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June 5-7 2012 - SEPG Europe 2012. Madrid, Spain. Yan Bello's Tutorial - Creating Sustainable Change: Principles and Practices to Effectively Lead Organizational Change and Transform Culture



Yan Bello will be participating as a speaker in the "SEPG Europe Conference 2012" organized by Carnegie Mellon University-SEI in Madrid, Spain. Yan will present/lead a half-day tutorial/workshop on "Creating Sustainable Change: Principles and Practices to Effectively Lead Organizational Change and Transform Culture".

In this session, Yan Bello will share unique proposals and innovative alternatives to design and lead organizational transformations successfully; integrating systems thinking, participatory leadership, cultural change managamenent, appreciative inquiry and dialogues, narratives and storytelling, and other ideas/practices derived from decades long experiences and research. Sharing the foundational principles to create sustainable change and key practices including strategies to influence stakeholders; create a shared vision and a shared language; anticipating resistance and motivating key behaviours... and more!

| Web de SEPG 2012 Europe (Carnegie Mellon SEI) |
| Creating Sustainable Change: Leadership & Transformation |

7-9 May 2012 - PMI Global Congress 2012 EMEA. Presentation by Dr. Margery Mayer and Yan Bello: Leading Cross Cultural Teams in Today’s Global Marketplace.

Dr. Margery Mayer and Yan Bello have been selected and invited by PMI to present their paper/conference: “Leading Cross Cultural Teams in Today’s Global Marketplace” at the PMI Global Congress 2012—EMEA being delivered in Marseilles, France from 7-9 May 2012.

Presentation abstract:
Today’s business is global, many companies have locations around the world and others use resellers, partners, consultants or subcontractors to deliver products and services wherever needed. In all cases being able to communicate effectively and in the manner expected at each location is critical and often overlooked. There is a natural assumption that if one is a good communicator he will be equally as successful when communicating with people from another country and culture. Communicating without sensitivity to another country’s culture, norms and values often leads to misunderstandings, frustration, and a lack of motivation. How do you learn to communicate across cultures? How do you create value and synergies across distances? This paper provides insights into best practices from global operations, consultants and project leaders gathered from personal interviews.

Presenters' Bio: Dr. Margery Mayer has a PhD in Leadership and Organization and focuses on global operations. She makes sure that communications are clear so that the organization can operate successfully. Dr. Mayer is the COO of Enabledware, a global SaaS software company that delivers video to a screens, computers and Smartphone’s. She has been working across cultures as a virtual leader with teams, partners and stakeholders to focus on completing assignments that deliver to customer expectations. She recently presented at the EOQ Conference in Hungary and currently teaches graduate school for NDNU and Kaplan Universities in the US. Dr. Mayer is the author of the book "The Virtual Edge: Embracing Technology for Distributed Project Team Success." (2nd edition) published in 2010 by PMI.

Yan Bello, PMP is president of SpaceMinds, an international consultant, researcher and speaker with extensive project management experience in numerous business sectors. With a large multi-cultural teamwork and leadership expertise, he has work and study with people from over 40 countries. He is a SCAMPI Lead Appraiser and Instructor for People CMM® by Carnegie Mellon -SEI. He has been recognized as a ‘significant contributor’ of the PMBOK® Guide (3rd Ed.), invited as a member of PMI Virtual Communities Project (2007) and PMI Community Development MAG (2008). He is a graduate of PMI LI Master Class (2006/7). Yan Bello/SpaceMinds was selected as a case-study of Dr. Margery Mayer's research and book "The Virtual Edge: Embracing Technology for Distributed Project Team Success." (2nd edition) published in 2010 by PMI.

| Dr. Mayer's Global Operations Experts website
| PMI® Global Congress 2012—EMEA website |

2012 World Appreciative Inquiry Conference. Poster presentation by Yan Bello: Appreciative Storytelling: Crafting Generative Conversations that Create Shared Meaning and Visions

Yan Bello has been invited to deliver a poster presentation about Appreciative Storytelling: Crafting Generative Conversations that Create Shared Meaning and Visions in the 2012 WAIC (World Appreciative Inquiry Conference) taking place in the lovely city of Ghent, Belgium from April 25-28th 2012.



Abstract Summary: Appreciative Storytelling: Crafting Generative Conversations that Create Shared Meaning and Visions by Yan Bello.

In today’s knowledge-based economy, experience-based information plays a critical role in most projects, business and societal decisions affecting success. In countless situations, the chances of success strongly depend on effectively tapping people’s implicit knowledge and experience to generate the appropriate motivation and attitude to sustain a culture of organizational performance and achieve project goals. To address these challenges, many organizations are relying on exploiting and cultivating organizational conversations and dialogues that foster creativity, innovation and participation. Discover an effective conversational-appreciative communication approach based on successfully combining Appreciative Inquiry with the ancient art of Storytelling to generate deep social/informal learning in projects, organizations and communities. Using appreciative storytelling as a collaborative search to identify and understand strengths and greatest potentials is experienced and reframed as an effective “how-to” way to co-create project visions, shared language/understanding around better practices, richer concepts and metaphors of success to create deep generative connections.

| WAIC 2012's website |

11.01.12 - Collaboration agreement between SpaceMinds and FORUM CALIDAD: spanish leading publication dedicated to promote the modernization of management practices in organizations!

11.28.11 - SpaceMinds Workshop Agile Leadership and Effective Project Management within the training program of the Spanish Association for Quality (AEC). Madrid, 28th and 29th November, 2011.

Yan Bello will teach the SpaceMinds Workshop "Agile Leadership and Effective Project Management" within the training program of the Spanish Association for Quality (AEC).

The purpose of this program is to provide the key principles and practices of effectiv project management, both at the individual as well as at the organizational level. The principles of participative leadership and how to apply them will be discussed to increase the probability of projects' and diverse teams' success. Participants will learn a selected group of better practices to define and launch / charter, plan / organize, lead / execute, control / optimize and complete / close-out projects successfully; applying the SpaceMinds® M/A-VT method/approach that facilitates agility and flexibility in the effective management of any kind of project, in any sector and/or business area. The challenges and needed actions to institutionalize project management in an organization will be discussed.

The Spanish Association for Quality (AEC) is an non-for profit entity that promotes responsible debate of all ideas for quality improvement.

11.10.11 - AEC organizes Día Mundial de la Calidad (World Quality Day) with the slogan: Quality and Talent: success factors!

11.04.11 - Session by Yan Bello:Navigating the Labyrinth of Modern HR: People CMM® as a Guide for Continuous Change, Innovation and Human Capital Management”. HRO Summit Europe 2011. Barcelona, 2-4th November, 2011.

Yan Bello invited as a speaker to present “Navigating the Labyrinth of Modern HR: People CMM® as a Guide for Continuous Change, Innovation and Human Capital Management” as a "deep dive" session in the Change Management Summit part of the program/agenda in the HRO Summit Europe 2011, that will take place in Barcelona, 2-4th November, 2011.

Yan Bello will present the People CMM® (People Capability Maturity Model) as a guide to navigate the labyrinth of HR. The main process areas of People CMM® that deal with current workforce challenges will be discussed and how they can debunk established myths and syndromes of today’s HR profession. It will be able to learn practical ways on how to organize a People CMM-based HR transformation project, considering the solid foundations (HR best practices, total quality management, change management, etc.) and how it has proved a value-generator for organizations in outsourcing relationships and BPO. Presented in a case-study format, it will be discovered how People CMM can help teams and organizations increase their effectiveness and develop lasting competency programs that translates into competitive advantage through a participative-empowerment culture.

| HRO Summit Europe 2011 (Barcelona, Spain) |
| More information about People CMM |

10.06.11 - Tutorial by Yan Bello: Creating Sustainable Change: Key Principles and Practices for effectively design and lead organizational change programs, transform culture and influence behaviors. EuroMed SPI 2011 Conference in Zamudio, October 6th and 7th.

Yan Bello invited to present the tutorial "Creating Sustainable Change: Key Principles and Practices for effectively design and lead organizational change programs, transform culture and influence behaviors" in the international conference EuroMed SPI 2011 Conference, that will take place in Zamudio, Spain, the 6th and 7th October, 2011.

Yan Bello will show unique-innovative ways to successfully design and lead the organizational/cultural transformations necessary in significant process improvement programs by integrating systems thinking, participatory leadership, cultural change management, dialogue & appreciative inquiry, narratives and storytelling, and various other ideas/practices derived from decades-long experiences and research. He will present key principles for creating sustainable change and practices including strategies to increase stakeholders’ commitment and implication; creating shared visions and common language; anticipating resistance & influencing others to change their behaviors! They will explore the application of these principles and practices in a case-study like format scenario-exercise for sustaining an Agile Team (using SCRUM, SpaceMinds M/A-VT, etc.) by integrating CMMI-DEV and People CMM practices.

| EuroMed SPI II 2011 (Zamudio, Spain) |
| More information about "Creating Sustainable Change" |

07.31.11 - Quality Magazine, July-September 2011, includes the article by Yan Bello: Creating performance, empowerment and innovation capacity, through the integrated management of processes and people with People CMM®.

Spanish Quality Association (AEC)
Quality Magazine ("Revista Calidad") dedicates its July - September 2011 number to the "Process Management: a [new] way to organize, manage and leader the organization"

The "Calidad" magazine in this number includes the article "Creating performance, empowerment and innovation capacity, through the integrated management of processes and people with People CMM®" by Yan Bello.

The process management is considered by many one of the most valuable approaches for designing and managing the modern organizations and their information systems. With an integrating character, the process management emerges of the exhaustive consolidation of disciplines that share the belief that an "approach focused in processes" lead to substantial improvements, in the performance as well as in the system consistency. Thereby, we do not surprise that among the several organizational factors or "components", in the process management -besides, of course, the processes- there are the systems, resources and used methods, people with their roles and responsibilities, that they can/should have in these processes, organizational units and/or interested groups (clients, suppliers, etc.), the organizational culture, among others. Even this, with frequency, people -or the "human factor"- appears late or in advance implementation phases of the process management.

In this article we continue our tour though the People Capability Maturity Model® (People CMM®) -see July/September 2010 of the "Calidad" magazine -studying in depth its contribution as a guide for the organizational evolution to higher levels of effectiveness and performance, including an approach based in processes that are connected to people through their competencies.

"Calidad" is a publication of the Spanish Quality Association, entity without profit that supports the responsible debate of every idea to quality improvement, with different authors´ opinions that not necessary are the same of the AEC, besides informs about the AEC activities.

| Quality Magazine (AEC Web) |

06.20.11 - SpaceMinds continuous its quest to research, share and apply agile and innovative methodologies: Sonia J.C. has obtained the Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) accreditation!

06.21.11 - Conference - Human Capital & Cultural Transformations: Creating Organizational Capabilities to Improve the Quality of Management AND the Management of Quality with the People CMM®. 55th EOQ Congress 2011: World Quality Congress. Budapest, Hungary

Yan Bello presented the conference "Creating Organizational Capabilities to Improve the Quality of Management AND the Management of Quality with People CMM" in the next 55th EOQ Congress 2011- Global Quality Congress, taking place in Budapest, Hungary.

Yan Bello explored the challenges and driving forces of successful organizational cultural change/transformations and the role of management (and its quality) as a global executive competency. He shared how the People CMM can be used to effectively implement and support a quality management discipline at the organizational level as critical capability and workforce competency involving most areas of an organization. He proposed various ideas on how the participants could implement some of these state-of-the-art practices in their own organizations. And much more...

| EOQ Congress 2011 Website (Budapest, Hungary) |

06.08.11 - Conference - Creating Sustainable Change: Principles and Practices to Effectively Lead Organizational Change and Transform Culture in the 16th SEPG Europe Conference. Dublin, Ireland

Yan Bello has presented as a speaker in the "SEPG Europe Conference 2011" organized by Carnegie Mellon University-SEI in Dublin, Ireland. Yan presented the conference "Creating Sustainable Change: Principles and Practices to Effectively Lead Organizational Change and Transform Culture", with many congratulations from the participants.

In this session, Yan Bello shared unique proposals and innovative alternatives to design and lead organizational transformations successfully; integrating systems thinking, participatory leadership, cultural change managamenent, appreciative inquiry and dialogues, narratives and storytelling, and other ideas/practices derived from decades long experiences and research. Sharing the foundational principles to create sustainable change and key practices including strategies to influence stakeholders; create a shared vision and a shared language; anticipating resistance and motivating key behaviours... and more!

| Web de SEPG 2011 Europe (Carnegie Mellon SEI) |
| Creating Sustainable Change: Leadership & Transformation |

04.25.11 - New Version 1.3 of the SCAMPI Method Definition Document (MDD). Yan Bello has been recognized as a participant/member of the Extended SCAMPI Upgrade Team (SUT)

The Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) is designed to provide quality benchmarks relative to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) models, the People CMM, and other similar models. Yan Bello has participated in the SCAMPI Upgrade Team (SUT) Extended.

The MDD describes the requirements, activities, and practices associated with the processes that compose the SCAMPI V1.3 method. The MDD also contains precise descriptions of the method’s context, concepts, and architecture. The V1.3 changes are grouped into three overarching goals: Increase Efficiency of the Appraisal Process; Remove Barriers to Broader Usage (e.g., other constellations); Synchronize with CMMI V1.3 Product Suite.

| More Information |

04.13.11 - Exchange Forum in Barcelona about DEFINING AND DEPLOYING VALUES IN ORGANIZATIONS, organized by the Catalunya Forum (Club of Excellence in Management, CEG). Workshop "Values & Cultural Change" presented by Yan Bello.

Last April 13/2011, the Catalunya Forum of the Excelence in Management Club ("Club de Excelencia en Gestión") organized a Forum around the topics of Values Definition and their Deployment in Organizations. The event took place in the corporative headquarters of Banc de Sang i Teixits (BST) in Barcelona.

The session began with the welcome-words of Palmira López-Fresno, Representative in Catalunya, Coordinator of the Catalunya Forum and the Excelence in Management Club (CEG); Isabel López, Manager of BST, and Esther Solà, People and Values Director of BST. Then, Gustavo Piera, CMR Group President, and Yan Bello, SpaceMinds President, made two introductions about the main issues/topics of the event; focusing on the role and importance of values in the identity of the organizations; as well as their impact in change management & learning. The workshop "Values & Cultural Change" presented and led by Yan Bello, addressed from a practical perspective the role of values, social learning, and cultural change management in organizations. This presentation is part of the SpaceMinds Services Area: "Creating Sustainable Change: Leadership & Transformations".

01.26.11 - Quality in Services Committee Meeting (AEC, Spanish Association for Quality) in Madrid. Conference by Yan Bello on Innovative Change Management Practices.

The 58ª Meeting of the Quality in Services Committee (of the Spanish Association for Quality) took place last January 26th, and among its stated objectives were: Create knowledge through the exchange of experiences and better practices in "Managing Change".

The meeting began with the introductions of Palmira López-Fresno and José Manuel Moreno, president and vice-president of the Service Committee. Then, Yan Bello taught the conference "Innovative Change Management Practices" including topics such as: some critical perspectives about traditional change management, the systemic approach of People CMM®, the role of dialogue and appreciation: including the proposals of Appreciative Inquiry to Create Sustainable Change and manage cultural transformations...

The meeting continued with the presentation "Flexibility and adaptation to change in Abertis Telecom" by Rosalba Llorens, Service Analysis and Business Coordination Resp. in Abertis Telecom, including detailed experiences about two specific organizational change projects.

At the end, there was an interesting debate among the participants, that was completed with a group-dynamics moderated by Yan Bello for sharing best practices and success-stories & experiences related with a Superior Quality & Innovation Culture in Services, applying an Appreciative Inquiry practice/guideline from SpaceMinds M/A's Creating Value in Community program.

| Quality in Services Committee Web (AEC). |

10.01.10 - New Edition: THE VIRTUAL EDGE (2E, PMI) by Dr. Margery Mayer. SpaceMinds/Yan Bello included as a case study in virtual team leadership.

New Edition from the Project Management Institute (PMI). October 2010
THE VIRTUAL EDGE (2nd Edition) by Margery Mayer, PhD
Embracing Technology for Distributed Project Team Success.

Since the publication of the 1st edition (1998) many things have changed at the technological and cultural level that make nowadays, the distributed and virtual teams an inescapable reality. In this new edition, a detailed understanding of the success factors in global teams is provided, including a deep study about how these factors affect current project leadership and management practices. According to the author, the best way of discovering and sharing this information has been to conduct a research, interviewing -small, medium and big- organizations & company leaders that manage virtual teams. The result of these interviews presents "better practices" for leading virtual, global and /or distributed teams & projects that can be applied in the current global business environment.

In SpaceMinds we are proud of being selected as a success case and give thanks to Dr. Margery Mayer for including us in the book. Besides, the article "'The Making Of' the New Spanish (Castilian) Edition of the PMBOK® Guide" presented by Bello in the PMI Global Congress (Madrid, 2006) constitutes the book´s only appendix.

| The Virtual Edge (PMI.org) | The Virtual Edge (in Amazon) |

08.06.10 - Workshop - An agile and participatory approach to creating and leading multidisciplinary teams and projects - Encuentros 2010 (Cambridge)

University of Cambridge, UK. August 4-6 th, 2010
Workshop "An agile and participatory approach to creating and leading multidisciplinary teams and projects"
Encuentros 2010: "Integrating Chilean Research Worldwide"

Yan Bello has been invited as speaker to present the Workshop "An agile and participatory approach to creating and leading multidisciplinary teams and projects" as part of the event "Encuentros 2010", that how its name suggests it is an professional and multi-disciplinar exchange, sponsored by a dynamic community of Chilean scientists. This year, Encuentros has had more than 200 participants.

According the view of the organizers: The Encuentros 2010 Conference aims to consolidate the implementation of scientific collaborations between Chilean investigators in Europe and their counterparts in Chile, both in academia and in industry. In this context, the development and leadership of the multi-disciplinary teams provides high value to scientists and researchers, especially considering the accelerated rate of changes and learning that it is expected / required to establish successful collaborations. The workshop participants, could know and apply some of the key principals and practices to create / encourage multi-disciplinary projects, agile teams and professional knowledge-rich communities.

Encuentros 2010, also included a wide social-cultural program, with guided visits to some places of great value for the science history in Cambridge and a traditional academic dinner (with a "Harry Potter" style!) in the prestigious St John's College (founded in 1511) of Cambridge University.

| Web of Encuentros 2010 |


07.05.10 - Quality Magazine dedicate its August - September 2010 number to the "Leadership and the Management Skills"

Spanish Quality Association (AEC)
Quality Magazine ("Revista Calidad") dedicate its August - September 2010 number to the "Leadership and the Management Skills"

The "Calidad" magazine in this number includes the article "Creating Management Skills and Organizational Effectiveness with People CMM®" by Yan Bello.

Nowadays it is practically impossible find a professional that do not know about the called "management skills", and that do not attribute a lot of important in the organizational management field. Just considering the volume of information and publications (books, magazines / articles, webs, etc.) as well as the wide training / event offers relating with these skills, to eliminate any doubt about the interest and "popularity" that they have in these times.

Although at the beginning the development of these skills seemed to be focus in people with directive responsibilities and jobs, more and more it is recognized the importance of the management skills for any team member, with management or even with technical responsibilities.

In this article we present People CMM as a innovative and integrative proposal for the development of the fundamental and necessary management skills for the people management, as well as for other advanced issues, all essential to create organizational effectiveness.

"Calidad" is a publication of the Spanish Quality Association, entity without profit that supports the responsible debate of every ideas to quality improvement, with different authors´opinions that not necessary are the same of the AEC, besides informs about the AEC activities.

| Quality Magazine (AEC Web) |

07.01.10 - A Quest to Organizational Effectiveness & Successful Execution: Synergies between People CMM®, CMMI® and Project Management Best Practices. Porto, Portugal

Porto, Portugal. June 28th, 2010
A Quest to Organizational Effectiveness & Successful Execution: Synergies between People CMM®, CMMI® and Project Management Best Practices

Last June 28th, Yan Bello taught the Workshop/Tutorial "A Quest to Organizational Effectiveness & Successful Execution: Synergies between People CMM®, CMMI® and Project Management Best Practices" in the SEPG 2010 Europe Conference (Porto, Portugal), organized by Carnegie Mellon University-SEI en collaboration with the Engineering School of Porto University.

In his intensive workshop, Yan Bello provided a global vision of some current standards and better modern practices of Project Management. The program helped the participants to consider / think about the project success beyond their "individual boundaries", from organizational perspectives relying on People CMM concepts and practices together with improvement initiatives based on CMMI (mainly CMMI-DEV, CMMI for Development). This rich approach of multi-model improvement is the result of researchers of "long travel", thanks in part to our participation in the development / validation of some of the standards and models mentioned before; as well as our solid experiences implementing organizational improvement projects, effectiveness and execution capacity in clients during more than a decade using CMMI and People CMM; and other models and better practices of project management.

| See abstract|

06.28.10 - Tutorial - A Quest to Organizational Effectiveness & Successful Execution: Synergies between People CMM, CMMI and Project Management best practices - by Yan Bello at the SEPG Europe Conference 2010 (Porto, Portugal)

This presentation provides an overview of current project management best practices and standards. Moving beyond the frontiers of individual projects’ success and into organizational perspectives is addressed by combining concepts and practices from People CMM and by reflecting on CMMI improvement initiatives. A rich, multi-model improvement approach resulting from a long-term research- and experience-based quest into organizational effectiveness and successful execution will be shared, which is likely to spark your own curiosity to continue learning....

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06.22.10 - Free Webinar: Diagnosis-Appreciation, Coninuous Improvement & Benchmarking for HR and HCM: People CMM® and SCAMPI™ Aplications. SpaceMinds LIVE Webinar. June 22, 2010, 16:00h - 17:00h (Madrid, CET)

03.16.10 - Conference - EFFECTIVENESS AND EXECUTION: The leadership and the project management as organizative competency. Better practices of project management with People CMM®. IV Meeting of Project Managers. PMI Madrid Chapter.

"EFFECTIVENESS AND EXECUTION: The leadership and the project management as organizative competency. Better practices of project management with People CMM®". As part of the IV Meeting of Project Managers, organized by the PMI Madrid Chapter, in Madrid, the march 23rd.

01.19.10 - Article 'Appreciative Inquiry (AI): Participation and dialogues to generate sustainable positive changes' published in "Capital Humano" Magazine.

The article, written by Yan Bello, includes two valuable contributions: “A Shared View on Change Management for Human Resources" by Marta Morell, HR Director of Mutua Universal (Barcelona, SPAIN) and “The Power of Appreciation" by Stephen J. Miller, Learning & Development Manager at Novo Nordisk (Clayton, USA). (Published in Spanish).

A summary follows in English: At the start of each year, numerous change and renewal initiatives are planned and kicked-off, both at the individual-/personal- as well as at the organizational levels. Although it is unavoidable to get excited about these news, it is a well-known fact that to achieve lasting changes much more is required than just 'good hopes'.

Successfully dealing with one of the most evasive - and sometimes even subtle - challenges; which is to generate sustainable changes; is one of our key interest. Being an intrinsic part of people's and companies' vital experience, not only it has become "fashionable", but change management is nowadays one of the disciplines more influential and demanded in business practice.

Change continues to be one of the more discussed topics in management literature and executive training. Many studies, articles, books and programs approach change from different perspectives, providing diverse conclusions, better practices, tools, models and methodologies. The scope of what it is known today as 'change management' is so important that many management disciplines (leadership, coaching, professional & organizational development...) almost have their raison d'être in establishing and maintaining sustainable changes.

01.12.10 -Workshop “Questions Empower: What’s your story? - Applying Appreciative Inquiry, Storytelling and Social Learning in Projects and Communities" in Dublin, Ireland.

This workshop will take place as part of the Project Management Annual Seminar: "Creative Approaches in Challenging Times" organized by PMI Ireland Chapter in Dublin, March 4th, 2010.

Yan Bello will teach his original program “Questions Empower: What’s your story? - Applying Appreciative Inquiry (AI), Storytelling and Social Learning in Projects and Communities"

01.04.10 - Official Course Introduction to the People CMM in Madrid, March 24th-26th, 2010.

This upcoming edition of the Official Course "Introduction to the People CMM" will take place in Madrid (SPAIN), March 24th-26th, 2010. The course is organized and sponsored by SpaceMinds SL, SEI-Partner for the People CMM.

This is the official Carnegie Mellon University – Software Engineering Institute (SEI) “Introduction to the People Capability Maturity Model® (People CMM® version 2.0)” Course (3 days-long). In this course the foundational concepts and structure of the People CMM and the value it provides to the organizations that use it are explored. Especially recommended to people involved in strategic and tactical management of Human Capital/HR, in improving workforce management practices and for people leading teams and/or managers.

Special Offer (Discounted registration) until February 12th, 2010!

Para más información visitar: http://www.spaceminds.com/eng/PeopleCMM.aspx

01.04.10 - Special Offer/Reduced Pricing for Early-Bird Registrations (Valid until Feb. 12th, 2010) to the Official SEI Course "Introduction to the People CMM", delivered by SpaceMinds in Madrid, March 24th-26th, 2010.

Special Offer/Reduced Pricing for Early-Bird Registrations (Valid ONLY until Feb. 12th, 2010) for the Official SEI Course "Introduction to the People CMM", delivered by SpaceMinds in Madrid, March 24th-26th, 2010 (Limited seats available).
This course will be taugh in English.

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09.08.26 - Yan Bello awarded with the “Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Certificate in Positive Business and Society Change”.

Yan Bello has been awarded “Appreciative Inquiry (AI) Certificate in Positive Business and Society Change” by Dr. David Cooperrider and Dr. Ronald Fry, co-creators of AI, as recognition for the successful completion of this executive education program from Case Western Reserve University – Weatherhead School of Management. The program focused on the foundations and frontiers of Appreciative Inquiry, as well as some of its application areas such positive organizational change, research projects into business innovations, several sustainability initiatives.

09.07.01 - People CMM (Version 2.0), SECOND EDITION released/published by Carnegie Mellon University-SEI.

Carnegie Mellon University's SEI has released a new (2nd) edition of the People Capability Maturity Model (CMM), (Version 2.0). Similar to other maturity models put forward by Carnegie Mellon-SEI, People CMM (Version 2.0, 2nd Edition) comes in the form of technical report (namely CMU/SEI-2009-TR-003) dated on July, 2009 and authored by the same team as the previous edition: Bill Curtis, Bill Hefley and Sally Miller.

The second edition includes new material/chapters about the use of the SCAMPI Appraisal Methods with People CMM as well as additional informative material, and these are essentially the key differences with the previous edition, since the model itself doesn't change.

You can download the technical report here:
People CMM Version 2.0, 2ND EDITION (SEI website)


The 2nd edition of People CMM, will soon be available also in book format, edited and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. The book on the other hand contains other new materials additional to the new model PDF, and of great value. Namely, some new case-studies are included in the book showcasing People CMM case-studies from companies such as: Club Mahindra, Pfizer Worldwide Technology (WT), HCL Technologies Ltd.-Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Services, Accenture, Intel Information Technology (Intel IT) and the The Boeing Company.

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04.15.09 - Yan Bello invited to present at the 3rd Congress on Service Quality of AEC (Spanish Association for Quality). His conference will be on “Reputation 2.0. Reflections & paradoxes on brand, service quality and people”.

About 200 participants in the Conference "Reputación 2.0: Reflexiones y Paradojas sobre Marca, Calidad de Servicios y Personas" at the Sustainable Management Summit organized by AEC (Spanish Association for Quality).

Follows more comments in spanish: El 15 de abril pasado, unas 200 personas (lleno total) participaron en el 3er Congreso de Calidad de los Servicios, organizado por la Asociación Española para la Calidad como parte de la Cumbre de Gestión Sostenible.
El encuentro se inició con la apertura de Palmira López-Fresno, Presidenta del Comité de Servicios de la AEC y continuó con una interesante charla del Dr. Fernando Fernández-González, Jefe del Servicio de Neurofisiología Clínica de HUCA. A continuación, Yan Bello impartió la conferencia "Reputación 2.0: Reflexiones y paradojas sobre Marca, Calidad de Servicios y Personas".
Posteriormente, así como un rico debate en la mesa redonda moderada por José Manuel Moreno, Responsable de Reputación Corporativa de REE y Vice-presidente del Comité de Servicios de AEC, que incluyó también ponencias de profesionales de Vodafone, Aitex, Google, TMI, el Ayuntamiento de Alcobendas.

01.01.09 - PMI (Project Management Institute) has published simultaneously the new editions of its four foundational standards of Project Management, including the PMBOK® Guide (4th edition).

PMI (Project Management Institute) has published simultaneously the new editions of its four foundational standards of Project Management, including the PMBOK® Guide 4th edition. Yan Bello has been recognized in all four standards for his participation as a reviewer-contributor, including PMI’s PMBOK® Guide (4th ed.), The Standard for Program Management (2nd edition), The Standard for Portfolio Management (2nd ed.) and OPM3® Knowledge Foundation (2nd ed.).

08.11.21 - Yan Bello accredited as EFQM Excellence Assessor by the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM).


Yan Bello has successfully completed in Brussels, at the EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) headquarters, the EFQM Excellence Assessor training program.

This milestone is part of SpaceMinds' program and commitment to promote business and organizational excellence in clients, partners and of course of its own activities, including EFQM-based self-assessments projects, cultural change programs, executive & leadership effectiveness programs, and other Corporate Social Responsibility (RSC) initiatives, among others...

08.07.03 - People CMM® in Spanish: Appendix D of the model translated by SpaceMinds


People CMM® in Spanish: Another step from SpaceMinds to get People CMM® closer to companies, organizations and people who speak and/or work in Spanish. Appendix D. (in Spanish: "Correspondencia Objetivos-a-prácticas del People CMM") has been translated by SpaceMinds, with a special permission from Carnegie Mellon-SEI.

More information about People CMM

08.01.08 - People CMM® In-Company: SpaceMinds offers "in-company"/"in-house" editions of the official "Introduction to the People CMM®" training course

SpaceMinds is now offering "in-company"/"in-house" editions of the official Carnegie Mellon-SEI course to introduce People CMM® (People Capability Maturity Model®) to companies and organizations. This "in-company" edition is based and benefits from experiences and feedback collected during "open/public" offerings of this program performed in Spain and other "in-company" editions performed in Malaysia.
The “In-Company” edition of the course allow for better alignment of the course delivery to the specific needs of each company. It also allows to discuss specific issues in more detail and to extend/add additional exercises and practices to offer additional value for preparing internal improvement programs and/or revising/developing a strategic improvement plan.
Starting in 2008, Spanish speaking participants will receive a copy of People CMM Appendix D (“Apéndice D – Correspondencia de Objetivos & Prácticas del People CMM®”) translated to Spanish, a unique benefit of SpaceMinds/Yan Bello offerings of these programs.

See Official "Introduction to the People CMM" Training Course

12.15.07 - Article "Effective Project Management in SIGTE: innovation and growth" from Rosa Olivella and Yan Bello published in the Magazine "IG+ más que Información Geográfica"

The article "Effective Project Management in SIGTE: innovation and growth" from Rosa Olivella and Yan Bello has been published in the Magazine "IG+ más que Información Geográfica" (IG+ More Than Geographic Information), a semestral publication from the SIGTE department of the University of Girona.

More info in Spanish: "IG+ más que Información Geográfica" es la Revista Semestral editada/publicada por el Servicio de Sistemas de Información Geográfica y Teledetección (SIGTE) de la Universitat de Girona. En el número 8 (Dic'2007) de la revista aparece publicado un artículo de Rosa Olivella y Yan Bello basado en sus experiencias liderando el proyecto de gestión del cambio y mejora de procesos de Gestión Efectiva de Proyectos en el SIGTE...
..."De camino hacia su 15 aniversario, el SIGTE inicia una nueva etapa con el fin de adaptarse a los nuevos retos que aparecen en su ámbito de actividad: altamente innovador y con proyectos cada vez más complejos"...

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10.31.07 - Yan Bello mentioned for his contribution to the "SCAMPI Lead Appraiser(SM) Body of Knowledge"(SLA BOK)

The SCAMPI (Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement) method is a process designed and developed by the Carnegie Mellon-SEI to offer quality benchmarkings with regards to the Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®) and People Capability Maturity Model (People CMM). A "SCAMPI Lead Appraiser" is an authorized professional by Carnegie Mellon-SEI to conduct/lead appraisals processes using SCAMPI. Without any doubts, a "SCAMPI Lead Appraiser" must possess a wide range of abilities and knowledge to effectively develop these tasks...

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