Project Management : the eight appointments of PMI France-Sud

The Project Management Institute France-Sud chapter, opened last year, has set up a dense program of conferences and technical sessions on the problems of project managers.

The PMI France-Sud chapter, created last year from Sophia Antipolis, is really active. This regional model of the Project Management Institute which is already composed of more than 67000 members around the world and 24000 of them are certified project managers, already puts together more than 100 members in the region of South-France.But PMI France-Sud has especially set up a rich program of debate-conferences which will take place in the morning at the Esinsa, in Sophia Antipolis : in 2001, a total of eight conferences which four of them will be opened for everybody. The other four sessions is reserved for PMI subscribers. These sessions are more technical and interactive on precise points of problems encountered by project managers. On the other hand, an award for the best project of the year will be organized.The first sessions reserved for PMI members will take place on Thursday February 15th, from 9 to 11 am, at the Esinsa. The theme : mergers and acquisitions at the Internet speed. This session will focus on the following points :- With the Internet era, how can you integrate a new acquisition in less than 180 days ?- Since every merger or acquisition is unique, how can you set up and use despite a generic approach ?- What are the main factors for success ?- What are the traps to avoid ?This will also be an opportunity for Jean-Charles Courbois, the project manager at Nortel Networks, to share his experience of some success stories in that field.The other sessions will take place all year long. On Friday September 28th, the session on 'Collaborative services on Internet' has to be noticed. The complementary professional associations will take part in it. Actually, the seminar will be divided between the following associations : Telecom Valley, Club High Tech, Database Forum, PERSAN and PMI France-Sud.The appointments for 2001Here is the program for 2001.The asterisks are the sign of sessions reserved for subscribers.- Thursday February 15th* : Mergers and Acquisitions at the Internet speed- Thursday March 15th : Project Management Office (PMO) –Extra cost or real added value ?- Thursday April 12th* : How can you optimise your formation in Project Management ?- Thursday June 21st : Quality in Project Management : Utopia ? Necessity of markets ? Pure and simple loss of time ? …Or decisive advantage ?- Thursday September 20th * : The theory of constraints, to make the project manager the 'star' of his company and of his customers.- Friday September 28th : Collaborative services on Internet – the complementary professional association of Sophia- Thursday October 11th : Get ready to take on your next multi cultural project !- Thursday November 15th : the success stories of the Project ManagementContactsIn order to register, an address : /www.pmi-fr.org/france-sud"> www.pmi-fr.org/France-sud