align committee and advisory group
objectives with PMI strategic goals,
and enable volunteers and staff to plan
the year’s activities. LIVPM attendees
comprised 16 volunteer groups, including
the Board, Board Support Committees,
Member Advisory Groups (MAGs),
Advisory Groups (AGs), Region Mentors
and the PMI Educational Foundation
board of directors. About 100 staff
helped organize the successful meeting
or met with their smaller volunteer
groups throughout the six-day event.
I N S I D E
1969. The year PMI incorporated; the
Woodstock peace and music festival;
the invention of ARPANET; and the first
lunar landing, thanks to the great Project
Apollo. With so many global “doers”
present, what more appropriate place to
begin our 50th anniversary celebration
than at the PMI® Leadership Institute
Volunteer Planning Meeting (LIVPM).
LIVPM—PMI’s annual Leadership Institute
Volunteer Planning Meeting—gets
together PMI’s global-level volunteers,
including the Board of Directors, in one
place (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA).
This year, there were 144 attendees from
35 countries.
The goal of this multi-day gathering is
to orient new PMI senior volunteers,
Benefits Realization: Beyond 3
Scope, Budget and Schedule
Events Calendar 8
Financial PMO Leaders 10
Explore the Future of Project
Management in China
New Practice Guide Targets 11
Benefits Realization
Professional Development and 12
Training Scholarships Take
Recipients to the Next Level
Chapter Links 14
Continued on page 5
Global Celebration
of Service Kicks Off
at LIVPM
See page 7
Global Volunteer Event Kicks Off
50th Anniversary Celebration
Leadership Institute Volunteer Planning Meeting 2019
PMI Chair Randy Black, P.Eng., PMP. At left, volunteering at Share Food Program, Philadelphia.
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