News Release: February 2005
PMI will be sponsoring a day long R.E.P. Forum on May 14, 2005 in Denver, Colorado. In collaboration with the Mile High Chapter’s a one-day professional development conference the day before on May 13th. The closing reception for the conference on Friday evening will mark the beginning of the R.E.P. Forum, which will continue until 5 PM on Saturday.

News Release: January 2005
PMI (the Project Management Institute) completes the first annual cycle of review at the new, higher standard of quality for its Registered Education Providers (R.E.P.) in March. Martha Legare, CEO of the Gantt Group and an advisor to PMI’s R.E.P. Team, just returned from PMI Headquarters with this report of the team ’s recent accomplishments.

• The R.E.P. advisory group (who helped establish the new standards) met with the recently hired quality reviewers in Philadelphia in January.
• Together we explored areas where communication needed to be more specific to both the R.E.P. applicants and the individual reviewers
• In Lessons Learned, the whole group was able to identify some ways to streamline the process for next year (i.e.: separate the application into 2 forms: one to be filled in with the R.E.P. data, and another for the instructions themselves enabling a faster review).
  

News Release: October 2004
The Gantt Group was one of more than 50 organizations, who identified themselves as “OPM3 Users” and met in Anaheim during PMI’s World Congress. We learned two things of interest:

1. PMI has made some improvements to the original software assessment tool and
2. that less than 2% of those present had used the tool in its entirety.

There was much lively debate about the assessment itself and direction of application of the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model.