CONTACTS 

SUBJECTS
PMI Event Program, Planning
Speakers, Feb Event, Jul Event, Sep Event
Feb Event, Speakers
Jul Event, Speakers
Sep Event, Speakers

0707 -    ..
0708 - Summary/Objective
0709 -
070901 - Followed up work at ref SDS 23 line 60.  Reported on discussions with
070902 - Intel.  Considered status of PMI Event Program Planning and
070903 - implications for PMI's future.
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070905 - Set meeting next Wednesday with Kwan Henmi.  Bill will try to meet
070906 - with PG&E separately.
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0712 - Discussion
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071301 - Meeting with Intel
071302 -
071303 - Advised of preliminary results of discussion with Dave, ref SDS 23
071304 - line 65.  The notes will be updated to Bill's computer in a few days
071305 - so he can assess it more carefully.
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071308 -
071309 - I mentioned the conflict posed by the world's leading manufacturer of
071310 - computer chips and its employees using manual mangement methods,
071311 - contrary to their stated objective 5 years ago:
071312 -
071313 -     "We sell a product to help everybody be more productive; but, we
071314 -     still use the tools that we advocate everybody else abandon in
071315 -     favor of using our products."
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071317 -
071318 -    Objectives for Intel Meeting
071319 -
071320 -    Bill asked about my objective in meeting with Intel today.
071321 -
071322 -    I mentioned the discussion we had the other day at ref SDS 21 line
071323 -    86.  Bill said he saw that record, but has not had time to consider
071324 -    it carefully.  I explained the following ideas:
071325 -
071326 -      •  In order to develop qualified speakers that will add value to
071327 -         PMI events and improve professional skills of PMI membership,
071328 -         we have to frame an important theme and develop a presentation
071329 -         to give it life.  If we tell potential speakers the Event
071330 -         Program Planning Team is disbanded, this reduces enthusiasm to
071331 -         contribute.  The question arises, why are we meeting?
071332 -
071333 -      •  Many within PMI believe Intel has important information to
071334 -         offer PMI because Intel produces key components of tools PMI
071335 -         members use everyday and hope to one day use to greater
071336 -         advantage, i.e., to improve personal and organizational
071337 -         earnings by improving "management" productivity.
071338 -
071339 -      •  Dave Vannier is working on Intel's strategic plan to guide
071340 -         Intel's future.  Therefore, he seems especially well
071341 -         positioned to comment on how Intel hopes to accomplish the
071342 -         goals of PMI members to improve earnings by using Intel's
071343 -         products more productively.
071344 -
071345 -      •  Dave Vannier stated he believes the theme for his proposed
071346 -         presentation to PMI is critical to the success of the computer
071347 -         industry and to Intel.  He has expended considerable effort to
071348 -         gain approval to address PMI, ref SDS 20 line 59.  Intel's
071349 -         management provided David with materials to support the
071350 -         presentation, ref SDS 20 line 61, showing broader support for
071351 -         the importance of the issue we have framed.
071352 -
071353 -    Under this record, the best course is to develop the presentation
071354 -    and inform PMI of the opportunity.  PMI can then choose whether to
071355 -    to hear from Intel and others on...
071356 -
071357 -                      Taking the Quantum Leap
071358 -
071359 -       ...to effectively use automation to improve earnings, or they
071360 -       can reject it in favor of something else.
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071364 - Costs/Benefits of Intel Presentation or Abandoning it
071365 -
071366 - Admittedly this course hold risks.  If PMI decides not to hear from
071367 - Intel, then there is some potential harm to PMI's reputation.  In this
071368 - case, David Vannier had never heard of PMI, so the harm to PMI seems
071369 - modest compared to the potential gain to the membership from making
071370 - progress toward the orginal goal.  If PMI decides not to hear from
071371 - Intel, then Intel's work preparing a presentation on using automation
071372 - to improve management productivity, might be used in another setting,
071373 - as Bill and I considered the other day, ref SDS 21 line 96.
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071377 - Status of PMI NCC Event Planning Team
071378 -
071379 - I asked Bill to look at the background on the PMI Event Program
071380 - Planning, submitted to Linda and Ahmet at ref SDS 14 line 67,
071381 - following our meeting in Oakland in July.  Ahmet may have been
071382 - startled and disappointed by implications from events that have
071383 - influenced team progress, for example at ref SDS 14 line 128. He may
071384 - have decided a new team, new goals and different strategy would be
071385 - less burdensome than using project management practices to improve
071386 - PMBOK management communications, as contemplated earlier ref SDS 13
071387 - line 174.
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071391 - PMI Future Viability
071392 -
071393 - Bill is concerned that if PMI NCC fails next year, as it did this
071394 - year, to offer a good event program, then the Chapter's reputation
071395 - will be harmed, as well as its ability to attract and hold membership.
071396 -
071397 - We considered the current growth PMI is experiencing where more and
071398 - more people are joining and taking the PMP exam. This reflects a
071399 - belief in the efficacy of PMI prescriptions.  Is this well founded or
071400 - merely a momentary herd mentality that Project Management is the
071401 - current fad, as MBO, TQM and Reengineering each had their day in the
071402 - sun.  As we say in the NWO paper, reality is ultimate metric.  If PMI
071403 - fails to produce quality event programs, and if reported difficulties
071404 - PMPs are having performing actual projects, ref SDS 12 line 156, ref
071405 - SDS 7 line 260, is not addressed, ref SDS 7 line 578, then belief in
071406 - "Project Management" as a professional practice will wain, as reported
071407 - for TQM at Asilomar in 1994, ref SDS 2 line 86, and ref SDS 2 line
071408 - 145.
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071410 - Solving these concerns was a major impetus to the Event program theme
071411 - proposed for 1996, per ref SDS 14 line 67.  I suggested Bill contact
071412 - Dan Ono about meeting to get his input to help guide the resolution of
071413 - these points.  Bill said he has called Dan a number of times, but has
071414 - not heard back.
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071417 - Meeting with PG&E and Kwan Henmi Architects
071418 -
071419 - I invited Bill to meet with Denis Henmi and I for lunch next
071420 - Wednesday, ref SDS 24 line 107.  He is planning to visit with Chris
071421 - Snyder at PG&E on promoting an independent professional development
071422 - event, per our discussion at ref SDS 21 line 97.  He indicated he was
071423 - thinking of meeting with Chris one on one.  I concurred, and noted my
071424 - idea was that he could do this before or after meeting with Denis and
071425 - I.
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SUBJECTS
Windows NT
Windows, Microsoft

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