Project Management Update from Omaha

Introduction

The PMI Heartland Chapter held its annual one-day project management professional development event, ProDev2009: “PMs Building Omaha”, at the Scott Conference Center in Omaha, Nebraska, USA on Monday, 21 September 2009. Official attendance was approximately 220, with participants from a wide range of companies and government organizations in northeastern Nebraska and Western Iowa.

Of particular importance, the keynote speaker for the event was David Pells, Managing Editor of PM World Today, who provided a glimpse of projects and project management around the world. This was a refreshing opportunity for attendees to have an opportunity to learn about project management outside local borders.

This month’s report contains two articles that were originally prepared as breaking news articles shortly after the September event in Omaha, but which were never published. So this is an opportunity to share a little of what occurred in Omaha in September.

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Ted Koval International Correspondent – USA Based in Omaha, Nebraska Ted Koval, PMP is an International Correspondent for PMForum and PM World Today in Nebraska, USA.  He is also an a Senior Business Project Manager for Mutual of Omaha, a Fortune 500 insurance and financial services company based in Omaha, Nebraska. Ted has 13+ years of experience as a Project Manager both in State government and in IS/IT project management in the United States.  Ted has managed campaigns and outreach for several Pennsylvania State Representatives, served as Director of the Policy Committee for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and was project manager for the first nationally recognized centralized voter registration system in the USA. Ted subsequently became project manager and Director of PM for the largest provider of enterprise class voter registration and election systems in the United States. Ted Koval can be contacted at takoval@cox.net. For more information visit http://www.pmforum.org/pm%20forum%20team/index.htm.

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