PMI-NE INDIANA proudly announces its 2016 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY (PDD)

PROJECT MANAGEMENT:

OPPORTUNITYand RESPONSIBILITY

for the FUTURE!Thursday & Friday,

June 16 –17

2 DAY PDD EVENT:Up to 18 PDUs

CHOOSE EITHER DAY OR BOTH DAYS!

Registration – Now Open!• Seminar Bonus = 4-PDU online Agile course to pump up the total

PDUs to 10!

• PDD Bonus - a 20-page, $200 personal Leadership profile for FREE!!

Register for both days and get both Bonuses plus 18 PDUs

Register at www.gr8pm.com/pdd-ne-indiana-2016before it is too late!

THURSDAY – 4 Great SEMINARS

Accelerating to World-Class LeadershipThe Leadership Challenge for Technology Professionals!

SURVIVE OR THRIVE? The world just changed. What specific practices can you implement in the next six months so your own organization perceives you as a high performing Strategic Leader? Dream, Discover, and Explore your possibilities in this amazing class.

With limited time, money, and resources . . . you must accelerate the human resource! How do you optimize the talent of you and your people to accomplish twice as much? This participant driven session explores practical ways to accelerate individual and organizational leadership.

This highly interactive session uses Experiential Learning Techniques that will challenge your current mindset and prepare you to reach a higher level of performance. These experiences allow a lifetime long retention of the participant’s key learning that can be implemented immediately in their world.

Masters Course in Estimating & Risk Managementin the Agile World of the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition!

Nothing is more valuable to a professional PM than estimates that accurately reflect reality, motivate their fulfillment, and facilitate rigorous accountability! This class delivers concrete Estimating and Risk Management best practices from both Traditional and Agile approaches that are aligned to the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition! Remember, you must be able to apply key techniques while your team is developing their estimates in order to drive to success… not failure!This powerful experience gives you solid training in Estimating as a “Science” as well as Estimating as an “Art” with loads of practical information on:

• Methods that align with the PMBOK® Guide Sixth Edition! • Key Organizational Concepts Applied and Proven at Intel© Corp. and Siemens• Approaches that Systematically Align Results with Executive Objectives• Processes that Produce Reliable Estimates Despite High Complexity and Uncertainty• Using Derived Schedules to Automatically Correct Estimation Errors

During this unique, succinct seminar you will receive the keys for complete mastery of this enduring PM challenge. You will be immersed in hands-on interactive learning working with a cohort of other experienced professionals. When you finish you’ll be exhausted, and well equipped to return to work with a sharpened set of new tools and insights for improving project results!

Years of experience have shown that mastering the art and science of Estimating combined with Risk Management can help you avoid painful, tragic lessons... and accelerate your career! Don’t miss this interactive, comprehensive immersion experience.

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How to Get Executives to Act for Project SuccessBecoming a World-class Project Manager by Managing Up!

The simple, painful fact is that unless key stakeholders and executives act before it is too late project success is unlikely … and your career gets outsourced! The trap of being blamed for project failure because of inaction, or worse yet – counteraction, by key stakeholders and executives can be avoided.During this unique, succinct seminar you will receive the keys for unlocking executive inaction and motivating them to quickly contribute to project success. During this workshop you will see the research that explains why executives fail to form a strong mutual partnership with project managers. You will receive a research-based “Top 10 PM Actions” list to supercharge an action-bias in your key stakeholders and executives. And you will hear the “insider secrets” the Instructor used to drive projects to success at the CIA!

This powerful experience gives you solid training and practical information to:

• Understand the underlying reasons for executive inaction or counteraction.• Identify the actions your executive can take for your project success.• Recognize the barriers to executive action and project success.• Determine what you can do to get your executive to act for project success, and how to do it.

When you finish you will be well equipped to help your executives act for your project and career success.

Stop Playing Games:A Project Manager’s Guide to Successfully Navigating Organizational Politics!

Based on Rick’s new book “Stop Playing Games” this authoritative seminar teaches you how to identify the key issues of the day-to-day world of Project Managers and then exposes the unique, often overlooked shortcuts or workarounds for successfully dealing with projects, sponsors, and stakeholders! This seminar covers:

1. The State of our Profession 6. The Right Price (Project Management) 7. Hit the Rodent2. Finding Value in Project Management 8. Marco! Polo!3. The Pricing Game 9. Armchair Quarterback4. Guess the Truth! 10. Rules of the Game5. Grapevine 11. How to Win the Game

This seminar will bring to life true issues and fixes to help YOU avoid the games Project Managers are fre-quently forced to play. Rick will leverage his years of successful experience to show you how to get stronger, more process oriented… and receive the respect you deserve for the work you do! Rick will offer real world advice to help you implement techniques immediately to positively impact your projects, charge up your ability to influence without authority, stop “end runs” around your projects and get back to the basics of be-ing a professional Project Manager doing the right things the right way!

Don’t miss this amazing seminar. It will supercharge your future career results!

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Opportunity and Responsibility at the CoreOpportunity and Responsibility at the Core

Have you ever wondered how you’d manage projects in an environment where decisions routinely impact long-term quality-of-life issues for your stakeholders? Healthcare is a field where compassion, reality and human dignity often intersect … and directly impact your project’s chance of success!

Together, Ron Double and Dr. Mark Pierce will discuss the importance of executive ownership, leadership buy in, effective and agile governance, and team communication in project success. They will take us through their implementation journey in replacing their core patient management, care, and billing system and how using “creative adjustments” to standard project management processes made this transition successful, on time, and within budget.

From Opportunity to National RecognitionOvercoming Frustration and Distraction to Achieve Success!

Robert Paglia, serves as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Indiana Office of Technology (IOT)

With tight budgets and limited resources constraining your option how do you possibly deliver successful projects? With key stakeholders and technical experts lured by the excitement of the latest technology or tool how do you get them to see the impacts of their decisions on the organization? How do project leaders overcome these challenges despite the lack of clear metrics? Project managers are routinely faced with the dilemma of competing priorities, sponsors who are confused, and technicians who want to execute instead of plan. Robert Paglia, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Indiana Office of Technology, gets the problem, feels your pain and has insights to share with you!

Robert will accelerate your learning curve as he shares insight and vision refined the hot seat of delivering critical organization change…the core responsibility of every truly professional PM!

Have you ever wondered how you’d manage projects in an environment where decisions routinely impact long-term quality-of-life issues for your stakeholders? Healthcare is a field where compassion, reality and human dignity often intersect …

Together, executive ownership, leadership buy in, effective and agile governance, and team communication in project success. They will take us through their implementation journey in replacing their core patient management, care, and billing system and how using “creative adjustments” to standard project management processes made this transition successful, on time, and within budget.

Robert Paglia

With tight budgets and limited resources constraining your option how do you possibly deliver successful projects? With key stakeholders and technical experts lured by the excitement of the latest technology or tool how do you get them to see the impacts of their decisions on the organization? How do project leaders overcome these challenges despite the lack of clear metrics? Project managers are routinely faced with the dilemma of competing priorities, sponsors who are confused, and technicians who want to execute instead of plan. Robert Paglia, Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), Indiana Office of Technology, gets the problem, feels your pain and has insights to share with you!

Robert will accelerate your learning curve as he shares insight and vision refined the hot seat of delivering critical organization change…the core responsibility of every truly professional PM!

A N D Y C R O W E , C E O and founder of Velociteach, and author of A lpha Pro ject Managers: What the Top 2% Know that Everyone Else Does Not, and The PMP® Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try, and The PMI-ACP® Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try.

His books and resources have sold approximately 250,000 copies worldwide. Velociteach was recently recognized as one of the top 100 small businesses in the USA by the US Chamç.

ERICK BURTON is a Certified Speaking Professional – and certified to change the way you think about leadership! He turns listeners into leaders by delivering knowledge transfer that resonates with profes-sionals ready to take personal steps toward greater success.

You will see why being a leader starts with learning. Experience how to turn your ideas and insights into actions that overcome conventional thinking with next-generation wisdom that unifies your teams. Drill down on your leadership style and discover how to impact your teams and create a better, more inspiring project environment. Before it is over you will begin the transition to leadership thinking that will create growth in uncertain and unpredictable situations and open a seat at the “Power Table” for you as a “Person of Influence.”

A N D Y C R O W E , C E Ofounder of Velociteach, and author of Managers: What the Top 2% Know that Everyone Else Does Not,How to Pass on Your First Try, and How to Pass on Your First Try.

ERICK BURTONSpeaking Professional – certified to change the way you think about leadership!turns listeners into leaders by delivering knowledge transfer that resonates with profes-sionals ready to take personal steps toward greater success.

You will see why being a leader starts with learning.

Friday – 7 Amazing KEYNOTES INCLUDING:

RICK A. MORRIS, PMP, is an ITIL Practitioner, consultant, author, mentor, and evangelist for project management. Rick isan accomplished project manager and public speaker. His appetite for knowledge and passion for the profession makes him an internationally sought after speaker delivering keynote presentations

for large conferences and PMI events around the world. He holds the PMP (Project Management Professional), MPM (Masters of Project Management), OPM3, Six Sigma Green Belt, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, TQM, ATM-S, ITIL, ISO certifications, and recently became a John Maxwell Certified Speaker, Trainer, and Coach.

Rick is the Owner of R2 Consulting, LLC and has worked for organizations such as GE, Xerox, and CA and has over 100 implementations of Project and Portfolio Management systems including Clarity, Project Server, Planview, Primavera, Daptiv, and Workfront.

Rick books include The Everything Project Management Book, Project Management That Works! and most recently Stop Playing Games! He also hosts a weekly, live talk radio show, The Work/Life Balance, Fridays at 5 PM EST on the Voice America Business Network. Rick is also an active PMI member, PMI Leadership Institute Masters Class (LIMC) graduate and Mentor to the 2012 PMI LIMC.

Rick is no stranger to being center stage in front of large groups of people. At the early age of 11, Rick was a Walt Disney World Performer in their seasonal shows. In high school, he worked at MGM Studios on various projects including the New Mickey Mouse Club. Taking the experience of his youth and blending it with the knowledge he attained throughout his career, Rick has been able to inspire and mentor many project managers. His blend of real world experience and down to earth delivery style makes his passion for the profession contagious.

JOHN G. STENBECK, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP, is the Founder of GR8PM, Inc. (pronounced “Great PM”). John is an Amazon #1 Best Selling author. His first two books achieved over $1 million in sales and his most recent one – the Agile Almanac – was ranked the Amazon #1 Best Seller in Agile Project Management and the

Amazon #2 Best Seller in Project Management, where it trails only the PMBOK Guide.

John is a sought-after Keynote speaker delivering over 50 events a year. His programs engage hard-to-impress technical and engineering professionals with unique Keynote-Workshop style that enables participants to be powerfully productive!

He has been a guest on Good Morning America, the Today Show and the Oprah Winfrey Show. He has been featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union.

A partial list of John’s clients includes Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. – Defense Information Technologies Group; County of Orange; Guinness Bass Import Company; Hewlett-Packard Company; Lucent Technologies; Nike Corp.; Oracle Corp.; Qualcomm, Inc.; U.S. Army – Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate; U.S.D.A. – National Finance Center; Visa – Smart Cards.

He recently recorded 71 video lectures in Agile Government Contracting and Agile Project Management for Villanova University’s online certificate and degree programs. He was an Adjunct Instructor for the University of California San Diego where he taught project management in the Systems Engineering Certificate program before relocating to Spokane, Washington.

RICK A. MORRIS, PMPITIL Practitioner, consultant, author, mentor, and evangelist for project management. Rick isan accomplished project managerand public speaker. His appetite for knowledge and passion for the profession makes him an internationally sought after speakerdelivering keynote presentations

for large conferences and PMI events around the world.

JOHN G. STENBECK, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPGR8PM, Inc. (pronounced “Great PM”). John is an Selling author.achieved over $1 million in sales and his most recent one – the Agile AlmanacAmazon #1 Best SellerProject Management and the

Amazon #2 Best Seller

MICHAEL O’BROCHTA is President of Zozer Inc., where he helps organizations raise their level of project management performance. He has managed hundreds of projects during the past forty years, and is an experienced line manager, author, lecturer, trainer and consultant. He holds a Master’s degree in Project Management, a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and is certified as a PMI-ACP and PMP. He is a graduate of PMI’s Leadership Institute Master Class program.

As senior project manager at the Central Intelligence Agency, he led the drive to mature practices agency-wide. Mr. O’Brochta’s recent work includes leading the development of standards and courses for the new U.S. Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers (FAC-P/PM).

Mr. O’Brochta serves the community and PMI membership as Chair of the Ethics Member Advisory Group, and by presenting papers at every PMI North American Global Congress during the past decade-and-a-half as well as at many international and regional conferences. At the chapter level he led in building the international PMIWDC Chapter-to-Chapter program. His current passions include getting executives to act for project success and, and following his recent climb of another of the world’s seven summits, exploring the relationship between project management and mountain climbing.