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June 23 - 25, 2008 | Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA

Pre-Conference Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshops

MONDAY, JUNE 23, 2008

8:00-9:00 Registration, Morning Coffee
AM Workshop
9:00-12:00 Conducting Risk Assessments for Projects
Identifying and managing risks is becoming a major focus in many organizations. This session will teach attendees how to facilitate a Risk Assessment session with their project team. Attendees will actually participate in a mock Risk Assessment session. They will discuss how to manage risks throughout the project life cycle including appropriate involvement of the project sponsor. This process taught is compatible with PMI’s approach to risk management.
  • A four-step procedure for conducting a successful Risk Assessment session.
  • A model for determining the Overall Threat a risk brings to the project.
  • Understand when to avoid, transfer, mitigate or accept a risk.
  • Understand the different types of plans associated with Risk Management such as Response and Mitigation plans.
Rick Arnett, Member of the USIT PMO at TransUnion, LLC
Rick Arnett of TransUnion LLCRick Arnett has been in Information Technology for over 30 years with over 15 years in Project Management.He has had various positions including programmer/analyst, technical trainer and consultant, project manager and project management consultant, supervisor of training, and is currently the manager of the Enterprise ProjectManagement Office at TransUnion LLC.
12:00-1:00 Lunch
PM Workshop
1:00-4:00 Risk in Developing Strategic Projects
This workshop will deal with the following issues in developing strategic projects:
  • Risks in Developing Strategic Projects: Development, Planning and Execution
  • Overall Risks in the Strategic Decision - Development & Execution
  • Decision Feasibility - Risks & Opportunities - Can it be implemented?
  • Screening the Development for Risks - Looking for "Showstoppers"
  • Development Evaluation & Economics - Rough Pro - Forma, Go/No Go
  • Strategic Execution Risks - Strategy Execution Plan (SEP) and Decision Execution Risks
  • The Decision Support Package Risks and Decision Review Boards Risks
  • Integrated Decision Execution Risks - Optimized Decision Execution
  • The Project Development Execution Plan
  • Neutralizing Project Development Risks
  • Risks in Strategic Capital Project Structured Financing
Paul Allen, CEO/Project Director, Project Executive Group
Paul Allen of Jones Graduate School ofManagementThe Project Executive Group is a Houston-based global professional services and training firm. Paul Allen has over thirty years in project development, project management & structured financing experience starting in 1975. He is a co-founding officer of the PMI RiskManagement SIG; co-founder and Chair of the PMI Automation Systems SIG; and a member of the PMI Troubled Project SIG and Houston PMI chapter. Allen is an Adjunct full Professor of Management at the Jones Graduate School of Management - Rice University where he has taught for over a decade.He currently teaches the Strategic Project Development Program in Executive Education.