PMI® Global Congress 2015—
North America
Taking
Projects
to the
Next Level
By David Brummer
I N S I D E
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Leadership Institute Meeting
2015—North America
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PMP Brings Average 20 Percent
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The Power of Portfolio 20
Management
Call for Nominations for Open 22
Positions on the 2017–2019
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Events Calendar 25
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2015 for Education, Nonprofit
Capacity Building and Disaster
Management Initiatives
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PMI India News 31
Best of the Best Honored
Award-Winning Projects
and Practitioners
Celebrated See page 10
ll projects start with a vision.
And then it’s up to project
practitioners to rally their
teams around that vision—and
deliver results, according to speakers
at PMI® Global Congress 2015—
North America.
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And after three jam-packed days of
networking opportunities, keynote
addresses and sessions, attendees
walked away armed with the knowledge
to take their projects—and careers—
to the next level. Even the location of
congress was inspiring, as thousands
of attendees from 64 countries and
1,130 organizations gathered at one of
the most magical megaprojects of all
time: Walt Disney World, just outside
Orlando, Florida, USA.
The Scott Brothers
Double Vision
Twin brothers Drew and Jonathan
Scott, stars of the hit HGTV series
The Property Brothers, kicked off
congress with a lively discussion on
how project management helped them
build their burgeoning multimedia
production empire from scratch.
“We’d never be able to [grow rapidly]
unless we were constantly evolving
our practices and processes along
the way,” said Jonathan Scott,
a licensed contractor.
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