OVOC Annual Networking Event: 4 December

Come and celebrate PMIs 50th birthday with your Chapter colleagues after work on 4 December. This free event will be held at the Army Officers' Mess at 149 Somerset St. Click here for more information or to register.

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How PMOs can help the next generation of project professionals thrive with onboarding

ProjectManagement.com

How well do you support up-and-coming professionals in the project management field? That’s a critical question to explore as our profession works through increasing retirements, technological change and expansion. More than a third of organizations (36 per cent) surveyed by PMI in Q1 2019 expect that their organization will hire more project managers within the next six months. If there is no onboarding process to support those new hires, they will have a negative experience at work — and the organization will suffer lost productivity.  READ MORE

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What Monty Python and the Holy Grail teaches us about project management

BradEgeland.com

The classic 1975 British comedy film concerning the Arthurian legend, written and performed by the Monty Python comedy group is a cult classic, one of my favourite movies to quote from and funny if you get the sense of humour. Not a high budget movie, but somehow it works. And as I was showing clips of its funniest scenes to my kids the other day, I realized that the movie also could teach us some important concepts about project management.  READ MORE