PMP Club: Forum for Learning

The Mumbai Chapter has been regularly organizing PMP Club meets for members in the region. Listed below are the highlights of the Club meets held in April and May.
PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition: Transition from the Third Edition: Madhav Prabhu, a project management professional and information systems auditor, spoke about the significance of the PMBOK® Guide for project management professionals.

Ethics is the way to go: Sandip Motiwale, who has worked in IT consulting, software product development, process automation, instrumentation and manufacturing industries, discussed how excellent project execution has a lot to do with the professional and ethical conduct of the project team.
 
Scrum—agile development in software development projects: Sabu Mohamed, who has more than 20 years of experience in various areas of leadership and management, talked about agile methods, a family of development processes. Scrum, an agile method, is gaining prominence in the software development arena.

Earned value management: Rajeev Andharia, PMP, and Six Sigma (Green Belt) practitioner and trainer, threw light on the need for earned value analysis, and how earned value analysis is conducted. He also listed its limitations.

Project leadership—Indian research perspective: Prof Pradeep Pendse spoke on project management as an academic discipline, the need for leadership in project management, and the competencies that Indian project managers have. Prof Pendse is the dean for IT and Business Design, Welingkar Institute of Management, and winner of the Dewang Mehta Award, 2009, for the Best IT Teacher in Management.