We interviewed with Wagner Maxsen Director of 2015 PMI Board of Directors on Project Mamagement in Mongolia and organization of the second annual international project management conference.
- What were your first impressions of PMI Mongolia chapter with arriving here?
- I was very much impressed by the chapter. Because even tough it is my first time in Mongolia and I am used to go to many different conferences in the world, I thought that everything is so much well organized. Even before I came to Mongolia, I look for the website and there is a hot site for the conference you have all of the presenters here, everything that we will be talking about, the organization, information about presenters as well. Also here I am the logistics for the conference. For me, it is perfect and I see people really engaged. I see a lot of volunteers here which came to give that contribution to make this successful conference. I am really very well impressed.
- Thank you so much. What the PMI itself can do Mongolia? Is there much to do in Mongolia?
- Actually, that is a very good question. Thank you for that. I think, PMI can do a lot not only for Mongolia but to many other places as well. Because there is much to do. When it comes to project management we see that if you talk about the situation the world by now we do not have a labor shortage, we have a talent shortage. What we can do is to continuously provide support to local chapters such as the one in Mongolia. So that the chapters can be our voice to the project management community not only the PMI members but also to all of those who are interested in project management as well. Provide support, provide knowledge, provide expertise. There is a projectmanagement.com which is website anyone can go in and sign up for. We have there many webinars, we have there many forums for discussion for group discussion so there is a whole media available. You can connect with people from pretty much all over the world. Whenever you have specific subject you can go online and look for the solution or ask interact with others project management who can help us improve the results of own project.
- So Mongolia is now stepping into mega projects starting to be implemented in Mongolia especially in the mining sector. So how does the expertise of the PMI institute being the part or being the member of PMI itself can help Mongolians to embrace all those mega project management?
- To start with one thing that we have is we have a community deals with mining as well. I think that this is one very good resource. As I was saying, there is a way to e chat and connect with other people who are not necessarily only Mongolia but everywhere in the world where we can find other people who are working with the mining industry. So that is one possible resource.
- How much capacity do you see in Mongolia?
- I have just arrived in last night. So I do not have the exact answer for that. I see the potential. Before coming to Mongolia, I study little bit about the country. I know that the country has steady growth an average ten percent every year. That is a very relative growth. I see that Mongolia has a very good potential to grow in project management. There is a talent shortage in the world if people really dedicate and learn the profession there will have much more opportunities for the professions.
We interviewed with Wagner Maxsen Director of 2015 PMI Board of Directors on Project Mamagement in Mongolia and organization of the second annual international project management conference.
- What were your first impressions of PMI Mongolia chapter with arriving here?
- I was very much impressed by the chapter. Because even tough it is my first time in Mongolia and I am used to go to many different conferences in the world, I thought that everything is so much well organized. Even before I came to Mongolia, I look for the website and there is a hot site for the conference you have all of the presenters here, everything that we will be talking about, the organization, information about presenters as well. Also here I am the logistics for the conference. For me, it is perfect and I see people really engaged. I see a lot of volunteers here which came to give that contribution to make this successful conference. I am really very well impressed.
- Thank you so much. What the PMI itself can do Mongolia? Is there much to do in Mongolia?
- Actually, that is a very good question. Thank you for that. I think, PMI can do a lot not only for Mongolia but to many other places as well. Because there is much to do. When it comes to project management we see that if you talk about the situation the world by now we do not have a labor shortage, we have a talent shortage. What we can do is to continuously provide support to local chapters such as the one in Mongolia. So that the chapters can be our voice to the project management community not only the PMI members but also to all of those who are interested in project management as well. Provide support, provide knowledge, provide expertise. There is a projectmanagement.com which is website anyone can go in and sign up for. We have there many webinars, we have there many forums for discussion for group discussion so there is a whole media available. You can connect with people from pretty much all over the world. Whenever you have specific subject you can go online and look for the solution or ask interact with others project management who can help us improve the results of own project.
- So Mongolia is now stepping into mega projects starting to be implemented in Mongolia especially in the mining sector. So how does the expertise of the PMI institute being the part or being the member of PMI itself can help Mongolians to embrace all those mega project management?
- To start with one thing that we have is we have a community deals with mining as well. I think that this is one very good resource. As I was saying, there is a way to e chat and connect with other people who are not necessarily only Mongolia but everywhere in the world where we can find other people who are working with the mining industry. So that is one possible resource.
- How much capacity do you see in Mongolia?
- I have just arrived in last night. So I do not have the exact answer for that. I see the potential. Before coming to Mongolia, I study little bit about the country. I know that the country has steady growth an average ten percent every year. That is a very relative growth. I see that Mongolia has a very good potential to grow in project management. There is a talent shortage in the world if people really dedicate and learn the profession there will have much more opportunities for the professions.