Call for Papers - Leadership and Management in Engineering

Leadership and Management in Engineering Special Issue: "Moving Toward Partnerships: The Challenge for Emerging Master Builder Engineers"

DPC SIG members are invited to submit an article to the Leadership and Management in Engineering (LME) journal for a special issue focusing on the practical initiatives engineers and other major project stakeholders are introducing to achieve the outcomes presented in "Achieving the Vision for Civil Engineering in 2025: A Roadmap for the Profession."

Important Dates
- Last date for receipt of abstract: 15 Sept. 2010
- Last date for receipt of manuscript: 15 Nov. 2010
- Special issue publish date: April 2011

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DPC SIG Lapel Pins Available for Members

As a token of the DPC SIG's appreciation for your participation in the SIG, we would like to send you a lapel pin. We encourage all members to wear the pin at PMI® chapter and international events and to look for, and network with, other DPC SIG members wearing their pins. Show your pride in the DPC SIG!

Request a DPC SIG pin - Be sure to include your mailing address.

FREE Webinars for DPC SIG Members

DPC SIG members have access to previous MetSIG Congress webinars and archived webinars. Simply enter promo code DPCSMET8 when ordering your webinar on metsig.org.

This promo code also allows access to an extensive list of archived webinars, so be sure to checkout previously recorded webinars.

Empower Your Career in Project Management

PMI's Career Central is hub for knowledge, connections and resources to help you manage your career, find a job or get ahead.

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You can honor project management excellence when you nominate project professionals, organizations, scholars, authors and continuing professional education providers for 2010 PMI Professional Awards.

Excellence, innovation and hard work should be rewarded. Please nominate or apply for these prestigious honors. The nomination deadline for many PMI Professional Awards is 26 April 2010.

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Why should project managers improve their writing skills? They need to focus on getting the project done instead of proofreading their e-mails, right? Well, getting a project done includes communicating effectively with stakeholders, and much of that communication is done in writing. In addition to e-mails, project managers need to write information for presentations, progress reports, executive summaries and other materials.

The better these communications are, the better you are as a project manager. Read on.

Tell your Agile PM Story and Win $1,000

The PMI Agile Community of Practice (CoP) would like to hear your story as an Agile Project Manager, and will pay you for it!

Submit your own video in a Pecha Kucha format (20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds) telling us your story. Perhaps it was a guerrilla project conducted quietly so as to deliver value without attracting too much attention, or maybe it was an organizational transformation. Whatever your experience, we want to hear from you, the community, about your experiences using Agile. Learn more.