This month’s session focuses on one of the most valuable competencies for project professionals: Business Acumen. Join our host, Liz Hector, as we explore how strategic thinking, big-picture awareness, and value-driven decision-making can elevate your leadership and influence across any organization.

September Reading Theme: Your Next Five Moves by Patrick Bet-David
This book focuses on staying five steps ahead. How to gain clarity on your identity, strategize effectively, scale your business, and master decision-making under pressure. The book blends mindset, tactical planning, and leadership development to help ambitious professionals level up with deliberate and visionary action.

Please address any questions to Martin.Bertram@pmi-gc.de 

PMI Local Group Darmstadt Roundtable #35

Monday, 22 September | 18:00

Location: Karlson, Am Fürstenbahnhof 3-4, 64293 Darmstadt

Free of charge | Earn 2 PDUs
Language: English (we’re an international group!)

This session provides an introduction to project cost management based on the PMBOK Guide. It focuses on the four main processes: Plan Cost Management, Estimate Costs, Determine Budget, and Control Costs. The session concludes with a look at the practical application of these processes in real-world projects.

We are delighted to welcome Planisware as our guest speaker, focusing on R&D and portfolio management in the life sciences industry. If you work in the pharmaceutical, medtech, or biotech sector and are interested in the latest project management insights, this is a great opportunity to learn and connect.

The journey continues, the Local Group Böblingen presents.

Interested? Be there and don't miss it!

Erhard Lump, founder of the local group, is looking forward to a lively turnout!

Our Lean-Agile Community of Practice (CoP) provides a platform for you to network, share experiences and to deepen your knowledge of agile and lean practices in project management. Whether you are already using agile or lean methods in your projects, planning to introduce them, or aspiring to PMI-ACP® certification, this is the place for you.

Discover how organizations build resilience in the face of constant change. This session unpacks the Business Agility Domains and Capabilities model with real-world stories, offering leaders practical ways to drive purposeful, adaptive transformation, without doing more, but doing things differently.

The Local Group Rhine-Neckar presents:

Mithun A. Sridharan: We are our decisions!

In an era dominated by AI and data, the human factor is more critical than ever.
Algorithms process information, but they can't replace the judgment needed under pressure.

Our perception is distorted by cognitive biases—hidden traps that influence our choices, from daily decisions to major life events.
While we believe we act rationally, these mental shortcuts lead us to misjudge risks, misinterpret data, and miss obvious solutions.

My talk, based on the book, Mayday! Mayday!: Decision-making Under Duress, promotes a deliberate approach to decision-making.
Using actionable insights from high-stakes, high-pressure scenarios, such as aviation incidents, I provide tools and frameworks to overcome these invisible forces.
The goal is to make traceable, justifiable, and ultimately, better decisions.

Mithun A. Sridharan is Advisor – Author -  Speaker, with 23+ years of industry track record and deep expertise at the nexus between strategy, technology and behavioral psychology. Mithun serves as a change driver, turnaround expert and trusted advisor to his network of executives and leadership teams.pmi-gc.de

Any questions about the event please contact: matthias.koll@pmi-gc.de

 

43^rd English PMI Round Table Frankfurt September 2025

PMI Round Table on Project Management topic

Topic: PMI Round Table on Project Management topic

30.09.2025 18:30 - 20:30

Dear PM enthusiasts, members of PMI and friends,

Greetings and here's the invite to the next English Round Table for the project management professionals living in and around the city of Frankfurt. With this event we intend to facilitate exchange between PMs, and we will talk about Project & Program Management related topic in the Organization.

This meeting will allow you to discuss on any of the project management related topic or questions in your project, program, organization, or your day-to-day activities. Our volunteer team from the PMI Germany Chapter will be available to facilitate the discussion.

As we are an international team, the language of the event is English, and the questions can be discussed in German if required.

The simulation is designed for professionals juggling 50+ concurrent projects - especially in industrial and manufacturing environments, but equally valuable for any complex knowledge work setting.

Our value stream multi-project Kanban simulation offers you a practical, risk-free experience in four hours in a realistically simulated industrial project portfolio. You will experience visualization, coordination and systematic experimentation - without interfering with existing processes.

More information and registration: https://www.xuviate.com/de/simulation/
(free for PMI members with coupon code: PMI-VSSIM-2025)

Please send questions to: mathias@xuviate.com or Martin.Bertram@pmi-gc.de