Abstract
In Manufacturing & Development division of IBM Japan, PM community is operated as a voluntary activity of deployment of Enterprise Project Management (aka EPM). This paper reports the activities of "The task of Contribution to The Society of Project Management (SPM) & Project Management Institute (aka PMI)" in the PM community, aiming at an external contribution as a giveback activity. The activity is considered as a PM fostering program which is one of the roles of Project Management Office (aka PMO) that is focused in recent years. The activity also has important roles of improvement in PM visibility and the contribution to expected businesses by promoting information of new PM techniques. This paper focuses the external contribution which is a new subject as a role of PMO, and shows the importance of the external contribution as a giveback activity by the two years task activities andresults.
