Our company implemented "Professional Certification Program" in October 2010 and concurrently established "MDIS Certified Professional Community" as a community crossing organization to activate the operations. This report describes the process and the content of the activity until establishing the community, the activity for about three years from the establishment of the community up to today, future tasks and the ambition.

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Self-motivation often determines the result of work. Motivations have been investigated over many years in many fields including project management, and effective ways for self-motivation have been proposed and used. However, new de-motivation factors have been emerged. For examples, advancements in life science are elucidating the unknowns in the past. IT creates huge amount of data today, and even personal opinions can be grasped. Contrary to these progresses, new de-motivation factors are emerging, such as recognizing one's fate, realizing severe realities, or growing impacts of a little failure via the network world. This paper summarizes typical self-motivation ways up to now, and proposes the need of studies to overcome new de-motivation factors.

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This paper discusses how to set personal goals effectively, applying Personal-PM. Structured goal and objectives are important there. As conclusions, 1) There are two types of goals, one is strategic goal, the other is personal project's goal which is comparatively achievable and short-term, 2) Having strategic goal is a base to personal desires in personal life. It is as essential as organizational vision or mission. 3) Personal projects should be aligned with strategic goals, and the project's objectives-setting should be flexible under such goals. 4) The sense-of-value priorities impact on the personal goal setting.

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In many projects, we often face unpredictable or unexpected issues. We need talents who can be aware of them and act autonomously by assessing their situations. In this paper, we would like to discuss lecture contents that develop autonomous distributed type project members.

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It will be one of a big pleasure of life to take a long vacation and traveling for many people of any countries, from ancient times. And probably, it will be indispensable to be blessed with the weather suitable for the travel, in order to enjoy a travel fully. However, the weather cannot be controlled like a project for any excellent project managers. And in order to be absent from business a long period of time, you need to decide travel plan in front several months. It is because an inconvenient thing may occur to your business with which you are concerned if you take a few days leave suddenly. Just taking a long vacation and traveling is like gambling which leaves fate to heavens. In this paper, the example of a private travel which encountered sudden change of the weather is shown first, next based on the example, the personal risk management about the weather in a private travel is studied.

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