The Molly Malone statue in Dublin

PMI Global Congress EMEA was attended by 808 people from 54 countries. The countries that sent the most delegates were the United States (weird for a European event, but someone I spoke to said it was a good networking opportunity), the U.K., Ireland, Italy and Germany. I also met people from the U.A.E., Nigeria, Kuwait, and Romania.

Today, 35% of PMI members are based outside North America, according to Beth Partleton, this year’s Chair of PMI’s Board of Directors, although you don’t have to be a PMI member to attend Congress.

Since I got back from Dublin I’ve been writing about my experiences at the Congress, as have other people. Here is a round up of what you might have missed.

Video diary

My video diary of Day 1, with my first impressions
My video diary of Day 2, including the Irish folk band
My video diary of Day 3, including my sightseeing trip round Dublin

I also produced a video diary of the EMEA Leadership Institute Meeting which was held preceding Congress, where I gave a presentation about using social media to connect with members.

Articles

Here are some articles based on Congress presentations:

Managing up: how to help your manager help you

Office talk: how what you say impacts your projects

Philanthropic projects: the work of PMIEF and the second part of that article describing two case studies about project management in schools.

Early warning signs in complex projects and the second part of that article about using project reviews to identify early warning signs, both on The Money Files blog on Gantthead.

John Patton summarised the event for him on the Cadence blog.

Luis Seabra Coelho summed up all the presentations he attended on Ah-Ha Moments.

Thomas Juli shared his presentation on collaboration for success on his blog.

Twitter

Search for #pmidublin on Twitter to view all the tweets from the event.

There are probably other articles – let me know in the comments what else I have missed!

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PMI Global Congress generates a lot of blog posts, podcasts and videos.  Here’s my round up of some of the best pieces to give you a flavour of the Congress.

Some video diaries:

Video Blog from Josh at pmStudent.

‘No Comment’ video about Day 1 from Cornelius at the Project Management Podcast (I’m in this one briefly, being idiotic) and his video about Day 2 (where you’ll see me pretending to sign a book for the official photographer).

A very slick photo slide show of the evening reception from Conrado at the Smart PM, and another (can you spot me?).

And of course my video diaries from Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

And some blog posts:

Final thoughts on the Congress, from Bob at Zen PM, which includes a round up of good conference presentations (thanks for mentioning mine, Bob!).

Day 3 of PMINAC from Derek at The Critical Path.  Derek reported back on the Agile track of the Congress and also wrote up his thoughts from Day 1 and Day 2.

Arpan Shah’s review of being an exhibitor, and he also writes about introducing Bill Clinton as the keynote speaker.

5 Memorable Quotes from Congress from Dux Raymond Sy, whom I met for the first time at Congress.

Thoughts on the Leadership Institute Meeting that preceded Congress, by Jesse Fewell.

The announcement of the award winners (by me) on PMTips.net.

On Gantthead:

How to become a Program Manager, from my column, The Money Files.

Using Kanban as a project management tool, recorded at Congress, from pmStudent.

Did I miss any?

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Learn PMP on your iPhone

You can now get PMP Exam eFlashCards as an iPhone app! It’s a fully functional app offering over 1,750 exam Flash Cards, divided into 15 categories for targeted studies. You can click on each Flash Card to indicate whether you answered the question correctly or not, and get a summary of how well you are doing by seeing how many you got right in each category. Once you have the app downloaded, you can even use it when you are out of range of a phone signal, which means it will work on the tube.

Tom’s Planner

A new scheduling tool with ‘drag and drop simplicity’ has launched. Tom’s Planner seems to have got pretty good reviews, including one from Mashable, although I haven’t yet checked it out myself in any detail. I do like how it looks though – I just hope it has enough features to do an adequate job. Once I’ve had a chance to properly investigate I will let you know.

New Partnership: Intacct and Clarizen

Intacct and free webinars, and the upcoming topics are business process management, project communication and Agile. Anything there appeal to you? You can also look through their back catalogue of archived webinars too.

OK, Systemation isn’t a software company (they do training) but I thought you’d like to hear about the webinars anyway.

Mikogo: new release pending

Mikogo, a free, secure tool for desktop sharing – good for online meetings – was  launched over 3 years ago, and is now used in over 180 countries worldwide.  Mikogo is preparing for the launch of its new software, Version 4. The new release will include several new features: chat, multiple-monitor support, multi-user whiteboard, and the Linux version.  The software will be available in dozens of languages and the new MyAccount section for users on the website. Mikogo intends to launch the first beta release of Version 4 in the next months.   If you’re interested in being one of the first to receive new of Mikogo Version 4, you can follow them on Twitter or subscribe to their blog.

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Can you believe I’ve been blogging for four and a half years?  Time has flown past and in that time I’ve met some amazing people and done some really interesting projects.  Here’s a look back at what we were talking about:

This time last year: Recovering troubled programmes.  The 5-step approach to recovering a programme and its constituent projects.

This time in 2008: Project sponsors.  An FAQ to use with newbie sponsors and tips for what a good sponsor looks like.

This time in 2007:  Helicopter project management.  Zooming in and then pulling back to see the big picture.

This time in 2006:  The sad state of Gypsy Moth IV.  The role of regular status reporting.

If you subscribe by RSS and got an email over the weekend with a ‘Hello World’ post, I’m sorry about that.  I had a problem with a corrupt database file that resulted in having to restore the blog from backup, and that post was automatically (and accidentally) generated during the restore.

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Welcome to the April/May 2010 edition of carnival of project management.  I’m a bit behind – you should have had this on Monday, but it was a bank holiday here.

My favourite submission this time comes from Elyse Nielsen: Balancing the Constraints posted at Anticlue, saying, “One of the key components is to exploit the constraints to achieve the desired benefits. This post provides a process to do that using the Theory of Constraints.”

Gilda Bonanno presents Public Speaking – What’s Your Point? posted at Gilda Bonanno’s blog, saying, “Public Speaking is an essential success skill for any project manager. If you are an expert, but can’t communicate that expertise, you will hit a roadblock in your careers success. This post provides tips to ensure that the point of your presentation is clear to your audience, whether you’re presenting to your project team, executive sponsor or potential customers.”

ioventuresinc.com presents Command and Control Management posted at HR Blog | A Human Resource Blog from BambooHR, saying, “A look at micromanagement and how it effects productivity. The command and control management system may not be the best way to get the most out of your employees.”

Geoff Crane presents I Second That Emotion posted at Papercut Edge, saying, “Hi there! I write about project management; specifically the human side of it. I came across Blog Carnival and thought this might be something of value to you. Cheers! Geoff. ” Thanks, Geoff!

CMOE presents Leadership by Leading posted at Teamwork, saying, “Being a Leader: “Leadership is the ability to decide what is to be done, and then get others to want to do it.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower”

SpiKe presents Does Work/Life Balance Really Exist? posted at Part-Time Wage Slave. I don’t find the arguments in this post particularly clear, but work/life balance is a topic worth discussing further.

Utpal Vaishnav presents A Path-Goal Based Approach That May Take Your Project Leadership Repertoire To The Next Level posted at Utpal Vaishnav.

And finally, here are two links that I have picked out for you:

A video on YouTube from Cheetah Learning about getting your project management qualifications, and is quite funny.  Although I’m sure there is more to becoming rich than just taking a course.

And an article on the PMI website, about how to position yourself as an expert, including some advice from me!

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of project management using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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