Wednesday, April 30, 2008

PMP Study Group: Free confcall 9PM May 1st on Scope Management

PM Lessons Learned

Free PMP Study Group Conference Call

Scope Management

The goal of this call is to empower Project Managers, and people studying for the PMP test.

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

9:00 P.M. – 10:15 P.M. (EST)

Conference Call Telephone Number: (641) 715-3200 Access Code: 675748#

Topic: Scope Management

Hosted by David Radkovich, PMP

Join us on this free interactive conference call hosted by David Radkovich, PMP. This call will be an open forum where you can provide your experience, tips or ask questions. Our goal is to make this as interactive as possible so your participation is very important. Some of the topics to be discussed include:

¨ Scope Management Processes

¨ WBS creation

¨ Control Accounts

¨ Change Management and Configuration Management

Additional topics will be presented on the 1st Thursday of each month. The topic for June 5th , 2008 is TBD. We would like your input for future topics. If you are interested in presenting please let us know.

Presentation material for this call and past topics are available in the files section of the PMLL yahoo group. Please download prior to the call.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

PMLL Episode 0033 Project Management Humor (PMlessonsLearned.com)

These are the notes from the PMlessonLearned.com Conference Call:

Topic: PM Lessons Learned
Presentation Title: PM Humor
Host: Henry Will, PMP
Presenter: Arthur Hedge – President of Castle Ventures LLC
Date: 17Apr2008
Podcast number: 0033
MP3 / Podcast: Download or Listen on Internet Archive or Listen on OurMedia or Join our podcast on itunes

You may want to listen to the MP3s of past conference calls. They're located in our Archive (see the link on our website).

See the files section of our PMlessonslearned Yahoo group for the presentation


Links from the Call and other great PM Humor sites:
http://www.projectcartoon.com/

www.project-training-uk.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm - Create your own "What the customer wanted cartoon"

www.dilbert.com
www.savagechickens.com
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Project_management
http://asapm.org/asapmag/a_humor.asp
http://cvr-it.com/PM_Jokes.htm
http://asapm.org/asapmag/m_millstones.asp
www.visitor-tracking.com/pm-jokes.php
http://www.pmthink.com/2005/12/project-management-useful-analogies-or_12.htm
http://kalsey.com/simplelinks/project_management/

Douglas Adams - "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

"I don't know the key to success but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby

Other Notes:

Project Management Cruises!

Please join us for a future conference call (they're all free and open to all). We currently have several calls a month. See our calendar of future calls via the link on our website.

If you're looking for a PM job, we invite you to join our FREE PM JOB SHOP conference calls.
Join the Yahoo Group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmjobshop

We highly recommend that you join the free PM Lessons Learned Yahoo group in order to get announcements of our calls and other information to further your PM career.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmLessonsLearned

Join our Yahoo group for details, reminders of the calls, and information to help you in your PM Career. Visit the website for details.

PMLessonsLearned.com - Project Managers helping Project Managers. Open to all.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Project Management Humor - on our next Confcall on Thur. April 17, 2008!

Who: You and our presenter: Arthur Hedge – President of Castle Ventures LLC
What: Next Thursday's PM Lessons Learned conference call on Project Management Humor
When: April 17, 2008 9pm Eastern Daylight Savings time
Where: Conference Dial-in: (641) 715-3200 Access Code: 675 748#
How: your phone or cell phone

BONUS! Until this call on PM Humor, you can listen into the recording of the great PM JOB SHOP call held on 4/10/08 using the information on the left of our home page:
Listen to last confcall recording: (641) 715-3413 Access Code: 675 748#

PMLL Episode 0032 Open Discussion (PMlessonsLearned.com PMP Exam Study Group)

These are the notes from the PMlessonLearned.com Conference Call:

Topic: PMP Exam Study Group
Presentation Title: An Open Discussion on PMP Exam Study
Host: Henry Will, PMP
Moderator: David Radkovich, PMP.
Date: 03Apr2008
Podcast number: 0032
MP3 Podcast: Download or Listen on Internet Archive or Listen on OurMedia or subscribe to our podcast on itunes

If you're studying for the PMP Exam, you may want to listen to the MP3s of past PMP Exam Study Group conference calls. They're located in our Archive (see the link on our website).

Notes from the call:

A great PM website:
http://www.pmhub.net

A few yahoo groups that are helpful:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PMP_study

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmpbest


Other Notes:

Project Management Cruises!

Note: Members of PMlessonsLearned.com are going on the Seminar At Sea cruise to Bermuda!


Please join us for a future conference call (they're all free and open to all). We currently have several calls a month. See our calendar of future calls via the link on our website.

If you're looking for a PM job, we invite you to join our FREE PM JOB SHOP conference calls.
Join the Yahoo Group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmjobshop

We highly recommend that you join the free PM Lessons Learned Yahoo group in order to get announcements of our calls and other information to further your PM career.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pmLessonsLearned

Join our Yahoo group for details, reminders of the calls, and information to help you in your PM Career. Visit the website for details.

PMLessonsLearned.com - Project Managers helping Project Managers. Open to all.

Monday, April 07, 2008

A conference call to help you as a PM: this Thursday!

Dear Project Manager,

Are you looking for your next assignment, better paid projects?

Yes you are! I know many of you wondering how long this recession will last and how it affects your near future. There are a growing number of people whom I have in the networking groups, who are getting nervous thinking when their project will be gone!!!

I think we can help each other! ” PMLESSONSLEARNED.COM” and PMJOBSHOP.COM are both career networking groups whose has a common goal which is to empower PMs, and people studying to be PMs.

PMLESSONSLEARNED.COM is a group that strives to promote and support project mangers to Increase their PM Knowledge, Build Business Relationships and Gain Professional Support

PMJOBSHOP.COM is a group that shares Project Management JOB OPENINGS with Project Managers when they're looking for work.

What we need from you is your participation and your ideas to make PM JOBSHOP conference call better and valuable to you. We need to hear from you about your needs, here are some suggested topics, we need more from you:

  • Interview with Recruiters – market trends, open jobs, help PM jobseekers
  • Questions typically asked by Recruiters and how to handle them
  • Discussion on selected PMP topics to help you
  • Would you like to role play an Interview with Actual Recruiter?
  • Help you prepare Elevator speeches
  • Help with Identifications of skill sets in demand and Trends in the Industry.
  • Help with negotiating your next job and or salary
  • Summary Letters
  • Etc

What we can do for you is provide you with search for your next job or current search, help you with resume, handling interview questions, Negotiating Job and or Salary among others.

Your ideas are welcome to develop this forum that delivers value to you

I would like to invite you to join our FREE project management networking group to connect with enthusiastic project mangers and PM Recruiters.

Just send and email to pmjobshop-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and you can begin searching for your next open project management position immediately.


PMlessonsLearned.com was started by a group of project managers. The goal of this group is to empower and support Project Managers, and people who are studying to be Project managers. For more information, visit our website at
http://www.pmlessonslearned.com

It's that really that simple!

NEXT CALL April 7, 2008

Call in! FREE Interactive call; just listen or join in the sharing!

Second Thursday of each Month 9:00pm
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