PMI Space Coast Chapter November 2020 Newsletter

Dear PMI Space Coast Members.  

It is a new service year for our chapter and I am honored to have been re-elected to serve as your Chapter President for another term. Thank you all for your support! 

With the holidays upon us, it is becoming increasingly challenging to cope with COVID-19. I hope you continue to be well and safe as we endure the remainder of our Holiday Season. As a reminder, PMI continues to support its practitioners and members in this time of disruption.  As part of this commitment, I want to remind you that PMI has instituted a Membership Hardship Policy - Unemployed Members with 3 years of good standing membership are qualified for membership hardship grant by calling PMI Customer Care. PMI also offers many additional resources that can be found later in this newsletter.

Last month we held another Virtual Happy Hour with trivia game Kahoot. We think these are fun, however they are not always well attended. If you have ideas for activities we can offer, please send your recommendations in to our Vice President of Membership at vpmembership@pmispacecoast.org. We are open to both Virtual Activity ideas as well as things that we can safely do in the fresh air and support social distancing.

We are incredibly excited about our Virtual Quarterly Dinner Event this Thursday, December 3rd at 6:00 PM. Our very own Director of Military Liason, Lt. Col. Michael Thompson, PMP, USAF is presenting "Project Risk Management and the Return of Human Space Flight Support". Please see this link to register, and feel free to encourage your colleagues who are interested in Human Space Flight Support to also attend this free event. You do not need to be a chapter member to attend.

Please note that we always welcome the opportunity to support our members who are willing deliver presentations and webinars so please let us know if you would like to do a webinar or presentation.

We hope to see you at all of our events.

Sincerely, Nimisha Vyas, PMP President PMI Space Coast Florida Chapter president@pmispacecoast.org

Rhonda Jones, VP of Professional Development  PMI Space Coast Florida Chapter

Earning PDUs is a necessary aspect of maintaining your PMI certification. In addition to the opportunity to attend our live, interactive Virtual Quarterly Dinner Event this month, please see this PMI-sponsored on-demand webinar that we think is specifically relevant to the Space Coast and that you can access free of charge. This month’s Webinar is "How Digitalization Affects Project Management – Evidence from Two Case Studies in the Construction Industry" Digital transformation is a phenomenon occurring across sectors and nations, affecting not only technical processes, but also organizational forms and managerial practices. Among them are: (1) project-based organizations (PBOs), common in traditional sectors like the construction industry, and (2) project networks (PNWs), the most favorable form of project organizing in modern service and creative industries. Project management, which is often used as an agent for change, plays a significant role in initiating and implementing digital transformation. To analyze the digital transformation of traditional PBOs and modern PNWs, comparative case studies in the context of commercial construction have been conducted in Sweden and in Germany. Special attention has been paid to the role of digital solutions such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) for organizing projects. While there seems to be a shared understanding in both case studies of the potential of the technology to disrupt and innovate the industry, the actual usage leads to progress but also faces barriers. In one of our cases the process of digitalization even rolls back to analog planning. Lessons for project management are discussed.

PMI Updates

PMI has released the following recent updates:

• PMI Standards+: https://standardsplus.pmi.org/
• PMI Update Center: https://www.pmi.org/update-center
•  PMInsight: https://www.pmi.org/leadership-central/pminsight

 As a reminder, PMI has published the following:

• Global Month of Service https://www.pmi.org/global-month-of-service
• PMP Exam Changes: https://www.pmi.org/update-center/certification-changes/pmp
• PMI is offering of Disciplined Agile Delivery book download the free .pdf copy of Choose Your WoW! on the pmi.org website (go to this page)  for all members. 
• The PMI Virtual Experience Series is free to PMI members in September and November!  Please share this member benefit with members, we don’t want them to miss out!
• COVID-19 Update Page on an ongoing basis.
• PMI Beta Bot, a 24/7 chat bot to answer your basic questions. Check it out on the PMI Contact Us page.
• PMI Customer Care Alexa so members and certification holders can link their PMI.org account to any Amazon Alexa-enabled device to ask Alexa: “What is my member (or certification) since date?” “What is my membership end date?” “When does my certification expire?” “How many PDUs do I have?” Try it today!
• PMI’s new Virtual Experience Series: Delivering Value, Creating Change & Advancing the World^TM, created to enhance project managers professional development across the globe.
• PMI is offering free project management courses during COVID-19 quarantines. Click here for details.
• PMI Impact: https://www.pmi.org/membership/volunteer/pmimpact
• Please note that PMI will be extending eligibility for all exams for up to 6 months, until 18 January 2021 - If this applies, your exam eligibility will automatically be extended via PMI systems, so you are not required to contact us for this request. Please note that new eligibility dates may take a few days to become updated in our system. 
• PMI is extending access to the current PMP® exam until 31 December 2020 and postponing the launch of the new PMP exam until 2 January 2021
• Covid-19 resources: https://www.pmi.org/about/coronavirus-single-source-message/virtual-resource-hub
• Job Search resources: https://careercenter.pmi.org/
• VA benefit for PMI membership and Education: https://www.pmi.org/military
• PMExpo is free and is available on demand (6 PDU): https://www.projectmanagement.com/events/602533/PMXPO-2020

• Membership Hardship: Unemployed Members with 3 years of good standing membership are qualified for membership hardship grant by calling PMI Customer Care.

WELCOME to our New Members! 

Ann Plowman-Render
Darrell V. Crenshaw
Ralph Bordner
Sheetal Mohan

We hope to see you at a Virtual Event soon!

Our chapter includes 543 members including the following:

PMP Members: 378
CAPM: 7
PgMP: 4
PMI-SP: 2
PMI-RMP: 5
PMI-ACP: 16
PMI-PBA: 2
PfMP: 2

Interested in volunteering with PMI Space Coast?  Some of the key benefits include:

• Gain skills and knowledge outside of your day-to-day tasks at work
• Strengthen and expand your network
• Work closely with other PM Professionals
• Earn PDUs
• Have an impact and make a difference within the local chapter and the Space Coast community

It takes a lot of hard work to support the PMI Space Coast Chapter.  We need commited, motivated

members who want to contribute to improving our chapter's ability to deliver value to our membership.

We have lots of opportunities for you to build on your experience and share your passion.

Please contact us about the vacant positions listed in the organization chart.