Description:

Review common issues with telecommuting and their resolutions.  Keith will cover his personal and corporate experiences with taking his PMO at Plexus to a work at home solution.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will learn how to work with issues that come from working from home and working on projects in a work from home environment.

Speaker Bio:

Keith Harrington’s professional career spans 37 years with his first 20 years in high-tech manufacturing, Information Technology and Data Center Operations. 

After attaining his EMBA, Keith moved from Rhode Island to Arizona and obtained his PMP credentials in 2004 and his PMI – ACP in 2014.

Over the last 16 years he has provided strategic direction as an Authentic Leader focused on developing and empowering team members, defining project management, program management and portfolio management processes while creating two highly effective PMOs.

Keith’s past major employers include Motorola, MetLife, American Power Conversion and DHL.  Since 2016, Keith has been the Senior Director of the Portfolio Management Office at Plexus Worldwide, a Scottsdale-based company on the cutting edge of health science with a range of products focused on every aspect of health and happiness.

PDU:  1 Technical

The Presentation for the meeting is located here: https://pmiphx.org/presentation-links

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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