Message from Director, PMNC18
DEAR PRACTITIONERS, India is transforming through various initiatives of government like “Make in India”, Swachh Bharat”, “Smart Cities” and “Startup India”, to name a few. Any transformation intrinsically has its own challenges and also opportunities. The key to success is "perspective" and understanding challenges; overcoming them by converting them into opportunities. Project and Program Management helps in achieving these objectives through aligning organizational strategy to new needs, identifying Projects and Programs to achieve the same, establishing good governance, managing schedule deadlines, costs and stakeholder's expectations. This is more relevant in today’s context due to volatile market conditions; where big data and AI have a key role to play and Social Networks are rapidly emerging as the key marketing tool. Also, rapidly changing technology is leading to changing customer requirements, almost as a continuum. The Project Management Institute, a global, not for profit organization that evangelizes the profession of project management, endeavors to build and promote the Project Management profession worldwide. To further the cause in India; this organization has been holding national level project management conferences jointly with the regional Chapters in India. Over the last 9 years these mega events have served as a meeting point for large number of project professionals from a wide spectrum of industries. The tenth Project Management National Conference celebrated the decade long journey and aptly was held in New Delhi, the National Capital, hosted by North India Chapter of PMI. This tenth Project Management National Conference 2018 marked a major milestone of PMI India and its associated chapter’s endeavors to promote
