Chapter Meeting

Carol Elliott,PMP

Help! I’m a Project Manager in a World without Project Management!

When:	November 16, 2006 5:00-7:15 p.m.
Where:	Summit Lake Winery Capitol View Room (upstairs meeting room) 1707 South Summit Drive Holts Summit, MO 65043-2100 (573) 896-9966 Directions to Summit Lake Winery
Register:	For Members and Non-members: $20.00 Registration is needed by November 7. We encourage you to use the online registration/payment process by clicking on REGISTER. Individuals planning to pay by check or cash can register by sending an e-mail to pmivpprograms@pmimidmo.org. Organizations registering as group should send a list of the attendee names, company name, and preferred method of payment to pmivpprograms@pmimidmo.org. For special dietary needs, please notify pmivpprograms@pmimidmo.org.
Cancel:	If you register but can't attend the event, you may cancel before the registration deadline. You will receive a refund by check after the event. The amount of the refund will be less a 10% processing fee. To request a refund, please notify pmivpprograms@pmimidmo.org You may not cancel your registration after the registration deadline, but we encourage you to send someone in your place.
PDUs:	The PMI Mid-Missouri Chapter is a PMI Registered Education Provider, and aims to provide educational opportunities to all its members. This event provides 1.0 PDU credits for certified Project Management Professionals.
Menu:	Artichoke Dip and Chips Mini Quiche Swedish Meatballs Veggie Tray Fruit Tray Assorted Gourmet Cookies
Agenda:	5:00 Social 6:00 Program 7:00 Business Meeting 7:15 Adjourn

About the Program:

Congratulations! You’ve earned your PMP® stripes. But what’s next for your career? What if your employer doesn’t have a project manager job title or any formal project management processes? What, heaven forbid, if your boss thinks PMP is just another three-letter acronym lost in the shuffle among MP3, NBA, and CPCU?

Do you expect the world to change around you with your new designation? Can you be effective as a project management practitioner in an organization that doesn’t formally acknowledge or name a project management role?

Despite these obstacles and doubts, you can have a vital and constructive impact in organizations with no formal project management job title or formal project management processes. You’ll learn how to find the hidden signs of project management in more informal organizations, and use them to help your projects succeed. Using your project management tools and skills, you will have your organization thirsting for more. You will learn the importance of your personal example as a project manager role model in the organization. You will learn how organizations can learn to embrace project management despite their denial of its necessity!

Even the best project manager cannot guarantee success in a risky endeavor such as a project without an organization that fully and consciously adopts project management as part of its culture. We’ll take some time to learn a little about PMI’s Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) and how organizations who want to adopt formal project management processes have a valuable asset at hand.

Speaker Biography

Carol Elliott, PMP, is a Database Administrator at Shelter Insurance Companies in Columbia, Missouri. Her work at Shelter includes database design, application architecture, legacy and eCommerce system integration, and project management. Before joining Shelter she was Manager of IMS and DB2 Database Administration at USAA in San Antonio, Texas.

Carol holds a Bachelor of Science in Systems and Data Processing from Washington University in St. Louis, Bachelor of Music from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and Master of Music from Northern Illinois University. She is certified in DB2 for z/OS Database Administration and earned her PMP® certification in 2000.

Carol has been an active member of the PMI Mid-Missouri Chapter since 2000. She helped found the Chapter’s Web site, www.pmimidmo.org, and has served as Vice-President of Communications since 2004. She is a member of the PMI Information Systems Special Interest Group (IS-SIG).

Carol is married to Joe Howell, a Network Administrator at Shelter Insurance Companies. Carol and Joe have two sons attending college in North Carolina and Indiana, respectively. Carol enjoys cycling and playing her cello on the side as much as possible. She is active in adult education and music ministry at St. Andrew’s Lutheran in Columbia.