March 2008 Newsletter

Tuesday, March 18^th Chapter Meeting

Arrival:                         6:00-6:25 PM
Dinner:                         6:30 PM
Business Meeting:       6:45 PM

Capability Maturity Model Integration
Jeffrey Dietrich, PMP
Cessna Aircraft Corporation

Jeffrey Dietrich will present an introduction to Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute, Capability Maturity Model Integration (SEI CMMI) for Acquisition with a specific look at Acquisition Requirements Development - Identifying customer and contractual needs for application purchases. This will include a discussion of where CMMI overlaps with PMBOK.

In addition to his PMP, Jeff has earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from WSU, a Masters of Management Information Systems from Friends University, and Six Sigma certification. Jeff has over 20 years of information technology consulting experience for American Honda, Pizza Hut, Wolters Kluwer, State of Nevada, Cessna Aircraft and a number of other organizations. He possesses unique insight into applying IT solutions to business.

Fee:           $10.75 for a meal. No charge to attend without ordering a meal.

You must RSVP by noon on Monday to have a meal provided.

RSVP:        by Noon Monday, February 18^th
                 online as follows:

If ordering a meal, go to the following site:
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=155036

If not ordering a meal, use our RSVP page:
http://www.pmiwichita.org/meeting_rsvp.html

Please RSVP to only one of the above locations.

Location:   Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation
                  151 N. Main
                  1^st floor conference room
                  Free parking is available on the streets and
                  in the lot to the west side at First and Water Streets.

Next Meeting – Tuesday, April 15^th –

Topic and Location:    To be announced

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