Strategic Design and Project Delivery - Bridging the Gap

Strategic Design and Project Delivery - Bridging the Gap
WEBINAR
2020

Strategic Success. What the hell does project management have to do with it? Just EVERYTHING!. Let Lee tell you why project management professionals are on the Critical Path of corporate profitability.

Learning Objectives
  • This webinar will examine the critical relationship between organizational strategy and the execution of projects. The potential value of maintaining a strategy/project connection will be illustrated and a way to achieve and maintain that vital connection.
  • The supporting slides for this program will help make the relevance of PMI’s emphasis on the strategic element of the Talent Triangle. It will explain why “simply” being a good project manager will not be enough to survive in today’s world of the careful selection of value add projects. The sooner it can be determined that a project is not making a strategic contribution to organizational business objects, the sooner alternates can be considered.
  • Participants will be able to identify how their project fits in the organization’s strategic initiatives. Using a sophisticated and integrated project management information system to support identify and clarify the strategic relevance of decisions being made at the project level.
 
Speaker Bio

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Lee R. Lambert has logged 50+ years of project management experience and is considered one of the world’s thought leaders on project management methods and how they can be utilized to create and sustain value-added Leadership and Collaboration capabilities. He is one of only 70 in the world to receive the honor of PMI Fellow. Lee is a Past President of the Central Ohio PMI and was one of the founders of the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP) credential. His book, Project Management-The CommonSense Approach, is a best seller in the field.
At 37 years old Lee was named VP of Staff and Organizational Development for one of the world’s largest contract research organizations where he was responsible for creating and implementing a Leadership Development program focused on improved performance for project managers and supporting functional/line managers.
During his decades of platform training, Mr. Lambert has provided learning opportunities to more than 50,000 professionals in 23 countries. He is regularly called upon to provide Keynote presentations on Leadership, Communications, and other Project Management topics. Before his years as VP, Mr. Lambert was a project management evangelist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and General Electric.

PDU: 1 Strategic PDU
 

What Really is Discipline Agile? (1 Technical PDU)

What Really is Discipline Agile?
WEBINAR
2020

This webinar will offer a high-level tour of Disciplined agile.  You will discover how it provides straightforward guidance to help teams make better choices for their “Ways of Working” in a context-sensitive manner, providing a solid foundation for business agility.

Speaker:

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Greta Blash is a certified PMI Program (PgMP®) and Project Manager Professional (PMP®) with extensive experience as an executive and consulting IT professional, both domestically and internationally. Her areas of experience include Program Management, Project Management, Agile/Scrum, CRM, Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence and Application System Development.

Greta is certified as a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP®) and most recently has become a Certified Disciplined Agile Practitioner (CDAP).  She is also a PMI Professional Business Analyst (PMI-PBA®) and has taught certification courses worldwide for the last 12 years. She has also served as V.P. of Education and Programs for at the PMI Southern Nevada Chapter (PMI-SNC), and Director of Military Outreach for PMI-SD, PMI-OC, PMI-LA and PMI-CIE.  She has held various SME roles supporting PMI Region 7 since 2012 as well as a frequent reviewer of PMI Publications.

PDU: 1 Technical PDU

 

Reframing your work: Strategies for Managing All the Things (1 Technical PDU)

Reframing your work: Strategies for Managing All the Things
WEBINAR
2020

Project managers are busier than ever. We need smart tactics for workload management and different ways to think about the work we do to prevent overwhelm and boost productivity.

In this webinar, Elizabeth Harrin will discuss practical strategies to help you manage all the things on your To-Do list.

You’ll learn how to reframe your work as your personal portfolio, tactics for using your time efficiently, and how to use the 80/20 Pareto Principle to focus on what’s really driving your personal and project successes.

She’ll also share some tried-and-tested techniques for engaging virtual teams and keeping the work going while based apart.

You’ll have plenty of time to ask questions and share your experiences of best practice work management.

Please note this presentation is tool-agnostic, so we won’t be looking at the efficient use of virtual meeting tools or task management software.

Link to Presentation

Speaker

Elizabeth Harrin

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Elizabeth Harrin, FAPM, is an author and mentor who helps project managers and their teams get more done with less stress. She does that through straight-talking, real-world advice, based on her 20 years in project management roles.

Elizabeth has written 5 books about project management: Shortcuts to Success: Project Management in the Real World (which was a finalist in the Management Book of the Year Awards 2014 and now in its second edition), Collaboration Tools for Project ManagersCommunicating ChangeProject Manager, and Customer-Centric Project Management. She is currently working on a new book on stakeholder engagement which will be out in 2020.

She also writes the award-winning blog, A Girl’s Guide to Project Management. You can find Elizabeth online at GirlsGuideToPM.com or on Twitter @girlsguidetopm.

Elizabeth holds degrees from the University of York and Roehampton University. She supports project managers through her mentoring program, Project Management Rebels, and also contributes to a variety of other initiatives including sitting on the advisory board for the RISE Being Lean and Seen program at Liverpool John Moores University.

Elizabeth has led a variety of IT, process improvement, and business change projects including ERP deployment and compliance initiatives. She spent eight years working in financial services (including two based in Paris, France) and 12 years in healthcare.

Elizabeth lives with her family in the UK.

 
 

Online Agile Project Management using Kanban (1 Technical PDU)

Online Agile Project Management using Kanban
WEBINAR
2020

Learn how to create an online Portfolio Kanban system to manage multiple projects across your organization

  • Visualize work using a Kanban board
  • Improve quality with clear acceptance criteria
  • Track dependencies with linked Kanban cards
  • Measure your flow of work to set clear expectations
Speaker

Dimitri Ponomareff

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Dimitri Ponomareff is a passionate coach, facilitator, and public speaker. He has the ability to relate to people at every level within an organization. He can motivate and energize individuals, teams, or entire organizations. Dimitri is consistently recognized as an effective and successful change agent who is able to mobilize people on a path of continuous improvement. Dimitri is a certified coach and "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" facilitator and uses his vast experience to build highly-focused, productive, and happy teams. Dimitri has coached for such organizations as American Express, Charles Schwab, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Choice Hotels, Best Western, JDA Software, LifeLock, First Solar.

 

How I prep'd for the PMI-ACP Exam (1 Technical PDU)

Presentation Title/Topic: Preparation for the ACP Exam
Speaker: Paul Gladden

Recorded on April 24, 2020 at the Northwest Valley Breakfast Meeting 

Power Point Presentation is located HERE

 

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