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Vol. XII Issue V - May 2010

Project Management eJournal
REGIONAL REPORT:
Project Management News from South Africa

By Jaycee Krüger, PMP
International Correspondent for PMForum & PM World Today
Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
News from PM Professional Organizations
APM SA News
APMSA held a seminar in March on Social Networks, with persons interested in project management. The seminar was an exposé of how easy social networks can be deployed in a project teams. In a project team there are special interest groups like discipline groups, client groups, and contacting execution groups. SIG’s networks provides a free and easy communication channel, similar to an informal contact but not related to the children, cats and dogs stories like on Facebook, but rather about the work and informal exchange of information and ideas without legal obligation, prejudice and consequence. Les Squires from the IPMA RMB lead the seminar and the responses were beyond expectation. By the end of the day, every person established a social network for his SIG and invited others to join his particular group.
The only complaint was that the day was too short!
Visit APMSA’s website at http://www.apmsa.org.za for more information.
PMI SA Chapter News
PMI SA Chapter has been focusing it past three membership meetings on the definition of a successful project manager profile using various tools. This has been an interesting and eye opening journey for the members and has created some interesting and informative debates…
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Jaycee Krüger International Correspondent – South Africa Jaycee Krüger, PMP, is an International Correspondent for PMForum in South Africa. He is also the Managing Director of Mhlegahlatini (Pty) Ltd, trading as Greybeards Inc. He has spent over 30 years working in project environments with increasing responsibility, from technical design and construction supervision through construction management and project management to executive head of various functional departments and board director of a major South African project management and engineering company operating globally. Project experience includes power generation, industrial and mining projects, from shutdowns through brown-fields to green-fields in extremely remote places. He has delivered various voluntary papers and lectures on project management topics. Serving his two professions, civil engineering and project management, Jaycee was founding member of various organisations and branches of organisations, as well as subject matter expert in statutory boards governing project management. He is presently active in the Project Management Institute (PMI®) where he serves on the C&CR Communications Committee, the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE), and Project Management South Africa (PMSA) where he is currently Vice President International Liaison. He also chairs the South African mirror committee of ISO236 for the establishment of a new ISO standard on Project Management, ISO21500. Jaycee is based in Heidelberg, Gauteng Province, South Africa and can be reached at jckruger@greybeards.co.za. |
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