In December 2007 the Buenos Aires Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMIBA) renewed its authorities and is now facing the year 2008 with great challenges: the transformation of the chapter into a chapter with branches, and also the evaluation of its results by PMI’s headquarters. Osvaldo Ucha, President of PMIBA, shares with PM World Today how he faces theses challenges and which are his expectations for his labor.
PM World Today: Which projects do you expect to develop during this period in front of PMIBA?
Osvaldo Ucha: For this year 2008, the most challenging Project we face is the transformation of the chapter into a chapter with branches, according to PMI’s new politics, and proposing to have the Mendoza Branch as its first component. In parallel, new communities are emerging in Cordoba and Rosario, which we expect to add soon to the branches structure.
Other projects, very important for the life of the Chapter, are the development of our Argentinean Meeting of Project Management which we have held yearly since the year 2000 and the participation in the Cono sur Tour Congress of PMI, we expect to bring back more awareness to these events. We also expect maintaining a growing rate of participation both in quality and quantity in the chapter’s activities, last year 2007 we achieved an important level of assistance. And last but not least, we expect to renew our web page and to prepare a regular Newsletter for the chapter.
PMWT: Please share with us about the experience of transforming the Buenos Aires Chapter into a Chapter with Branches. How does this project born? Which are the expectations? The challenges? What type of support is PMIBA receiving from PMI for this process?
OU: The transformation Project comes from an old dream which is born in my mind in 2002, a dream of enlarging the scope of the chapter to a national instance, offering space to the community of Project Managers that live and work in environments greatly different from Buenos Aires, the capital, where the chapter was first created in 1996 as a logical result of the concentration of companies and PMs. Many of these PMs met at international congresses, since there is no common place within their country.
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