PMI Baltimore Site - Frederick Dinner Meeting*
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This educational event qualifies for 1.00 PDU within the PMI Talent Triangle - Strategic and Business Management
5 Steps to Disruptive Innovation with Hyper-Performing Teams
For too many organizations, Agile is primarily seen as merely an IT delivery system. Within this archaic and limited mindset, New Product Development is so manageable with Scrum. We amble along with 30-day Sprints, a single product owner, a neat product backlog, and a collocated Scrum team. But, today’s business environment is a tsunami of global hyper competition, with companies entering and being forced off the S&P 500 every 15 years. The classic Innovator's Dilemma is now even more pressing, and quite candidly, archaic Agile is of limited use.
To be competitive now, organizations need to look at the gestalt ... the entire value-stream of activities that are required to bring solutions to market. In this session, we will show concrete examples of how major organizations have innovated along the full path from product ideation to requirements to budgeting to delivery and to operations. Each part of a typical value-stream will be explored to show how agility has impacted these traditionally silo'ed functions and how forward-thinking organizations have reached the next level of performance through tight integration and agile thinking.
Learn the essential steps to conquer the entire value-stream from the “fuzzy front end” of innovation, product discovery, lean experimentation, and modern requirements discovery, to pipeline management, to agile budgeting and incremental funding, to high-performance product-centric teams, and enabling agile engineering techniques.
The result is the architecture of an entire organizational system that is designed to rapidly and effectively discover what customers want and delivery with utmost efficiency.
Learning Objectives :
- High Performance Standing Teams
Learn how to set up high performance, standing Scrum teams, with parallels to modern Lean “work cells” in order to give a deeper understanding of the principles that drive great teams, and highlight the responsibilities of those that manage and help create them.
- High Performance Agile Engineering
Explore the underlying agile engineering concepts necessary to implement the Lean principle of “jidoka” (or “autonomation”). Specific advice on implementing core engineering techniques such as automated build, automated testing and continuous delivery will be explored, with examples on various technology platforms illustrated through a case study from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
- Product Discovery and Lean Experimentation
Traditional product management is often short on innovation and long on waste. How can you create a sustainable, flexible and innovative product delivery process that keeps you in at the forefront of your market and delights your customers? We will explore the core philosophies, techniques and responsibilities behind leading product design and management techniques from disciplines including user experience design, Lean UX and Lean Startup.
- Innovation Pipeline Management
Learn how to apply Lean to innovation pipeline management at the portfolio level through selecting experiments, managing multiple projects to deliver against them, and pivoting, persevering or terminating initiatives. A case study from Capital One Labs will show how these techniques can be implemented within an established enterprise.
- Agile Budgeting and Incremental Funding
Yearly budgeting is a time-consuming and arduous process that locks us into a wasteful rigid cycle that often leads to the wrong things being done, with an illusion of control. Learn how to institute quarterly, rolling forecasts that facilitate dynamic funding.
Presenters:
Sanjiv Augustine
Sanjiv Augustine is the Founder of LitheSpeed, LLC, and an entrepreneur, industry-leading agile and lean expert, author, speaker, management consultant and trainer. With 27 years in the industry, Sanjiv has served as a trusted advisor over the past 17 years to executives and management at leading firms including: Capital One, The Capital Group, CNBC, Comcast, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, General Dynamics, HCA Healthcare, The Motley Fool, National Geographic, Nationwide Insurance, Royal Bank of Canada, Samsung and Walmart.
Sanjiv is the author of the books Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005) and Scaling Agile: A Lean JumpStart, as well as several publications including “Transitioning to Agile Project Management” and “The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery.” He was the Chair of the Agile Alliance’s Agile Executive Forum and the founder and moderator of the Lean Startup in the Enterprise Meetup. Sanjiv was also a founder and advisory board member of the Agile Leadership Network (ALN), and a founding member of the Project Management Institute’s Agile Community of Practice.
MEETING LOCATION:
Dutch's Daughter, 581 Himes Avenue, Frederick, Maryland, 21703
AGENDA:
Meeting starts with Networking at 6:00pm followed by dinner and the presentation for an hour. Meeting normally ends by 9:00pm.
Additional Information
Must use your phone or equipment to pay by credit card the day of the event. Can pay with Cash or Check also at the door.
Register online before January12, 2018 to get $2 early bird discount.
| Event Date | 01-17-2018 6:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 01-17-2018 9:00 pm |
| Registration Start Date | 12-11-2017 |
| Cut off date | 01-16-2018 11:00 pm |
| Individual Price | Non-Member Price |
THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER!!!
PMI Baltimore Site - Frederick Dinner Meeting*
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This educational event qualifies for 1.00 PDU within the PMI Talent Triangle - Strategic and Business Management
The Trusted Advisor
Being a subject matter expert is merely the beginning in the evolution of any business relationship, while the role of “Trusted Advisor” is the ‘pinnacle.’ Being a “Trusted Advisor” is a critical skill and goal for many of us who work with management or provide services to our clients. Are you a trusted advisor? What are the characteristics of a true “Trusted Advisor” and the benefits? This session will answer those questions and more. We will look at how to effectively build a relationship with internal and external customers, the dynamics of trust and how to earn it, and effective ways to provide advice.
Specific tips and techniques will be discussed and will enable you to:
- Get your clients or management to seek out and initiate a discussion with you
- Lead people to look at issues differently
- Help clarify the true issues
- Improve your listening skills
- Ensure those who have confidence in you commit to solving issues
This is an informative discussion based on the practical application of many of the techniques highlighted in The Trusted Advisor, by David H. Maister, Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford.
Skip Reindollar is a Principal Information Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation. He serves as the technical advisor to the Department of Homeland Security’s major biometric systems, IDENT and a new replacement system under development, HART. The biometric identification services are used to enhance border security, enforce immigration laws, and for law enforcement. These projects include biometric identification services using fingerprints, iris, and face images, execution of system engineering for the new system, and cyber resilience activities. In addition to his work in the Government sector, he has 16 years experience in commercial industry integrating technology in the finance, healthcare and telecommunications sectors. He spent six years in the Marine Corps as a pilot and holds a degree in meteorology from the University of Wisconsin.
MEETING LOCATION:
Dutch's Daughter, 581 Himes Avenue, Frederick, Maryland, 21703
AGENDA:
Meeting starts with Networking at 6:00pm followed by dinner and the presentation for an hour. Meeting normally ends by 9:00pm.
Additional Information
Must use your phone or equipment to pay by credit card the day of the event. Can pay with Cash or Check also at the door.
| Event Date | 03-21-2018 6:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 03-21-2018 9:00 pm |
| Registration Start Date | 01-29-2018 |
| Cut off date | 03-20-2018 11:00 pm |
| Individual Price | ($41 Non-Member Price; $37 Member) |
Frederick Site Dinner - Influencing Without Authority in Project Management: Having Your Voice Heard
PMI Baltimore Chapter - Frederick Dinner Meeting*
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This educational event qualifies for 1.00 PDU within the PMI Talent Triangle - Leadership
Influencing Without Authority in Project Management: Having Your Voice Heard
Presenter:
Barbara van der Schalie
Clinical Training Manager at Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. serving the Division of Clinical Research (DCR) of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), in a Learning and Professional Development role
New MEETING LOCATION:
Dutch's Daughter, 581 Himes Avenue, Frederick, Maryland, 21703
AGENDA:
Meeting starts with Networking at 6:00pm followed by dinner and the presentation for an hour. Meeting normally ends by 9:00pm.
Additional Information
Must use your phone or equipment to pay by credit card the day of the event. Can pay with Cash or Check also at the door.
Register online before September 15, 2017 to get $2 early bird discount.
| Event Date | 09-20-2017 6:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 09-20-2017 9:00 pm |
| Registration Start Date | 08-11-2017 |
| Cut off date | 09-19-2017 11:00 pm |
| Individual Price | Non-Member Price |
PMI Baltimore Site - Frederick Dinner Meeting*
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This educational event qualifies for 1.00 PDU within the PMI Talent Triangle - Strategic and Business Management
RAISING THE BAR...MAKING YOURSELF SOMETHING MORE
We all seek opportunities to be one step better than we are and to have a greater understanding of the opportunities around us. No matter what arena we look at in our lives, there's always an opportunity to "Raise the Bar". In this hands-on, interactive dinner presentation, Carl Pritchard, PMP, PMI-RMP, suggest ways that we can take our current state of affairs and "raise the bar" by tackling new channges and creating a new world around us. He'll outline specific aspects of our lives that we can examine and point to tricks that open doors that otherwise tend to stay shut. You'll walk out with at least one strategy or tactic to create new avenues for self-improvement.
One of the Frederick PMI site's "founding fathers", Carl Pritchard is a certified PMP, PMI-RMP and author of seven texts in project management. A regular feature on the PMI SeminarsWorld global lecture circuit, Carl serves as the U.S. Correspondent for the U.K. project management magazine, Project Manager Today. He sits on the board of directors for ProjectConnections.com, and recently completed the updated Audio PMP Prep: Conversations on Passing the PMP Exam, with his new partner, Bruce Falk. He's a resident of Frederick, MD, where he lives happily ever after with his lovely wife, Nancy.
MEETING LOCATION:
Dutch's Daughter, 581 Himes Avenue, Frederick, Maryland, 21703
AGENDA:
Meeting starts with Networking at 6:00pm followed by dinner and the presentation for an hour. Meeting normally ends by 9:00pm.
Additional Information
Must use your phone or equipment to pay by credit card the day of the event. Can pay with Cash or Check also at the door.
| Event Date | 05-16-2018 6:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 05-16-2018 9:00 pm |
| Registration Start Date | 04-24-2018 |
| Cut off date | 05-14-2018 11:00 pm |
| Individual Price | ($42 Non-Member Price; $37 Member) |
PMI Baltimore Site - Frederick Dinner Meeting*
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This educational event qualifies for 1.00 PDU within the PMI Talent Triangle - Strategic and Business Management
Employee Perception of Organizational Fitness
This final class project explored, through a survey and follow-on analysis, whether there is a relationship between organizational fitness and employee performance; and also examined whether an employee's views of organizational fitness can signal any specific organizational health issues. In order to find answers to these questions, the team developed a survey questionnaire to gain employee feedback on organizational attributes of leadership, communication, culture, and performance. The carefully selected questions provided some insights into these attributes. The team categorized the communication-based questions by top down, bottom up, and lateral communication. The leadership questions focused on employee involvement, leading by example, and growth opportunities within the organization. Cultural questions focused on embracing change and work/life balance, and the performance questions focused on recognition, measurement, and goals. The team concluded that employees view the organizational fitness areas of leadership, communication, and culture as relevant influencing factors on their performance. In addition, employee perception of organizational leadership was found to be a major determining factor of employee performance.
Presenters:
John Naylor, MBA: John works for a small company as a software engineering contractor for the federal government. He was born and raised in Haymarket, Virginia, and attended Mount St. Mary's University as an undergraduate. He graduated in 2015, with a BS in Information Systems. After graduation, he moved to Maryland full-time so he could be closer to work. John returned to Mount St. Mary's in 2016 to pursue a Master's in Business Administration, which he earned along with a certificate in Project Management, in 2017. He recently moved back home to Virginia, where he continues to work as a government contractor. He hopes to get his PMP and transition to a more management-oriented role. In his spare time, John enjoys spending time with his family and attending baseball games.
Travis Hersey, MBA: Travis is an information technology consultant specializing in Oracle Financials and the integration of Oracle Applications. His journey in IT started in 1992 when he left his small town in Pennsylvania for the U.S. Air Force where he served as a computer programmer until 2002. During that time, Travis earned an undergraduate degree in computer science and refined his skills in Oracle database administration, application development, and UNIX systems. In 2002, he entered the world of federal contracting to support various agencies with the implementation of Oracle Financials and Human Resource systems. Recently, his journey has taken him to the cloud, as the role of the database administrator has started to evolve into a data facilitator and solutions architect, bridging on-premise and cloud-based systems. Travis completed his MBA in 2018 at Mount St. Mary’s University with concentration in project management. He currently lives in Urbana, MD with his wife of 22 years and two children.
Srinivas Kola, MBA: Sri has been working for more than 20 years in the software industry with extensive experience in Software Quality and Test Automation with client/server, mainframe, web, mobile and embedded applications. He has been working on various projects collaboratively to lead onsite and offshore teams. His skill set is supported by a strong academic background, with a Master's in Engineering and an MBA with concentration in Project Management from Mount St. Mary’s University. He has several certifications, including Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) from American Society for Quality and Certified Software Test Engineer from Quality Assurance Institute (QAI).
MEETING LOCATION:
Dutch's Daughter, 581 Himes Avenue, Frederick, Maryland, 21703
AGENDA:
Meeting starts with Networking at 6:00pm followed by dinner and the presentation for an hour. Meeting normally ends by 9:00pm.
Additional Information
Must use your phone or equipment to pay by credit card the day of the event. Can pay with Cash or Check also at the door.
| Event Date | 07-18-2018 6:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 07-18-2018 9:00 pm |
| Registration Start Date | 06-10-2018 |
| Cut off date | 07-13-2018 11:00 pm |
| Individual Price | ($42 Non-Member Price; $37 Member) |
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