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Morley Selver, the Director of Certification for PMAC would like to congratulate four new candidates who passed our Certified Agile Project Manager exam on October 2nd in Toronto: Mikael Andersson, Tom Emrich, Lionel Mann, and Jean Michaud. They have been added to our Cert.APM Directory. If you are interested in becoming a Certified Agile Project Manager, please read the Cert.APM program details.

PMAC is proud to announce that it has secured a 50% discount for members wishing to participate in this webinar hosted by one of our sponsors Multi-Media Publications Inc. The webinar will be presented by world-famous project manager Richard Morreale and it 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 situati

Kevin Aguanno, our Vice President, has released a new article on comparing the project management complexity across different project types. To access the article and leave your feedback, click on the link below:

Article - My Project is Harder than Your Project

The CPMA (IPMA Level-D) exam prep course scheduled for Toronto from Sept. 27-30, 2010 has been moved to Nov. 1-4, 2010 in Toronto. Please check the following link for details: http://www.pmac-ampc.ca/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=41

In addition to our earlier listing of courses from MIT, more free online university courses of interest to project managers are available:

Open University

• Project Management
• Preparing a Project
• Planning a Project
• Implementing a Project
• Completing a Project
• Making Decisions
• Managing Projects Through People
• Managing Relationships

University of California - Irvine

• Fundamentals of Business Analysis
• Introduction to Project Management

For those of you who have missed them (check your junk mail folders in your email software), we are now making back issues of our PMAC Newsletter available online. They can be found by clicking on "Publications" in our main web site navbar, and then choosing "PMAC Newsletter". Or, you can click here.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made several of their courses on Project Management available for FREE online. Online materials vary from course to course but may include: course notes, assignments, video or audio recordings of lectures, and more.

The College of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT has made following project management courses available to the public:

• Project Evaluation
• Project Management
• Leadership Development
• Communication for Managers
• Advanced Managerial Communication
• Management in Engineering
• Product Design and Development
• System and Project Management
• Analyzing Projects and Organizations: How Organizations Behave
• Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods
• Organizing for Innovative Product Development
• Economic Analysis for Business Decisions
• Communicating with Data
• Competitive Decision Making and Negotiation
• Building and Leading Effective Teams
• Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting
• Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager
• Power and Negotiation
• Negotiation and Conflict Management
• Managing and Volunteering in the Non-Profit Sector>
• Cross-Cultural Leadership

PMPs can claim these FREE PDUs under category 4 (other providers).

The latest issue of the IPMA Newsletter is now available for free download by PMAC members. To get access to the current and back issues, please log in to our Members Forum section of this web site. Also available are current and back issues of the IPMA Perspectives magazine and the IPMA PM Research Journal. Both are available in our Members Forum section. For those who don't know, the International Project Management Association is the overall governing body accrediting national project management associations in over 50 countries around the world.

Kevin Aguanno, our Vice President, has released a new article on how to better succeed when managing projects across cultures and across countries. To access the article and leave your feedback, click on the link below:

Article - Multi-Cultural Project Management

Why do we still have troubled projects? One would think that after decades of formal project management training, organizational PM maturity models, individual PM competence development models, and countless magazines, books, and seminars that we would have figured this one out by now. Our projects are still plagued by the same troubling issues, yet we never seem to see them coming until it is too late. In this entertaining webinar, project management practitioner Donald Pillittere illustrates a model fo analyzing barriers to project success with examples from his long career.