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SIG
Updates
Message
from the Chair
March is a very busy month, with
a lot of notable events: Equinox/First Day
of Spring, Easter/Ash Wednesday,
Passover,
St. Patrick’s Day, Dr. Seuss’ and
Albert Einstein’s birthdays, and most notably Women’s
History Month, and International
Women’s Day (March 8). WiPM SIG would also like to
take this opportunity to celebrate its membership, men and women,
for its continued support; we are proud to have all of you as
members.
 Celebration
of the International Women’s Day has had various incarnations,
ranging from a communist holiday to a U.N.-sponsored event and
has been celebrated for over 95 years. In 1975, the U.N. began
sponsoring International Women's Day.
Here are some other interesting factoids as well as links to additional
resources for you to explore on the topic.
Links
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
http://
www.infoplease.com/spot/womenshistory1.html
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/feature/iwd/
http://www.isis.aust.com/iwd/stevens/
Women’s
Vision Celebration, New York, March 28-29, 2008
SIG
Operations & Programs
Webinars
Series - WiPM
currently subscribes to the Metrics and Financial Services SIGs
webinar programs. As a WiPM SIG member, you can view them free
of charge.
WiPM
PMP® eStudy -
WiPM successfully kicked off the Winter/Spring session in mid-January
with 18 team members. We are moving fast and furious, already
into week 5 of our 17-week schedule. We applaud Sharon Martin
and her volunteer management team and the study participants for
setting a priority for 2008 to obtain their project management
credential!
eMentoring
Program
– We are currently finalizing the Mentor/Mentee matching
process and procedures for the upcoming 2008 eMentoring Program.
The Recruitment Campaign will kick-off on or around February 29,
and the goal is to launch the mentoring session by the March 31.
Stay tuned for the official Recruiting email announcement!
SIG
Ambassador Program - WiPM will be participating in
several events of the next few months—ProjectWorld Toronto
Apr14, PMI Great Lakes Chapter Apr 23, PMI NJ May
5, PMI Michigan Thumb Chapter May 22. Watch for additional
announcements on these activities.
Volunteers
Needed!
WiPM
needs two volunteers to assist with its membership management
activities. There are various regular tasks such as issuing renewal
notices, running quarterly statistics, membership list cleanup
and other support tasks. Please reply to membership
@wipmsig.org if you have at least 2-4 hrs a month available
and would like to help.
PMI
News
Congress
Paper Reviews
If you were previously selected as a reviewer for upcoming
PMI Congresses, be aware that there has been a delay in follow-up
notifications from PMI. If you have further questions, please
contact PMI, Jacqueline.kardon@pmi.org.
Exposure Drafts of New Standards
The exposure drafts of The Project Management Body of Knowledge
(PMBOK® Guide) - Fourth Edition,
The Standard for Program Management - Second Edition, The
Standard for Portfolio Management - Second Edition, and OPM3®
- Second Edition have been posted on PMI.org
and are available
for comment. The comment period will remain open until 22
March at 5:00 p.m. EST (GMT –5). No comments will be accepted
after this date.
Project
Management Terminology
PMI has published
a collection of 11 texts that translate the main terms used
in the PMBoK® Guide.
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Just
Stuff
A
Look Back on How Far Women Have Come
The
Sep/Oct 2007 issue of Savvy &
Sage excerpts a 1943 “Guide to Hiring Women”
written for male supervisors during WWII.
There are 11 tips “on getting more efficiency
out of women employees” that include:
1. Hire young, married women: “They usually have
more of a sense of responsibility than their unmarried
sisters.” The article also explains the “young,
marrieds” are generally less flirtatious.
2. Try to hire younger than older: “Older women
who have never contacted the public have a hard
time adapting themselves and are inclined to be
cantankerous and fussy.”
3. “Husky” girls are “more even tempered and efficient.”
4. Make sure each woman you hire has a physical
exam that covers “female conditions.”
5. Emphasize the value of timely, speedy service.
Crack down on the clock.
6. Give each woman worker a plan for her day.
“Numerous properties say that women make excellent
workers when they have their jobs cut out for
them, but that they lack initiative.”
7. If possible vary the tasks throughout the day.
8. Provide “an adequate number of rest periods
during the day,” allowing for “feminine psychology”
as well as reapplying lipstick.
9. “Never ridicule a woman—it breaks her spirit
and cuts off her efficiency.”
10. Don’t swear.
11. “Get enough variety in operators’ uniforms
so that each girl can have a proper fit. This
point can’t be stressed too much in keeping women
happy.”
Author:
Ellen Sherberg, Publisher of the St. Louis Business
Journal
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March
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 Good
Reads
We’ve
recently added several new books to our
library list including these --Inside Every Woman,
New Girl on the Job, and What Men Don’t Tell Women
About Business.
Did you Know?
Video Games - Men vs. Women
Video games activate reward regions of brain in men more
than in women according
to an imaging study conducted at
Stanford University
School of Medicine. Read
more about it.
Source:
Science
Daily, February 8, 2008.
What
Do You Worry About?
According to a Health magazine survey,one-third of
the 940 women surveyed
said their financial situation was their
number-one worry, topping
appearance/weight (20%), job
(12%), and health (11%).
Resource
Management
Do
you know how much time your team members spent on
your last project? Nearly
20% of IT executives reported that their
organizations are not detailed when it comes to tracking
time spent by project team
members.
Source: 2006 Study by
Borland Software Corp.
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