Editors Note

On behalf of the PMI Bangalore Chapter, I am pleased to share PM Essence the Newsletter of our Chapter.The newsletter seeks to connect up all the members of the Project Management community who are associated with the Bangalore Chapter. It aims to provide a forum to share ideas,developments in this space, new events, thought leadership articles and much more.

The newsletter would also foster us to be better connected and extend the benefits of project management expertise for the ecosystem that we live in. This includes Business, Industry, Academia, Government and Society.Each of us as Project Managers and Leaders have a deep belief that we can make a positive impact through collaboration with all the above 5 stakeholders. This being the first issue, we share the chapter's journey so far,current and forthcoming activities.

I take this opportunity to extend a warm invitation to contribute, participate and volunteer in making a difference, that we can all take pride in.

Thanks & Regards,
Madhavan S Rao, PMP,
Director, PMI Bangalore Chapter

Presidents Note

Dear Members,

Seasons Greeting to all of you and your family. On behalf of the board of PMI Bangalore Chapter, it is my pleasure to announce and release "PM Essence" our Newsletter for the Chapter.We have come a long way and made tremendous progress in almost all areas of our Chapter activities.We would like to keep all our members posted through our newsletter and website to maintain our periodic communication.The newsletter would also give another forum for all ourmembers to contribute articles, and share knowledge and experience across our project management community.
We look forward to your continued support and would like to thank you for all your encouragement and contibutions to the Chapter’s activities.

With Best Regards,
V.Amar Bhaskar, PMP
President, PMI Bangalore Chapter

• Critical chain based Project Management
  The Theory of Constraints Approach
• Power of Positive Leadership in projects
• Ethical Hacking

• Go Ahead - Take Risks!
• Think Global, Act Local
• Knowledge Transition of IT Projects from international clients.

• 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

• 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?

• Sharing Vision
• Assurance Management

• Annual All Members' Meet
• Managing Team Fireworks
• Thinking Quality A prelude to Quality Management for IT folks

• PM Thoughtlets
• Estimating Task Durations
• Leadership acceptance Patterns

• PM Footprints First Anniversary.
• PMPC 2007 - A Great Success.
• The other side of Project Management
• Project Portfolio Management.

• 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?

• 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

• 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.

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