• Feb. 2010: Ángel Águeda Barrero from Madrid, Spain becomes a licensee and begins the project of translating the Project Risk game board to Spanish.
• Jan. 2010: Success Cards were created for project management instructors classroom use.

• Dec. 2009. GEM Services of Ottawa, Canada becomes a Successful projects distributor.
• Oct. 2009. PKC Consulting becomes a Successful Projects distributor.
• July 2009. Successful Projects expanded into the Asia-Pacific region with the first licensee agreement in Australia. This also added the diversity of an instructor that was Prince2 certified.
• June 2009. Additional instructors were added to help cover the Certificate in Project Management Program.
• March 2009. The Project Risk board game packaging and mass production efforts began. With 1000 of the boards printed in June and the 500 boxes printed in late July.
• The Certificate in Project Management program which started between Successful Projects and UW-La Crosse expanded to UW-Superior, UW-Green Bay, UW-Parkside, and UW-Stevens Point. Additional instructors were added to support this program.
• The free weekly PMP Study group became virtual -  conference bridging was added so that participants had the choice of attending virtually or in person.

• The Certificate in Project Management program was founded as a joint effort between Successful Projects and UW-La Crosse's Small Business Development Center.
• The Project Risk game was formally developed into a printed game board. Initially orders were printed on demand. It went on sale on the Internet but it was not marketed and the packaging was not yet formalized.
• The free weekly PMP Study group was initiated.
• The Hit the Mark game was created.

• The Earned Value game was created.
• The Estimating Challenge game was created.
• The Fundamentals of Project Management workshop was revised and the 2-day workshop was held for many corporations.

• Content was developed for, and 12 Trane Project Management instructors were trained by Successful Projects to distribute training throughout the engineering organization of the company.
• Many Successful Projects workshops were held this year at Trane and for other corporate and public customers.
• Through teaching project management classes for corporate and college (at Viterbo University and Western Technical College) classes, Successful Projects started developing a series of project management training hands-on learning activities meant to involve the participants beyond discussions, book learning and lectures. A passion for project management discovery learning was sparked.
• Successful Project's owner, Kay Wais, completed her Masters degree in Project Management.

• Articles of organization for Successful Projects,LLC were filed on Feb. 28, 2001.
• The initial focus was project management contracting, starting with a project that was a joint effort between AVS Group, Successful Projects, and Trane to create the Tracer Summit Users Network.
• The second focus was developing project management training programs. The continued development and use of project management course content led to the invention of a number of project management learning activities and games. 
• The first project management workshops were held at regional businesses.
• Successful Projects sponsored and founded the La Crosse Project Management Institute chapter.

Prior to starting Successful Projects, Ed and Kay Wais owned and operated the AVS Group which they opened under the name of AVS Inc. in 1989. AVS Group is still running today under the general management of Ed Wais. For more information on the AVS Group visit www.avsgroup.com.

Kay Wais worked in a project management capacity with AVS Group for 12 years prior to starting the Successful Projects business. She was inspired by the transformational effect that project management training and certification had in her on-the-job project success performance.