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PMI Southwest Meeting Venue: Schlumberger - Sugar Land Campus

Eddie Merla Duende Project Management Services	Eddie Merla, PMI-ACP, PMP®, is the founder and owner of Duende Project Management Services.  He is a PMP® preparation instructor, a PMI-ACP instructor and a speaker and trainer on project management and leadership topics.  He has worked with various organizations to transition from traditional project management approaches to Agile/Scrum. He has over 25 years of project management experience including seven years leading international consulting engagements and projects.  He has published multiple articles with PMI and is a frequent presenter at PMI Conferences and Congresses.
Topic Description: Agile Lessons from the new PMBOK® PMI® has released the newest version of the PMBOK Guide, the 6th edition.  This newest version has been updated to reflect the latest trends in the field of project management, to include the Agile approach and methods.  PMI® also released the Agile Practice Guide concurrently with the release of the PMBOK® 6th edition.   This session will provide a high-level overview of PMI’s approach to Agile as presented by the latest edition of the PMBOK® and the Agile Practice Guide.  As a project manager, you will need to become familiar with the Agile mindset and you may be called on the lead Agile projects.  Whether you are a PMP® or new to project management or Agile, you will benefit from this Agile perspective.
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Location:
Schlumberger Sugar Land Campus
Forum Cafe
210 Schlumberger Drive
713-234-0550

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Professional Development Units (PDU) for PMI certified professionals:

The introduction of the updated CCR system, has resulted in a much simpler procedure for claiming PDUs. As before, there are no specific PDU codes for events that award up to 2 PDUs. Each PMI Houston meeting with a 1-hour presentation, on a PM Talent Triangle topic, equals 1 PDU. (The category for each presentation will be indicated on the web-site)  This includes dinner meetings, pre-dinner meetings and meetings at any of PMI Houston's satellite venues.  If you attended both pre-dinner and dinner presentations, please submit 2 PDU claims following the process below for each presentation event.

Procedure for getting PDU credit for PMI® Houston’s meetings towards the recertification of your PMI credential (PMP, PgMP, etc.):

1. Go to www.pmi.org and log in using your pmi.org Username and Password.
2. Select myPMI and click on “Report PDUs”
3. Click on “Organization Meetings” and fill in the form.
4. Organization Host " PMI Houston "
5. Title  “Chapter Meeting”
6. Meeting Number (Optional)  C012 (zero)
7. Date Started Use Calendar to complete
8. Date Completed Use Calendar to complete
9. PDUs claimed - Enter 1, under the relevant category of the Talent Triangle. (Each 1 hr. presentation equals 1 PDU)
10. Review the data entered, if correct click the box indicating "I agree this claim is accurate"
11. Click Submit

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