Attention PMI-SWVA Members: We have moved Elections up one month!  Please make every effort to attend this meeting.   

The agenda for the November meeting is shown below:

Elections:
Elections Chairperson to present open Board positions and nominations.  Chairperson will faciltate member voting and present final results at end of meeting.  

You must be a member of PMI-SWVA in good standing, and attend the chapter meeting to vote.  If you cannot attend the meeting, you may use a proxy to to cast your vote.  

PMI-SWVA members at remote sites can also vote, facilitated by an Elections Committee representative at their location.   The Elections Committee representatives for Lynchburg and Tri-cities will be announced shortly.

Topic:  7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success 

In this interactive presentation, Dux Raymond Sy will impart the practical knowledge of how SharePoint can address common project management challenges such as: Inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor document management practices and undefined project collaboration standards that can compromise project success. SharePoint provides a framework that can empower project managers to create a standards-based Project management Information System (PMIS).

In this presentation participants will be able to:

• Identify the benefits of leveraging SharePoint as a PMIS.
• Quantify the advantages of using SharePoint as a PMIS compared to other tools.
• Enhance project management, team collaboration and communication with SharePoint.

The primary audience for this class includes project managers, projects teams, or decision makers whose organizations have adopted SharePoint and who wish to leverage SharePoint as a PMIS.

Participants will get presentation notes and a SharePoint PMIS template.

About our Speaker:

Dux Raymond Sy, PMP
Managing Partner
Innovative-e, Inc.

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux (you're right, it's pronounced as "ducks") has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft-certified, business technology consulting and services company that serves startups to Global 50 clients.

As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of “SharePoint for Project Management” published by O’Reilly Media. He is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of SharePoint technologies with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications.

A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various PMI and Microsoft SharePoint related events with audiences from various government organizations, Fortune 500 companies, non-profit institutions worldwide.

He regularly blogs on topics related to project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.