PMItoday - June 2009

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PMI Manitoba Chapter
PMI Manitoba Chapter Honors
Project of the Year

A RECORD NUMBER of attendees celebrated project management excellence as the

PMI Manitoba Chapter

(Canada) held its fifth annual project of the year awards ceremony on 10 February. Chapter President Toby Elson, PMP, opened the event and introduced the Honorable Andrew

Swan, Minister of Competitiveness, Training and Trade, who brought greetings from the province of Manitoba.

A presentation then profiled all of the projects that had entered the project of the year competition, along with their submitting organizations. Mr. Elson and Minister Swan then presented each project representative with an engraved personalized glass award in the shape of the province of Manitoba to recognize their participation.

The 2009 project of the year award was presented to the Farmer Procurement and Payment Services Project (FPPS). This project, submitted by the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) and Online Business Systems, was selected over five other very deserving projects.

A joint undertaking of the CWB and Online Business Systems, the recently completed two-year effort enables more than 50,000 farm customers to conduct all of their CWB business online, rather than by mail, telephone, or through visits to their local grain elevators.

The FPPS project succeeded in supporting CWB’s short- and long-term goals of increasing productivity and support while creating a strong awareness of the CWB’s commitment to farmers. All business objectives and milestones were met on time and within

PMI Manitoba Chapter President Toby Elson (back row center) is shown with team members from the Farmer Procurement and Payment Services Project, which was awarded the chapter’s annual project of the year award.

budget. Technology goals established at the onset of the project were achieved, and by the time the project ended, user satisfaction with the solutions led to a 600 percent increase in e-services usage by farmers.

The second place award was presented to the Manitoba Client Registry Implementation Project, submitted by Manitoba Health & Healthy Living, Manitoba eHealth and Sierra Systems.

Other project submissions were:

■ Minimum Data Set Project (Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and Manitoba eHealth);

■ Emergency Department Information System Project (Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Emergency Program);

■ Manitoba Colorectal Cancer Screening

Hon. Andrew Swan, Minister of Competitiveness, Training and Trade for the province of Manitoba, welcomed attendees to the PMI Manitoba Chapter’s annual project of the year awards ceremony on behalf of the province.