Professional Development Conference

May 8-9, 2014

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A special thank you to our 2014 Platinum and

Silver conference sponsors!

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Welcome Members and Guests!!

I am excited that you have chosen to be a part of this year’s Profes-

sional Development Conference. I am sure that you will find new

skills, knowledge, and insights that will help you grow in your career

or in your personal life.

Several years ago, I attended my first Professional Development Day. It was smaller

then, only 1 day, but I learned a lot and came back for more the next year. I began

to look forward every year to the conference and seeing a different aspect of the

project management profession that I hadn't known before. One year I learned

about MS Project. The next year I saw the most amazing presentation on Agile pro-

ject management! I hadn’t know that these things existed. It was very exciting.

Soon I started volunteering with the chapter and getting to know people. I found

that my fellow volunteers were people that thought and worked like I did. I love

the camaraderie and shared purpose.

The PDC has been a great resource for me in developing my skills, creating lasting

relationships, and showing that I take my profession seriously. I hope you have a

similar experience as you attend the conference these 2 days. Look for new ideas,

meet great people, and develop yourself. I hope you come back again and again to

continue to grow and learn.

Thank you for being here and being a part of our chapter.

Adam Tidwell, PMP

President, PMI Northern Utah Chapter

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A special thank you to our 2014 Professional

Development Conference sponsors!

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2013-14 PMI Northern Utah Chapter Board Members

Adam Tidwell

President

Stephanie Schmid

Secretary

Terri Gee

VP Outreach

Jeff Howcroft

VP Education

Amy Allred

VP Finance

Hala Saleh

VP Marketing

Jessica Tidwell

VP Membership

Cindy Lake

VP Operations

Patti Peterson

VP Programs

Sam Alldredge

Event Manager

Jeffrey van Brunt

Webmaster

Randall Smith

Past President

Liz Price

Volunteers

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Keynote Speakers Mike Weber

Mike Weber grew up in the Midwest and earned his Bachelor’s degree at Cornell University while selling books door-to-door with Southwestern Advantage. He then enjoyed success as a sales rep for Great Ameri-can Opportunities – Southwestern’s national fundrais-ing company that helps kids raise millions of dollars for educational and community organizations that are

changing lives.

In 1993, he founded Southwestern Leadership Institute with a focus on equipping people with the skills and attitudes needed to excel in today’s dynamic world. For the past 20 years, Mike has been motivating and inspiring people from Maine to California to break out of restrictive patterns of thought and behavior and open themselves up to achieve greater success in whatever their field. Past clients in-clude CPA firms, non-profits, universities, independent schools, medical group man-agers and human resource associations.

An engaging and energetic trainer and speaker, Mike works with professionals to improve their performance by first helping them recognize and then challenge patterns and assumptions that may be holding them back from all they could ac-complish and enjoy.

Mike lives in New Hampshire, is married to Jane, the love of his life for more than 30 years and has two adult sons, Kurt and Eric as well as a wonderful new daughter-in-law, Jessica. He’s coached soccer, run cross country, climbed snow-covered mountains and driven the chase vehicle for a hot air balloon team. Along the way, almost nothing has stayed the same. One constant in life is that to succeed and thrive, we must grow and change. And one of Mike’s consistent messages is that although change is rarely easy, it can be immensely profitable!

Mark Layton

Mark C. Layton, known globally as Mr. Agile®, is an organiza-tional strategist and PMI certification instructor with over 20 years in the project/program management field. He is the Los Angeles chair for the Agile Leadership Network and is the founder of Platinum Edge, Inc.—an organizational improve-ment company that supports businesses making the Waterfall-to-Agile transition.

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Keynote Speakers Prior to founding Platinum Edge in 2001, Mark developed his expertise as a con-sulting firm executive, program management coach, and in-the-trenches project leader. He also spent 11 years as a Cryptographic Specialist for the US Air Force, where he earned both Commendation and Achievement medals for his accom-plishments.

Mark holds MBAs from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the National University of Singapore; a B.Sc. (summa cum laude) in Behavioral Science from University of La Verne; and an A.S. in Electronic Systems from the Air Force’s Air College. He is also a Distinguished Graduate of the Air Force’s Leadership School, a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), and a recipient of Stanford University’s advanced project management certifica-tion (SCPM).

Mark is the author of Wiley & Sons “Agile Project Management for Dummies” se-ries and is a frequent speaker on Lean, Scrum, XP and other agile solutions.

Brian Rabon

Brian M. Rabon, CST, PMP is an IT professional with over 17 years of industry experience. Brian holds a Bachelor's De-gree in Computer Science from Auburn University and a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universi-ty of Alabama at Birmingham’s Information Engineering and Management program.

Brian is President of The Braintrust Consulting Group, a worldwide leader in Agile transformations. Through

practical, hands-on training and enterprise and team coaching, Brian helps his cli-ents learn, plan, and implement Agile processes, such as Scrum and Kanban. His goal is to teach his clients how to increase predictability of delivery, decrease time-to-market, and improve overall client satisfaction.

In addition, Brian loves teaching and is an Adjunct Instructor at University of Ala-bama at Birmingham where he leads clients of the Information Engineering and Management Master’s Degree Program on an exciting journey through the world of Business Process Modeling and Technical Project Management.

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Keynote Speakers When not in the classroom, Brian can be found around the globe evangelizing the benefits of Agile to the likes of Agile 20XX, the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) many chapters, and the Scrum Alliance’s Scrum Gatherings. Brian is an avid blogger, writing for his company’s blog at http://www.braintrustgroup.com/blog. Brian is a founding member of Agile Birmingham and a past board member of PMI Birmingham and TechBirmingham.

Feel free to contact Brian by calling him at 205.329.3794, e-mailing him at bri-an.rabon@braintrustgroup.com, dropping him a tweet @braintrustgroup, or join him on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/bmrabon.

Rory Vaden

Award-winning business leader Rory Vaden MBA is the Co-founder of Southwestern Consulting™, a multi-million dol-lar global consulting practice that helps clients in more than 14 countries drive educated decisions with relevant data. He’s also the Founder of The Center for the Study of Self-Discipline (CSSD) and as a "Self-Discipline Strategist", his book Take the Stairs is a #1 Wall St Journal, #1 USA To-day, and #2 New York Times bestseller.

Rory is the world’s thought-leader on modern day procrastination, called Priority Dilution™ - in fact, he coined the term. He speaks and consults on how to say no to the things that don’t matter, and yes to the things that do. His client list in-cludes companies and groups like: Cargill, The Million Dollar Roundtable, P&G, True Value, YPO, Wells Fargo Advisors, Land O’Lakes, Novartis, and hundreds more. His insights have recently been featured on/in: Fox News, CNN, Wall St Journal, Fast Company, Inc, Fortune, Wall St Journal and the New York Times; he is a regular contributor for American Express Open Forum, Huffington Post, and The Tennessean; and his articles and insights average more than 1 million views every month. Additionally, he hosts The Rory Vaden Show which is the only nationally syndicated weekly radio show for “movers and shakers in the world of business™”

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Speakers

Anthony Reed

Anthony Reed, CPA, PMP has over 25 years in project management and executive positions. His area of expertise is implementing multi-million dollar, international business applications. The business, IT, travel, and sports publications which have featured him include the PMI Today, Dallas Morning News, Runner’s World, Ebony, Southern Living, and the Journal of Accountancy.

He holds two graduate (management and accounting) and two undergraduate de-grees (management and mathematics). He’s taught project management, IT, ac-counting, and business college courses and seminars. And he’s authored five books and over fifty business and technical articles, including over ten in ComputerWorld.

His latest book is Running to Leadership: What Finishing 100+ Marathons On All Seven Continents Teaches Us About Success. This certified running coach is one of about fifty people in the world, who completed the marathon “hat trick.” He fin-ished over (1) 100 marathons on (2) all seven continents, including Antarctica, and (3) in all 50 States.

Anthony shows how he fuses marathon risk taking and endurance with project management strategies to motivate global teams through difficult projects.

Britt Creer

Britt Creer started his career in Project Management in Southern Utah in the Commercial Construction business; you can see his efforts from Parowan to Mesquite in the form of office buildings, strip malls and gas stations. In the early 2000’s Britt began con-sulting on large scale projects in the Government arena, with cli-ents such as Los Alamos National Lab, International Space Station and Department of Defense. In 2006, a move to Director of Pro-

ject Services brought him to the Nuclear and Energy sectors with Salt Lake City based Energy Solutions, and for the past 3 years back to the Consulting realm and a focus on Oil, Gas and Mining Owner companies and their Project Management challenges.

Chase McMillian

As manager of research and development at VitalSmarts, Chase has been instrumental in conducting, writing, and distributing Vi-talSmarts cutting-edge research studies on the role crucial conversa-tions play in healthcare, workplace safety, and education.

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Speakers Chase has worked extensively with the authors and founders of VitalSmarts to de-velop the company’s intellectual property. He has also assisted the company’s prod-uct development team to enhance their current award-winning training programs and develop their latest training products: Influencer Training® and Change Any-thing™ Training.

In addition to working with VitalSmarts, Chase has consulted on training process design and implemen-tation for clients around the world, including the Academy for Creating Enterprise in the Philippines, the Yehu Microfinance Bank in Kenya, and the Wasatch Adventure Consultants in the United States.

Chase received his bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University, where he was the president of the BYU Best Buddies program—a mentoring program for people with intellectual disabilities.

Chris Garner

Chris is a Business Analyst for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. While earning a Master of Sci-ence degree in Mental Health Counseling, Chris realized the skill-set required of an effective business analyst is very similar to the skill set of an effective therapist. The unique combination of busi-

ness and counseling experience Chris possesses has greatly improved his proficiency as an analyst. Chris is a founding member of the Salt Lake City Chapter of IIBA and currently serves as its president. Chris has presented at Professional Development Days in Utah and Iowa. He also presented in 2013 at the Building Business Capabili-ties Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. You can contact him by email at chris.garner@gmail.com or follow him on twitter @The_SLC_BA.

Doug Nufer

Doug is a results-focused project manager with a quarter century track record of leading multi-faceted, globally-dispersed teams to successful project completion. He has demonstrated expertise in process analysis and establishment, team dynamics, role creation, project planning and execution. He has a wide range of project management experience covering flagship Engineering projects, Marketing product launches, Corporate-wide initiatives, and spe-

cial events. He enjoys sharing best practices and lessons learned and is the author of multiple project management documents, templates, tools, and presentations.

Doug made a career of stepping in and bringing back on track projects that were either failing, significant to the company’s bottom line, or both. He has a passion for improving product development through streamlining processes and encourag-

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Speakers ing team members to better coordinate and communicate with each other. He remains eager to learn new methodologies, solve problems, and encourage team-work which led him to become the program director for onTrack Project Services which hosts seminars on mastering Project Leadership by emphasizing the soft skills project managers need in order to be successful, and then applying those skills to specific project management tools.

Doug has a BA in International Relations an MBA, and has PMP and CSM certifica-tions.

Emily Hoffman, M.D.

Emily has built her career on a strong educational foundation. She received a Medical Doctorate degree from the University of Utah and a Masters of Business Administration from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.

A business results expert, Emily has consulted and trained with non profit, start-up ventures, and major national corporations

such as Eli Lily and The Chicago Board of Trade. Additionally, Emily has taught finance courses at Brigham Young University and trained corporate clients in Cru-cial Conversations.

At Eli Lily, Emily helped the organization undergo a major change management strategy initiative. Working in human resources, Emily’s involvement included quantifying organization-wide work needs, identifying information sources, gath-ering and analyzing data, and conducting focus groups and employee surveys.

With a doctorate degree and professional experience in the medical field, Emily consults and trains leading healthcare institutions including UMass Memorial Health Care, Endo Pharmaceuticals, the National Library of Medicine, and the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN).

At UMass Memorial Health Care, Emily helped executives overcome bottlenecks affecting the productivity of the management team. At AACN, Emily helped facili-tate the Healthy Work Environments Through Crucial Conversations Training pro-gram, a course developed specifically to help nurses improve the safety of the healthcare industry using the skills and principles of Crucial Conversations.

Emily has also facilitated Crucial Conversations Training to healthcare organiza-tions and written and produced more than 200 consumer health information pieces for the National Library of Medicine.

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Speakers In her current role, Emily works at VitalSmarts as the vice president of development and delivery. A gifted teacher, Emily has taught both business and nursing courses and is praised for her energy and vitality. Her training style engages audiences and encourages participants to learn and adopt valued skills.

In her role as a Senior Master Certified Trainer for Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, Influencer Training, and Change Anything Training, Emily trains and certifies employees, managers, and trainers from Fortune 500 companies across the nation.

Ginger Levin

Dr. Ginger Levin is a PMP®, PgMP® (second in the world), and a Cer-tified OPM3 Professional and is a member of PMI’s Registered Con-sulting Program. Her consulting areas are: maturity assessments, portfolio and program management, knowledge management, the PMO and metrics. While working full time, she attained her three degrees and received her doctoral degree from The George Wash-ington University and the Outstanding Dissertation Award. She also received a Master of Science in Business Administration from GWU

and a BBA from Wake Forest University. She began her career in the railroad in-dustry and joined the US Government after graduating from Wake Forest. She was a senior staff member in the Federal Aviation Administration’s first ever agency-wide PMO before work in consulting and training. She then left the Federal Gov-ernment to work in consulting. She teaches at three universities in masters or doc-toral program in project management. She has edited, authored, or co-authored 18 books in the project management field. She regularly presents at PMI Chapters and Global Congresses and is an active volunteer with PMI, stays abreast with stra-tegic project management and experiments with new methodologies.

Hala Saleh

Hala Saleh, CSM, CSP, PMP is a Director of Product and Project Man-agement and an agile coach/consultant.

Over the past dozen or so years, Hala has gone from writing software to working with and managing projects and teams who are better at writing the software than she is. She has been in roles ranging from Quality Assurance Engineer to Developer to Program/Project Manager to Agile Coach and currently, Product and Project Manager.

Hala is a startup and tech junkie who loves helping people and teams find their awesome.

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Speakers Hala serves on the Board of Directors for the Northern Utah chapter of the Project Management Institute, where she does Marketing (i.e. spends a lot of time on Fa-cebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn).

Hala's hobbies include crazy and weird-looking exercise routines, grinding her own coffee, and trying to pretend she knows anything about gaming.

Ian McCracken

Ian McCracken, President and Owner of ‘PRI’ and Co-Founder and Executive Director of ‘Building Youth Around the World’, has numer-ous years of expertise in the area of recruitment, consulting and hu-man resources. Through his career, Ian has worked for top Global For-tune 500 and Regional Companies to include Praxair, Hexcel and Inter-mountain Healthcare. Before forming PRI, Ian served in many corpo-rate capacities to include Vice President of Recruiting, International Project Manager and Regional Human Resources Manager.

In the early years, Ian obtained an MBA (1998), a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology (1996) and PHR certification. Now he recruits and consults throughout the U.S. and overseas for varied clientele. Additionally, for the past nine years, Ian has been asked to speak and present his wisdom and knowledge in a variety of business and motivational forums throughout the U.S.

Ian started his first company, PRI, in early 2004 (www.prorecruitingint.com). In 2005 he formed a consulting division within PRI and also started in 2009 a 501(c)3 global charitable foundation called ‘Building Youth Around the World’ which assists underprivileged children in the United States and in 3rd world countries. The foun-dation website can be found at www.buildyouth.org.

Ian has been married for over 21 years and has three beautiful children. He was born in Manila, Philippines and has lived in or visited over 25 countries and nearly every State in the U.S. He speaks fluent French and has 7 siblings including identi-cal triplet sisters. Ian and his son are avid scuba divers and most particularly enjoy wreck diving.

Ian is known for his integrity and wisdom and brings a fun and unique presentation style and perspective to his clients.

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Speakers Jack Neeway

Jack Neeway, president of Expert Leadership Development, has been managing for over 25 years. He now uses the skills learned in the overseeing of a $35M business to train and coach leaders and managers in businesses across Northern Utah.

Expert Leadership Development is an authorized licensee of Crestcom International, the fastest growing training concept in the world. Crestcom specializes in bottom line improvement

through a curriculum based training system, with video content featuring some of the world’s foremost authorities in business and leadership during live facilitated work sessions. Typically Crestcom clients average a return on investment of over 650%!

James Buchanan

James Buchanan is a Scrum Master, Agile Coach and Leadership Coach at ProKarma, a global IT solutions company that provides enterprise solutions, custom application development and IT infra-structure services to more than 150 companies worldwide. While he has a background in engineering and hard science, he is the rare right brain leader, focusing on the human element of teams and organizations for over 15 years. His focus is on using training and

coaching of leadership to allow cultural transformations within companies to drive Agile and cultural change. He has been an Agile project manager, leadership train-er, and leadership coach for more than 12 years. He also works as a Life coach, mo-tivational speaker, and works with people in finding their joy in their work and lives. @agilehippie

Jesse Fewell

Jesse Fewell is a writer, coach, and trainer in innovation and agile methods. In addition to speaking for Agile, Scrum, and PMI confer-ences, he has helped teams across the world deliver products fast-er with higher quality. A leader in the advancement of manage-ment practices, he founded the PMI Agile Community of Practice, co-created the PMI-ACP® agile certification, and co-authored the Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide®. A graduate of Johns

Hopkins University, he is the world’s only certified Project Management Profession-al® (PMP) to also hold the expert-level agile designations of Certified Scrum Train-er® (CST), and Innovation Games® Qualified Instructor (IGQI).

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Speakers Jimi Fosdick

Jimi Fosdick is a Certified Scrum Trainer who has been working in product development since 1995 including such diverse indus-tries as publishing, software, advertising, and the public sector. Jimi has spent the last 10 years advocating agile approaches to project management: first in various development and manage-ment roles and, later, as an independent agile and Scrum con-sultant. Jimi has worked with numerous organizations wishing to

transition to an agile approach using Scrum. Currently he teaches Certified Scrum-Master and Product Owner courses and coaches companies and their manage-ment all over the globe. Fosdick is a PMI-certified Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) and PMP and received his MBA in project management from Keller Graduate School in Chicago and, as an undergraduate, studied mathematics and computer science at Loyola University Chicago. He currently lives outside Portland, Oregon with his children, Jaz and Sophie.

John Lee

John Lee is the president of Alpha Quality Consulting and his online training company Alpha Training and Consulting. John has a Bache-lor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a Master’s degree in Business Administration. John is considered an expert on organiza-tional transformation and how to create quality as an organization’s competitive advantage. John is the author of the book “Rising above It All”, which is a book on the art and science of organization-al transformation.

John lectures as an adjunct faculty member for many universities and colleges around the world which include Weber State University, University of Utah, Utah Valley University, Davis Applied Technology College, Ogden Weber Applied Tech-nology College, Jabil University and Salt Lake Community College. John is also a guest lecturer at Park and Webster Universities.

John has worked as a consultant for over 150 corporate clients located around the globe. This list can be viewed by going to https://www.alphatc.com/Clients.aspx. John Lee serves as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt for many of his cli-ents.

John is known for his ability to inspire organizations to reach levels of performance once considered impossible. Ultimately John teaches his clients how to make work both fun and effective again.

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Katie Mehnert

Katie Mehnert, PMP (@KatieMehnert) is a game changing super connector and rising GenX leader at BP. Her biggest project is helping the executive team with people initiatives post Gulf of Mexico spill. She’s also a wife and mom to a pre-cocious 3 year old PMP in the making, runs marathons and authors a daily blog: Life’s a Marathon @ www.katiemehnert.com

Ken Whitaker

Ken Whitaker of Leading Software Maniacs® (LSM) has more than twenty-five years of software development executive leadership and training experience in a variety of technology roles and industries. Ken is an active PMI® member, Project Management Professional (PMP)® certified, and a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM). Sources for LSM’s material come from

case studies, personal leadership experience, the PMI Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), and Ken’s project leadership books: Managing Soft-ware Maniacs, Principles of Software Development Leadership, and I’m Not God, I’m Just a Project Manager.

Ken is an innovator in instructional design and putting on workshops and is the cre-ator of http://www.pmuniversity.com and http://www.pmchalkboard.com—the fastest way to learn basic project management principles with entertaining, no-fee tutorial videos. Ken also is the editor for Better Software magazine and a frequent guest writer for http://www.projectmanagement.com.

Kevin Ciccotti

Kevin Ciccotti, CPCC, PCC, has been a student of peak perfor-mance and human behavior for more than 25 years. He was trained at The Coaches Training Institute, and with the Robbins-Madanes Center for Strategic Intervention, founded by world-renowned human performance experts Anthony Robbins and Psychotherapist Cloé Madanes. He is certified by the Internation-al Coach Federation, CTI, and the Robbins-Madanes Center, and

in 2012 was named President of the ICF Nevada Professional Coaches Association.

Kevin is an authority in helping project managers and leaders in organizations to build stronger, more sustainable relationships with their teams, helping them to drive engagement, increase productivity, and lead to greater overall success.

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Speakers He brings proven tools and strategies to help leaders understand people’s needs, and helps them use that knowledge to create deeper, more resonant connections. When combined with the tools of Emotional Intelligence, these strategies form the foundation for creating sustainable success.

Kevin Giddins

Kevin is a successful byproduct of the foster care system of New York City. He was reared in New Jersey with eleven brothers and sisters. Kevin’s educational background was focused on Interper-sonal Communication and Education in the Fine Arts.

Kevin graduated with a BFA from Ohio University and received his MA at Brigham Young University. He is a Certified Trainer for

FranklinCovey, Shipley Communication, and Owner/Partner at Sunlight Works.

Kevin has toured throughout the world entertaining audiences and is a highly sought after speaker/facilitator on subjects including: leadership, education, com-munications, change management, productivity, working relationships, life balance, customer service, diversity, and trust.

His audiences describe him as lively, concise, relevant, energetic, and very sensitive to each participant. Words that training participants have used to described him (In their own words): “He inspires”, “motivating and captivating”, “extremely engag-ing”, and “The best presenter ever…” to name a few. In addition to his professional pursuits, Kevin has spent much time and energy working as an Especially for Youth Speaker, working with The Boy Scouts of America, and as a community volunteer with Kids On The Move – Orem, Utah, (Executive Board Member).

The word he lives by: “Proactive – Bad things happen to good people, but suffering is a choice.” Kevin greatest joy is spending time with his wife, five children and friends.

Kevin Thompson

Kevin has a doctorate in Physics from Princeton University and ex-tensive background in managing software development projects. As Prime’s Agile Practice Lead, he specializes in training individuals, teams, and organizations in agile development. Dr. Thompson helps companies make the challenging transition to agile by working with development teams and business stakeholders to identify needs,

define business processes, determine and work through steps to implement pro-cess successfully. Kevin is heavily involved in the PMI of San Francisco.

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Speakers Lance Wyckoff

Throughout the years Lance has been a proven performer in a num-ber of capacities; a former decorated Police Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Territorial Sales Manager, Consultant, and Trainer. As a con-sultant and trainer he has had the opportunity to travel the world and share his experiences and assist companies and organizations in their growth and success. A consummate teacher and communi-

cator, he has always had a passion for helping others consider their possibilities and accomplish their aspirations. Leadership, Trust, Communication, Relationship and Team building, are a few of the principles he loves to teach. He has worked with Fortune 100 and 500 companies, federal and local government agencies and many non-profit and small businesses.

Married with four incredible children, Lance and his family now make their home in the Rocky Mountains. His admitted weakness is anything to do with the outdoors. Bass & fly fishing, hunting, boating, ATV exploring, and a little golf are among his favorite getaways.

Mehul Kapadia

Mehul Kapadia leads Agile PMO organization as Director of Project Management at Identifix. He has over 15 years of project/program management experience. He has lead Organizational and Team Level transformations to Agile. He has coached Executives, Teams and Individuals on Agile principles and rolled out SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). He has been instrumental in the execution of large scale, global enterprise software implementation and integration projects in industries ranging from Automotive to Consumer prod-

ucts. Mehul believes in continuous learning and continuous improvement. He has relentlessly pursued this passion to influence improvements in organizational effec-tiveness in the roles of internal change agent/coach as well as external consultant.

He has also served on Boards of PMI Northern Utah Chapter and APICS Salt Lake Chapter as volunteer. Mehul holds MBA from Brigham Young University and Bache-lor of Engineering from University of Mumbai. He also has following professional certifications to his credit.: Project Management Professional (PMP) and PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner) from PMI, SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) from Scaled Agile Academy, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from ScrumAlliance, certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM) and Lean Enterprise Series Instructor from APICS, and Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB) from ASQ

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Paul J. Fields, PhD

Dr. Fields is a coach, trainer and consultant in the areas of project man-agement and Lean Six Sigma. As a senior partner at Breakthrough Con-sulting Group, he is a practitioner and advocate of both traditional and Agile project management. He has conducted training in over 40 coun-tries around the world from Albania to Zimbabwe. He has managed projects ranging in size from $50,000 to $50,000,000 in both the private and public sectors and spanning the manufacturing, commercial and

services industries.

Reed Shell

Reed Shell is a 25 year Information Technology professional who has worked for Fortune 50 companies and small businesses. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP) who is active in the project management profession. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Communica-tion from Boise State University and a Masters of Arts in Organiza-tional Leadership from George Fox University. Reed has presented at the PMI North America Congress in 2012 and 2013.

Rick Brenner

Rick Brenner is principal of Chaco Canyon Consulting. He works with people in problem-solving organizations that make complex products that need state-of-the-art teamwork, and with organizations that want to create innovative products by building stronger relationships among their people. In 25 years as a software developer, project manager, software development manager, entrepreneur and con-sultant, he has developed valuable insights into the interactions be-tween people in the workplace environment, and between people

and the media in which they work.

Rick holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT. His current interests focus on personal and organizational effectiveness in abnormal situations, such as dramatic change, enterprise emergencies, and high-pressure project situations. His articles and weekly newsletter are available at his Web site, http://www.ChacoCanyon.com/.

Spencer Horn

With passion and enthusiasm, Spencer delivers powerful presentations on topics including How to Keep Your Workforce Motivated, Stop Surviving, Start Thriving and The Power of the 3%. Spencer also develops custom presentation for corpo-

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rate events. Previous speaking engagements include Rotary District Conferences, Boy Scouts of America, National Association of Women Business Owners, SCTE Leadership Conference; Cardinal Glass Inter-national; California Army National Guard.

Businesses across the country look to Spencer for counsel and advice on developing a productive, focused corporate cultures. Spencer is able to draw upon his 17 years of executive experience in perfor-

mance based leadership training, speaking, presenting, training, consulting, strate-gic planning, analysis, forecasting, sales, marketing, public relations and manage-ment.

Additionally, Spencer was vice president of a NASDAQ company that developed IMAX theaters in tourist destinations. There he worked with major organizations such as IMAX Corp., National Geographic Television, Radio City Productions, Disney Films and Larry Miller Theater's, Inc. Additionally he worked with a performance training company and his clients included the National Restaurant Association Edu-cation Foundation, Sodexho, Dunkin’ Brands, Wendy’s International and Brinker International.

After moving to Las Vegas in 2006 with his family to be the executive director of a children’s charity, Spencer was introduced to Rapport Leadership International. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Utah. Spencer has been married to his amazing wife, Jana, for more than 26 years. Together they have five beautiful children and two grandchil-dren.

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Agenda—Day 1 7:30 – 8:30 AM: Welcome and Chapter Business Location: MFEC 101 Auditorium

8:00 – 9:30 AM: Opening Keynote

Breaking the Unwritten Rules of Project Management

Mike Weber Location: MFEC 101 Auditorium

All social interactions take place according to rules, both written and unwritten. Unwritten rules are the habits, assumptions and attitudes of individuals and groups that define how they will interact with each other. They are the rules that every-body knows about, nobody talks about, but have the power to shape our behavior on a daily basis.

9:30 – 9:40 AM: Morning Break, Networking, Bookstore

9:40 – 11:30 AM: Session #1

Emotional Intelligence: Why You Need it, and Why it’s Imperative to Your Success as a PM

Kevin Ciccotti Location: MFEC 101 Auditorium

Each one of us is a unique creation. We all have different thoughts, feelings, de-sires, and goals. However, we also have many of the same patterns – including our habitual emotional patterns. We tend to operate in a reactive mode, merely inter-preting incoming information and events, relating them to our previous experienc-es, and then responding without really being aware of why or how we’re doing it. As leaders, we need to take conscious control of our emotions if we are to respond effectively to the situations and challenges we face.

In “Emotional Intelligence: Why You Need it, and Why it’s Imperative to Your Suc-cess as a PM,” Kevin investigates the latest research on emotional intelligence and offers methods for incorporating techniques that will allow project managers and leaders at all levels to become more aware of their own emotional patterns, and to create more resourceful and effective responses to the challenges of project man-agement.

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Innovation Games: Using Collaboration to Solve Business Problems

Jesse Fewell Location: KGMC 150

Sponsors and supervisors alike demand solutions to tough problems: How do we prioritize competing interests? How do we get clarity on needs? What are the hid-den opportunities we’re missing? But too often, our solutions don’t hit the mark, or don’t have the support to get traction.

In this high-energy session, you will learn the Innovation Games technique for real issues like these through collaboration. Founded in science and proven by industry, gamification has helped corporations and governments overcome hurdles that were considered insurmountable. Come learn the solutioning technique that will generate the insight, the buy-in, and the momentum that leaders are expected to make happen.

Parachute Project Management: Why Skydiving is Sometimes Better Than You Plan

Katie Mehnert Location: MPDC 209

Every project manager knows he/she needs a plan. But projects change. Don’t miss this dynamic and engaging presentation on risk management and project fail-ure. We’ll explore project and stakeholder risks, and practical examples of fail-ure. We’ll also talk about how you can expand your career by taking on high profile assignments.

Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change

Emily Hoffman Location: MFEC 203

Creating sustainable change is a constant struggle for organizations and individuals.

We often lack the skills to influence the behaviors behind issues like: failed initia-tives, short-lived change efforts, unproductive corporate cultures, entrenched bad habits.

Influencer draws on the best practices of many of the world’s leading change agents and on five decades of social-science research to create a powerful model for changing behavior.

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You’ll follow the experiences of influence masters who have succeeded in solving some of the world’s most profound problems. Examples ranging from major healthcare reform to reversals of destructive social behaviors to unprecedented corporate turnarounds will illustrate how a proven set of skills makes change not only achievable but sustainable.

Team Unification: All for One and One for All

Kevin Giddins Location: MPDC 226

There is teamwork in the traditional sense and then there is unity in vision, pur-pose and success. Come and spend a few hours learning how to take your team to the next level and engage each individual and leverage their full potential.

10,000 Miles Away: Developing with a Distributed Team

Kevin Thompson Location: MPDC 220

Many organizations confront the daily reality of having to coordinate the work of software developers and testers around the world. Coordination is challenging when people cannot work together directly, and it becomes more challenging when they work in very different time zones. The difficulty of distributed develop-ment is even more apparent in Agile processes, which rely on close and frequent communication between Team members. Failure to manage distributed develop-ment effectively leads to poor quality, missed deadlines, low morale, and burnout.

The problems of distributed development can be addressed through a combina-tion of practices, such as organizing Teams along geographical boundaries, desig-nating local proxies for ScrumMasters and Product Owners, and splitting key meetings in a variety of ways.

Retrospectives: How (and Why) to Not Hate Them

Hala Saleh Location: MFEC 223

“If you could adopt only one practice from agile methodologies, it should be retro-spectives.”, said Many Super Smart Experts.

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Retrospectives can inspire love, hate, and sometimes both, depending on who (and when) you ask.

In this session we will explore the reasons why retrospectives get such a bad rap, how to think differently about participating in retrospectives, and explore some different ways retrospectives can be run.

11:30 – 12:00 PM: Lunch, Networking

12:00 – 1:20 PM: Lunch Keynote

Racing in Reverse: The Quantitative Relationship Between Overtime, Defects, and Project Slippage

Mark Layton Location: KGMC 150 Conference Hall

Today, process failures and unchecked client demands are usually solved through a single solution- overtime. However, many studies have shown that overworking knowledge workers only contributes to schedule acceleration until the products produced are tested and introduced defects are exposed. Correction of these now embedded mistakes is often much more expensive than preventing the defect in the first place. This presentation discusses the quantification of this dynamic and suggests ways to truly accelerate project schedules in times of crisis.

1:20 – 1:30 PM: Networking/Bookstore

1:30 – 5:15 PM: Workshop #1

The Mystery Behind Metrics

Reed Shell Location: MPDC 209

Do you need better metrics to determine project or organizational performance? How do you understand, evaluate, predict and control data that can be trans-formed into information? In this presentation a review of what are metrics, a re-view of a ten step process for metrics and then a review of project management metrics for better project tracking and performance will be covered.

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Managing the People Piece of the Operation Puzzle

Spencer Horn Location: MFEC 203

We believe people are the heartbeat of your business. Our proven management system allows you to ignite the energy of your people resources-reducing conflicts and improving performance.

Motivate Right: understand individuality and what makes people tick, increase mo-rale, minimize stress, ignite purpose and productivity.

Team Right: create high performance teams and workgroups, understand and align team dynamics, strengthen communication, cooperation, and interaction.

Hire Right: Analyze critical job requirements, match people to jobs, increase reten-tion and job success, attract & hire the best

ProScan is a non-threatening, quick, easy and reliable survey tool that is one of the most advanced instruments available. Statistical research of working adults enables the powerful ProScan Survey to produce reliable results to accurately assess a per-son's basic and preferred work styles. The survey examines combinations of specific traits that affect how the person works most effectively and reacts under stress. ProScan focuses on strengths and motivators to help employers create an environ-ment that reduces employee stress while improving energy and morale.

ProScan reports measure: how a person functions most naturally, the role a person feels they need to play, how a person predictably comes across to others, energy resources, satisfaction index, stress levels, energy drain, decision-making style.

Rising Above it All: The art and science of organizational transformation

John Lee Location: MPDC 220

Presentation Abstract: The “Rising Above it All” lecture argues that the reason com-panies have such short life spans is because they do not understand how to effec-tively transform themselves. This lecture defines organizational transformation as “evolving to higher levels of sustained performance.” John Lee, the author of “Rising Above it All” has found that most companies are capable of evolving to a given level of performance, which he refers to as the 95 percent level. One of the problems in transformation is that the skill set needed to reach the 95 percent per-formance level is not the same skill set that is needed to rise above the 95 percent

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level of performance. Most organizations do not understand this phenomenon, and as a result companies will eventually go extinct as customer expectations rise above the 95 percent level performance levels.

Rising Above it All breaks organizational transformation into three sub transfor-mations: personal transformation, cultural transformation, tools transformation.

The author argues that most companies skip the personal and cultural transfor-mation and jump right into the tools transformation, which is the reason companies die at such a young age. The fundamental problem is that an organization must have a culture that supports modern-day analytical tools, including tools used in the planning process, or the tools will not effectively work within the borders of the organization.

Is Your PMO Adding to Business Value or Are Some Changes Needed?

Ginger Levin Location: MPDC 226

PMOs used to be rare in organizations or only set up for assistance to a very large and complex project or for an initiative, such as the Y2K. Now, many organizations have a PMO of some type, PMI has a Community of Practice on the PMO, and there is an Annual PMO of the Year Award. Of course, PMOs range in size, in their loca-tion in the organization, and in the functions they perform. And, some organiza-tions find that at a certain time, when established methodologies are in place or when a sufficient number of people have had training in project management that the PMO may no longer be needed or that some of its functions are reduced. The PMO must justify its value to the organization and enhance its functions so that it is the entity that is shaping organizational strategy and adding business value. This interactive seminar focuses on how best to do so and includes data from a report from a 2014 study of PMO Best Practices.

Dinosaurs and Divas: Project Management Trends Across the Generations

Katie Mehnery, PMP and Don James, PMP Location: MFEC 101 Auditorium

The PM profession has changed forever, or has it? You won’t want to miss this fas-cinating, fresh, and funny duo of GenX’er Katie Mehnert (Chix) and WWII War Baby Don James (T-Rex) as they spotlight the key trends and practices from their com-bined 60 years of experience in managing projects. They are an effective team – see for yourself!

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The Race to the South Pole: The Power of Agile Development

Rick Brenner Location: MFEC 101 Auditorium

In this program, we’ll explore one particular illustration of the power of the agile approach: the Race to the South Pole. By comparing these two expeditions, we’ll reach a deeper understanding of what makes agile processes so powerful. And we’ll do it in the interesting and novel context of the race to the South Pole.

In this program, we use the history of this event to explore important lessons about project management and product development.

Putting the Bounce in Bounce Back, Rewriting the Rules of Attitude

Mike Weber Location: KGMC 150

Good things happen. Bad things happen. Sometimes really bad things happen! Success in life isn’t dependent upon what does or doesn’t happen to you. Rather, it often hinges upon how you react to what happens to you.

Your attitude is a choice that you make every day. Your success or failure is just as much determined by your attitude as by your aptitude. How you think, your patterns of thought, your attitude, is the paintbrush that colors your world. At times, life may rot, but that doesn’t mean you have to stink up the place!

This session highlights individual and organizational strategies for “bouncing back” in the face of adversity. Six principles of attitude management and resilien-cy will be explored using stories, games and activities. Mike is no different from the rest of us. He’s struggled in school, been cut from the team, lost in love, dealt with death of a loved one, endured crippling ice storms and experienced great success through the application of these perspectives and habits.

It doesn’t matter the size of the problems. What’s important is responding to them in a deliberate, constructive manner. When challenges invade your life - and you know they will – you’ll know what to do.

The 5 Crucial Conversations for Flawless Project Management

Chase McMillan Location: KGMC 150

An organization’s success is determined by how well people execute on its high-stakes projects and initiatives. However, current execution trends are anything but promising. According to recent research:

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• Fewer than one in three critical initiatives will achieve intended goals, and almost half are deemed outright failures.

• 83 percent of employees say they are working on projects, programs, and initia-tives they believe will fail.

• Companies’ collective inability to execute on major projects costs hundreds of billions of dollars each year.

The good news is that these failures are predictable—and therefore, preventable. In the groundbreaking study, Silence Fails: The Five Crucial Conversations for Flawless Execution, VitalSmarts and The Concours Group found that project failures are al-most always preceded by conversation failures. Learn to step up to these five crucial conversations and improve results through better decision making, higher quality project execution, and more engaged leadership.

Multisite Agile: The friction and connection in human interaction

James F. Buchanan Location: MFEC 223

Multisite agile presents many logistical problems that have been addressed in many articles and presentations across the agile workspace. The harder element to ad-dress is the way the human cultural side of agile suffers in multisite, and how we as agile leaders and participants can create a true agile team and culture even if we sit across the world from each other. Agile is founded on human relationship, and lead-ership practices that build rather then break down human interaction.

Project Performance, Where are we and why

Britton Creer Location: MFEC 223

Showing output from a PM tool alone does not communicate performance, but the analysis that needs to be done and making tool decisions that can shorten the time to value and allow for proper communication throughout the org Attendees should learn an integrated approach to performance of a project allows for better visibility, shorter cycle to meaningful reporting, better output, allowing for better communica-tion of project performance for stakeholders and project participants

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Agenda—Day 2 7:30 – 8:00 AM: Welcome and Chapter Business Location: Auditorium

8:00 – 11:30 AM: Workshop #2

Trust and Team Building

Spencer Horn Location: MFEC 203

Teamwork is one of the most commonly used terms to be successful in today’s business world, yet if asked, most people have a slightly different definition of the term. Rapport presents a powerful process to define the term as a group and then see what happens when asked to perform with the definition the group identifies.

The Exceptional Project Manager; 5 Best Practices to Take Your Project Leadership from Ordinary to Extraordinary

Kevin Ciccotti Location: MFEC 101 Auditorium

What is the difference between an ordinary or average leader and an extraordinary one? What do they do differently that others either don’t know or don’t do? And, how can you as a Project Manager seeking to in-fluence your organization and create an environment of success, learn these strategies and take your own project leadership to the next level?

In "The Exceptional Project Manager; 5 Best Practices to Take Your Project Leadership from Ordinary to Extraor-dinary," you will learn some of the most powerful and effective meth-ods for growing your leadership edge and becoming an exceptional leader in your organization. Based on some of the most transformational practices in business and industry, and culled from studies of leaders who have truly made a significant difference in their organizations, these best practices are available to any leader at any level looking to make a real differ-

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ence, to be an agent of change, and to lead their teams and organizations to greater levels of success and fulfillment. The truly extraordinary leaders all have these things in common; and they are the ones who are willing to do what others won’t in order to achieve the results that the rest only wish they could.

Managing Difficult Projects and People

Anthony Reed Location: MPDC 220

Chances are great, that you worked on projects that went through the “perfect storm.” You faced re-source problems. Too little money was allocated. The money evaporated too quickly. Or the budget was cut for more important projects. Hard-ware was delivered late and there were problems with in-stalling the software. And you either didn’t have enough people, the right people weren’t available, and/or you experienced turnover of key people during the project. Furthermore, you faced the quagmire of an unmovable deadline and a movable scope. For the most part, we must manage projects during the perfect storm.

This presentation is based on over twenty-five years of first-hand, project manage-ment experiences. This includes fifteen years of upgrading and implementing cus-tom and packaged software, including ERP, HR, SCP, and manufacturing applica-tions, on high profile, multi-million dollar, and/or international projects. The pro-jects were for small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, quasi-governmental, and governmental agencies.

Project Managers Agile Boot Camp A Condensed Introduction to Transition to Ag-ile (Scrum) Project Management

Ken Whitaker Location: MFEC 223

You'll learn how to distinguish the characteristics between the PMBOK® Guide, tra-ditional waterfall, and agile (Scrum) approaches to project management. This work-shop provides the basic understanding of project management agility (specifically Scrum). Agenda topics include: is a new process methodology needed?, align to your company vision, introduction to Agile thinking, how the Scrum workflow really works, define project scope the first time, successfully transition to Agile organiza-tion.

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Procrastinate on Purpose: The 5 Permissions of Creating More Time

Rory Vaden Location: MPDC 209

The amount of poor information in the marketplace on productivity is mind-boggling. Over the last 20 years “experts” have been recycling antiquated ideas about how to maximize our time. Today’s knowledge worker however requires strategies that are far beyond tasks, calendars and checklists. It’s time that they understand why balance is bogus, most systems don’t solve problems, and why they should ignore their inbox!

After hearing this innovative and fresh program, you will:

* Understand the pervasive spread and impact of the most expensive cost in busi-ness today: priority dilution

* Implement practical strategies that help them manage the emotional elements of deciding how to spend their time

* Have a new paradigm of proper prioritization

* Truly know how to multiply their time

* Develop confidence in knowing what things to say “no” to

* Move from focusing on urgent tasks to zeroing in on relevant priorities

The Business Therapist: A Humanistic Approach to Business Analysis

Chris Garner Location: MPDC 209

Much like successful therapists help their clients discover and overcome break-downs in emotional and relationship processes, a successful business analyst helps business partners discover the business process breakdowns that hinder an organi-zation. While the content being analyzed by these two professions couldn't be more different, the practice of process discovery is very similar.

To successfully lead business partners to the outcome they desire, the business ana-lyst must resist the tendency to use technology to merely treat the symptoms of pain the business is feeling. True analysis requires sifting through the content and noise of what hurts to identify the root cause of the problem. Requirements built on the foundation of the root cause lead to lasting technical solutions that facilitate efficient processes.

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What you will learn:

* Content vs. Process: Learn to cut through the noise and hear what your business partner is really asking.

* Help your business partners identify root cause of process breakdowns.

* Master the art of the "5 Whys"

* Understand the importance of building relationships of trust with your business partners.

Agile Tools: Innovation Games and Estimation Games

Paul Fields, PhD Location: KGMC 150

“Planning for Value” is the key to success in Agile project management. In this two-part presentation, you will learn simple, engaging and fun – yet highly effective – tools to enhance your Agile team’s work process. Using these tools your team will be able to answer those all-important questions:

* What does the customer really want?

* What does the customer value most?

* What should we build next?

* What is the size of the work effort?

* What value will we deliver when we are done?

11:30 – 12:00 PM: Lunch, Networking

12:00 – 1:20 PM: Lunch Keynote

How to Use the Values and Principles of Agile to Live a Passionate, Purpose-filled Life

Brian Rabon Location: KGMC 150 Conference Hall

Do you find it can be a struggle waking up every day with energy and passion for what is to come? Do you find balancing your work, personal, and family “to-do list” to be a challenge? Do you yearn for work projects that consistently succeed and

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leave everyone feeling great? Agile is founded upon a set of 4 values and 12 princi-ples. These values and principles, when applied to how we live our lives, can help us accomplish amazing things. We can; find our passion, take control of our to-do list, and succeed with projects at work. This keynote address will explain how you can employ some simple techniques in order to live your own Agile life.

As a keynote attendee, I want to understand the role that passion plays in leading an Agile life, so that I can find or strengthen mine. As a keynote attendee, I want to demonstrate what Personal Kanban is, so that I can take back control of my per-sonal to-do list. As a keynote attendee, I want to learn Agile tools and techniques, so that I can be more successful with my work projects.

1:20 – 1:30 PM: Networking, Bookstore

1:30 – 2:30 PM Session #2

A Practical Means of Quantifying Project Risk

Doug Nufer Location: MPDC 209

All projects contain risk. Some are due to the nature of the product requirements, others are reflections of the team. While it is not possible to anticipate and miti-gate all risk beforehand, there are a number that can be identified early on in the planning process. Project managers should seek to systematically identify and mitigate risk wherever possible.

This session provides a walk-through of an intuitive tool that provides a practical means of quantifying and categorizing project risk. This methodology can help a project manager negotiate risk mitigation during the planning stage, and know where to focus attention throughout the execution stages. We will use a sample project as a case study for highlighting the simple power of this tool, and its ap-plicability to various types of project management projects and methodologies (e.g. Agile, Scrum, Waterfall).

The Politics of Meetings for People Who Hate Politics

Rick Brenner Location: MFEC 101 Auditorium

Suppose you’re preparing for a team meeting in about an hour. It’s your meeting, and you expect a difficult discussion, because a very polarizing issue must be decid-

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ed by the close of business today. As you’re puzzling through the problem of how to handle the mess, your boss phones to tell you that the VP of Marketing called her, and he wants to “sit in on this one.”

Are you confident that you can lead your team through such situations effectively? Running effective meetings involves a lot more than having the right room, the right equipment, and the right people. With meetings, the whole really is more than the sum of its parts. How the parts interact is as important as the parts them-selves. And those interactions are the essence of politics for meetings. This pro-gram explores techniques for leading meetings based on understanding political interactions, and using that knowledge to meet organizational goals.

Finding a New Job, Project Management Style – The Devil is in the Details

Ian McCracken Location: MFEC 223

Searching for and securing a good new job can be extremely challenging and, at times, dis-couraging. Approaching it with the right atti-tude and putting forth a focused, constant, and detailed effort is critical. Just applying online and hoping someone will come to you is how your competitors may search but not you! By searching in the right manner, you will be able to be logically selective in finding the job that best fits with your skill sets, inter-ests, salary level, and abilities.

Introduction to Enterprise Agile Frameworks

Mehul Kapadia Location: MPDC 220

Need for Enterprise Agility

*Agile practices have been adopted by organizations of all sizes.

(For medium to large enterprises, team level agile practices have been stretched with custom fit processes and practices as needed to fulfill the gaps in end to end delivery lifecycle.

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Agile@Scale

*Enterprise Agile Frameworks have emerged to address the challenge of replicating agile success at organization level.

We will review following frameworks:

*SAFe – Scaled Agile Framework

*DAD – Disciplined Agile Delivery

Attendees will leave this presentation with a clear understanding of current trends in organizational agility and will be able to take back the lessons learnt from speak-er’s experience of SAFe implementation.

Four Lenses: How we see the world

Lance Wyckoff Location: MFEC 203

(1:30—3:50 PM)

Course Description: Training in the 4 Lenses will help a team or organization identify and utilize the human factor to achieve greater success and in-creased productivity. Each one of us has our own unique personality and our own set of skills and talents. This course will address our differences, per-spectives and perceptions and increase our awareness and unify the group. 4 Lenses addresses the challenges of diversity and avoids the obvious and brings back the focus where it belongs, we are different and that is a good thing. The class is very enlightening and enjoyable.

Seven Steps to Effective Delegation

Jack Neeway Location: MPDC 209

(1:30—3:50 PM)

It’s been said that managers do things right, while leaders to the right things. If this is true, then the ability to delegate the right things to the right people has to be one of the most critical skills of leadership. To help us take the seven steps to effective delegation, we’ll hear from Bob Johnson.

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* Sharpen your skills in effective delegation.

* Keep team members focused on the end result

* Build trust, commitment, and confidence in team members

* Spend your time as a manager more productively.

2:40 – 3:50 PM: Session #3

Wrangling the Scope Beast

Britton Creer Location: MFEC 223

Wrangling the Scope Beast—how we can incorporate an integrated solution into managing scope through the technologies that are available, with emphasis on Change Management and Risk Management. Attendees should learn the benefits of Scope management through integrated Change management and the ability to manage risks earlier in the project for better understanding of the project poten-tial outcomes.

Are We Selecting the Right Programs and Projects or Are We Just Fishing?

Ginger Levin Location: MFEC 101 Auditorium

Often, organizational leaders focus on ensuring standard, repeatable processes are in place for programs and projects recognizing the value of standard method-ologies and having tools and techniques available to assist program and project managers and their teams in planning, executing, and monitoring and controlling activities.

However, regardless of the standardized approaches, it is essential to have a de-fined portfolio management process in place. Most organizations lack the re-sources to pursue all possible programs and projects, and many might be under way without a link to the organization’s strategic goals and objectives. Many may be “pet” projects that people are pursuing as they believe they are important to senior executives or are ones that they believe are the next breakthrough prod-uct.

It is time to ensure everyone recognizes the value of portfolio management and recognizes why it is essential to have a defined process in place to not only select programs and projects but to use this process to determine whether the selected

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programs and projects should still be continued on a regular basis and to realign the portfolio regularly. The emphasis is on ensuring that each program or project contributes to the overall organizational success and must continue to support business goals even if there are major changes in the environment.

Why Project Managers Must Change or Die

Jimi Fosdick Location: KGMC 150

Description: Project Management is a discipline in crisis. As more organizations adopt Agile management strategies, many Project Managers are finding themselves under attack. In this talk, noted Agilist Jimi Fosdick, describes how Project Manage-ment Professionals can stay relevant and what they must change to do so.

Seven Deadly Habits of Ineffective Project Managers

Ken Whitaker Location: MPDC 220

Presented as a series of case studies, these all-too-real situations can be difficult to know how to prevent and handle. Whether you are an experienced manager or just starting out in management, you'll take away valuable tips and techniques for avoiding software management deadly habits. Habit 1: Releasing a Product Before It is Ready Habit 2: Hiring Someone Who is Not Quite Qualified (but Who Everyone Likes) Habit 3: Making Every Decision a Consensus Decision Habit 4: Promising De-velopers Incentives Habit 5: Delegating Absolute Control to a Project Manager Hab-it 6: Taking Too Long to Negotiate Feature Sets and Schedules Habit 7: Ignoring a Process in Order to Release Quickly .

Although the title specifies “software” and the examples are primarily geared to-wards software development/IT, the lessons learned presented in a humorous fash-ion applies to anyone responsible for project delivery. In addition to every attendee receiving a full-color comix, they should learn at least one tip that they can put to immediate use.

3:50 – 4:00 PM: Afternoon Break, Networking, Bookstore

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Continuing Education Reporting PMI PDUs

You can receive one professional development until (PDU) for each hour spent

engaged in a professional development activity such as this conference.

Visit the PMI Continuing Education Requirements system at PMI.org to claim PDUs

for this event using PDU Codes:

Provider #: C105

Day 1 code: 05/08/2014 9 PDUs

Activity: Professional Development Conference (Day 1)

Day 2 code: 05/09/2014 9 PDUs

Activity: Professional Development Conference (Day 2)

4:00 – 5:15 PM: Closing Keynote

Project Managers Take The Stairs

Rory Vaden Location: MFEC 101 Auditorium

Success is different for each of us, but the path to get there has the same obstacles: fatigue, rejection, failure, distraction, burnout, complacency, and countless others. And yet there is one common characteristic and one universal trait that virtually every single successful person must have before accomplishing their goals: disci-pline - the discipline to do the things they don’t want to do. Self-discipline strategist and motivational speaker Rory Vaden shares key insights and erases common mis-conceptions about how to build lasting self-discipline. After hearing Rory’s hilarious and compelling speech, you will: - Disregard their fear and take immediate action. - Develop an awareness of their creative avoidance. - Stop making excuses and stop procrastinating. - Engage in happier, healthier, more productive lifestyles. - Quit looking for shortcuts and get back to work. - Adopt an overall results-oriented atti-tude of discipline. - Be more disciplined and Take the Stairs more often in the mall, the airport, and in life situations.

5:15 – 5:30: Closing Remarks, Raffle, Recognition

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A special thank you to our 2014 Platinum and

Silver conference sponsors!