July Uptown Charlotte Community Meeting
Scope Creep is the one challenge project managers will face during a project. The debate continues whether scope creep is preventable or inevitable. Mr. Keeling will discuss how scope creep can occur during a project, how scope creep can undermine and impact a project, and how he managed scope creep as a project manager. The presentation aims to open new insight about how project managers perceive scope creep based on experiences through project management in practice. The title of the presentation is “Scope Creep Is Coming”.
Dwayne Keeling is an Information Technology professional and has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry with extensive healthcare project portfolios. He began his career at Atrium as a Field Service Technician, IT Team Lead, and Clinical Software Specialist. Mr. Keeling is responsible for providing the overall leadership and management of software upgrades and projects for the Levine Cancer Institute-Radiation Therapy and the North Carolina Poison Center. As a project manager, he is responsible for the total project management lifecycle which includes controlling budgets, contract negotiating, and providing day-to-day communication with vendors, and stakeholders.
Mr. Keeling’s academic background includes master’s degrees in health administration and Business Administration from Pfeiffer University, Bachler of Sciences degree in Marketing from South Carolina State University, and a degree in Computer Science from ECPI Computer of Technology.
Hope to see you at the meeting!
Chapter Meeting Presentations
As a means of helping chapter and local community members who are certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP®) satisfy the continuing education requirements for re-certification, PMI Metrolina Chapter arranges its monthly meeting schedule to allow a 1.5 hour PDU training session to be incorporated into its normal meeting.
Topics presented during these sessions are designed to not only satisfy the PDU requirement for re-certifying as a PMP, but to also provide wide appeal to people involved in project management regardless of whether or not they are certified PMPs. The 1.5-hour sessions meet the educational requirements to qualify for 1.5 PDU credits for maintaining PMP® certification or to meet the requirement for attending 35 hours of formal project management education prior to applying to sit for the PMP® exam.
The sessions are open to all.
Important Chapter Meeting Information
Monthly PMI Metrolina Chapter Meetings:
PMI Metrolina Chapter holds it monthly chapter meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. There is plenty of free parking.
REGISTER EARLY: In order to keep our costs low and provide the best member value possible, we are required to provide our chapter meeting venue caterer with a headcount on the Friday prior to the meeting. It is for this reason that we have discounted pricing for advance registrants. In order to receive the advance registration pricing, you must register, and make payment, for the meeting online before noon on the Monday before the meeting. If you register for a chapter meeting and then later find you are unable to attend, please contact us by email before the start of the chapter meeting and we will perform a one time, no cost transfer of your registration to the following month's chapter meeting. If you register after the stated deadline, we cannot offer you the discounted price and must charge you the full price.
In order to qualify for student pricing, you must be a full time student and show your college/university ID at the door at registration.
In order to qualify for active duty military pricing, you must be currently enlisted and show your military ID at the door at registrration.
New Chapter Members Take Note:
Individuals join the chapter though the PMI website. It can take up to five (5) business days for PMI process a new chapter membership before it shows up in our chapter database. New chapter members will not be able to register for chapter meetings at the chapter member rate until that occurs. The chapter does not want you to wait until your membership is processed, before you attend a chapter meeting. New members who are not able to register for the chapter meeting as chapter members before the advance registration deadline should email vpmembership@pmi-metrolina.com. You must send your email before the advance registration deadline in order to be eligible for the member advance registration rate. Please attach a copy of your receipt from PMI to the email, showing that you have joined the chapter. If you follow these instructions, you will be charged the advance registration member rate for the chapter meeting. The Membership team will work with you to process your registration either over the phone or in person at the chapter meeting registration table.
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