Breakout Tracks
ProjectWorld November Breakout Tracks
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 | ||||
 ELEVATE YOUR PM CAPABILITIES |  ELEVATE YOUR BA CAPABILITIES |  THE PEOPLE SIDE: LEADERSHIP & SOFT SKILLS IMPROVING |  ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE | |
| 1:00 | Best Practices; Identifying Yours and Borrowing from Others Clayton Granby, Program Management Functional Expert, | Slow Down to Speed Up: Retrospectives for Improving Product and Process Ellen Gottesdiener, Founder, Principal Consultant, EBG Consulting, Inc. | Surfing the Sigmoid Curve: Engagement and Retention of the Best Employees Vera Teller, Director Systems and Programming, Trader Joe’s Companies | A Practical Approach to Data Mining While Maintaining System Performance, Security And Privacy. Chuck Miller, Project Manager, Prescription Solutions |
| 2:30 | Training and Orientation for the PM New Hire Randal Clark, PMP, LSSBB, Sr. Project Manager for Clinical Systems, Memorial Health Systems | Analyzing Business Processes with BPMN Kevin Brennan, VP Body of Knowledge, IIBA | Open Session If you’d like to speak during this session please contact Lisa Deutsch at LDeutsch@iirusa.com or 646-895-7482 | Integrating Agile in a Waterfall World Joseph Flahiff, Senior Project Manager, Scrum Master, Regence Blue Shield |
| 4:00 | Networking Break | |||
| 4:30 | PM…What? - Developing an Enterprise Project Management Training Curriculum Ted Veterano, MBA, PMP, CGEIT, Senior Program Manager, Kindred Healthcare | Business Process Management in a technology-heavy world: Doing it, Selling it, Benefiting from it. Rebecca Burgess, Business Process Methodology Analyst, Symantec | Managing a Team of BAs Kathleen Barrett, President, IIBA | Using LEAN Practices to Improve Project Management Christopher Galante, Process Improvement Leader, CDG |
| 6:00 | Main Conference Day One Concludes | |||
Wednesday. November 18, 2009 | ||||
| ELEVATE YOUR PM CAPABILITIES | ELEVATE YOUR BA CAPABILITIES |  The INTEGRATION OF PM AND BA ROLES |  TOOLS, TECHNIQUES & TRENDS | |
| 1:00 | Understanding Nonverbal Conrado Morlan, MBA, PgMP, PMP, Regional Program Manager and Regional Project Portfolio Manager, | Modernize Your Requirements Practices: Agile Concepts Bring New Life To Old Approaches Mary Gerush, PMP, Analyst, Forrester Research | When is it appropriate to integrate the Project Manager and Business Analysis Role? Abby Hodge, PMP, MPM, Director Business Systems/ Stores, Business Systems Project Manager, Stage Stores, Inc. | Successfully Launching a Business Andrew C. Guitarte, Assistant Vice President, Wells Fargo |
| 2:30 | Creating the next generation of Project Managers for a Net-Enabled Future William J. Purpura, Senior Technical Project Engineer, Boeing | Business Rules and Data Requirements: Pulling in Tandem for Success Mary Gorman, CBAP®, Sr. Associate, EBG Consulting, Inc. | Open Session If you’d like to speak during | The Risk Register – Simplified (A Practical Tool) Elden F. Jones II, MSPM, PMP, Program Manager, Northrop Grumman Corporation |
| 4:00 | Networking Break | |||
| 4:30 | Taming the Beast: Meaning and Effective Use of Performance Measurement Michael E. Thorn – MBA, MS, PMP, Six Sigma Black Belt, Sr. Project Manager, NCCI Holdings |
This Track Concludes. Please select another track option. | Breakthrough – Fully integrating the Business Analyst with the PMO Markus D. Hardy, PMP, CISSP, Executive Vice President, HMG | Agile and Infrastructure Operations: Are they compatible? Pamela Johnson Manager, Project Management - Enterprise IT Operations, Scripps Networks |
| 6:00 | Main Conference Day Two Concludes | |||