Track A:
Core Competencies

Is defining, developing and deploying a Project Management competency model and PM skill building program just a walk in the park? What are the challenges you face and what issues can you expect if you are responsible for introducing or enhancing such a program for your project management practitioners? What are the risks and rewards of embarking on such a journey, and what can you expect as the stated (and unstated) benefits?

Participate in an interactive discussion with Walt Disney Parks & Resorts professional development staff reflect on the journey, challenges and successes experienced during the planning, executing, monitoring and controlling of the components of their North American program.

Cindy Sniezak, IT Academy, WALT DISNEY PARKS & RESORTS, INC

The Project Management of this project uses the tools and techniques as used in all projects to maintain cost, schedule and scope. However, the additional difficulty in this project was how the new technology for containment had to be incorporated into the project deliverables. This presentation will share some of the techniques and challenges the project leadership needed to employee to deliver a world class potent drug containment facility.

David McAlonan, Sr. Program Manager, ABBOTT LABORATORIES

While projects proceed, participants are learning. The mature organization encourages and capitalizes on learnings as the starting place for refinements and new initiatives. How many of us work in mature organizations? How can we use Retrospectives to enact and spread processes that support growth? This session will cover:

• Projects: Blamefests or launch pads to the future?
• Retrospectives acknowledge participant experiences as crucial for understanding project outcomes and promoting positive change.
• Organizations that incorporate Retrospective outcomes capitalize more fully on their project investments.

Ainsley Nies, Principal, ACORN CONSULTING ENTERPRISES

Day Two Track Sessions

Track A:
Core Competencies

Track 1:
Core Competencies for a BA - The IIBA Body Of Knowledge

Track B:
Advancements in Project Management

Track C:
People Side & Leadership

Track 2:
The BA role within the Enterprise

Track D:
Techniques, Tools and Trends

Track 3:
Advancements, Techniques & Trends This Track will be Chaired by IRISE

Track E:
Enterprise

The Big Picture, Tying the Technical Side
and the Business Side Together