Come Hear The PMI Agile Story At Infotec 2010

Next month, I’ll be speaking at Infotec 2010, the largest IT conference in the Mid West.

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The conference features no less than 8 tracks, including information assurance, cloud computing, and such. My talk will be part of the project management track, organized by the PMI Heartland chapter.

I’ll be telling the story of how a group of PMI volunteers used Agile Project Management techniques to launch the first PMI Virtual Community of Practice.

Large venue. Diverse topics. It promises to be an exciting event.

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