03-Oct-2017 Yerevan, Armenia

PMI Armenia Potential Chapter and Center for Strategic Initiatives signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on promoting project management best practices to the CSI staff.
The major thrust of the MoU is to promote mutually beneficial cooperation between PMI Armenia Chapter and CSI in mentoring projects using a team of expert volunteers.

Similarly, the MoU also aims to promote people-to-people exchanges of different levels between the two organizations.

“One of the key strategic directions of PMI Armenia Chapter is to work with the public sector and promote project management best practices. We highly believe that project management plays an important role in development of Armenia. We are looking forward to improve and enhance our collaboration with CSI and potentially other public sector organizations” explained Mr. Thomas Mazejian, PMI Armenia Potential Chapter founder and leader.

“I welcome the initiative of PMI Armenia Potential Chapter. We have exchanged some ideas of how we can enhance relationship by sharing experiences and strategies to boost the project management practices” stated Mr. Aleksandr Khachaturyan, executive director of the Center for Strategic Initiatives.

25-July-2017 Yerevan, Armenia

On 21-July-2017 PMI Armenia Chapter has organized a first ever poolside networking event at the Congress Hotel. More than 50 project management professionals from different domains networked, while enjoying wine near the swimming pool.

29-June-2017 Yerevan, Armenia

On 22-June-2017 the PMI Armenia Chapter leader Mr. Thomas Mazejian was invited to make a presentation about the Chapter for the PMP Exam Preparatory Course students at the American University of Armenia. Mr. Mazejian talked about the establishment process, as well as the future plans of the Chapter. Various topics were discussed with the course participants, in particular, the benefits of the PMI and Chapter memberships, participation in Chapter activities, volunteering opportunities, experience sharing seminars and others.

19-May-2017 Yerevan, Armenia

On 12-May-2017 the PMI Armenia Chapter leader Mr. Thomas Mazejian was invited to make a presentation about the Chapter for the PMP Exam Preparatory Course students at the American University of Armenia. Mr. Mazejian talked about the establishment process, as well as the future plans of the Chapter. Various topics were discussed with the course participants, in particular, the benefits of the PMI and Chapter memberships, participation in Chapter activities, volunteering opportunities, experience sharing seminars and others.

18-May-2017 Yerevan, Armenia

On 13-May-2017 the PMI Armenia Chapter leader Mr. Thomas Mazejian and PMP Trainer Mrs. Astghik Sahakyan of PMI R.E.P American University of Armenia were invited to hold a project management masterclass to the Center for Strategic Initiatives of the Republic of Armenia. The presentation mainly related to the fundamental principles of project management based on PMI standards. The other section of the presentation focused the importance of the strategic alignment of projects within organizations. 

10-May-2017 Yerevan, Armenia

The PMI Leadership Institute Meeting 2017 – EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa – EMEA LIM) was held this year in Rome, Italy from 28-30 April 2017.

27-March-2017, Yerevan, Armenia

On 18-March-2017 PMI Armenia Potential Chapter founder and leader Mr. Thomas Mazejian has visited Almaty, Kazakhstan and met with the PMI Kazakhstan Potential Chapter President Mr. Nurkhat Ibadildin and Past President Mr. Rustam Shokamanov.

The main objective of the visit was to discuss different ways of how the two chapters could collaborate. Some of the points discussed was the importance of sharing experiences by inviting to different events organized by the chapters.

PMI Armenia Chapter is happy to introduce José Roberto Cavalcante Alves MBA,PMP who uses comics to promote the need for knowing project management concepts, entrepreneurship and business, making more accessible assimilation, even for non-specialized professionals and any segment, since it is not as popular. José creates a new project management vision, reinforcing the need for expert reaching universities, large corporations and training companies around the world. So let's start... 

PM. Geplanus Pranada graduated with great effort and joined the IT area. He began as a programmer, then a systems analyst, then a project manager...it was the natural way. He managed several projects and worked at several large companies. He witnessed many unusual situations and lived many of them--some happy, others not so much. Faithful to his principles and ready to apply the concepts of management, he often collides with reality. Here begins his story...

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11-November-2016, Yerevan, Armenia

PMI Armenia Potential Chapter volunteers conducted project management training to the teachers and students of Global Bridge Educational Center on 29-October-2016. This training was the first step of collaboration between PMI Armenia Potential Chapter and Global Bridge.

PMI Armenia Potential Chapter members volunteers Mr. Mikayel Nshanyan, PMP (PMI Armenia Potential Chapter Co-founder), Ms. Marine Grigoryan, PMP (PMI Armenia Potential Chapter Member), Mr. Davit Iskandaryan, PMP (PMI Armenia Potential Chapter Member), Mr. Artak Babayan, PMP (PMI Armenia Potential Chapter Member) have explained the basics of project management and emphasized on its importance.