Topic: Additive Manufacturing Market Overview and Demonstration

Speaker: David Edelen

Additive Manufacturing (also known as 3-D printing) is a widely diverse and quickly growing market. According to Persistence Market Research, the market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15-22% each year between 2015 and 2025. Additive manufacturing is used in many different market segments including Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, Healthcare, Housing/Construction, Medical, and Manufacturing. Project managers may increasingly see projects where additive manufacturing is used so an increased knowledge of the additive manufacturing market is necessary.

David Edelen from KAIROS, Inc. will present an overall market overview and then discuss what KAIROS, Inc. is doing with additive manufacturing in Defense/Aerospace and other industries. Following his talk, David will show some parts made using additive manufacturing and give a tour of the facilities that KAIROS, Inc. uses to speed up prototyping and design new components for their customers

Pizza and drinks will be served.

Limited to the first 20 registrants.

PDUs: 1

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Topic: Managing Through the Perfect Storm

Speaker: David Schwantes

Have you ever had one of those projects where the odds seemed stacked against you, and managing to a successful outcome seemed out of reach? Sure, you say, just about every project has these challenges, right? After digging into some hard facts reported in PMI’s Pulse of the Profession 2018, David will provide a refresher of the main components that make up a project, and a review of the Process Groups and Knowledge Areas, as outlined in the PMBOK sixth edition. He will also share a tried and true model for Group Development that will be familiar to many and is essential to understand in forming new teams.

In an effort to make it all make sense, David will then overlay this framework on two very different actual projects, a short 30-day strategy engagement extreme example, and a 6-month Software Delivery project for a US Federal Agency more traditional. He’ll compare and contrast how the approach was tailored for each project, by utilizing different combinations of the Knowledge Areas and applying Principles of Project Management to achieve successful outcomes.

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PDUs: 1

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Receive PDUs for reading the book and an additional PDU for participating in the online discussion about the book!

Online Discussion: Monday, September 30, 7 pm - 8 pm

Book of the Month for September 2019

15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management: The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs

by Kevin Kruse

Overview:

What if a few new habits could dramatically increase your productivity? Author Kevin Kruse presents the remarkable findings of his study of ultra-productive people. Based on survey research and interviews with billionaires, Olympic athletes, straight-A students, and over 200 entrepreneurs—-including Mark Cuban, Kevin Harrington, James Altucher, John Lee Dumas, Pat Flynn, Grant Cardone, and Lewis Howes—-Kruse answers the question: what are the secrets to extreme productivity?

Online Discussion Meeting Cost: $0 Members; $5 Non-Members

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Cost: $4.99 on Kindle, $16.15 for paperback from Amazon.

Topic: Overview of Earned Value Management

Speaker: Joe Launi

Earned value is a tremendous method to track the value of a project’s product as it relates to planned and actual spending. This session will introduce the audience to basic earned value concepts and to recognize how to manage and report against the metrics that are produced. All of the material presented follows the foundation provided in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) established by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). We will follow a case study to demonstrated the concepts, challenge the audience and forecast estimate at completion.

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PDUs: 1

Cancellation Policy

Receive PDUs for reading the book and an additional PDU for participating in the online discussion about the book!

Online Discussion: Monday, October 28, 7 pm - 8 pm

Book of the Month for October 2019

Primary Greatness

by Stephen R. Covey

Overview:

Primary Greatness outlines the twelve levers of success—a set of principles for achieving a happy and fulfilling life.

Stephen R. Covey—the late, legendary author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People—believed there were only two ways to experience life: primary greatness or secondary greatness. Through his books and speaking, he taught that the intrinsic rewards of primary greatness—integrity, responsibility, and contribution—far outweighed the extrinsic rewards of secondary greatness: money, popularity, and the self-absorbed, pleasure-ridden life that some people consider “success.”

In this posthumous work, Covey lays out clearly the 12 levers of success that will lead to a life of primary greatness: Integrity, Contribution, Priority, Sacrifice, Service, Responsibility, Loyalty, Reciprocity, Diversity, Learning, Teaching, and Renewal. Covey defines each of these 12 qualities and how they can be leveraged in your daily life to lead you to both professional success and personal happiness.

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Online Discussion Meeting Cost: $0 Members; $5 Non-Members

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Cost: $10.99 on Kindle, $10.31 for paperback from Amazon.

2019 Professional Development Day

“PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Growing with our Membership”

Friday, November 1, 2019
(7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)

The Project Management Institute (PMI) Southern Maryland (SoMD) Chapter is hosting a full-day of dynamic national and local speakers presenting relevant and leading-edge topics related to Project Management.

Morning Keynote Speaker: Laura Butler, CEO Worklife Consulting. The Copernican Shift: Navigating the New Revolution in Business

Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bill Brantley. How to Keep Your Teams Happy

Other Topics: Survivor: Navigating Social Politics in Your Organization; Impact! Lessons from History to Advance Humankind; and more!

Price: PMI SOMD Members: $130. Non-Members: $150.

Professional Development Units (PDUs): 7 (PLUS additional opportunities for PDUs!)

Event Registration Includes: workshop hand-outs, networking breaks, lunch and beverages! (Vegetarian and non-vegetarian options provided)