COURSE OUTLINE:
The foundation of what every project manager needs to know in order to successfully manage projects is presented in this three-day course.
PM Essentials covers the basic concepts of the five fundamental project management processes, defining requirements, schedules, risk management,
and change control. Participants gain an understanding of how the project management processes are used during each phase of a project to build a better,
more effective project plan. Through the use of short case studies, practical exercises, class discussions, and lectures, participants have the opportunity
to apply these best practices in a non-threatening classroom environment.

METHODOLOGY:
AUA Extension and APMA’s (Armenian Project Management Association) Training courses are based on accelerated learning methods
and deliver vast amounts of information in the shortest possible time. We adopted new approach for systematized teaching; the principles
implemented make the training process easy, efficient and maximum flexible:

Pre-reading : Each participant will get training materials to be able to read whole theory in advance.
This method will help everyone to be in same level of theory and be ready for more practical training in classroom.
Classroom : At classroom only actual practical knowledge and Armenian reality cases will be discussed and reviewed.
An important activity for students will be presentation of their own experiences of problem solving and project management decision making.
eLearning: Training materials will be available in an eLearning system and all students will have full access to it.
Recommended literature will be provided to the students in digital version. Additionally, all students will get templates and forms for practical
management of projects developed by Project Management Institutes. We use Armenian Distance Learning Network: www.e-courses.am
Mentoring: The trainer will customize more theory and practical knowledge on eLearning system and during this time each student will get personal mentor to look after learning process online. We will help you to focus on topics and be more motivated to learn.
Assessment: After training fully completion each student have to pass assessment on personal development and usage of knowledge.

DURATION: Total of 18 hours in class and 20 days for eLearning.

SCHEDULE: October 1, 2 & 3 – 6 hours per day - 11:00-17:00 (1 hour free time for lunch)

FEE: 59 000 AMD (VAT inclusive)

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 29, 16:00

registration and payment in person: Participants could hand in completed application form and a copy of their passport to the Extension Office. They will be asked to pay the tuition – in cash – at AUA Cashier’s Office – 5th floor, room 59, open hours from 10:00 to 16:00, Monday to Friday (13:00 to 13:45 closed for lunch).

registration by e-mail and payment by bank transfer: Alternatively, participants could e-mail completed application form, a copy (scan) of their passport and evidence of their payment by
bank transfer to AUA HSBC Bank Account.

NOTE: Materials will be provided in English. Discussions will be in Armenian.

END DATE: The final assessment will be after eLearning course completion.

CERTIFICATE: Students will receive a Certificate of Course Completion based on their attendance level and eLearning participation.

ABOUT THE TRAINER:
Albert Poghosyan ( www.poghosyan.org )
Albert Poghosyan is the founder and president of Armenian Project Management Association. Throughout his career in IT
including an experience in eCommerce technologies; he has been fascinated by management and, more recently, specialized
in Project Management. As a topical subject, Albert spends a large proportion of his time researching the project management
standards including PRINCE2 from British Office of Commerce and Project Management Institute standards.

CONTACTS:
Tel: +37410 51 27 06 (01)
Fax: +37410 51 25 12
E-mail: extension@aua.am
Address: 40 M. Baghramyan Avenue, Room 19
Yerevan 0019, Armenia

We have got first member from VivaCell-MTS staff and he happened to be Brasilian/Lithuanian working currently Ericsson AB Sweden and he temporarily assigned to support on VivaCell project deployments in Yerevan, Armenia. Even though he is not the main staff member in VivaCell and even not Armenian by nationality (he has recently moved to Armenia) he found it interesting to join the Project Management Association to gain professional grow, though his stay in Armenia will be short.

Eduardo Pazikas (Profile)
Education : MBA in INTERNATIONAL MARKETING
Current Position : CUSTOMER PROJECT MANAGER in ERICSSON
Category : consultant
Phone : 094252279
E-mail : eduardo.pazikas@ericsson.com

On the one hand it is really surprising that during those 10 month of membership registration existanse no one from VivaCell was interested to join APMA. On the other hand, a question occurs: did they know anything about APMA? Well most of them have attended PM trainings previously and have known about this organization even before it was officially opened. In the whole company only one person has been interested in AMPA– Tommy Mazejian but he never joined.
For sure this is not about VivaCell and even not about any particular organization in Armenia. I wish to undertand the tactics about professional grow for managers (both project and general ones). Sometimes I wonder why it so much differs from those in Western countries.
These might be explained as low level knowledges owned by local professional organization, at least this is my answer. But if you understand what is knowledge development, you would defiantly understand that in such small country we are not creating any knowledge. All that we share and share openly is just general knowledge available from world’s large organizations.
So the only explanation I can give  is that our managers are very happy with what they have. No need to go further. This is the state of mind. And this is the way how we go.
Hope this will be changed very soon. With or without our help.

Thanks for following
President of APMA
Albert Poghosyan

WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS FRIDAY?
The Armenian Project Management Association is organizing its next Friday Evening Club for Managers on 4th of September 2009.

Speaker: Mr. Raffy Semerdjian (President/CEO at CSP-Middle East)
Topic: “Management Mix, a new tool for Organizational Development”
Date: Friday, September 4th, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Isahakyan Public Library
(near the Republic Square Metro station )
City/Town: Yerevan, Armenia
Phones: 094252378, 091464296, 094311176
Email: info@apma.am

Event Topic description:
“Management Mix, a new tool for Organizational Development”.
As the pace of change in Organizations is very fast, the need for Talents to streamline the organization is imperative. Management Mix is a Tool for attracting, developing, retaining & transferring talents.
The presentation will cover the concept of Management Mix and its methodological framework.

If you are young, promising and determined that to achieve success, then you are the one who we need…
Let’s think together… | Let’s work together… | Let’s build managerial society together!

First of all I’d like to congratulate us with the very first meeting of “Friday evening club for Managers” series. Our guest for this meeting will be Mrs. Sophie Mehrabyan, General Manager of Macadamian Technologies, former General Manager of i-Mate Games. Mrs. Mehrabyan has 25+ years of experience in IT field, from which 10+ years are in Managament.

Just want to remind you, that the aims of these meetings are managerial awareness for persons who involved in different spheres of industry. During the event you will be able to express your ideas to all comers, discover the secrets of business making, ask the question to people those who are representing the company interests, discuss the problems of markets and possible solutions for them.

The format for this event is predefined as a “meeting without ties”. In the end of session you will be able to enjoy the evening with meeting participants in friendly atmosphere somewhere in downtown…

The meeting will be held in Isahakyan Public Library near the Republic Square Metro station from 19:00 to 20:30.

The format for our discussion is:

1. Success story by Mrs. Mehrabyan (20-25 minutes)
2. Questions (20-25 minutes)
3. Discussions (15-20 minutes)
4. Pub visiting all together…

Looking forward to see you at meeting! Should you have any questions,
please contact Aram Kalantaryan (cell: 091 46 42 96)  or me directly (cell: 093ALBERT) or via e-mail.

1. The meeting will be held at this Friday, July 10, 2009.
2. There is no any form or any formal paper to fill in order to participate to the meeting – forget the Soviet-style bureaucracy! Just come to the Isahakyan Library and one of our volunteers will guide you to the meeting hall.
3. Isahakyan Library is no longer in it’s old place, i.e. behind the Foreign Affairs building. They are moved closed to Republic Square Metro station due to ongoing construction/renovation in old building.

ALL MEETINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!

Best Regards
Albert Poghosyan
President
Armenian Project Management Association

During one of the government sessions in the last months of 2008 Armenia’s Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan announced that the government had set up operating headquarters for submitting business proposals.

Shortly afterwords, during of the January sessions in 2009, the Prime Minister announced that a considerable number of business proposals were submitted to the headquarters. A few have been approved by the government, but there are no project managers to implement them.

This announcement by the Prime Minister generated considerable feedback. Professionals who have been specializing in this sphere within recent years are glad that there is finally a demand for “project managers” by the government.

“In the Soviet Union’s management model we did not have the concept of projects; there was the concept of planning. After independence, they began to understand gradually what the concept of projects is. Now, fortunately, they have begun to understand the concept of a project manager, and this is reassuring,” the founder of the Armenian Project Management Association (APMA) Albert Poghosyan says.

Today’s Armenia faces new demands. The contemporary professions that appeared in the 1980s, such as management, public relations, and so on, are rapidly developing, whereas in Armenia the demand for project managers or PR managers is just beginning to evolve.

The demands for the efficient organization of contemporary market economy are taken into account when implementing educational reforms. A Chair of Management was established in 1992 at the Armenian University of Economics.

In 2002 the Chair was the first to publish a textbook on management, which will be re-published for the third time. The university out managers every year, leading some to wonder why the Prime Minister announce that there are none.

The provost of the Armenian University of Economics Yuri Suvaryan points out that to be a project manager it is not enough to have a university degree only. It is necessary to have extensive work experience in management and profound knowledge about the sphere. “Only on the basis of all this will it be possible for a manager to undertake designing and implementing a project. Theoretical knowledge can be used, but to apply it one needs professional experience,” he says.

The 2009 budget was outlined in accordance with the principle of project budgeting. This means that to get any kind of funding from the budget, the projects should be submitted to the government. Only the approved projects will be funded and implemented. The objective is to spend the budget resources efficiently.

“During the discussion of the 2009 budget it became clear that there is a problem with the quality and efficient implementation of the outlined projects. It is somewhat difficult to give examples, because, in fact, it refers to all – state and private – project designs and the organization of their efficient implementation, and all these issues are urgent,” Head of RA Government Staff David Sargsyan says.

Gaining professional experience requires a relevant field, and the field almost does not exist. It turns out that while plenty of Armenians are being trained, their knowledge has been useless for application due to the lack of opportunities. And specialists in the field say that such knowledge becomes obsolete after four or five years.

“Project management is the management of people. Being a good owner of an enterprise does not mean being a good manager. If this is understood in Armenia, it will be quite good,” Poghosyan says, comparing the Armenian economic situation to a damaged ship that neither sinks nor moves.

“Everybody is busy draining the water from the ship to prevent it from sinking, but the water keeps pouring in from the other side. And there is nobody to close the holes,” Poghosyan says.

Provost Suvaryan disagrees with this viewpoint. According to him, our economy went through a profound crisis at the beginning of the 1990s, which is not only a typical phenomenon for a country in transition, but also the result of inefficient management.

“That was a great shock that may not have happened, but did. For instance, how can one explain the closing down of Armenia’s nuclear power station and its re-opening that required enormous expenses, or the closing down and re-opening of metal-molding factories? We ruined the whole chemical industry and now we are having difficulty restoring it. It is impossible to create a flawless market economy in a short period of time,” Suvaryan says.

Poghosyan says there are two important changes that are needed. “First, we should think about long-term projects, for instance, for the forthcoming 30 years. Second, older people should begin to trust the youth. 55-60-year-old people cannot think about the future 30 years, because they have already lived most of their lives. If trust towards younger people increases, knowledge will be updated, mentality will change. The times when Marx’s Capital was used as a guidebook have passed. All we need is just one smart manager,” he says.

The government initiative appears to be a good first step among those who agree that the time for analyzing has past and the time for action is at hand.

To that end, the Prime Minister’s office is planning further attention to the need. According to PM press secretary Diana Mnatsakanyan: “A series of meetings have already been organized by the government. We are planning to conduct training workshops and fill the gap.”

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