Misc

For those of you who cannot attend our 2010 AGM in Toronto on Dec. 10, you are able to still make your voice heard through online voting on our slate of candidates for a director's position, and for a range of motions that have been put forth to our membership. Sorry, but online voting is only available to members of the association. To access the online voting system, members should login and then follow the link below. [2010 AGM Online Voting Pages]

The PMAC Director of Professional Development is pleased to announce that registration is open for a new webinar to be held at 1pm on Dec. 7, 2010. The presentation, titled "The Polaris Submarine Project: A Case Study in Risk Management", covers the details behind the project that started the space race -- and the nuclear arms race. This high-risk project used innovative new management approaches to account for the project risk, including the invention of PERT.

Kevin Aguanno, our Vice President and Director of Professional Development, has just published a new article titled "Why Project Managers Should Master the Art of Bribery" for our members.

[Read the Article]

Some of you were asking, so we responded. Read about the history of the PMAC including its founding and early years.

There are still spaces available for this latest PMAC webinar. Members save 50% ($10 off) the regular price by registering on our site. The webinar, presented by world-famous project manager Richard Morreale, will focus on the top 10 reasons why project are still failing, despite decades of effort and loads of money spent trying to improve the situation, and Morreale's formula for improving our project success rates.

PMPs will get one PDU for attending this event.

[Details and Online Registration]

Morley Selver, the Director of Certification for the PMAC would like to congratulate 17 new project managers who received a PMAC certification this month.

One group wrote the Cert.APM certification exam at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Their names are listed in our Directory of Certified Agile Project Managers.

We would like to extend our special thanks to those who volunteered their time to help us with the 2010 Canadian Project Management Book Awards:

• Kevin Aguanno
• Linda Cummings
• Alex Jalalian
• Grant Kerr
• Sridhar Kethandapatti
• Lionel Mann
• Beverly Pasian
• Glen Sabatier
• Charles Sin
• Edward Snowden
• Paul Todd

Winning books will be announced at our 2010 Project Management in Canada annual conference on 11 December 2010 in Toronto.

At this time, we have filled all of our open book reviewer positions. If you would be interested in volunteering in some other capacity to help out the association, please send an email to: elections@pmac-agpc.ca with a list of the types of things you may be interested in doing.

Kevin Aguanno, our Vice President and Director of Professional Development, has just published a new article titled "Project Management and Office Politics" for our members.

[Read the Article]

The application deadline for the 2010 Canadian Project Management Book Awards has now passed, and we have had some interesting submissions from a number of publishers. We are now starting the book review / evaluation phase. We have a number of reviewers already, but are looking for a few more. If you are interested in helping out by reading one or more of these books and scoring it using our evaluation form, then please contact us at bookawards@pmac-agpc.ca. All reviewers get to keep the books they are given for review.

The Certification Board of the Project Management Association of Canada is pleased to congratulate the following people for achieving their Certified Project Management Associate (CPMA) qualification. The CPMA is the only IPMA Level-D qualification available in Canada. Candidates must demonstrate knowledge of the Canadian National Project Management Competency Baseline.

Congratulations go out to:

• Lewis Laing
• Anthony Palma
• Bob Robinson
• Camille Rozon