Dear Readers

In Q1 2020 PMI Denmark had its General Assembly in Kulturhuset on Islands Brygge, including both a great public speaker, Asbjørn Jensen, and a nice dinner afterwards at a local restaurant. This time the General Assembly elected a new president, Peter Helmer Sorensen, you can read his introduction to the members in an article below. The event went very well, and in this newsletter you can both see pictures and read more about the General Assembly.

Looking forward to the coming Quarter (Q2), all our activities will be impacted by and be executed with respect to the development of the Corona pandemic.We will focus on our developing the annual PM Conference on September 8th with theme: Future of Project Management.We will further revise our planned Q2 events in the light  of the pandemic and consider other means of delivering events and networking opportunities to our members, we will continue our focus on expanding our membership base and events in Jutland and increase our already close collaboration with the Young Professionals. And we offer for the third time CAPM training for a group of 25 young professionals and students.

Remember, there is always the need for fellow PM's who want to help with writing newsletter articles, plan and manage events, find speakers for conferences, etc. Should you, or anyone in your network, be interested in any of these opportunities then reach out to PMI Denmark on info@pmi-dk.org and remember that good things happen when you get involved with PMI 😊.

Enjoy the reading!
Best regards,
The PMI Denmark Board

Emotional Intelligence in Project Management

Written by Henrik Bjerregaard Nielsen, Mannaz

Is project management only about drawing up Gantt charts and rushing people along to get things done on time? Well sometimes it is – but most of the time we must manage people, motivate people and communicate with people. Doing these kinds of ‘people’ activities - and doing them well – calls upon other skills and other insights than drawing up charts or perhaps operating IT applications.

Emotional Intelligence in Project Management

Written by Katrina Marshall Dyrting and Susan Salzbrenner, Implement Consulting

We always talk about the VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) world and now it’s really here. The tension is palpable: Being concerned about our health, working virtually from home, juggling multiple roles at once (being a full-time parent, teacher and employee) and dealing with feelings of social isolation. All the while grappling with the question: When will life go back to “normal”? Will it ever go back to “normal”?

While our survival instincts are being triggered on a daily basis, it is important to ground yourself – both for your own well-being and to be able to zoom out to see opportunities that could emerge through the disruption…  Check out this article for four ways to ground yourself in uncertainty.

Transforming organizations with modern Agile and product focused delivery system

Written by Sara Jamali

General Assembly 2020 – A look back to 2019 and exciting plans ahead

On March 10th 2020, around 30 Chapter Members gathered at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge in Copenhagen for the yearly General Assembly. It is always an event most of us look forward to, reviewing the achievements over the past 12 months and setting the targets for the current year. Unfortunately this year the shadow of the Corona virus was over the assembly but did not affect the good atmosphere.

The GA was kicked off by great guest speaker, Asbjørn Jensem, who with a high level of energy presented tools to improve public speaking. The GA continued with presentation of key activities and 2020 plans from each department and concluded with the election of open positions where it is important to highlight that a new president, Peter Helmer Sørensen, was elected.

Dear PMI Denmark Chapter,

I had the honor of being elected as President of PMI Denmark Chapter by the General Assembly in March.

I am looking forward to working together with you and with the Board of Directors for the next two years and further increase the awareness, network, membership and activities and membership of PMI Denmark.

The Board elected by the General Assembly is represented by the following members:

As a member of PMI, you have free access to webinars at the ProjectManagement.com PMI website. In this newsletter, we provide you with a list of 2 select webinars on "Emotional Intelligence in Project Management" & the PDUs category associated with them.

Listening to these webinars enables you to claim upto a maximum of 2 PDUs.

We also provide you with 2 selected articles on the topic, as well as podcast about IQ vs EQ.

In 2012 PMI launched the Agile Certified Practitioner, or PMI-ACP. A certification containing the best from Scrum, XP, Kanban, DSDM and such methodologies. Same year Mark Lines and co-creator Scott Ambler of Disciplined Agile published the book “Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise”. 

Here we are again with "News from PMI"  our parent organization - pmi.org, for this quarter.

We plan to have this as a regular feature in our future newsletters where we aim to disseminate information from our parent organisation - PMI.org and to keep you informed about what's happening in the world of PMI globally . In this feature you can hear about PMI certifications, PMI conference information, updates on PMI publications etc.

We hope you like our initiative. 

Welcome to the new members of PMI-DK Chapter joining during Q1 of 2020!

Keep an eye on our website for forthcoming events and new & exciting activities.

Here is the list of new members.

Congratulations to all those members who achieved new credentials in Q1 of 2020.

Here is the list of new credential holders.