowman to speak at an after-work event on how to create constructive project team cultures.

During this PMI event, Skip Bowman from Global Mindset helped to take a challenging and hopeful look at the characteristics, drivers and consequences of toxic project management culture.

DTU-NTNU/PMI Event on January 26th, 2018

Speakers: Josef Oehmen, Søren Thomsen and Jannik Iversen

Written by Ram Pattiwar

On 26 January 2018, PMI & DTU hosted a full day event focusing on project risks with theme 'The Value of Risk Management'. Event was attended by 64 participates from various organizations in Denmark & by DTU, NTNU research scholars and faculty from Management Engineering - Engineering Systems group.

Event provided a unique opportunity to hear experience from specialists in the field, and to try your hands on to managing risks in the project environment, by various interactive exercises.

On 9th of February, PMI Young Professionals had the great opportunity to visit UN City and hear about project management from Wagner Maxsen.

The event generated a lot of interest and was quickly fully booked.The lucky participants, both students and young graduates, enjoyed a tour of the UN City and a presentation from Wagner Maxsen.

This spring, Project Management Institute in Denmark is proudly offering free project management training for young professionals to allow taking the CAPM certification.

The training is starting at the end of March and will continue until the 16th of May.

All the positions are now covered and we will be considering further training groups after evaluation of this training sessions.

Written by Klaus Nielsen

Late 2017 PMI publish the sixth edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) which is PMI's flagship publication and is a fundamental resource for effective project management in any industry. This time the PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition was supplemented by the Agile Practice Guide. The development of a new PMBOK® Guide is often associated with learning new processes, renaming knowledge areas and a bunch of new tools and techniques which also was the case with the PMBOK® Guide - Sixth edition which have been covered in earlier newsletters and so forth however this time changes were far more far reaching. I remember reviewing the new PMBOK® Guide - Sixth edition back in 2015 and was thinking, Yes Go PMI but without spoiling too much the PMBOK® Guide - Sixth edition did not go all the way but it’s a journey.

As PMI member, you have free access to webinars at the ProjectManagement.com PMI website. Have a look at the 4 webinars we have selected for you the topic of Tailoring & Hybrid Model in PM and the relative PDU information.

Listening to these webinars enables you to claim upto a maximum of 4 PDUs, which are automatically added to your current PMI certification cycle.

Welcome to the new members of PMI-DK Chapter joining during Q1_2018!

Follow the news for a social networking event to introduce the new members to the chapter team and our activities.

Here is the list of new members.

Congratulations to all those members who achieved new credentials in Q1/2018.

Here is the list of new credential holders.