PMI India Champion Anand Lokhande organized the PM Open Space Industry Practitioners Community event at Shell SBO, Bengaluru on 5 March. This is a community forum supported by organizations like Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, SAP Labs, ABB, and now Shell SBO, and co-organized with PMI Bangalore India Chapter. More than 100 project and program managers, and senior leaders from Shell and other organizations attended the event. It was the first time that this community program was organized on such a scale.

Stephen Townsend, director for network programs, PMI, spoke on “Approaches for Being Agile Virtually.” He spoke about the importance of having colocated members for high-performing agile teams and the difficulties associated with this.