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CONTENT

President’s Message 1

Editorial 2

Summary of PMI HK Functions

Membership 2

Education 3

Program 3

Certification 4

Awards 4

Celebrating 21st Birthday in 2018

May 2019 #29

In just under two months I will turn the page and hand-off the PMI HK Chapter presidency baton. Leading the Chapter has been a fun, educational, sometimes exciting, sometimes challenging, al-ways interesting experience that I highly recommend. My experience as Chapter president these six years has been good because of the fantastic people I’ve had the privilege to work with in this role. Thank you to all the Chapter leaders and volunteers!.

Together the Chapter leadership team and volunteers have worked hard to serve the profession in Hong Kong through strong and relevant programming, conferences, facilitating connections, and through providing leadership development opportunities. I believe the Chapter is well positioned to continue to deliver on its mission and help our members to succeed

We focus on the Chapter’s Core values and strategies to increase awareness and adoption of best project manage-ment practice; develop, nurture and sustain our professionals; and continuously engage, collaborate and outreach to our members

What have we accomplished over the past couple years? Just to name a few, we held our regional congress in

Hong Kong every year. This provides an excellent platform for sharing of knowledge, networking, and leadership

development for our volunteers and executive team. We organized training to universities, corporations and the

public to promote best practice and professional development. We conducted award competitions to promote

awareness and adoption. We facilitated our members on the PhD research surveys. We also started our coaching

programs for teenagers in a number of high schools for three years, which yielded wonderful results

Last but not the last, we successfully established a Chapter incorporate and formed a new PMI Hong Kong Chapter

Limited which signifies a new beginning of our well-established chapter. Looking back when the Chapter was first

started with five members, we are proud to have grown into a 1,400 plus members Chapter and have over 6,600

certificate holders in Hong Kong

Thank you to the membership for giving me the opportunity to serve you as president of the Chapter. Please don’t

hesitate to contact me or any leadership team member if you have any questions, comments or suggestions. I can

be reached at 9125 9090 or at rossana.ho@pmi.org.hk

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Young PM Development 5

Events in 2018 Summary

PMI Region 9, 15 Bangkok 6 - 7

PMI Melbourne Conference 8 - 9

PMIHK AGM 2018` 10

PMI Global Conference USA 11

PMIHK Congress 2018 12 - 14

Taiwan Conference 2018 15

President Rossana Ho’s Message

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Membership 2018: Xenon Lam, VP Membership

PMI Hong Kong Chapter welcome PMI members, PMI certificate holders and anyone who is affiliated to project

management to join the Chapter and enjoy these Chapter member benefits:

• Member updates of events, education programs and seminars

• Member great discounts for Chapter events, education programs and seminars

• Networking with fellow PM members, get advice on how to earn your PDU’s and maintain your certifications

• Participate as volunteers, be nominated as executive members and contribute to the Chapter

Chapter has grown from 5 founding members in 1997 to 1,454 members at the end of 2018

Editorial: Keen Lam VP Marketing

The PMI Hong Kong Chapter celebrated its 20th Anniversary in 2017. In

2018 the Chapter celebrates its twenty first birthday with a successful

and eventful year.

We start off with President Rossana Ho’s message on the achieve-

ments for 2018. This is followed by i) a summary of a number of Chap-

ter functions prepared by the respective VPs and ii) reports on the

memorable events of the Chapter.

Thank you to the VP’s and our volunteers, Chetna and Tracy for writing

the articles for this newsletter. We hope it brings back happy memo-

ries for those of you who joined our 2018 events.

Chapter Functions Section 2: Events

Membership PMI Region 9 & 15 Meeting, Bangkok

Education PMI Melbourne Conference 2019

Programs PMI HK AGM

Certification PMI Global Conference, US

Awards PMI HK Project Management Congress 2018

Young PM PMI Taiwan Congress

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In 2018, 23 courses, 250 students, Average Rating 4.4

Education 2018: John Yeung , VP Education

The Chapter provides project management related courses to the public. Chapter members enjoy a discounted

rate of $1,800 for a day course compared to the non-member rate of $2,100. Participants will earn 7 Professional

Development Units for a day course:

Programs 2018: Anthony Tsui, VP Programs

Date Course Instructor(s) Date Course Instructor(s)

Jan Agile Fundamentals and the Roadmap to be PMI-ACP

Mr. Alex Sin Jun Data Privacy Mr. Chris Cheng

Jan Contract Law I Ms. Winifred Lo Jul Overview and Audit Concepts for IT Professionals

Mr. Song-Boon Teng

Jan PMI Professional in Business Anal-ysis (PMI-PBA) - Module I

Mr. Raymond Wong

Jul Big Data Project Overview Mr. Alex Sin

Feb Data Privacy Mr. Chris Cheng Aug Managing Multiple Projects Mr. Alex Sin

Feb Contract Law II Ms. Winifred Lo Aug Essential Skills of Solution Focus Coaching to Excel Project Team Performance

Mr. Paul Mau

Feb Communication in Agile Project Management

Mr. Paul Mau Aug Building a winning team with your EQ leadership

Mr. Paul Mau

Mar Big Data Project Overview Mr. Alex Sin Sep Excel Your AQ in pressurised envi-ronment

Mr. Paul Mau

Apr Big Data Project Overview Mr. Alex Sin Sep PMI Professional in Business Anal-ysis (PMI-PBA) - Module I

Mr. Raymond Wong

Apr x 3 Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Exam Preparation Course

Mr. Raymond Wong Sep x2

Oct x2

PMI Professional in Business Anal-ysis (PMI-PBA) - Module II - IV

Mr. Raymond Wong

May x 2 The Agile-Scrum Way with Design Thinking Mindsets

Mr. Raymond Wong

Nov Manage People Conflicts in Pro-jects

Mr. Paul Mau

Jun How Cloud has re-invented the Project Manager

Mr. Fletcher Ng Nov x 1 Dec x 1

Managing Integrative Agile Devel-opment – From Design-Thinking Mindset to DevOps (2-D)

Mr. Raymond Wong & Mr. John Yeung

Dec Implications of IOT on Project

management Mr. Fletcher Ng

Programs function delivers monthly 2 hour seminars to the public. Chapter members enjoy a discounted rate of

$180 for a 2 hour seminar, compared the non--member rate of $280. Participants will earn 2 Professional Develop-

ment Units for a 2 hour seminar:

In 2018, 11 Seminars, courses, 417 Attendees, Average Rating 4.3

Date Seminar Presenter Date Seminar Presenter

Jan Maximizing the Value Delivery of Agile Approach with Design Thinking Mind-sets in Requirements Analysis

Mr. Raymond Wong

May Design Thinking Workshop - Discover the hidden opportunities in under-standing others

Mr. Daryl Chan

Jan Faster projects, on-time, with team harmony

Mr. Joe Cooper

Jun The new ABCD in Project Management Mr. Emil Chan

Feb The Future Project Manager Mr. Fletcher Ng

Aug Industrie 4.0 - Transformation and Re-lated Tools

Ir. Dr. YK Chan

Mar Overview of Fintech Trends in 2018 Dr. Alex Chan Sep Optimising Agile Delivery from Require-ments to Post-Implementation

Mr. Raymond Wong

Apr Machine Learning Essentials for Pro-ject Managers & Executives

Mr. Manoj Agarwal

Dec Coaching in a Dynamic Project Manage-ment Environment

Mr. Pierre Herbst & Ms. Carmen Kwok

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Awards 2018 - Outstanding Volunteer Awards: Michael Puk, VP Awards

The PMI HK Chapter is proud to present the Outstanding Volunteer Awards in 2018. The Awards are to recognize

the outstanding volunteers of PMI HK Chapter and to encourage them to continue their contribution to PMI.

Volunteers of any Chapter event or Sub-Committee members of PMI HK Chapter from Jan 2017 to Sep 2018 who

was PMI HK Chapter member were eligible for this award. Award candidates were nominated by Chapter mem-

bers, endorsed and voted by Chapter Executive Committee members. The awards go to the top three highest

polled candidates.

Alex Wong

Alex is an active helper for PMI

and participated as volunteer at

Congresses in 2013, 2014, 2016

and 2017.

Manoj Argawal

Manoj is a sub-committee

member, volunteered for Con-

gress 2017 and was guest

speaker at the 2018 AGM and

Lawrence Law

Lawrence has contributed exten-

sively in the past years; volun-

teered for Congress, 2017, 2018,

PMI Leadership Event 2017 and

Certification 2018-19: Janet Yu, VP Certification

The Chapter offers advice to members on PMI certifi-

cations, how to qualify and maintain their certifica-

tions.

PMI Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP)® For project managers and leaders

Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® For project team members

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® For practitioners adopting agile principles and practic-es on projects

Program Management Professional (PgMP)® For program managers

Potfolio Management Professional (PfMP)® For portfolio managers

PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® For business analysts

PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® For professionals specialized in areas of assessing and identifying project risks

PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)® For professionals specialized in the area of developing and maintaining project schedules

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Young PM Development: Alex Sin, VP Young PM Development

2018 Achievements

Accreditation of The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK)

PMIHK has been advisor for Hang Seng Management College since 2016 and was involved in the accredi-

tation of The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK). The Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of

Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ) interviewed PMIHK, Vice President Young PM, Alex

Sin on 17th Jan 2019. PMIHK is now an advisor at a degree program – Bachelor of Management Science

and Information Management (BMSIM).

Panel interview in January 2019.

BMSIM - B. of Management Science and Information Management (Honours)

CAPM Training for Students

PMIHK trained 26 colleges students in the previous 2 years and now 6 of them are certified as CAPM,

which is PMI certification, without the requiring prior project management experience. We are proud to

achieve an increase of 30% growth of CAPM numbers, year on year.

PMIHK never stops visiting local colleges and universities to promote project management. These in-

stitutions include Ying Wa PTA, Pui Ching Middle School, CityU, PolyU, HSUHK, HKUST, HKU and CUHK,

etc.

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2018 PMI Region 9 & 15 Meeting, Bangkok

By Keen Lam, VP Marketing

The 2018 PMI Region 9 and 15 Meeting was held at the Novotel Bangkok Ploenchit Sukhimvit, over 2 days, on 21

and 22 April 2018. This combined region meeting of PMI Chapter leaders is aimed at building and promoting the

PMI brand in the regions, as well as giving the leaders the opportunity to network and learn from each other.

This would have been one of the largest gathering of PMI chapter volunteer leaders from Region 9 (chapters from

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Mongolia) and Region 15 (chapters from Thailand, Singapore, India,

Pakistan and Philippines). PMIHK sent a large contingent of 10 representatives; Rossana Ho (President), Sindy Yau

(EVP Internal), Christine Yau (EVP External), Danny Chung (VP Finance), Anthony Tsui (VP Programs), Xenon Lam

(VP Membership), Eva Ma (VP Special Projects), Michael Puk (VP Awards), Villupuram Santhanam Shrisankaraan

(aka Sankar, VP Corporate Relationships) and Keen Lam ( VP Marketing).

Day one covered topics relating to PMI branding, mem-

bership promotion and chapter growth strategies. One of

the key learnings was the series of presentations from

each chapter of their key achievements.

Day two was focused on team building activities including

a Thai cooking competition hosted by the hotel’s chef.

Here are some of the excerpts of the presentations.

Day One

“Inventing the Professional Association of the Future”

• What it means to be a professional association that represents and advocates for people who practice pro-

ject, program and portfolio management

• By 2028, we expect to have 2.2 million certified professionals

• Member perspective” help me gain credibility, prepare me to advance my career

• Volunteers and effective partnerships with staff are the best way to accomplish the Institute’s goals and ob-

jectives

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2018 PMI Region 9 & 15 Meeting, Bangkok

“Aligning Chapter Success to PMI’s Strategic Plan & Chapter Development Pri-

orities

• In Annual Planning, activities be based on members’ needs

• Priorities on improving first year member engagement, tending to volun-

teer leadership pipeline

• 3 Strategic Pillars, in “Playing To Win”

• Segment Members into 1st year, 4th year, meet different needs and pro-

files

Day Two

• Team dynamics and Myers-Briggs profile

• Thai Cooking Competition – Hong Kong Team won a prize!

Presentation by

President Rossanna Ho Mongolia Chapter achievements Table presentation by Sankar

(VP Corporate Relationships)

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PMI Melbourne Conference 2018

PMI Australia Conference 2018

By Janet Yu, VP Certification

The PMI Australia Chapters have put together a 2-day annual national conference on 22 May 2018 in Melbourne,

Australia, with close to 300 delegates who attended. This year’s theme “Diversity, Performance, Wellbeing” is un-

derpinned by four streams: i) Project Trends and Innovations, ii) the PMI Talent Triangle™ skills of Leadership, iii)

Technical, iv) Strategy and Business. The conference featured 50+ speakers who are industry leaders, influencers

and scholars to provide insights into various aspects of project management and the latest ideas that may affect

businesses today and tomorrow.

The conference organizing committee believes that “Through embracing diversity, focusing on performance out-

comes and making time for wellbeing, successful project results can be achieved.”

Session Highlights

Diane Samaroo and Forum Metpally from Ericsson spoke about how Ericsson takes pride in

endorsing the belief that a varied and representative workforce can generate a creative and

productive environment, an environment where every member feels equally valued.

In delivering performance and achieving results, Kimberly Wiefling from Silicon Valley Alli-

ances, through some interactive activities, vividly introduced some simple methods in prac-

ticing scrappy design thinking.

Chee-Peng Tan’s talk on Superior Performance Leadership 4.0 Through Diversity & Wellbe-

ing explained how future leaders should master the Industry 4.0 enablers to transform their

business in the digital economy, and how Industry 4.0’s project managers should delegate the

machine-possible activities and put more focus on people and the soft side of project manage-

ment to deliver better project results.

Forum Metpally

Diane Samaroo

Kimberly Wiefling

Chee-peng Tan

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PMI Australia Conference 2018

Other Conference Highlights

To keep accurate track of the delegates at the sessions in the 2-day conference, a

small IoT device was attached to the name badge distributed together with the

conference package. All the conference rooms were equipped with a reader so no

more scanning and queuing up were required at the entrance. This simple mecha-

nism showcased how technology could be applied to streamline a process to pro-

vide a better user experience.

Chee-peng Tan

Another interesting feature of the conference was

the visual scribing by Paul Telling who helped cap-

ture three of the key sessions in creative form real-

time.

All in all, it was a fruitful two days with a well

worked out list of diversified topics and speakers.

Delegates have learned more about the changing

business landscape, acquired practical skills on im-

proving project performance, networked and

shared knowledge with peer professionals, academ-

ics and community representatives.

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Agenda

• Special Report from PMI NA LIM & Congress

• Preview of 2018 PMI HK Congress

• PMI HK Chapter 2017-18 Achievements

• PMI HK Chapter Financial Updates

• Seminar

• Light Refreshments & Networking

2017-18 Chapter Achievements – by President Rossana Ho

The Chapter continues to grow and transform from humble

beginnings, to more than 1,400 members in 2018, supported

by dedicated volunteers, its Executive Committee and mem-

bers over its 21 years in its history. Core focus and strategies

for 2017 to 2019 term are:

• Increase Awareness & Adoption

• Develop, Nurture, Sustain

• Engage, Collaborate, Outreach

Major achievements for the year included the Tour of Aliba-

ba Headquarters in Hangzhou, Student PM Awards, 20th

Anniversary Newsletter and the 2017 Project Management

Congress

PMI Global Conference 2018 – by Anthony Tsui, VP Pro-

grams

PMI founded in 1969, will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in

2019. The PMI family has 280 plus local chapters and has

more than 700.000 certification holders. I was honoured to

be one of the presenters, sharing Hong Kong Chapter’s expe-

riences and lessons learned in organising the Chapter’s annu-

al Project Management Congress over the last 5 years.

Promoting PMI HK Project Management Congress 2018

The 2018 Congress will be held at Cyberport with the theme

“Embrace, Diversity, Empower People”. 3 lucky winners re-

ceived free Congress registrations.

Financial Updates, AGM adopted – presented by Anthony

Tsui, VP Programs

The Chapter’s financial report was presented and adopted.

The AGM was confirmed by the required number attendees

and proxies provided. The Seminar on Deep Learning Essen-

tials was presented by Mr Manoj Agarwal, followed by re-

freshments and networking.

PMIHK AGM October 2018

By Chetna Patel, PMIHK volunteer

PMI HK

Chapter AGM

2018

Seminar “Deep Learning Essentials for Project

Managers & Executives" – by Mr Manoj Agarwal

Mr Manoj Agarwal, is Data Analytics Manager at

Ocean Network Express (ONE), a major internation-

al logistics and container shipping company and has

14 years of experience in IT.

Deep Learning is a new area of Machine Learning

research, which has been introduced with the ob-

jective of moving Machine Learning closer to one of

its original goals.

Artificial Intelligence Machine learning has already

captured the industry’s attention and driven rapid

changes in advance technology. In his sharing, he

covered the overview of key Deep Learning tools,

Deep Learning business

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Anthony Tsui, VP Programs attended the 2018 North America LIM and was the one of the guest

speakers at the NA Congress 2018. The following are excerpts of his presentation of the events at

the PMIHK 2018 AGM.

About the NA LIM & Congress 2018.

• Attended by 1,000+ Chapter Leaders and 3,000+ Project Management Professionals

• Activities involved knowledge and experience sharing, networking and special guests presentations

• Numerous sponsor booths and bookstores

High profile keynote speakers at the Congress:

Mathew Luhn (Pixar Animation Studios) Mallory Weggemann (gold medallist, 2012 Paralympics)

Anthony’s presentation topic “The Congress Challenge—Working Together,

Moving Forward & Celebrating Success”, in which he shared his experiences and

valuable insights as a key member of the PMIHK Congress Organising Com-

mittee, over the past 4 annual Congresses.

Learnings, knowledge and tools acquired by Anthony from the LIM and Congress

for the benefit of Hong Kong Chapter:

• PMI website tools, standards and examples

• Membership building resources, mentorship programs

• Chapter leadership guidance, on-boarding activities for new chapter leaders

• Chapter activities for local members, social good outreach initiatives, etc

Chee-peng Tan

PMI North America Leadership Institute Meeting (LIM) & Congress 2018

Excerpts from presentation by Anthony Tsui, VP Programs

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PMI HK Asia Pacific Project Management Congress 2018

By Tracy Zhou, PMIHK Volunteer

In the golden season of autumn, we once again welcomed members, friends, speakers and guests for professional

knowledge and experience sharing during PMI HK’s annual signature event, The Asia Pacific Project Management

Congress (“the Congress”) held in Hong Kong on 3 November 2018. With the theme of “Embrace Diversity, Em-

power People.”, the Congress event attracted more than 250 participants, held at the Cyberport Convention Cen-

tre.

After the warm welcome speeches by Mrs Rossana Ho (President of PMI Hong Kong Chapter) and Mr Danny Chung

(Chair of 2018 PMI HK Congress Organising Committee), many distinguished speakers from the government, public

organisations, and commercial companies, gave their presentations to the audience. All the speakers offered their

industrial insights, management practices, as well as shared market trends, in the context of their unique area of

speciality with the participants.

Speakers & Presentation Topics (in the order of presentation)

1.“Forging Ahead to Develop Hong Kong into a World-Famed Smart City” Mr. Victor Lam, JP Government Chief Information Officer, The Government of the HKSAR

2.“Ready for Take-off?” Next Generation Workforce Executive Director, Property De-velopment, Airport Authority, Hong Kong

3.“Next Generation Workforce” Mr. George Lai Global Head of IT & Operations, Chubb Life Insurance

4.“Creating Project Success through Diversity: The Case of City University’s Scholars System” Prof. Christian Wagner Chief Information Officer & Associate Provost for Quality As-surance, City University of Hong Kong

5.“5G – Hype vs. Reality” Mr. Gary McLaren Chief Technology Officer, Hong Kong Broadband Network

6.“Smart City, Smart Projects – A Startup Approach to Projects in a Traditional Industry” Mr. Damien Wu Chief Information Officer, Link Asset Management Limited

7.“Technology Expands Business Boundaries – The De-velopment of New Retail Project in Taobao” Mr. Ralph Zhu Senior Project Management Expert, Alibaba

8.“Coaching Empowers People!” Mr. Bernard Kuhl Chief Operating Officer, Asia Pacific, Global Transaction & Pay-ment Services, Societe Generale

9.“Barrier Busters – A Community Project for Empower-ment and Inclusion” Mr. Peter Po Deputy Chief Executive Officer, The Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation

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PMI HK Asia Pacific Project Management Congress 2018

Congratulations to the winners of

the PMI HK Chapter Awards 2019,

CAPM Certification

Young PM Awards

Volunteer Awards

The two Master of Ceremonies, Justin Chung and Alison Wong did an

excellent job in keeping the event going smoothly, especially as this was

their the first time as MC’s. They managed to get all the 250 + attendees

organised to take a group photo. The attendees also came away with the

Chapter’s free gifts such as the popular PMIHK 20th Anniversary Back-

pack, umbrellas, USB drives, etc. It is the first time, that printed Congress

programme brochure was replaced with a digital program accessed via

mobile phones.

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PMI HK Asia Pacific Project Management Congress 2018

Photo Gallery

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Theme :The Outlook of Project Management – Challenges and Opportunities in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Venue : National Taipei University of Technology

Chee-peng Tan

2018 PMI Taiwan International Congress (PTIC), 10 to 11 November 2018

By Alex Sin, VP Young PM Development

The PMIHK Chapter executive was represented at the Con-

gress by Christine Yau—EVP, Janet Yu - VP Certification, and

Alex Sin—VP Young PM Development. The 2018 PTIC is the

most important annual event for the PMI Taiwan Chapter.

Here is my summary of the Congress theme messages:

We agreed that only cross-field talents would survive the tech-

nology impact and be able to master the future. From this

event, we recognize that AI is no longer in lab work but already

part of our daily life. People may wonder if some of our jobs

will be replaced by AI. However, the challenges ahead will

bring us more opportunities because more changes and inno-

vations mean more projects to do and more project manage-

ment involved. We should concentrate more on how to get

ourselves ready when the opportunities come. The topics in-

clude Top Ten Outstanding Project Managers, the trends and

applications of AI, the Agile Practices, and the international

experiences of project management.

Christine Yau joined the forum discussion on the “Challenges and Opportunities in the Artificial Intelligence Era”