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A PM for All Seasons Professional Development Day A PM for All Seasons Professional Development Day May 31, 2013 Tarrant County College 300 Trinity Campus Circle 7:00am to 5:00pm Fort Worth, TX 76102 7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast / Networking 8:00am – 8:15am Opening: Fort Worth Chapter PMI and Tarrant County College 8:15am – 9:45am Keynote: Frank Saladis - The Indispensable Project Manager 10:00am - 11:00am Sessions 01- 05 Session 01: Dr. Mike Armour: How to Build a High-Trust, Peak-Performance Organization Session 02: Heather Gray & Ravi Verma: Agile at Scale, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Session 03: Michael Warber: How to I.N.T.E.R.C.E.P.T. a Troubled Project Session 04: Steven “Doc” List: You Said WHAT?!? Session 05: Kris Reynolds: PM for Youth 11:15am - 12:15pm Sessions 06 - 10 Session 06: John Kinser: The Top 10 Laws of Project Management Session 07: Ken Howard: The Agile BA Session 08: Nikki Choyce: Most Common Microsoft Project Mistakes Session 09: Anthony Reed: Finding the I in TEAM - Leadership Lessons from the World’s Toughest Marathons Session 10: Frank Saladis: The State of Project Management - Where We Are and Where We Are Going 12:15pm – 2:30pm Lunch, Vendor Showcase, Panel Discussion, & Giveaways Panel Discussion: A PM is a PM – Featuring Project Managers from Oil & Gas, Construction, DoD, Healthcare, and IT hosted by Frank Saladis 2:30pm - 3:30pm Sessions 11 - 15 Session 11: Anthony Reed: Nailing Gelatin to a Wall or How to Gather Business Requirements Session 12: Heather Gray & Ravi Verma: Scaling Scrum, 3 CONTINENTS ● 6 LOCATIONS ● 150 ENGINEERS Session 13: Michael Warber: Facilitation of Kick Off Meetings Session 14: Steven “Doc” List: Facilitation Patterns and Antipatterns Session 15: John Kinser: Raising the Molly Brown - Lessons From An Unsinkable Boathouse 3:45pm - 4:45pm Sessions 16 - 20 Session 16: Kris Reynolds: Developing Your Thinking “Strategery” Session 17: Ken Howard: An Introvert’s Agile Survival Guide Session 18: Nikki Choyce: Documenting Project Roles & Responsibilities Session 19: Frank Saladis: The Creative and Innovative Community Leader Session 20: Dr. Mike Armour - Leadership FIRST: Five Distinguishing Hallmarks of Great Leaders 4:45pm - 5:00m Closing & Survey Pricing Category Early Bird* Standard Sessions assigned when payment is received, FWPMI Chapter Member $299 $349 on a first-come, first-served basis. PMI Member (non-chapter) $349 $399 Non-member $399 $449 Register today at www.fwpmi.org * Register and pay by May 17th for Early Bird rates. Session Information Keynote Address – Frank Saladis - The Indispensable Project Manager Managing projects effectively has become essential in every organization large or small. The uncertainties of the world business economy, rapidly changing technology, and the intensifying focus on sustainability has driven many organizations to develop specific methods for managing projects and to seek highly qualified people to manage those projects. Today’s project managers must adapt to change, lead diverse teams, act as ambassadors for their organizations and deal with a multitude of challenging project stakeholders. This presentation addresses the importance of the professional project manager and the need for the project manager to continually enhance existing skills, adapt to a changing environment, and become a “go to” person in the organization. Emphasis is placed on understanding the needs of the organization, clearly and visibly creating value and managing personal brand. Session 01: Dr. Mike Armour - How to Build a High-Trust, Peak-Performance Organization Demonstrates the role of trust in creating teams that perform at exceptional levels; identifies five things that people must feel in order to trust their organization and its leadership; examines seven characteristics of highly-trusted leaders; and touches on the primary principles of Trust-Centered Leadership. Session 02: Heather Gray & Ravi Verma - Agile at Scale, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Come hear the story of how two of the world’s largest networking companies transitioned to Scrum in eighteen months. The good—more than forty teams moved quickly and are going gangbusters. The bad—an adjacent part failed in its transition. The ugly—if you're in a large company with globally distributed teams, it’s not hard to torpedo Scrum adoption. Heather Gray and Ravi Verma will describe the Scrum adoption challenges for a multi-million line, monolithic system developed across multiple locations worldwide. They will share the techniques and tools that helped implement Scrum in just two project cycles and the reasons part of the company failed to make the leap. Find out how they gained critical executive support, moved from component-based specialization to Scrum’s generalizing specialists, found enough Scrum Masters, adjusted to twelve-hour time differences, and dealt with classical PMOs. Take away concrete approaches to improve your enterprise agile conversion—and an appreciation for problems you will surely face. Session 03: Michael Warber - How to I.N.T.E.R.C.E.P.T. a Troubled Project Chances are you will face or have faced a project that is spinning out of control. The goal is to “intercept” the project and correct the course of the project. The session will cover (9) topics including communication, issues management and risk management as they relate to recovering a troubled project. The session will also cover what not to do. The goal of the session is to provide both information to assist with the recovery of the project, but also provide the participant with the knowledge to recognize a troubled project. Session 04: Steven “Doc” List: You Said WHAT?!? Most of us take language for granted. We use words without thinking about how they may affect others, and then are surprised at the reaction we get. Participants learn to be more aware of the words they choose and the impact of those words on their listeners, and how important language is in building and maintaining high performing agile teams. In this session, Doc List presents a challenge in game show format. Participants are challenged to identify loaded words in simple-seeming statements and questions. Some of the challenges are written, others are acted out in role play. Participants engage in discussion and reflection as part of the activity, gaining greater insight into their own use of language and understanding of how language affects their interactions and their teams. 3 Learning Objectives: Engage and reflect on current use of language Gain greater insight into the role of language in the work place Understand how language impacts team performance/interaction Session Information (Continued) Session 05: Kris Reynolds: PM for Youth Motivated by a conversation with his daughter, Kris started plans to integrate project management into Tulsa’s middle and high school curriculum about four years ago. Kris was very concerned when his nine year old daughter came home from school one day and said she had been learning & memorizing the state capitols. As a parent, Kris worried that rote memorization of such facts did nothing to improve his daughter and her classmates’ critical thinking skills. This was the catalyst that drove him to approach his daughter’s school and offer to start a project management program for youth. This case study from Tulsa, Oklahoma demonstrates that youth have the ability to acquire the life, learning and career skills of project management and demonstrate competence in these applied skills that can be used in and out of school throughout their lifetime. Session 06: John Kinser – The Top 10 Laws of Project Management From the obvious, Murphy (If anything can go wrong, it will) to the more obscure, Parkinson (Work expands to fill the time available) project management is subject to a variety of laws. Truisms are called that because, well… they are true. Come to this presentation and learn how to apply the top 10 laws of project management to increase the likelihood of success. Session 07: Ken Howard - The Agile BA Business Analysts can play a key role on project teams, but when adopting agile software development it’s often unclear how to best use the skills of a Business Analyst (BA). This session will provide a description of key skills and tools that skillful BA’s often use. These will be aligned with the approach used in typical agile software development methods such as Scrum and Kanban, and best practices for maximizing the value of your BA will be offered. Session 08: Nikki Choyce - Most Common Microsoft Project Mistakes Microsoft Project is one of the most widely used project management scheduling software applications. However, few people get the training needed to effectively and efficiently use it. This presentation will walk you through the most common mistakes people make when using Project and why or how they can negatively impact your plan. Attendees will learn: Key file set-up considerations Designing and structural considerations when planning Critical steps to accurate and effective statusing Session 09: Anthony Reed - Finding the I in TEAM - Leadership Lessons from the World’s Toughest Marathons Companies today are struggling to maintain morale while doing more with work with fewer monetary and human resources. This isn’t an easy task. Preparing for and completing a marathon is the perfect backdrop for examining the problems and challenges faced by today’s business leaders. While all certified marathons are the same distance, the dangers, terrain, altitude, and weather offer unique and varying challenges. You quickly learn that hills build character. You’ll learn how to: Motivate yourself and your team members without a budget. Manage stress. Manage the negative, victim mentality. Embrace fear and risk to move outside your comfort zone. Develop leaders and staff members. Session Information (Continued) Session 10: Frank Saladis – The State of Project Management - Where We are and Where We are Going Project management continues to grow in importance in most organizations.
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