Applications are due at Midnight on October 24, 2008

PMIWDC is now accepting applications from members of the Project Management Institute Washington DC Chapter (PMIWDC) to travel to international destinations as part of our Chapter-To-Chapter program. Great opportunities are available for members interested in helping to expand the scope of project management knowledge not only for themselves but for our chapter as well. Trips are planned for Brazil, Uruguay, Russia, India, Australia, Greece, and Singapore. All trips will occur in the Fall 2008 and Winter of 2009 timeframe on dates yet to be determined. Travel expenses will be paid or defrayed by PMIWDC.

Brazil Chapter to Chapter:

• Brazil Charter - April 27, 2007 (PDF)
  
• Brazil Project of the Future - March 28, 2007 (PDF)
• Brazil Conference Call Minutes - March 17, 2007(PDF)
• Brazil Conference Call Minutes - December 16, 2006 (PDF)
• Brazil Member Trip Report (PDF) - November, 2006 (Janis Carter)
• Brazil Speaker Trip Report (PDF) - September, 2006 (Roger Beatty)

Greece Chapter to Chapter:

• Greece Member Trip Report (PDF) - May, 2007 (Diana Castaldo)

India Chapter to Chapter:

• India Member Trip Report (PDF) - November, 2006 (Kal Majumdar)
• India Member Trip Report (PDF) - December, 2006 (Paul Mahata)
• India Charter – September 7, 2007 (PDF)
• Leadership Trip Report: PMIWDC to Team India - March, 2007 (A. Chris Fristad)
• India Charter - September 7, 2007 (PDF)

Uruguay Chapter to Chapter:

• Uruguay Speaker Trip Report (PDF) - September, 2005 (John H. Scanlin)

About the Visit

My trip to Brazil as an international speaker from PMIWDC took place from December 11 – 17, 2007.   

Brazil has 13 PMI chapters located throughout the country with over 5000 members and growing.  My trip included visits to three PMI chapters, Sao Paolo, Brasilia, and Rio de Janiero.  According to the World Bank News Review, December 2007, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil has pledged massive infrastructure spending to build highways, railroads, ports and housing projects, in a bid to help ensure the economy maintains its brisk expansion.  This spells tremendous opportunities for Project and Program Managers in a country that has experienced explosive growth in the number of PMPs, and whose mission is to promote PM best practices, elevate the PM maturity level of professionals and organizations, and stimulate the discussion of project management within the society.

About the Visit

Natalia Vainshtein, PMP visited PMI representatives in Russia, from November 9 – November 23rd, 2007.

This report covers 3 areas of her activity: 

• Moscow IV International Project Management Annual Conference

• Project Management workshop organized by PMI Moscow professionals

• Meetings with PMI Leadership and Project Management Professionals

• Suggestions for next steps within CTC program with Russia

Leadership Trip: PMIWDC to Team India 
A.Chris Fristad, March 2007

As a chapter and component of PMI our two primary missions are to provide service to our members and to promote the profession of PMI.  The Chapter to Chapter Program is one of the many ways that your Board is meeting these goals.  As a part of this program, Team India requested that we, as one of the more mature and successful chapters of PMI, send someone over to share with their chapter boards how we were managing the chapter.   One of the requirements was that the individual sent be a present or former board member and preferably a chapter president.  Well, I got elected.