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CII Webinar Session on 20th June 2014

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On 20th June 2014 gave a session on the topic   " How PMO (Project Management Office) can Play a Crucial Role in Delivering Organizational Value and Strategy?"   Covered the topic in 90 mins, following that Q&A session gone more than 25 mins. Lot of queries addressed during the session. Learnt few new things from the participants' questions.   Received very good feedback for the session, it fulfilled the purpose of sharing knowledge with others.  

PMI India - Champion Designates' Graduation Ceremony - 24th May 2014

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The first Champion Designates Graduation Ceremony held on 24th May 2014 @ Angsana Resort, Bangalore in a grand celebration. After 3 months of contribution, based on the impact they have created in their organization, these champions were selected.   Here the highlights of graduation ceremony...     Champions earned the badge and it was pinned by PMI India, Country Director, Raj Kalady.   Hosting the program and playing Master of Ceremony role made more interesting and good learnings. Here the Event Management Team, which made this ceremony successful. Thanks to all team members and extended team for your support and made this event very memorable one.  

PMI Excellence Enabler Forum - 25th April, Bangalore

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PMI Excellence Enabler Forum members met at Hotel Oberoi, Bangalore on 24th April to share the Projects which they were doing in last year. All the 3 teams presented the challenges of their project and also share the best practices to overcome those challenges. The contributors of the project, recognized by PMI India, Country Director, Mr. Raj Kalady. Our team focused on Managing Projects with Remotely Located, Geographically Distributed and Multicultural Teams. Good experience while working with this team. Got an Opportunity to have detailed discussion with Mr. Craig Storti, He has gifted his book to more understand about cultural aspects while managing the projects.       Soon we will publish the white paper of these projects.    

THE CORN STORY

There was a farmer who grew superior quality and award-winning CORN. Each year he entered his CORN in the state fair where it won honour and prizes. Once a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learnt something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours'. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked. "Why sir, "said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior, sub-standard and poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn." The farmer gave a superb insight into the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbour's corn also improves. So i...

The Nature of Ambition

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Creating a Project Management Center of Excellence

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My article published in Manage India. This one based on my white paper, "why is PMCoE required for all Industries?". You can view this article online and download Manage India magazine as pdf file. http://www.pmi.org.in/ manageindia/volume5/ issue06/ article.of.the.month.html  

A Beautiful Way Of Looking at Things

A Father was reading a magazine and his little daughter every now and then distracted him. To keep her busy, he tore one page on which was printed the map of the world. He tore it into pieces and asked her to go to her room and put them together to make the map again. He was sure she would take the whole day to get it done. But the little one came back within minutes with perfect map……When he asked how she could do it so quickly, she said, “Oh…. Dad, there is a man’s face on the other side of the paper….. I made the face perfect to get the map right.” She ran outside to play leaving the father surprised. MORAL OF THE STORY: There is always the other side to whatever you experience in this world. Whenever we come across a challenge or a puzzling situation, look at the other side…. You will be surprised to see an easy way to tackle the problem.