Making project
management
indispensable for
business results.®
PMI
today
Published by Project Management Institute A Supplement to PM Network®
JUNE
2009
Survey Says… PMI
VOLUNTEERS
Satisfied… Experienced…
and Will Volunteer Again
Volunteers ■ Help PMI communities and
are a pas-
sionate ■ Create standards and creden-
group. If
they did-
PMI as a whole grow and
serve their stakeholders better;
tial examinations that further
the profession;
■ Serve as advisors to important
n’t believe in a volun-
PMI programs; and
teer activity, they ■ Help PMI and the profession
would not give up
in many other ways.
Even after finding the time
their precious time to
for often-demanding volunteer
do it. And PMI volun-
positions, most are ready to do
teers are an even more
it again or move to a different
volunteer post after their terms
involved group.
or projects are complete. In addi-
tion to giving back to the profes-
Project management practitioners
sion, these volunteers are enjoy-have busy, stressful, time-con-
ing benefits for themselves and
suming jobs, yet they come forth
for their careers that their activi-in the thousands each year to:
ties provide.
As PMI Chair Ricardo
Vargas, PMP, has said in
the past, “PMI needs its
volunteers and our vol-
unteers need PMI.”
Because volunteers are
so important to PMI, the
Institute periodically
conducts a survey to
gauge their satisfaction
and to identify any needs
among the volunteers.
This year’s volunteer
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Special section: The Talent Gap
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Keeping Tabs is Essential for PMI
PMI GAC Accredits Its First
5
Latin American Project
Management Program
6
Events Calendar
9
Introducing PMI’s New Technology
Member Advisory Group ( TechMAG)
11
Call for PMI Annual Membership
Meeting Agenda Items
12 Chapter Links
Maintaining Secure,
Simple PMBOK
®
Guide Access
New PMBOK®
Guide Download
Process Balances
Security and
Ease of Use
Within the past month,
PMI has implemented a
revised download process
for A Guide to the Project Management
Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—
Fourth Edition,
which strikes
a balance
between protection of intellectual property
and ease of use
by PMI members. The new
solution aims
to address difficulties some members
recently reported in accessing the
new update of the PMBOK® Guide,
while still protecting the Institute’s
intellectual property rights.
Unique among standards-setting
organizations, PMI has always provided members with complimentary
access to its key global standard, the
PMBOK® Guide. As technology has
changed, the Institute has continued
to provide members a copy of this
standard, but in different media.
In 2000, with the publication of
the PMBOK® Guide—2000 Edition,
members no longer received a printed copy but obtained the standard
via a CD-ROM. Existing members
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