Mayor Matt Harter announced International Project Management Day in La Crosse, WI, at a reception held on Thursday, August 26^th at the Viterbo University Reinhart Center.

 Scheduled to be ready in time for preview and planning prior to your November 4, 2010 IPM day event, a motivational and inspirational video 10-minute meeting opener is currently in production.

 In this workshop learn the surprising truths about the tactics of difficult project stakeholders and develop strategies for creating a more effective working relationship. During this workshop you will practice techniques that will assist in solving conflicts and removing barriers that reduce productivity, frustrate team members and co-workers and slow organizational growth. This workshop will improve your ability to create higher levels of team performance and to more effectively manage business relationships.

Welcome to John Blacklaws, owner/director of TML ONE, as the newest Successful Project's distributor. Through TML One, Successful Projects looks forward to doing business in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Iraq, and Africa

The author of the blog "Purposeful Games for Risk Management" is Will McGill, an Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. He purchased and tried out the Project Risk board game, and he finds the game helps the students feel the emotions involved with risk management.

Today Successful Projects announced the start-up of Successful Projects Northland, which is owned by Brian Hinton, of Hinton Enterprises and operating in Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

Loyola University Maryland worked with Successful Projects to customize the Project Risk board game for use with internal Loyola project managers and Loyola students. The customized version of the game features Loyola campus images including their mascot, logo and it features photo scenes and projects from around the Loyola University campus. 

Successful Projects is pleased to announce a license agreement with Rock Solid Dominion, LLC, which is owned by Harry Roch and operating in New Jersey, USA that will immediately start doing business as Successful Projects East Coast. The primary area of focus for the new business is the east coast expansion of the Successful Project’s college Certificate in Project Management program, which is currently offered at four Wisconsin Universities.

Successful Projects is pleased to announce a license agreement with Madrid-based project management consultant Ángel Águeda Barrero, thereby expanding the breadth of resources and global diversity of the organization. As part of increasing the company’s diversity, Mr. Águeda will handle the translating and production of Spanish-language versions of Successful Projects products, beginning with the Project Risk boardgame which is going to be available in approximately two months.

Ángel Águeda Barrero is PMP, PRINCE2, and SCRUM certified. He is an MBA with over twenty years of professional experience including working as a senior project manager at Microsoft, ING, Siebel (now Oracle), and Informatica El Corte Inglés including international experience in Argentina, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Spain. He is a project management trainer and he has been involved with the English to Spanish translation of other project management programs and books.