September 20 2016 at 11:43PM
Symposium 2016 - Presentation Abstracts
2016 Candy Jar Presentations Abstracts
Opening Session:
Kari Mirabal
The Power of Childlike Curiosity
We are excited to welcome back Kari Mirabal, The Connection Coach, to PMI-SWVA as she presents the opening keynote for our 2016 Annual Fall Symposium! Her presentation, The Power of Childlike Curiosity, shares three leadership lessons learned and how you can create cultures where teams thrive and employees are enjoyably engaged in the experience. This keynote explores how adopting a childlike curiosity in the workplace can lead to new possibilities! Kari For more information about Kari Mirabal, visit www.karimirabal.com
Closing Session:
John Stenbeck
Becoming Indispensable … Not Irreplaceable
Have you ever wondered why salespeople get promoted when technical professionals are clearly smarter! Would you like a career with the “WOW!” factor? Then this Keynote has answers for YOU!! Learn the three high-octane quantitatively-proven keys that took decades to cull and distill into the formula will unlock your personal powerhouse. See how to define the roadmap that unleashes all of your potential as John shares the unexpected resources that exponentially improved his results. This is not a “get rich quick” or “instant success” gimmick because it is reality-based. Technical professionals demand results because they know improving results is the key to career opportunity! This powerful session gives you specific practical steps to focusing your teams and delivering amazing project outcomes and that auto...magically leads to success. The information in this presentation is rigorous, concise and gets to the point with focused answers to your challenges. It is designed to be applied in your environment... and accelerate your career!
Leadership Session 1:
Dr. Joey Faucette
5 Questions Successful, Starburst PMs Ask Themselves Daily
Why do some project managers succeed repeatedly while others struggle? Join best-selling author and executive coach Dr. Joey Faucette for this engaging session that equips you to drive your results to excellence with 5 powerful questions sure to focus your productivity so you achieve amazing outcomes.
Leadership Session 2:
Kari Mirabal
TAKE5 | Fostering An Entrepreneurial Mindset
Kari Mirabal, The Connection Coach, offers this must-hear breakout session which explores the power of an entrepreneurial mindset in the workplace. This interactive session will equip you with tips and strategies to foster a culture where workplace success is a team effort and barriers are overcome with a spirit of ownership. Learn steps for leading by example while inspiring others to discover new possibilities. This breakout session is designed for leaders who want to adopt ownership mindsets, overcome triggers that can hinder project success, and discover tips for empowering teams. By attending this breakout session, you will gather 5 tips for fostering an entrepreneurial mindset, learn simple ways to keep projects on track when setbacks occur, and discover how leveraging an entrepreneurial mindset can benefit you, your team, and your company.
Leadership Session 3:
Mike O'Brochta
Great Project Leadership - Five Essentials
Even highly skilled project managers find success limited until they can sift through the bewildering amount of leadership information and identify essential actions. This presentation draws from PMI and related research, from the fields of ethics and trust, and gives emphasis to high performance teams. Compelling lessons in project leadership and professional conduct from the Titanic are used to illustrate key points
Agile Session 1:
John Stenbeck
Is PMI changing the Candy Store? The new PMBOK will change business best practices and expectations!!
The first edition of the PMBOK® Guide was published in 1996 and as grown from 176 pages to 589 pages. It has been 20 years since, and our profession has evolved in very significant ways! Project Managers have moved from the engineering department to the drivers of strategic organizational change. In response to those facts the PMBOK® Guide Six Edition will be changed more dramatically than ever before! Your career – your future! – requires every PMP® to understand and integrate these upcoming changes successfully.
Over the last five years John Stenbeck has become one of the most influential voices in this critical area by distilling highvalue insights into the Amazon #1 Best Seller, the Agile Almanac, his most recent book. In fact, he has become known as the Godfather of Agile in a Traditional World. During this presentation he will show you a well-defined roadmap that applies Agile in ways that unlock your career potential!
You know improving results is the key to career opportunity.
This powerful presentation gives you specific, detailed information about if, when and how to use Agile as well as to position yourself for future opportunities in your organization. The information in this presentation is rigorous, concise and gets to the point with focused answers to your challenges. It is designed to be applied in your environment... and accelerate your career!
Agile Session 2:
John Stenbeck
Are Scaled Agile and DevOps the Same Thing?!? Two Mega-Trends that will Impact Your Career!
Have you ever wondered, “What is the next major trend that will impact my career?” Unless you’ve been living in a cave, it is impossible to realize that Agile has changed the project management profession at the team level. Because of the success it has generated, every Fortune 2000 company, government agency and military command have become focused on how to scale those advantages across larger horizons and more complex challenges. Competing to be ‘King of the Hill’ in that arena are Scaled Agile and DevOps and that is the next mega-trend on a collision course with your career!
Learn the three key components that will drive the future and the formula that will harness these game-changing “power tools” to maximize benefits and minimize risks. See how to anticipate the roadmap as it unfolds and position yourself to benefit from the opportunity.
This is a reality-based, technically sophisticated look at the future for professionals that are interested in information that has been distilled down to the most important core concepts. This powerful session will give you specific insight into the practical steps needed to create amazing project outcomes across the organization!
The information in this presentation is rigorous, concise and gets to the point with focused answers to your challenges. It is designed to be applied in your environment... and accelerate your career!
Agile Session 3:
Mike Ryan
Making Agile Principles Stick in the Workplace
This presentation will focus on using Scrum in the workplace by applying the Agile Manifesto. In addition, we will discuss Agile Principles supporting the Agile Manifesto and how that can be applied to the workplace. This session will be interactive with the goal of reinforcing the Scrum methodology and the principles behind it.
PMO Sessions:
Darryl Agee, Emily Cohen, Donnie Havens & Jennifer Havens
A Lifesaver Guide to a PMO! – The Do’s and Don’ts of a Project Management Office (PMO) to insure your Project Management Success
So you think you need a PMO?! If only you had a PMO, all of these project management things would fall into place and you would suddenly have success in implementing, controlling and managing your project(s).
A Lifesavers Guide to a PMO will help you navigate through the many things you need to consider and do in this exciting endeavor. We will break down this journey into three separate tracks, all delivering valuable and practical examples from project management practitioners with the experience to help you find YOUR project management success.
A Lifesavers Guide to a PMO will deliver information from a variety of key perspectives broken into the three sessions of the day. Attend one or attend all!
PMO Session 1:
Deliver value and deliver it fast - What does your business want from a PMO?
For the CEO/business leaders of your organization, how do you articulate and deliver true business value through disciplined project management? Our presenters have listened to and built project management organization that delivers this value – in timeframes that made their leaders their biggest proponents.
PMO Session 2:
Too Many Projects/Too Few Resources – How do you get control when you have too many projects (all needing to be completed yesterday) and not enough resources (time, people, budget) to deliver what has been committed?
Our presenters will help you solve the common dilemma of too much to do compared to the resources available to do the work.
PMO Session 3:
Tools and Techniques to deliver project/PMO success – What are the tools I need to consider when I am developing this framework of project management and control?
Our presenters have done the research and will present actual project management tools that help deliver this framework. We’ll take you through some tools that not only help you manage the work, resources and ways to communicate your efforts, but tools that promote collaboration from your whole team (including “hip” tools that will make even your millennials excited about working on your project teams)! Things like Smartsheets, Trello boards, Basecamp, to name a few.
