The PMI/New Jersey Networking local interest group was established to facilitate business and career networking among PMI/NJ members.  The Networking Group's goals are to provide additional networking opportunities to PMI/NJ chapter members in the form of networking events, educational forums, and professional development opportunities.  Business networking resources have been added to the PMI/NJ members via the Chapter Web site. Each month a structured networking event is produced with elements of speakers, panel discussions, job announcements, networking sessions and interactive workshops. 

The College of Performance Management is a knowledge-based component of the Project Management Institute, the premier professional organization for project management professionals. CPM was originally established as the Performance Management Association, but became the first college of PMI in 1999. 

We are an international, non-profit professional organization dedicated to the disciplines of project management and performance measurement to include Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and other initiatives.  

We assist the earned value professional and project manager in professional growth and promote the application of earned value management. We are a growing body of professionals dedicated to managing projects on time and on budget.

The PMI® Consulting Specific Interest Group is a nonprofit corporation chartered under the Project Management Institute. The organization is made up of project management consultant professionals who share the unique challenges of delivering solutions and providing results in their consulting work through project management. 

Consulting professionals are at the forefront of implementing new technology, practices, and policies within their organizations and are agents for organizational change.  Consulting services, a $125 billion global market, refers to both the practice of helping organizations to improve performance through analysis of existing business problems and development of appropriate solutions. The members provide services from the transfer the transfer of best practices, analytic techniques, change management and leadership skills to technology implementations, strategy development and implementation. Consulting excellence is achieved through the application of project management methodologies.

Is a non-profit corporation recently chartered under the Project Management Institute. The young organization is made up of healthcare and project management professionals who share the unique challenges of working in the dynamic healthcare arena. Not only is it a $2.6 trillion (and growing) sector in the United States alone, healthcare is quite personal, it affects each and every one of us. 

They believe that they have a wonderful opportunity to make a positive impact on healthcare as practitioners from industry, government, non-profits, educational institutions, and other public entities. As professionals at the forefront of implementing new technology, practices, and policies within their organizations they are the agents for change. 

They bring together their collective knowledge and voices to provide the opportunity to share success, one project at a time, and one organization at a time through adoption of best management practices. Together they can lay a broader foundation for high performance through better project management. It is their goal that one day health care will be one of the best managed markets in the world

The Program & Project Assessment Group is a newly formed PMI/NJ Local Interest Group whose vision is to become a center of excellence (COE) in promoting and formalizing the use of program and project assessments to provide timely, proactive performance feedback against delivery baselines.

The group will focus on:

• Increasing awareness of the importance of developing an appropriate oversight framework
• Establishing a repository of effective assessment processes, tools, and education
• Developing a Practice Standard for Program & Project Assessments. While based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge® or PMBOK®, the standard will extend beyond the existing boundaries to include:
• a process vs. delivery perspective
• benefit management
• assessment process flow
• assessment rating methodology

The group will leverage:

• the collective knowledge and experience of its member base
• the use of Earned Value Management (EVM) to validate results and expectations
• possible opportunities for developing an assessment credential
• potential synergies with the PMI College of Performance Management and the Troubled Projects SIG

The WiPM SIG "came back to life" bigger and stronger after a period of inactivity. In 2001, the SIG received a PMI award for regeneration. It now has over 2,000 members worldwide, 15% of whom are non-US located, including over 500 members with the Project Management Professional (PMP) credential. Although its name and logo implies "women only," that's not the case--it has approximately ten men who are members of the organization. From the male perspective, WiPM provides a unique opportunity to learn first-hand about both the similarities and differences in gender as applied to our field.

While the types of services they provide are standard, they try to gear them with a female twist. Please browse their web site to learn more about our News Brief (6 times a year), special programs such as our eMentoring Program, Yahoo Community, and the volunteer opportunities.