PMI West Bengal Chapter was invited to speak at the prestigious IBM corporate event, PM ShareNet 2014, held on 26 September in Kolkata. In his keynote address, Mr. Nilanjan Chanda, chapter president, presented on the chapter’s activities. He urged volunteers from the IBM project management community to join the chapter volunteer team to work towards greater maturity of project management in the region.

Chapter delegates connected with fellow project management professionals at IBM during this occasion. This annual event was held simultaneously across major IBM locations in India.

The chapter is currently executing a series of "Learn & Earn" sessions on agile project management principles, practices, tools, and techniques. The objectives of these sessions are to enable participants with more advanced, applied level of knowledge to gain an understanding of agile project management methodology and the ability to apply relevant project management methods, leading to successful projects.

Starting September 2014, five sessions have been conducted. The topics have been "Agile Overview", "Deep Dive into Scrum", "Agile User Story, Agile Planning & Elaboration, Product & Sprint Backlog", "Agile Estimation", and "Agile Monitoring/Tracking, Scrum of Scrum, Distributed Agile". Agile project management practitioner, Mr. Saikat Dutt, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, and author of "PMI Agile Certified Practitioner-Excel with Ease", has conducted these sessions.