Agenda at a Glance
Agenda-at-a-Glance
( download this as an excel document )FORUMS | Two Day Multi-Speaker Forums
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2008
MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONE
| 7:45 | Opening Remarks and Activity | 10:15 | Networking Break |
| 8:15 | The Magic of Teamwork Pat Williams, Author & Senior Vice President, ORLANDO MAGIC | 10:45 | Your Space: Collaborative Networking Activity |
| 9:15 | Accelerating Fast: HR Systems and Operations Sunil Chandra, Director HR Technology & Operations, GOOGLE | 11:45 | Breakout Tracks Begin |
| THE NUTS & BOLTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT | THE NUTS & BOLTS OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS | THE LATEST IN PROGRAM & PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | THE EVOLVING ROLE OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS | THE POWER OF BUSINESS & SOFT SKILLS | BUILDING A CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | AGILE in 2008 | THE FOUR T’S – TEMPLATES, TECHNOLOGY, TOOLS & TRICKS | |
| 11:45 | What's so Hard about Soft Skills? KINDRED HEALTHCARE | Learning Lab Part 1- Requirements Management Planning for Success! BMO FINANCIAL GROUP | You Gotta Walk Before You Can Run: Getting Started with Portfolio Management JETBLUE AIRWAYS | Business Rules: Do You Know What You’re Missing? EBG CONSULTING, INC | Expected Behaviors: Road Rules for Project Team Performance– Not Road Rage LISA DITULLIO & ASSOCIATES | Learning Lab Part 1: Creating a BA Center of Excellence WACHOVIA & ESI | Agile – Philosophy, methodology, or practice? BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | Building the EVM Foundation on IT projects THE BOEING COMPANY |
| 1:00 | Lunch & Learns - Stay tuned for topics | |||||||
| 2:00 | Understanding and Assessing Requirements Risk IAG CONSULTING | Learning Lab Part 2- Requirements Management Planning for Success! BMO FINANCIAL GROUP | The PgMP & the Fundamentals of Program Management CHURCHILL DOWNS INCORPORATED | Learning Lab Part 1: Incorporating the BABOK® into the Business Analyst Professional Development Framework SUNTRUST BANKS, INC.. | Are You Too Soft? THE NEAL WHITTEN GROUP | Learning Lab Part 2: Creating a BA Center of Excellence WACHOVIA & ESI | Agile Business Analysis EBG CONSULTING | Project Management 2.0 GANTTHEAD.COM |
| 3:15 | Networking Break | |||||||
| 3:45 | Use of Project Coordinators: A Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company Success Story NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE | Finding the Right Solution: Elicitation Techniques for Compelling Communication | Advanced Project Portfolio Management: The Wachovia Case Study WACHOVIA CORPORATION | Learning Lab Part 2: Incorporating the BABOK® into the Business Analyst Professional Development Framework SUNTRUST BANKS, INC. | Reading the Table – Advanced Non-Verbal Communication for the Project Manager EMC | This session is closed. Please attend another at this time. | Have a great story to share? If you are interested in speaking during this session please contact Adam Desimone at 646-895-7466 or via email | Home Grown Tools Showcase |
| 5:00 | Track closed. | Enterprise Analysis: Building a business case that is aligned with the trategies of your enterprise IIBA | A Scorecard Approach to Hiring: 7 Attributes of the Perfect Program Manager | Managing a Team of BAs BMO FINANCIAL GROUP | Are you a 97 pound PM weakling? Exercise your Soft Skills. IBM POWER SYSTEMS SOLUTION | This session is closed. Please attend another at this time. | Leading Agile Maniacs ICONATG, INC. | The Canary in the Mine: Leverage the Business Glossary as a Project Management Tool ACE INSURANCE |
| 6:15 | Main Conference Day One Ends | |||||||
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2008
MAIN CONFERENCE DAY TWO
| 8:00 | Yesterday’s Recap and Lessons Learned | 9:15 | Recent Activities in Federal IT Honorable Karen S. Evans, Administrator of E-Government and Information Technology, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET |
| 8:15 | See First, Understand First, Act First: Leadership and Preparedness in the 21st Century Lt. General Russel L. Honoré, (Ret.), Commander of JOINT TASK FORCE KATRINA | 10:15 | Networking Break |
| 10:30 Breakout Tracks Begin | |||
| THE NUTS & BOLTS OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT | THE NUTS & BOLTS OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS | THE LATEST IN PROGRAM & PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT | THE EVOLVING ROLE OF BUSINESS ANALYSIS | PMs & BAs COLLABORATE | PROCESS IMPROVEMENT TECHNIQUES | PROJECT GLOBAL | LEADING THE CHARGE | |
| 10:30 | Learning Lab Part 1: You’re the New Project Manager…Now What? HIGHMARK | Relating to Data and Data Modeling: What a Business Analyst needs to know so he/she can forge a strong partnership with the Data Architect IIBA | Boosting Program Manager Effectiveness – Nine Steps to Success ESI | Why? The Dangerous Question at the Heart of a Profession BMO FINANCIAL GROUP | How To Know When Your Done: High Quality Analysis vs. High Fidelity Models ACE INSURANCE | Influencing Outcomes – Thinking “Process Excellence” from Day 1 AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION | When Failure Isn’t an Option: International Team Achieves First Major Systems Success in Iraq TORRES ADVANCED ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS | Change: Leading It, Managing It, Owning It REALOGY CORPORATION |
| 11:45 | Learning Lab Part 2: You’re the New Project Manager…Now What? HIGHMARK | Designing & Implementing Your SW Development Process Around Facilitated Workshops PITNEY BOWES PMOs, VMOs, IPOs: | Establishing an Oversight Entity to Drive Bottom-line Results ROBBINS-GIOIA | Role of the Business Analyst – current and future state IIBA | Computer Mediated Communication in Work Groups SEMINOLE COUNTY GOVERNMENT | Using process thinking to run IT as a business CAPITAL ONE | Have a great story to share? If you are interested in speaking during this session please contact Adam Desimone at 646-895-7466 or via email | How to Choose the Right Projects Before You Start To Work On Them! PRUDENTIAL REAL ESTATE AND RELOCATION SERVICES |
| 1:00 | Luncheon | |||||||
| 2:00 | Transformation: From Managing Many Projects to a Project Management Office THE BOEING COMPANY | The Trouble with Use Cases: Myths, egends, Heresy, Outright Lies and Forgotten Truths BOSTON UNIVERSITY’S CORPORATE EDUCATION CENTER | Learning Lab Part 1: Portfolio Management in the fast-paced, oftenchanging project environment BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | Creativity and Innovation - lost art or core responsibility? WHY-WHAT-HOW CONSULTING, LLC | Have a great story to share? If you are interested in speaking during this session please contact Adam Desimone at 646-895-7466 or via email | Practical Process Improvement MERRILL LYNCH | Tools & Techniques to Successfully Manage Virtual Global Project Teams CISCO SYSTEMS | A Team Based Approach to Accelerating Organizational Change GOAL/QPC |
| 3:15 | Networking Break | |||||||
| 3:30 | Managing a 24x7 large scale test project IBM CORPORATION | Business Driven User Requirements Modeling CISCO SYSTEMS | Learning Lab Part 2: Portfolio Management in the fast-paced, oftenchanging project environment BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY | Leadership and Culture for Teaching for the Business Analyst HIGHMARK, INC | Track closed. | Track closed. | Tracks closed. Please attend another at this time. | |
| 4:45 | Conference Concludes | |||||||