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Toronto, 2012.05.26

Today I went to a "PMP" related "professional development day" - at $280 I think it might just have been worth the money.

Overall, I'd give it a B for content (e,g, one session was cancelled because the speaker didn't show up) but it wasn't so much a professional development thing but a networking thing. Which, despite the opening keynote speaker's topic being clearly focused on networking, I hadn't really "got". I get the sense that PMI is actually much less about project management than it is about the organization itself.

Turns out, I was under-dressed. Not unacceptably so, I hope, but I certainly wasn't wearing a tie, and some of the attendees were in pin-stripe suits and I saw a woman in pearls. The irony being that every week I get comments about wearing a tie in the office. Nice to see that even in Toronto people can dress up once in a while.

rand()m quote

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery