Project Management

The Project Management Institute (PMI) is the global association of project-management professionals that administers the popular PMP certification. Those individuals looking to make project management a career should consider joining PMI at www.pmi.org. The Silicon Valley Chapter of PMI, one of its most active chapters, serves the South Bay and can be reached on the Web at www.pmisv.org.

ProjectConnections (www.projectconnections.com) provides a knowledge base of project management templates, checklists, guidelines, and articles to help members kick-start their project deliverables, solve typical project problems, train and support themselves or their project managers, and create project management and development methodologies for their teams. The site has over 200,000 members around the world who work on projects in one way or another, including project managers, team leads, team members, managers of project managers, heads of Project Management Offices, functional managers, and executives who are trying to advance project management in their organizations.