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Columbia Division – Autopilot Project Management Tools
July 17 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$40.00
THIS MEETING IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT!
PMI Baltimore Chapter – Columbia Division Event
Title: Autopilot Project Management Tools
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 17, 2024 – 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location:
The Meeting House
5885 Robert Oliver PL
Columbia, MD. 21045
PDUs: 2.5 PDUs (2 – Power Skills, 0.5 Business Acumen)
Cost: $30 for members; $40 for non-members
You must be logged in as a member to receive a discount. There will be no refunds or credits issued for this meeting.
Meeting Details:
06:00 pm SHARP!
06:00 pm – 6:30 pm Dinner
06:30 pm – 9:00 pm Presentation / Q&A
09:00 pm Closing
Autopilot Project Management (35 minutes)
Tools summary (do more, in less time)
- Streamlined project request intake
- Scoping tools auto generated
- Project schedules with canned predecessors
- Automated status updates
- RAID log for risk management
- Contacts list, with built-in comms tools
- Dashboards — use them always, in all ways
Next-level Project Management (20 minutes)
Tactics summary (spend time on what matters)
- Scheduling: slack vs. lag vs. spillover (predecessors demo—Parkinson’ law)
- 8 signs of resistance (Peter Block’s list, with recommendations)
- Negotiation: “You’re right” vs. “That’s right” (Voss’ principle, with Dr. Rock example)
- MIA Stakeholders (the UM Capital Region EMR implementation)
(teaser)
Portfolio traffic control (5 minutes)
Intro to Portfolio tools
- Program-level reporting, spreadsheet-based metrics
- Stacked project plans, auto-generated
- RAG status automation
- Weekly leadership push notifications
Presenter: Tim Morgan
Tim is the Sr. Manager of the IT Project Management office for the University of Maryland Medical System.
He has 17 years of experience implementing EMRs and enterprise IT applications, and mentoring project managers and IT professionals.
Before joining IT, Tim spent 6 years in clinical research at Johns Hopkins Medicine, managing international NIH-funded stroke trials.
His undergraduate degree is in bioengineering from Syracuse University, and he has a master’s in public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Tim’s passion is developing tools that streamline project management. His goal is to eliminate the redundant and onerous work that PMs face—while also simplifying PM processes to make project management approachable for anyone.