Membership News: More About PMCoPs
by John McHugh, past Director of Member Services
To our members and friends:
Over the past year we have been working on the PMCoP (Project Management Community of Practice) initiative.
The PMCoPs are designed to provide a grass roots means of disseminating project management information. This information can
be best practices, life experiences, new ideas relating to the field, a new tool, you name it.
The PMCoP can be very flexible in size and makeup. It can be a small group of people – 4-10 – that get together
at the workplace if they are all from the same company or in someone’s living room if they are from disparate places or if
they want to get together away from the workplace. The idea is to provide a comfortable arena to discuss topics around project
management. This information can be translated into doing a better job, or advancing through the certification process, or just a
better understanding of the processes involved, since in some form or another everyone winds up in a project sometime in their life,
either professionally or personally.
But the PMCoP can also scale. If you want to get 40 people together and bring in a speaker, more power to you. And the 40 people
can be a gathering of several local smaller PMCoPs that get together occasionally for doing something too big for a small group, i.e.
the PMCoP is a flexible entity.
To expedite this process we have in place some starter materials. Presentations about the asapm and our activities, a couple of
starter presentations such as one on risk, that can be used to kick off a meeting, and the support of our group in helping you get
started and be successful in making this happen. We also look forward to the groups themselves becoming self-supporting; through
communal discussions and helping build the library of reference materials for other PMCoPs to use.
For more information and for a starter kit, please contact Stacy Goff – Director of asapm Member Services:
Contact Stacy.
Stacy Goff
Member Services Director
phone: +1.719.488.3850
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