September 20 2016 at 11:43PM
Symposium 2018 - Presentation Abstracts
Breakout Track #1: Leadership
Session A: Chief (Ret) Chris Perkins
Risk Management
PDU: Technical
There is no ‘one thing’ that can be done to keep ourselves safe. Safety is a multi-layered approach that involves all stakeholders. People and policies are more important than just hardware and software to promote a culture of safety. Creating a positive climate costs almost nothing and can significantly reduce the threat of violence and/or risk. Using the school community as an example, we will explore approaches to reduce risk and improve safety.
Session B: Chris Riha
The Evolution of Project Management – Into the Future We go!
PDU: Leadership
Chris will provide an entertaining and educational look at Project Management throughout the years, which will culminate in an interactive discussion of where we as a profession will be heading as we continue to evolve.
Session C: Sardek Love
The Ultimate Change Management Plan for Project Management Professionals
PDU: Technical
According to Gallup, nearly 70% of all change initiatives have failed since the 1970s making change management the most significant barrier project management professionals have to overcome. Executing an effective change management plan is easy when you know the process. Through a mixture of compelling stories and entertaining activities, peak performance expert Sardek Love will teach you a research-based, 6-step change management process that increases the success rate of change initiatives by as much as 50%.
Breakout Track #2 - Women in Project Management
Panel A
Past, present and future of Project Management from the prospective of Women Project Managers
PDU: Strategic
Leadership studies prove that women make great project managers. Become part of the past, present and future project management discussions led by an outstanding Women Project Managers’ panel. Be prepared to ask the questions that you have been afraid to ask about project management. What past project management experiences have helped to guide them to be successful Project Managers, even in the face of adversity? What advice would these Project Managers have for the future of Project Management? How has your certification helped you succeed in your career path? Come and be prepared to ask questions and learn from these amazing women!
Session B: Sheri Winesett
Innovative Facilitation and Problem Solving
PDU: TBD
Five years from now, over one-third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed. According to the World Economic Forum, by 2020, complex problem solving will be the NUMBER ONE skill you need to thrive in the workplace. Participants will be introduced to a tool designed to engage your team in experimental problem solving enabling them to develop creativity and critical thinking, effective problem solving, teamwork, and other skills that will drive innovation in any organization. It will empower individuals to recognize opportunity, remain adaptable through setbacks, and become effective problem solvers in the Fourth Industrial Revolution!
Session C: Jennifer Leake, CMC,
Emotional Intelligence in Project Management
PDU: Leadership
Projects often exist to bring about change in organizations. There are many different components that come together to determine the success of a project, including Emotional Intelligence (EI). One trait of emotional intelligence is resilience, “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change”. (Merriam-Webster, 2018).
The ability to thrive in change and uncertainty is critical to success in project management. Resilient project managers perform well, adapting quickly to rapidly changing and unforeseen challenges.
This is because they:
- move forward regardless of difficulties
- find ways to win despite setbacks
- bounce back from obstacles
Resiliency is a muscle that gets stronger the more it’s used. Come “exercise” your EI Resiliency in a workshop designed to:
- Offer a brief overview of “What is emotional intelligence?” and why it’s important
- Teach 4 important resilience competencies
- Learn pro-active strategies to build resilience
- Complete a personal Resilience quiz
Breakout Track #3: Agile
Session A: Richard Cheng
Agile Truths and Misconceptions Exposed
PDU: Technical
In the era of new technologies and Web 2.0, Agile has become the new flashy project management idea. But what is Agile? Is it merely an industry buzzword? A collection of ideas? A process framework? Through a series statements posed to the audience, this interactive session will explore the truths and misconceptions regarding Agile and Agile methods like Scrum and Kanban.
Key takeaways will include:
Understanding Agile and Agile methodologies
Agile as it relates to Waterfall and PMBOK
When and how to adopt and implement Agile methods
Session B: Richard Cheng
The Perfect Product Owner
PDU: Technical
Is your Product Owner available to the team, empowered to make decisions, knowledgeable in their business domain, engaged in the product and leading the way for delivery of value? This session does a deep dive in the these ideas. The session starts with a brief video to demonstrate the importance of Product Ownership. The session then discusses 5 key attributes to look for in a Product Owner:
Bandwidth
Power
Knowledge
Interest
Vision
After that discussion, we will have an interactive exercise to identify what a Product Owner does day to day. The debrief will identify the balance a Product Owner must have between working with stakeholders, end users, customers AND working with the development team AND product backlog refinement.
The session concludes with the presenter sharing a Product Owner persona sheet. This persona sheet measures product owners across the 5 attributes mentioned above and presents a narrative on their core strengths and risks.
This session answers the following:
Where should the Product Owner come from
Attributes to look for in a Product Owner
How should the Product Owner allocate their time
Is your Product Owner effective
How to determine who the Product Owner should be
Session C: Doug Martin and Paige Kanode
User Story and Estimation Workshop
PDU: Technical
Agile User Story and Estimation Workshop – Join us for an entertaining and interactive workshop that will give attendees hands-on experience of developing user stories and estimating user stories using agile estimation techniques. The workshop will assist attendees with developing an actionable project backlog starting with just a project elevator statement. The elevator statement will be developed into release themes, then epics, and finally user stories. The second half of the workshop will give attendees hands-on experience estimating user stories using planning poker.
