PMI New Media Council (from left to right) Hal Macomber, Elizabeth Harrin, Dave Garret, Chalyce Nollsch, Cornelius Fichtner and Josh Nankivel (Not shown: Jerry Manas, Raven Young)

I’m back from Denver and had a good time. I had a chance to meet and talk over lunch or dinner with some great people in project management. Some of the highlights for me include:

• Meeting the other members of the PMI New Media council. I have been a long-time fan of most of their websites, and it was great to get to know them a little bit. Here’s the team that I’m excited to be a part of:

Hal Macomber

Reforming Project Management

Cornelius Fichtner

The PM Podcast

Elizabeth Herrin

A Girl’s Guide to Project Management

Dave Garrett

Project Management 2.0

Chalyce Nollsch

Project Management Bistro

Jerry Manas

PMThink!

Raven Young

Raven’s Brain

Josh Nankivel

pmStudent

• Chatting for a bit with Max Wideman, Tom Mochal, Dennis Stevens, and Aaron Smith and many others too numerous to mention.
• Meeting with Janice Thomas and Mark Mullaly of the VoPM study. The council had the opportunity to ask them some questions about the study.
• Meeting with Greg, the CEO of PMI. Greg discussed PMI’s strategy going forward and we were able to ask some questions and give some feedback. I suggested PMI work with thought leaders of new methodologies such as Critical Chain, Lean, SCRUM and other Agile methods, etc. It sounds like they will be doing some of this with the Virtual Communities (at least with Agile). My hope is that PMI can lead the effort to differentiate the PMBok (which is a framework/standard) from the various methodologies out there. They would be able to demonstrate where the various methodologies mesh up with the PMBoK that way, and show that these are NOT competing models. I didn’t get the feeling that Greg was ready to go seek out thought leaders in these various methodologies more broadly, but perhaps I didn’t explain myself well either.