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English BookClub September 2025
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
Local Group Boeblingen - September '25
The journey continues, the Local Group Böblingen presents.
The Problem: Why Our Project Estimates Fall Short
We often see projects exceed budgets and deadlines, and a major hidden culprit isn't the core development work, but the underestimation of critical supporting and management processes. While our focus is on deliverables, the essential "overhead" of quality assurance, risk, and change management often gets neglected. These vital activities, aligned with both ASPICE 4.0 (e.g., SUP.1, SUP.8, SUP.9, SUP.10, MAN.3, MAN.5) and foundational ISO/IEC 15288/12207 standards, create a risky blind spot in our planning.
Call to Action: Let's Collaborate on Smarter Estimation!
Interested? Be there and don't miss it!
Erhard Lump, founder of the local group, is looking forward to a lively turnout!
English BookClub October 2025
✨ Welcome to the PMI Book Club – October Edition!
This month’s session focuses on one of the most valuable competencies for project professionals: Business Acumen. Join our host, Richa Agrawal, as we explore how strategic thinking, big-picture awareness, and value-driven decision-making can elevate your leadership and influence across any organization.
October Reading Theme: Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman and Joe Knight
Whether you're a seasoned professional or expanding your role beyond delivery, this conversation will give you fresh tools and perspectives to bridge the gap between execution and enterprise value.
Business decisions are critical for every leader. To grow your skills and career, you need to develop this skill. Key knowledge for any manager includes the ability to interpret financial data to make informed business decisions. This book does a great job of demystifying financial statements and metrics for non-financial managers.
We look forward to your voice in this important conversation. No pre-reading required—just bring your curiosity and professional drive!
Please address any questions to Martin.Bertram@pmi-gc.de
Local Group Boeblingen - October '25
The journey continues, the Böblingen regulars' table meets again.
✴️ The biggest problem with project effort estimation isn't human error. It's the lack of a consistent, objective model that can handle complexity and customized projects.
The solution?
A neural network model for effort estimation. It involves training an artificial intelligence with historical project data to predict future effort with greater accuracy.
We are very happy to have Burcu Şengüneş with us at our Local Group event in October. We are looking forward to seeing you there too!
Interested? Be there and don't miss it!
Erhard Lump, founder of the local group, is looking forward to a lively turnout!
Local Group Boeblingen - November '25
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!
