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International Project Management Day – Acknowledging the Profession
Dear TEAM,
On this International PM Day, I really appreciate the valuable contribution you've made to me, our chapter, great Asian Region, PMI & Global Humanity!!
Saji
Dear Saji
Thanks for the International Project Management Day greetings You are one of the true evangelist of Project Management globally . I am sure your energy and enthusiasm will continue to grow and your contribution will be highly beneficial in building use of Project Management Thanks once again for the proactive IPM Day greetings
With warm regards
B G Jayaram
Project Management Centre of Excellence
Dear Jayaram,
Thank you very much for your kind words. But the credit goes to practicing PM evangelists like you & Frank Saladis (hope you remember your TEAM India meeting with Frank Saladis & PMI NY Chapter ). Look forward to your continued blessings and mentoring in my learning journey.
Warm regards, Saji
Helene Heller, a project manager I met in one of the IIL BA classes, offered her helping hand to someone like me who was looking for a mentor to guide me through my PM career. She has provided valuable guidance and providing me with materials I need for PMP education. She continues to be my mentor and I am so thankful, being a PM so long, she has motivated me enough to take these tests. I reach out to Frank Saladis for any hints, help and Frank and Helene are such great resources who take a moment of their busy life to help me. I want to say Thank you to both of them and I wish to pay this forward to someone else like when I reach my goal.
Thanks Helene, Thanks Frank.
Hello Frank! Haven’t heard from you in a while and am very happy to receive this lovely message. Happy International Project Management Day to YOU!!! – Thank you for all you do to support the project management profession and project managers everywhere!
You’re the BEST!!!
Cynthia
I would like to acknowledge the Unison Project, an ERP implementation, conducted at Caterpillar Financial in Nashville and the UK in 2006-2007 for project management excellence. The entire team should be recognized, with special congratulations to the members of the PMO.
IIL Team,
My sincere thanks to all of you for your continued support of project management,and the value of the profession. The IIL team continues to demonstrate an extraordinary level of energy and enthusiasm and It has been my pleasure to work with you this past year. I believe that the IIL International Project Management Day program that was produced yesterday established a new level of appreciation for project managers and helped the profession take a giant step forward. It was kind of like the project management version of Niel Armstrong stepping on to the moon. A (not so) small step for IIL but a giant leap for project management.
Thanks for supporting me and working with me and I wish all of you continued success.
Respectfully and most sincerely,
Frank Saladis
Dear Frank,
I will take the liberty of speaking on behalf of the "Entire IIL Team" to say that we are honored to be working with you continuously on this ever-growing PM project. We thank you for your vision, your ability to motivate others to get on board with you, your persistence and perseverance, your enthusiasm, your commitment and the excitement you bring out in others who join you.
We are all honored to have pulled off a great event -- the webcast -- and a fabulous dinner/reception. We thank your family for participating with us, and for supporting your efforts throughout the year. I personally want to thank Lori and Archie for the outstanding jobs they did in making everything happen. And great job, Michelle, in bringing in the proclamations!
We look forward to starting work with you on IPMDay 2008!
Best regards,
Judy Umlas
International Institute for Learning, Inc. Senior Vice President, Learning Innovations Publisher, IIL Publishing, New York
To Mickie Vest
My sincere thanks to you for your continued support of the International Project Management Day Website. Your willngness to assist has helped us to reach project managers world wide and resulted in much greater appreciation for project managers and the work they do.
Respectfully,
Frank Saladis Founder - International Project Management Day
Frank and Judy,
Thank you for creating this special day for the profession! Please convey my thanks as well to LaVerne, Dr. Kerzner, and all your guests on this morning’s broadcast. It was a wonderful, quality event worth every minute of time spent. Keep it up! I’m looking forward to next November 1 already.
Ray Frohnhoefer, MBA, PMP
Dear Ray,
What a wonderful "acknowledgment"! Thanks so much for participating in our day with us, and we are thrilled that you are already looking forward to next year's event. Please give us any ideas or suggestions as to who you would like to hear on the webcast in 2008! And thank you for taking the time to deliver such a positive statement. It means a great deal to all of us.
Best regards,
Judy Umlas
International Institute for Learning, Inc.
Senior Vice President, Learning
Innovations
Publisher, IIL Publishing, New York
Dear Frank,
At PMRos, a community of Project Managers in Rosario, Argentina, we joined your celebration. We sent this greeting card to all the Project Managers in the region, recognizing their support to the tremendous growth of the economy here. I am sorry I did not sent it to you ahead of time.
And have a nice day!
Ana Maria Rodriguez
PMForum & PM World Today International Correspondent
Rosario, Argentina
El 2 de noviembre se celebra mundialmente el Dia Internacional del Project Management. Esta celebración reconoce el valor del trabajo de aquellos dedicados a gestionar la ejecución de proyectos en todas las organizaciones. Es además un motivo para insistir en la importancia de profesionalizar la dirección de proyectos, mediante la aplicación de estándares y metodologías validadas mundialmente que mejoran el desempeño de los proyectos.En PM Ros, apoyamos esta iniciativa y aprovechamos la ocasión para felicitar a todos aquellos que con su dedicación a sus proyectos han logrado que la región Rosario sea cada vez más prospera. Creemos que el contínuo crecimiento de la región debe también agradecerse a nuestros project managers, a quienes invitamos a formar parte de nuestra propuesta de trabajo.
Frank and team,
FYI, our Alcatel-Lucent PM Symposium - Making a Difference: Project
Management That Matters, ended up with a registration of over 1,000
people, with more than half participating in the live webcast, and the
remainder to take the Symposium (and get their 6 PDUs) over the next few
months. Thanks for your support!
Frank P. Saladis PMP
Project management is a profession that many people just don’t seem to understand. Even project managers have difficulty explaining to their family and friends what they actually do. During a keynote address I delivered recently my daughter was in attendance and remarked to me after the speech that I mentioned the word “PMBOK” at least 20 times. She had no idea what it was. Since I was in the presence of a group of project managers I basically took it for granted that everyone would know what I was talking about. There is a lesson learned here (lessons learned, what a concept!) We really can’t make any assumptions about how people perceive the job of the project manager and we especially can’t make any assumptions about the terminology we use or about the methods and procedures used to manage and complete our projects. It is also apparent that many people view project management as “added work”, overhead, or something that prevents real work from being accomplished. The generally accepted practice in business is to plan minimally and get started quickly. The belief is that less planning means more time for work and therefore faster time to completion or to the market. This is where we begin to see the value of project management. Projects that that start off quickly and follow the “just do it” approach ultimately end up in triage. Additional cost, displeased customers, schedule overruns, and probably several changes in the project team can be expected. Troubled projects are (in most cases) the result of poor planning. The perception that following a project management methodology will delay the project and prevent the team from being productive has been fueled by the belief that if you take too much time up front to plan you will not have enough time to meet the deadline. Where did the deadline come from? It was probably a guess based on loosely defined information, a lack of understanding about the complexity of the work to be done and a failure to analyze the current workload of the existing resources. That’s where project management comes in. It is an organized, common sense approach that will, when properly administered, increase the probability of success significantly while supporting and contributing to the organizations major goals and objectives. If you are a project manager you already know all about this. You may also being dealing with the frustrations associated with working for people or within organizations that do not seem to fully understand the challenges of the project manager position or the benefits that can be derived if the entire organization actually embraced the true value of a project management methodology.
Looking at project management from a different perspective there is a truly exhilarating feeling when a project manager looks back at a project that has been completed successfully. Completed projects are a testimonial to the project manager and team and visibly demonstrate the true Power of the Profession. Gazing upon a completed bridge or a new park in an urban area, or a new sports stadium or concert arena will provide anyone with a feeling of awe and an appreciation for the work that was done. These are projects and we need to take the time to recognize those who worked so hard for us to enjoy them. Recently the city of Newark New Jersey celebrated the opening the Prudential Center, an arena, or more appropriately a master piece of building, that brings pride to the community and unlimited opportunities for economic growth. The grand opening of the arena was brought to the public through another project- a concert by Bon Jovi. Yes, rock concerts are projects! I don’t think too many of the fans were thinking about the WBS for the concert or the risks associated with pyrotechnics but you can rest assured that a strong team of dedicated professionals planned every part of the concert from the amplification and sound to an extra set of guitar strings.
Projects are all around us. A political convention, the making of a movie, a new building in downtown San Francisco, a wedding reception, a graduation party, a webcast, or a family vacation are all examples of projects people encounter just about everyday.
The world is actually filled with project managers. The title is not the important element here, it is more about what people do to achieve the desired objective. This is where the idea of International Project Management Day was originated. Sometime in 2002 the alumni of the Project Management Institute’s Leadership Institute initiated an email based discussion group to discuss how we could take the field or profession of project management to higher levels of appreciation in our respective communities. I though about IPM Day back in the later part of 2003. I sent a few memos about the idea and received some very supportive feedback from my colleagues. During the next several months I sent several inquires to the members of my project management network looking for additional support and ideas that would actually help me to make IPM Day a reality. In 2004 I attempted to identify a date that was not associated with any major holiday. I soon discovered that just about everyday is a holiday somewhere around the world. I selected Nov. 2, 2005. It seemed to be a good choice and I would designate the first Thursday of November each year as International Project Management Day.
Laverne Johnson, the CEO of the International Institute for Learning Inc. recognized the importance of designating a day for honoring project managers and the profession of project management and the first webinar, of what has now become an annual event, sponsored by IIL was planned and delivered to more than 1000 attendees from around the world.
