PMForum and Palatine Group Forge Business Partnership

Feb. 17, 2010 - PRLog -- Dallas, Texas, USA – 16 February 2010 – Simulation designer and developer Palatine Group and PMForum announced today that they have forged a new partnership to meet the needs of an emerging training marketplace.  PMForum and Palatine will be aligning their teams to provide serious games and simulations for businesses and nonprofit organization, with Palatine offering PMForum associates the opportunity to market these programs to their respective clients. In the non-exclusive deal, Palatine Group will continue design and development efforts with PMForum.

”Training simulations for ‘learning to be a project leader’ and ‘learning to do real project work’ have proven their appeal for all types of organizations. The new partnership arose to fulfill a need in the marketplace from increased pressure on organizations to provide significantly better, more cost-effective and valuable learning programs,” said Lawrence Suda.

PMForum CEO David Pells commented, “Palatine Group has provided leadership in private and government sector simulation development efforts through their outstanding successful design practice. Adding the Palatine Group simulation design and development talents to PMForum will create a powerful global force in the project management training industry. Palatine Group has over thirty years experience in designing and developing project simulations for training and has an outstanding client base in the USA.”

Pells noted that the Palatine team understands the actions and overall systems necessary for successful development of the project management simulations for teaching project management. In turn, Lawrence Suda recognizes that PMForum has the project management acumen and an international network of skilled practitioners to maintain a high level of fidelity and provide marketing and support to a global client base.

The alliance between a proven project management network development firm and a seasoned designer and thinker of project management simulations promises to be fruitful for the project management educational industry because both parties believe in practicing what they preach. PMForum has recently created a PMForum Partner Program to bring the best educational opportunities to the marketplace. The Palatine Group simulations have been used for such world class organizations as: NASA, Department of Defense, General Electric, Lockheed-Martin, Hewlett Packard, General Motors, Merck and many other world class organizations.

PMForum and Palatine share common values in bringing world class talent and the best training designs to organizations, and the goal of expanding these programs globally through PMForum Associates.  For more information, visit http://www.pmforum.org/partners/Palatine_Group.html.

About Palatine Group
The Palatine Group assists organizations with building global capabilities and performance improvement by delivering strategic and technical leadership programs that develop project management and leadership skills. Their focus is on creating skills to execute in high performance organizational cultures. Our Strategic, Program and Project Leadership Experience™ workshops are grounded in immersive leadership simulations and team building experiences. Palatine recently launched a robust virtual simulation with a global partner targeted for virtual project leaders.  For more information, visit http://www.thepalatinegroup.com/index.php.

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About PMForum
PMForum operates www.pmforum.org, the world’s oldest website devoted to professional project management and one of the world’s most popular sources of project management news and information. PMForum also produces the monthly PM World Today eJournal where articles, reports and stories about projects and project management around the world can be found; free subscriptions are available at www.pmworldtoday.net. Information about PMForum’s Partners Program can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/partners/partners.htm.


SOURCE: PMForum, Inc.
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