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PM Essence Editor's Note

38 editions of PM Essence and excellent sharing

Season's Greetings from the Editorial Team of PM Essence!

We are happy to share with you that have completed 38 editions of our chapter’s monthly newsletter since its inception. This was made possible by your active participation and enthusiastic sharing of experiential learning and best practices in Project Management.

The editorial team would like to invite you to submit an article (650 words to 1000 words, that is about a page), on a topic of interest to fellow Project Professionals.

The benefits to you are many.

First and Foremost, this will get you recognized in your own eyes as a professional, who is continuously learning and has the ability to abstract wisdom out of one’s vast experience.

Secondly, it also gets you recognition amongst your Peers in Project Management field across the industry.

Thirdly due to the global reach of PM Essence, it also gets you a platform to let your thought leadership articles flow to rest of the world. A connection that will always prove beneficial as you progress in your career. It is a small world and your new client may recognize you from an article he liked.

Whether it is a downturn or an upturn, continuous learning never stops for a Professional and what better manner to demonstrate this than by contributing to professional development of our PM community.

Execution is the key. Think. Write. Submit.

This is a golden opportunity for you to share and demonstrate your Professional project management expertise through penning your thought leadership in Pm Essence . . .

Awaiting your article submission at pmessence@pmibangalorechapter.org. Please submit articles / content regularly so that we build our repository for newsletter.

Thanks & Regards,

Madhavan S Rao, PMP,
Director (Publications), PMI Bangalore Chapter



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Issue Topics Covered
Mar 2010
  • Invitation for sharing your Practical Project.
  • 1 Day Project Management.
  • PMPrimer Event for MBA students.
  • Bangalore Metro Project.
Feb 2010
  • Can I take the PMP® Exam even if my title is not “Project Manager”?
  • Managing in Challenging Times.
  • Innovation and R&D by I. V. Sarma.
  • What to do When Scope Creeps up on You?
Jan 2010
  • Project Security Management & PMBOK.
  • Lessons learnt during PMPC 2009 - An Introspection - Part 2.
  • Learning’s from the topic of INSAT-4CR Satellite realization.
Dec 2009
  • Lessons learnt during PMPC 2009 - An Introspection.
  • The World of “Contracts”.
Nov 2009
  • Best Practices of the World Wide Estimating Community.
  • How do you manage the ‘Outliers’ in a team?.
  • PM ESSENCE completes 3 Years.
  • CHAPTER NEWS.
Oct 2009
  • My incomplete 'The Vote of Thanks for PMPC 09.
  • OPM3 Insight with Larry Bull.
  • PMPC 2009, H1N1 Virus and TOC - A persepective.
Sep 2009
  • Project Management Practitioners Conference 2009.
  • PMPC - 2009 Photo Gallery.
  • PM Primer Launched.
  • Cost Effective method of obtaining PDU's to maintain PMP certification.
Aug 2009
  • Challenges in Software Project Management: A perspective.
  • How to upgrade yourself to the PMBOK guide 4th edition.
  • What if you get audited on your PMP exam application.
  • PMPC 2009 conference.
Jul 2009
  • Challenges in Engineering Projects: A PM's Perspective.
  • PM FootPrints - Experiences.
  • Technology PM - Why Industry is looking for specific Technical domain knowledge in PMs - A Perspective.
  • PMPC 2009 conference.
Jun 2009
  • Communicate, Inspire, Motivate and Empower with Confidence.
  • Spring cleaning for your soul.
  • Spirituality and Project Management.
  • Call for case studies for chapter's PM Journal.
May 2009
  • What is Assurance Based Project Management?
  • Be Happy Project Managers.
  • TPS Andon - An Innovation in Project Execution.
Apr 2009
  • Power of Attitude in crafting the Future of Project Management.
  • Project Management in Emerging Economies.
  • My first experiment with project Management.
Mar 2009
  • Managing Team Motivation Amidst Business Uncertainties and Recession – A perspective.
  • Secrets of Success - A perspective.
  • Creating Balanced Project Teams Using Belbin Model.
Feb 2009
  • Nine success factors that project manager's must focus now.
Jan 2009
  • Project Manager in Human Resource Outsourcing.
  • The Learning Attitude PM's Key to Business Success!!
  • Quick Tips for Dealing with Difficult People.
Dec 2008
  • Understanding the concept of Inventory in a Software Project.
  • True Success.
Nov 2008
  • Beyond Delegating the Project Manager as Coach.
  • Real Secret of Outstanding Leadership Revealed.
  • Getting to the End: A fine Line Between Project Success and Failure.
Oct 2008
  • False Confidence Killers
  • Preventing Issues in a Project
  • Would The Real PMP® Exam Question Please Stand?
  • Create your own sample questions for the PMP Exam.
Sep 2008
  • Project Management Practitioners' Conference 2008
  • Understanding flexibility among the constraints.
Aug 2008
  • An approach to Duration Estimation.
  • Information Security: what Project Managers should know & do about Insider Threat.
  • Real Secret of Outstanding Leadership Revealed.
July 2008
  • Beyond Delegating - The Project Manager as coach.
  • Getting to the End - A Fine Line between Project Success and Failure.
June 2008
  • The 7 Mantras Framework for Streering Project success.
  • The Project Management Practitioners' Conference 2008.
May 2008
  • Critical chain based Project Management
    The Theory of Constraints Approach.
  • Power of Positive Leadership in projects.
  • Ethical Hacking.
Apr 2008
  • Go Ahead - Take Risks!
  • Think Global, Act Local.
  • Knowledge Transition of IT Projects from international clients.
Mar 2008
  • Predicting Project Success - A Viewpoint.
  • Marriage between project management and quality management.
  • Concepts and Best Practices for Scheduling using MS Project.
  • Contract Management And PMBOK - A Viewpoint.
Feb 2008
  • Some Lessons learnt from managing a
    production support project at offshore.
  • Deck the Halls without Climbing the Walls.
  • How to spot a “By-God” IT SW Process mature company?
Jan 2008
  • Sharing Vision.
  • Assurance Management.
Dec 2007
  • Annual All Members' Meet.
  • Managing Team Fireworks.
  • Thinking Quality A prelude to Quality Management for IT folks.
Nov 2007
  • PM Thoughtlets.
  • Estimating Task Durations.
  • Leadership acceptance Patterns.
Oct 2007
  • PM Footprints First Anniversary.
  • PMPC 2007 - A Great Success.
  • The other side of Project Management.
  • Project Portfolio Management.
Sep 2007
  • Project Managemnt Practitioners' Conference 2007.
  • Today's Reality in Project Management - SOX, Governance & Global teams.
  • Does "One size fits all" paradigm suits project management practitioners?
Aug 2007
  • HR (Assets) Management in Projects.A closer look.... A bigger impact....
  • Experiences in running a PMO.
  • One day seminar on Project Management.
  • Induction of new directors into the Executive Committee.
Jul 2007
  • Leverage earned value measurement and analysis in IT Projects.
  • Management of Feature driven agile projects through an integrated, Collaborative Toolset.
  • Learnings from a 24/7 production support project - fortune 10.
Jun 2007 Project Management Challenges,Managing People Three Key Practices,
Making powerful presentations the integral part of Project Management.
May 2007 PM Footprints, Nominating Committee for the 2007 Chapter Election.
Apr 2007 PM Footprints: Managing Global Outsourcing, PMO & Portfolio Management
Mar 2007 PM Footprints Special Edition
Feb 2007 HR: Are 'we the change we want to see'?
Effective Communication
Jan 2007 Four Keys to the Signs of Success
Vision, Learning, Project Management and Gratitude
Dec 2006

Should you kill that troubled project?
Action plan for troubled projects


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