Going Global with Communities of Practice

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Going Global with Communities of Practice

Dr. Andrew Makar, DMIT, PMP

November 16, 2009





If you attended the 2009 PMI Global Congress, then you may have heard the announcement that PMI has undergone a significant transformation by transitioning Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to global communities of practice. For project and program managers, this is exciting news as the number of opportunities to connect, collaborate and communicate with from project managers across many business functions and disciplines has significantly increased.
 
During project delivery, the project manager often relies on his project team and the extended network of project, program and portfolio managers to solve project management challenges. The Virtual Communities of Practice project provides a useful resource for PMs to leverage. The community of practice provides a forum to share best practices and provide solutions to these project management challenges. Since the communities of practice exist in a virtual environment, they provide a global reach to project management leaders across the globe.
 
PMI has officially launched the follow communities of practice: 
  • Agile
  • Consulting
  • International Development
  • Organizational Project Management
  • Project Human Resource Management
  • Retail
  • Utility
PMI has also invested in a collaboration platform for project managers to interact across all the communities of practice.



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