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Past Meetings & PDU's


OSPMI has monthly dinner meetings at the Marriott hotel at One Orms Street in Providence, RI. Upcoming events can be viewed on our online Event Calendar and PDU's earned for past meetings can be found here. If you have questions about the meetings, you can find them on the Meetings FAQ page, or email us with any other questions you may have.

Recent Meetings & PDU's

You can find links to presentations from previous meetings in the list below, and also in our OSPMI Library at the following link: Meeting & Presentation Documents .

PDU reporting has changed. Each individual is responsible for reporting his/her PDU's to PMI to receive credit. You'll need to use the code provided and enter these as Category 4. For more information about how to post your PDU's, we have compiled a tutorial for you.

January 2004 - Present Meetings are posted below:

Date Speaker & Topic Summary
June 12, 2008 c207-06122008

Neal Whitten: Behaviors to Master When Dealing with Your Leaders

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May 8, 2008 c207-05082008

Bob Wysocki: Adaptive Project Framework: A Common Sense Approach to Managing Complex Projects

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Apr. 10, 2008 c207-04102008

Gregg Brett: The Meeting Information Management Lifecycle: The Missing Link In Effective Project Management

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Mar. 13, 2008 c207-03132008

Chuck Moulter, MBA, PMP: How to Manage Virtual (Remote) Teams.

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Feb. 21, 2008 c207-02212008

Mark C. Allman, PMP: Project Management Challenges in the Space Shuttle Flight Design Program.

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Jan. 10, 2008 c207-01102008

Mark C. Hall, PMP: Project Portfolio Management; flying by instruments instead of the seat of your pants.

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December, 2007 Holiday Recess
Nov. 8, 2007 c207-11082007

Dave Po-Chedley, Cambridge Consulting, Inc.: Blueprint for Project Success: The 10 Keys to Creating a Best-in-Class Project Organization.

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Oct. 8, 2007 c207-10082007

Joseph Raynus, Founder ShareDynamics, Inc.: Use of Measurements and Metrics for the Project Management Office (PMO).

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Sept. 13, 2007 c207-09132007

Steve Hegele, Hegele Academy: Energizing Critical Relationships.

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July & August, 2007 Summer Recess
June 14, 2007 c207-06142007

Tim Hebert, Atrion Networking: Good to Great, Why Some Companies Make The Leap and Other's Don't.

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May 10, 2007 c207-05102007

Rick Cusolito, Boston University: Project Management and Leadership.

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Apr. 12, 2007 c207-04122007

Mark Kozak-Holland, HP Services, Consulting and Integration: Titanic Lessons for IT Projects.

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Mar 08, 2007 c207-03082007

Ross McKenrick C. Ross McKenrick, PMP, Project Manager Microsoft Enterprise Services, East Region: Agile Project Management Using Scrum.

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Feb 08, 2007 c207-02082007

Anthony LoPreste: An Interesting View of the Need for Both a Business Analyst and a Project Manager on a Typical Project.

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December, 2006 Holiday Recess
Nov 09, 2006
c207-11092006

Clark Merrill: Communicating More Effectively.

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Oct 12, 2006
c207-10122006

Eric Leighton, President/CEO of LoadSpring Solutions: How do widely dispersed project teams collaborate safely and securely?

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Sep 14, 2006
c207-09142006

Tom Wescott, CEO of Project Solutions Group (PSG): Does EPM Do EVM? Delivering Earned Value with the Microsoft Project Management Solution.

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June, July, and August, 2006 Summer Recess.
May 11, 2006 c207-05112006

Lauren Mackler: Fire in the Belly.

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Apr 13, 2006 c207-04132006

The OSPMI Educational Committee: Focus on Education & Certification at Ocean State PMI.
The presentation was broken into three parts:

  1. Changes to the PMBOK third edition
  2. Webinars: The Future of Professional Development for OSPMI
  3. PDU Tips & Tricks.
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Mar 09, 2006 c207-03092006

Joseph Turner: Integrating OD with Project Management Training to Succeed.

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Feb 09, 2006 c207-02092006

Chance Reichel: The Similarities / Differences between the PMBOK and the United Kingdom's PRINCE2 Methodology.

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Jan 12, 2006 c207-01122006

Kerrry Wills: Reviewing the challenge of climbing almost twenty thousand foot high Mount Kilimanjaro.

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December, 2005 Holiday Recess
Nov 10, 2005 c207-11102005

Leo Messier, Director of the Providence Emergency Management Agency: Building the Project Plan you Hope you Never Execute.

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Oct 13, 2005 c207-10132005

Thomas J Mattus: The High Cost of Project Manager Turnover.

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Sept 8, 2005 c207-09082005

Stephen Devaux: Moneyproject: Baseball, Metrics & Project Management.

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July & August, 2005 Summer Recess.
June 9, 2005 c207-06092005

Beth Perry: Sticks and Bricks - Consider These Construction Management Techniques on Your Next Project.

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May 12, 2005 c207-05122005

Tim Kress: Aligning Projects with Business Strategy.

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Apr 14, 2005 c207-04142005

Brian Bozzuto: Making Process Improvement Work.

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Mar 10, 2005 c207-03102005

Richard Lincoln, Jr.: MS Project Tips, Tricks and Traps.

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Feb 10, 2005 c207-02102005

Mark R. Durrenberger: Project Estimates and the Lying Liars who Make Them!

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Jan 13, 2005 c207-01132005

Jacqueline Luciano: PMO - Project Management Office or Project Management Overhead?

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December, 2004 Holiday Recess
Nov 17, 2004 C207-11172004

Gil Bishop: Worms , Rats, Zombies and Phish.

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October 14, 2004 C207-10142004

BJ Murray, Six Sigma Black Belt: Six Sigma Overview and Discussion.

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September 9, 2004 C207-09092004

Richard Fox: Honesty in Project Management.

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July & August, 2004 Summer Recess.
June 10, 2004 C207-06102004

Christine Mockler Casper: Using Emotional Intelligence to Improve Project Performance.

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May 13, 2004 C207-05132004

Marc Rene, GTECH: Defect Tracking and Reporting.

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April 8, 2004 C207-04082004

Jack P. Ferraro: Competency? Beyond the PMP to Professionalism.

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March 11, 2004 C207-03112004

William Haeck, PMP: A Glimpse into OPM3 (Organizational Project Management Maturity Model).

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February 12, 2004 C207-02122004

Johanna Rothman: Predicting Project Completion.
Joint meeting with RIASQ (RI Association for Software Quality).

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January 8 , 2004 C207-01082004

Michael Mah: Making Risk Your Ally.

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