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>> I am very excited about this our session today for the federal response as a part time instructor it projects and mentions features at 1st it was an answer to this already very program where we watch supply chain specific cross dance classes and to have this opportunity. Also as a member of the right hands against the right and.

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The fish certificates it's clear to see on how it all started in a month. And I was surprised that a couple of years ago to find him beyond all kind and courteous records I shouldn't just exists you can never realize they. Are a sister organization I ask my question is usually Asian I was looking at the source and the.

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Space and that is what it is but it's routines and that I'm too smart to actually write an institute for you and here's an a little months ago on here and Georgetown on my presentation this ship was founded here so it's a little bit disappointing and time to see Arctic missions hasn't heated and it's as much as.

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If you had a wonderful time credit for it and I've managed to mention it I just keep consulting for writing and I wish you and yours all right management project management is very worked on this has been open to my has been one of my 3 for several years here mostly here complex projects going on here but it really is an early dinner which is much shallower and has a very good crash course.

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And there just here I'm certain I can sit here right now so students have done right for the race to be. More. You waiting. For you realize that 46 percent of you all the older ones sold child or national insurance the typical ratio Holden's all that. You are you finding jobs that.

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Isn't that tight. And you were still in your 1st life insurance period. So I very much encouraged to reach out to. Her and says we have a right. To church. And it was very clear to tack on the right track and that engineering here urgence all so we're all talking about the past 6 years or.

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All I never really see here sign or hash code and it's like Ok if it Russia would never walk out and you're rushing the stakeholder education skeptically resource and quality control. All of the us are very workers and that's where you pick that up and right. So with all that I see no use there forming on the side of this and that's a good friend of the French and it's a national Yeah 100 are.

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Your. Rights. Thanks for coming. Through here with your. List. Just want to say. Here are. You know I wish. I understood hears. Change doctors 6 years on the way through the maturity where we are. But I think it's a very very real confidence. When you are using one.

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Person start. Pushing chance. That. This is your opportunity. Created this for me. It's a pretty rare occurrence. Your. Needs to Know. That leave used to say to Mr Snyder. Is is one of the 5 years of. My generation is to he's going to get used to. Ask for your executive director president and chairman.

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He's Jeremy earth of the board of directors of him my education. And advice you can work on a board where got a check. Just to satisfy or to his case it is me Mr Snyder is the word used I'm. Still rewarded here Mary your honor. Is also. Going to be my God we're right chapter and the pharmacy the rules say in the interest.

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Service the project manager for the construction of p.m.i. rules at worst a new towns where. The. Chance to know you provide proof of the used. G.'s arson fires are a. It's. Very much very. Well good afternoon Today's a fun day. But the computers away put the pencils away there will be no test if you ever heard that before in a lecture hall that Georgia Tech never so let's just sit back and enjoy what is going to happen for the next few minutes 50 bloody He years that's a long time.

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You know when when you go back and think about. How an organisation got started and you realize that it's now 50 years old you have to ask the question well what was going on 50 years ago how did it get started and why did it get started and that's what I'm going to talk a little bit about today.

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You of course have got to realize that if I was one of the founders of p.m.i. and if it's 50 years old you have enough mathematics figure out that I must have been about 8 years old when I started it. Otherwise I wouldn't be. So let's get started what were you doing 50 years ago most of you not much that's probably for sure.

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One of the reasons I think we want to take a look at where this organization came from is simply because and I believe this I really believe this unless you understand about yesterday you can create a new tomorrow and that's a quote from one of the past secretaries of the Library of Congress if you don't know where you came from if you don't understand what the basics of your profession are then how can you make a significant contribution how many of you in this room intend to be project managers.

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Good how many in this room think you might actually have to manage a project. Ok Again good let me tell you this every single one of you will be a project manager whether you like it or not and every single one of you will have to manage projects one way or another whether you like it or not.

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This is not something that you need a master's degree a Ph d. or a tremendous amount of knowledge to do project management is the accidental profession let me tell you how I accidently fell into it I am a graduate of the North Avenue trade school for boys and a high fully understand what goes on here.

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So I also was a member or o.t.c. which I don't even know whether it exists anymore but in those days you had a choice join your o.t.c. program or go to that beloved country called Korea where you could get to see the wonders of the mountains and things like that and I decided I would go for the military so between my.

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Senior junior year and senior year here I went off to the the swamp known as Fort Belvoir Virginia just outside of Alexandria where they taught you to be a military officer and gentleman. And I reported to the swordsman and he said Ok so you're here early Why don't you trim the grass around the barracks.

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So I started doing it. 20 minutes later somebody else came and they started they sort of walked up to what do you do and I said trimming grass is Ok we're supposed to help they started trimming grass about 2 hours in that we had the place pretty well cleaned up and Sergeant came out look me in the eye and he said well I guess you figured it out right now you're in charge of this project.

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And right then and there I learned a very big lesson. Quite often we find ourselves in charge of this project without knowing anything about it without wanting the job without knowing how to do it. And that's why when you ask me what the future of project management might look like and where are we going I would like to say I would like every freshman who arrives at every university in the United States to walk into their 1st day of class and when that professor says to you Ok your project for this semester is to do x.y.z. you can look them in the eye and say I know how to do that I know what I have to do to get this job finished in time and using the resources that are available to me with the time constraints and cost constraints and the constraints of my other studies I know something about managing projects or put another way I want to see this teaching basic project management not a church attack but high school.

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And it's going to take us a long time to get there so in between we have to begin to do it here that's why I think a lot of the noncredit who are says that you've heard about are so important because they offer the opportunity for people who are eroding serious degree programs which are probably the most important things in their lives to also learn something about what will help them accomplish those objectives you can be a c.e.o. you can make unbelievable critical decisions about the direction that a particular project you're involved in is going.

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You can. Commit billions of dollars of money these days to worldwide endeavors and if you don't know how to execute the things you thought of you don't have a chance of any of them ever occurring. And it's not execution it's the understanding how to go from the thought to the reality that makes project management so important.

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So anyway having done my little political speech for the morning I move on now to tell you about how we got started why we exist as an organization by the way Project Management Institute is the largest single organization in the world develop devoted to the management project or unit work.

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Let's look at what the world looked like back when we got started here's the Internet 169 that's the entire internet 169 that's only 50 years ago that's not very long. And I'm sure there are people here that know more about it than I do. But that was a couple of nodes in California and one node in Utah.

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What does it look like today. Solid block of course without the internet where would we. The world has changed it's changed dramatically in the 50 years but this was the world I lit. We had some tremendous communications devices. Our communication systems were fantastic we had this stuff called paper.

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Used to come in boxes and. You had a thing hold a pen and you could could write on it and then when you communicated your ideas with other people as I did when I began to set my offices Dr Smith Kline and Philadelphia and wonder about how could I get some help in learning to manage the deployment of 13 different resources across 35 research projects worldwide.

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Who would know something about that who would help me figure out how to do it I had a right to them. Or call them on a thing called the telephone now we have a thing called a telephone but it's not it's an extension of our mind our body and the world this telephone just sat there and if you wanted it to do anything you had to do it do it all by itself so I would write and I would mail off a letter and say I've got this new idea I think maybe if we did x.y.z. it might work and I would.

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Put the letter in the loop and lick it. That was always sort of disgusting and drop it in a box down at the end of the street and wait for a month and at the end of a month I'd have a letter back in my box and I'd open it and my colleague in California would say great idea and here you know the process started all over again.

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I give you these funny little stories just to emphasize the fact that communications was tough you want to communicate with your classmates you want to communicate with other experts in the field that you're studying now it's pretty simple to do you get on the Internet you google it if I and out who are the experts where they located what questions can I ask them you couldn't do that in the 1960 s. but we still had the problem.

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And those problems were how do you manage project oriented work. For those of you who have any spare time is there anybody in the room has any spare time at all maybe hours a day somewhere probably not I know what it's like if you do there is a book you really really should read it's called the project revolution by neato Rodrigues.

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It's a very short book but what he basically says is if you don't think the world is going to be run by projects. You might as well just give up and quit now because you're wrong in 10 years it's going to be everything is going to be project oriented work and if you don't know how to manage projects you're going to be left on the outside I suggest you read it's a it's a real mind opening expanding book because the field you're in.

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Understanding how systems work how manufacturing systems work how think how work gets done is really really important without understanding how work at stun no work gets done but without understanding how to manage those problems no work gets done so let's let's just keep that in mind as we move forward and read this book so 1906 here I am in a pharmaceutical company and I've got lots of problems and no answers.

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When I'm trying to communicate. How to get things done so when you don't know very much about something what's the 1st thing you do you go out try to learn about it so I decided that if I was going to manage these pharmaceutical projects I need to learn how to manage projects and I remembered that a Georgia Tech there was a noncredit short course given by the School of Industrial Engineering.

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Tend not necessarily designed for students but designed to bring in people from outside to learn about the old fashion pert c.p.m. those processes that helped us build a missile project he. Helped us put a man on the moon and they were the backbone for NASA during almost every launch thereafter.

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So I signed up and I walked into the classroom in the Guggenheim building over here across the street from Coca-Cola. Ha and found that the professor was a young Georgia Tech p.h.d. graduate from the University of Florida actually an undergraduate degree even a with r.j. Gordon Davis. And Gordon taught a course in how to manage plan and schedule projects using some new tools called part c.p.m..

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And I said this is the stuff I need what I really want to do but on day 3 of the 4 day course he took me aside at lunch time he said you're a ringer I said what he said you know as much about the stuff as I do what he's doing in my class and I said well it's real simple I came here to absorb as much information as I possibly could I much as I can about how to teach this kind of thing take it back to Philadelphia and use it to teach in the pharmaceutical industry but another way I came here to steal your butt Terry.

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And that was the beginning of a 50 year friendship unfortunately Gordon best way to stop about 6 months ago. We continued to talk and the end of his 4 day course he would ask the participants to have a question and answer session. Question number one every time. What do we do to learn more about what you've been teaching us and how do we share information quickly a question that answered easily today you pull out your cell phone or you have some other communications electronic means of communications but in those days there was no way to do that.

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So. He asked me if I would come to Georgia Tech every time he taught the course and participate in the last touch on which was the practical application of project planning to. Problems brought by the students and we would work on the and then participate the question and answer session and I spent a lot of time with the Davis' I would fly in the night before stay with him overnight do the lecture in the morning fly back the next afternoon and we would spend hours and listen hours in the evening.

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Talking about how can we better. Bring people to an understanding of the importance of managing large scale projects. And it came down to the only way we could do it in the 1960 s. early seventy's was to bring people together face to face we just could not find another way we didn't have the Internet we didn't have.

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You Tube We didn't have any of the things that you have available to you today so we decided to hold an advanced project management concepts seminar here in Atlanta October 9th and 10th 1969. And Gordon went to the School of Industrial Engineering and said we need some help with this.

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And he came back and he said here's their proposal. We will offer you the facility at no charge in the Guggenheim building the aeronautical engineering building a little bit there but I can't find the room anymore we will offer you a room. We'll pay for lunch we'll pay for breaks we'll give you access to all of the mailing lists in those days that was gold the people who had attended short courses in the past that you can use for advertising and you can make one mailing it our expense and by the way if you make any money you can keep the profit and if you lose any money will cover it so we debated I think it was 12 and a half now the 2nd so if I remember before we accepted the proposal from the School of Industrial Engineering.

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Ladies and gentleman without the School of Industrial Engineering at Georgia Tech the professional project manager would not exist today and I think that it's important to take the recognition of having the foresight to see that there were a bunch of kooks 5 of us who wanted to bring people together who wanted to share information we didn't start out to build an organization we didn't start out to form a profession we started out to provide information to others in the same situation that we were at.

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And without that support I don't think what happened I've tried for 50 years to get Georgia Tech to stand up and say thank you very much we appreciate the fact that you realize that we made it all work but they're very reluctant shy bunch of people with the head of the School of Industrial Engineering seems to just be very shy person these days so we hope that the tech will take its due recognition in its 50th celebration of our existence.

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So we decided to have a meeting. Where did we come from. The short course as I said was much debated we talked about how to do it what to do where to hold it so forth and so on and then it happened. February the 11th 1968 I know the date I know the date because of the scribbly letter intentionally scribbled because in the old days so you may remember some of your probably grandparents not even parents used to communicate by writing a letter to the family you know you had said downs a brother Joe did this Tom's dog died so forth and they were circulating a letter like maybe twice a year the rest of the family just to keep everybody in the home my wife did that and she says it looks like this if there be a worry the port team will be the big day I won't believe it until we're on the plane from New Orleans long talked about much pondered ideas may soon become a reality what this that me.

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Well stepping back it means that in early 1967 Smith Kline and French laboratories purchased from the McDonnell Douglas automation company a piece of software to do scheduling. It was called m s c s a management scheduling control system one of the better pieces of computer software that's ever been developed for this kind of thing I don't think it's even available now because of course mac autos long out of business are salesman was netting a Texan walking working from St Louis.

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A young lady by the name of Susan Gallagher worked for me and we were using it to look at. Research projects and answer questions like now this is 1968 book says 50 years ago we were answering questions like how many pharmacologist do we need to hire so that we can conduct all of the experiments we need to do 20 years out.

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And we were able to make some rational decisions about things like that about how to allocate resources across large numbers of projects in the pharmaceutical industry which is Russian roulette if you all know if one out of 100 projects survives America. We did have a viable tool. And we had just purchased a system and went out to dinner in Philadelphia hurry snowy.

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Rainy miserable night and we had dinner. And nothing then decide it was time to fly back to Texas he looked outside and it was snow all over the place though I not not going not going to fly out tonight let's have another bottle line. At which time he said you know.

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You have been talking meaning me about doing something about bringing people together to share information in project planning let's stop talking about it let's do something. And that's the key project management is all about let's stop talking and let's do something let's meet New Orleans why New Orleans because he wasn't about to come the fall of the of he in the winter again he had about as much snow there as he wanted so we met New Orleans and those of us that met there included led to Gallagher.

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Eric Jeannette who was vice president of construction for the brown require company and Dr j. Gordon Davis there on on the far right scary. We went to New Orleans talked about how do we bring people together and we decided to have a seminar some person I described earlier.

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What came out of that meeting was a need for an association to foster professionalism in project planning we formulated some purposes that's specific objectives all of the kind of strategic planning that you learn about we selected a name we decided thing to call this organization would be the American planning scheduling society and we set our 1st seminar for October 9th and 1969.

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In Atlanta Georgia because of the generous gift and the tremendous support from Georgia Tech. Gordon and I were co-chair the meeting and we headed off here to Atlanta. Here's a quick look at the brochure and to the speakers where we had a pretty interesting array of people in the early days and the 2 day seminar cost was $65.00.

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Some of the people involved Dr Russell Archibald who is if you read anything about project management you've read Russ's stuff and a Cleveland from the University of Pittsburgh manufacturing management was his school he's tremendously supported as was Jim Kelly developer of c.p.m. and John Fund all who was from Stanford and was involved in the earliest years of project management to support litigation in construction the like claims which is by the way a very very big field.

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Go out get a degree in law a degree in construction management and you're set so here's our brochure printed by Georgia Tech thank you very much. And here's where we were now this is not as important to you guys it is to others that I speak to but you're looking at the entire Georgia Tech campus in 1969 not nearly.

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As large or as complex as it is today. That 1st meeting was in the Guggenheim building as I said which is still there run over and have a look across from Coca-Cola. I and I will find the room here but that's what it was. And. As you will learn about project managers and p.m.i. it is a law of physics.

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That no 2 project managers can meet for more than 5 minutes without food. It's just a given if if you know food involved the meeting doesn't work so of course we had to have a dinner along with her or her seminar symposia and we had it the American motor hotel you will know where the Peachtree Plaza is you know where the motor entrance is in the back of there's a little triangle of land right behind the back door of the Peachtree Plaza and that little triangle of land is down in the center of the picture here so we are right behind the Peachtree clause and.

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The reason we have a stark picture is that within 6 months of the tour the dump damn it it was not what you'd call a 1st class hotel motel but it served their needs and at the end of the dinner I did a presentation called p.m.i. an organizational profile.

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What I basically said was we need to bring people together on a regular basis and to develop channels to share information we need to be able to exchange ideas quickly and easily we need to be able to grow the use of project management concepts and tools so that they have a worldwide impact on major projects.

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Did it work I think so Gordon was the project manager for a large part of the construction of the Hartfield airport which it might interest you to know that he thought of a lot of people on that in that he built the railroad 1st that connects all the terminals I was the 1st thing built not a terminal but the railroad and then he used the railroad to move all the construction materials for the rest of the project.

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That's a typical project management approach to solving a problem. Another strange one is have you ever heard of putting the brick up on a building from the top and. He did that here in Atlanta as well. It's quite possible to start on the 4th floor of a building and lay brick on the lentils move down into 3rd floor and so on tie them together why it was a critical shortage of scaffolding in the city of Atlanta at the time.

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And it was economically feasible to get that scaffolding up use it and get it off the job site so he started at the top and worked his way down there are innovative and creative things done by project managers every day. And it's important that we recognize 2 things 1st.

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They had the ability in the field in which they studied they were 1st of all mechanical engineers civil engineers. Supply chain managers all those I don't think that existed in the sixty's. And secondly they had the ability to understand how project oriented work works and they were able to get it done so at this dinner in Atlanta we had $28.00 people joined for the outstanding price of 15 dollars a year and we decided a number of things some of which were.

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We we need to. Have more meetings as I said earlier we didn't start out with the idea let's form an organization or let's put together some sort of a repetitive thing we put together only the idea of let's learn how to share information. P.m.i. was at that point and is today 50 years later a volunteer organization yes we have paid staff Yes we have a paid executive director but it's one of the few large companies in the United States that does not have a paid board of directors all the members of the board of directors of p.m.i. are elected from among the members and are volunteers.

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So after that 1st meeting in Atlanta in $69.00 we found that people wanted another meeting in 70. So we decided we'd better have some structure we had by that time incorporated in the state of Pennsylvania we had seen the light about ways that we were not planning scheduling organization but that we were much more involved with change and with the way the project oriented work is resolved and we decided to call ourselves the project management it's did we open the corporate offices in my dining room.

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And that's what I look like in 1969 and that's what it looks like today and still in the same house wallpaper is a little different but I'm going to do now is it sort of I think will say something about the organization if we take a corporate tour and you see how we sort of evolved from our physical organization to what we are today so our 1st office under me has a Volunteer Executive Director which lasted for 15 years and then I just couldn't do it any longer decided we'd better start hiring some real people that knew how to manage become police.

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The 1st place we moved to the 2 windows by the arrow and that was over the meat market next to the bar where we rented office space and a little area around the lot of you have called Pilgrim gardens and we operated from there for a number of years these were our corporate offices furniture donated by spec client French laboratories although they didn't know they did it.

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That's another long story which I'll share with you some other time except to say that we have nighty Department and this was our i.t. Department some of you may be old enough to have ever seen a Selectric typewriter but that's what it amounted to. We hired a young lady by the name of Karen or Nellie who wore the announcing ball off this typewriter and a number of others as we began to send congratulatory letters to new members and began to build an organization.

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And then we moved to our 1st owned office building a small structure on State Road in Upper Darby Pennsylvania which has the distinction now helping the 1st designated medical marijuana distribution facility in the state of Pennsylvania I don't know how proud I am of that but that's the way our history good.

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We quickly outgrew this fix we out grew it almost as fast as we moved and because it was around the time that we moved to this real building that certification project managers became important and we began to issue the project management professional sort of caged p.n.p. which has grown our organization fantastically.

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So we built the 1st part of our 1st. Building it campus Boulevard in Newtown Square Pennsylvania and as you can see there there's an atrium on the right hand side of the building and the plan was that we would occupy this part of the building for about maybe 3 to 5 years and then build a 2nd half well we broke ground for the 2nd half the day we cut the ribbon for the 1st half that's how fast we were growing and we built the 1st corporate office.

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In Newtown Square we've been there ever since except that we completely outgrew this building within about 5 years we rented other office space in Newtown Square and this is the current office building now this Eric said it had a chance it's sort of a very interesting building and we would welcome you to come and have a look around and meet some of the people who are involved in projects which may.

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So what is pm I. Been talking about it now for 2530 minutes what is pm. First of all a corporation the largest professional organization a project managers in the world cooperated in our County Pennsylvania in October 1969. It is a not for profit corporations of 501 c 3.

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Our membership and these this is as of. December of 17 we've grown some from this but not a tremendous amount of membership total so half a 1000000 members. In I know now it's about 250 countries in the world which is killing to be almost everywhere by that means we have some physical presence in 2 118-2250 countries we have 300 chapters there is of course a p.m.i. chapter here in Atlanta there's one Philadelphia and $299.00 others around the world almost anywhere you will end up working you will find a p.m.i. chapter.

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Project management is a lonely profession folk when your boss comes to you in the 5th or 6th day of that 1st job you're ever going to have and says by the way did I tell you you're the new project manager for x.y.z. all of the sudden you have no friends.

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So it would be very helpful if you knew there was a p.m.i. chapter around so there's a local shoulder to cry alone because quite often the project manager finds himself saying things like I really don't care how soon you want it it is not possible to do it within the quality constraints and within the time constraints that you have given me.

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You're not always welcome at the c.e.o. store and one of the things that we're doing and I hope will change that and I hope to see at least some of you maybe one or 2 of you get a new job title that's come out of the profession and that's chief project officer until we have a person who has the title of chief project officer sitting at the table with a chief financial officer the chief operating officer and the c.e.o. we have not brought project management to its rightful place in the way major businesses run and I think if you read project revolution you'll see why this is so important.

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At this point we have about $900000.00 certified professional project managers these folks have studied for a long period of time some a year some less than that they have hours and hours of project management experience and they said an exam that makes a Finally Georgia Tech look like something you do for child's play.

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It is a nasty exam ask Eric he didn't have the gray hair before he took the exam years you know. It is a very difficult and taxing examination but one we feel is that it produces people that are worthy to be called Project management professionals when you pass that exam.

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If you wish to have the designation and the certification you have to do one of the things. And that is a sign the code of ethics for the organization. Project management to a large extent is about learning how to trust. It's about learning how to take responsibility it's about learning how to manage people and personalities and I think that it's really important that we emphasize as much as we do that there is an ethical part of becoming a project manager as there is a professional part of knowing the skills and as I said before we have a volunteer board of directors.

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But we're a lot more than just the facts pm eyes leadership all of our members learn leadership have experience the ability to become leaders we've got leaders at the international level we've got leaders at the local level we build relationships we learn how to make contacts with other people it is a networking group it's an opportunity to meet some distinguished people to learn a little bit about project management or worldwide basis and to expand your capabilities it's a chance to real really share what information you have with professionals and to learn from them.

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There was a poster in one of our meetings this is it that says some of the most interesting people I've ever. Met I got to know through a project management Congress. And I think that that's quite true some of you guys might recommend recognize this guy we have some fantastic meetings worldwide as well as fantastic meetings locally but most of all we advance a profession that is growing as fast as any profession that I know of and as a member of p.m.i. I'm a member of that profession and I can use my skills worldwide through enhanced learning in our meetings through Congress is in conventions and through chapter and local work.

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This is a local chapter meeting there be one tonight actually here in Atlanta. You really do get a chance to meet some fantastic people thank you. I really appreciate it. If we have time if there are any questions of anybody has I just sort of zipped through a 50 year history of the founding not only of an organization but the beginning of a profession a profession which are going to be a part of whether you know it or not whether you like it or not I suggest that you embrace at least some parts of it anybody have any questions.

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Good wonderful I'll be here Eric will be here will be happy to talk to any of you if you'd like to join us thank you.