Concurrent Sessions
Monday – May 3, 2010 | 9:45 to 10:45
PMI Project of the Year – Newmont TS Power Plant ProjectIn July 2004, Newmont Nevada Energy Investment (NNEI) contracted with Fluor for the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning of a new 242 MW (gross output) coal fired power plant in a remote area of Nevada. The scope of work included providing all aspects necessary for the completion of the Project including peripheral scope such as a 100-acre evaporation pond, a 5-mile railway spur, 5 miles of transmission line, a 3-mile raw water pipeline, and a switchyard. The Power Plant Facility was designed and constructed to burn pulverized coal for electric power generation to supply Newmont’s local operations through grid interconnection. The completed plant reduces Newmont’s electrical power costs roughly $70 million per year and will bring approximately 800,000 gold resource ounces into economical mine reserves for Newmont Nevada’s gold mining operations. |
Project Management: It’s Not for WimpsDeveloping the courage to lead. Courage is the backbone of leadership and values secure the backbone in place. To develop the courage to lead, you must have a framework on which to analyze value. The science of axiology gives you this framework and helps you make better decisions and develop your courage to lead.
You’ll come away understanding that…
Your success is the result of consistently making value-centered choices at pivotal moments throughout your day. |
Gambling to Win With MonteDo stakeholders know the project’s chance of success before it’s approved? Do they appreciate how much risk is embedded in project objectives? You all want to be successful but you may be setting yourself up for failure. Your chances of achieving project objectives may be quite low but how do you demonstrate it? This session will look at the pitfalls of estimating and the importance of conducting a risk assessment to understand the best and worst case scenarios. A Monte Carlo simulation will demonstrate how to use three-point estimates to assess your project’s risk level; in other words, how likely you are to succeed. We’ll look at using a Monte Carlo simulation to determine if mitigation strategies will improve or worsen your chances of success. |
Project Sponsorship – Defining the Executive Role in Project Excellence‘Poor upper management support’ can kill a project, and yet, the project sponsor, who is the direct link between the project and upper management, is one of the most poorly defined roles on the project team. Project managers often wait for problems to arise before attempting to define the working relationship with their sponsor. If so, we are effectively utilizing one of the most powerful members of our team and leveraging their influence and support to help our projects succeed? This presentation will review some accepted project sponsorship concepts, propose generic sponsor responsibilities related to project phases and provide you with a checklist to use to monitor your relationship with your sponsor. These tools along, with some associated tips and techniques, will give you a toolkit as a project manager which you can use to increase the chances for you and your team to be successful. |
Monday – May 3, 2010 | 11:00 to 12:00
A Value-Centered Approach to Achieve Project Management SuccessDiscover how axiology (study of human value) can improve your project management & leadership skills. In life and in business, great leaders are not hard to spot.
In this presentation you will discover:
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Engaging Generations in Successful Project ManagementToday’s project teams are made up of members from 4 distinctly different generations. Studies indicate that each generation share common values, how they demonstrate those values however, is often very different. Successful projects depend on the demonstration of multi-generational cohesiveness and communication within the project teams and between the project team and all the stakeholders involved. This engaging workshop will:
A practical booklet and handout will be provided for each participant that can serve as ongoing helpful resources. |
Portfolio Management: The Elements of SuccessThis session will offer a definition of Portfolio Management and illustrate some key practices that are critical elements of success in portfolio management. After attending this session, participants will:
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Agile Project Management…Beginning to EndThis presentation is targeted to people who are interested in understanding how to effectively manage Agile Projects. It will look at Agile, Scrum, Lean, and XP practices with some real life examples and lessons learned. |
Monday – May 3, 2010 | 2:15 to 3:15
Monday – May 3, 2010 | 3:30 to 4:30
Leading Change in Project ManagementProjects rarely fail because of a poor project plan. The vast majority of project failures are due to insufficient attention to the critically important people factors when leading successful change. This engaging and interactive session will explore the 10 essential leading change principles project managers can easily use to improve their current and future projects. We will discover the key strategy, change, transition and communication elements that will help every project manager ensure their projects are dramatically more successful. A practical booklet and assessment tool will be provided for each participant that can serve as an ongoing helpful resource. |
Lessons Learned from the Alberta Diagnostic Imaging ProjectA presentation on one of the largest and complex projects of the Alberta EHR. The session will provide insights to the lessons learned during the project. Discussion topics will include governance, incentives, stakeholder management, communication, leadership, technology, and team building. |
Creativity and Innovative Thinking in Project ManagementCreativity and innovative skills are critical success factors for project managers. It does make the difference between good project managers and extraordinary ones. This session highlights the importance of creativity and innovation in project management taking participants beyond processes, deadlines, and logical approaches. Dr. Fahmy will challenge you to become an innovative thinker. He will give you the tools and techniques, practical hints to create creative environment for your team, ideas to enhance your creative abilities and many more. By the end of this session, participants will acquire the courage, skills and abilities to turn risky situations into opportunities, make better decisions, forecast problems and prepare for them, encourage you to keep looking where others stop. This will empower you to reduce cost, finish early, improve relationships and above all have fun. |
Essential Insights Into Building the Master Project ManagerDo you aspire to project management mastery? Do you have a clear pathway for your personal development? What are the skills that are critical to you being recognized as essential in your role? Project management is a profession that continues to grow and evolve. What we all thought we knew yesterday will not be enough to survive tomorrow. As practitioners, we need to continually grow, learn and evolve in our skills and capabilities. The question is, how? For most project managers, learning the skills, tools and techniques of project management began with the fundamentals. We learned the processes, templates and standards that represent ‘generally accepted’ practice. From there, the pathway becomes more clouded. Do we need our PMP? Do we build more technical skills? Do we focus on developing our communication and leadership abilities? Where do we need to get to, what is our path to get there and what learning experiences, delivered in what formats, will best satisfy our personal development needs? This presentation will expose you to the idea of project management mastery and provide you with the insights to plan your personal journey towards that goal. |
Tuesday – May 4, 2010 | 9:45 to 10:45
Tuesday – May 4, 2010 | 11:00 to 12:00
Team Avatar: How to Engage a Team Off-Line and On-Line!Teams work everywhere, and unfortunately that means not always in the same place. In fact, some teams never get to see each other eye to eye – well at least ones that aren’t digitally enhanced. Whether you work in a virtual office setting or just get distanced by the constant use of email with little or no face time due to hectic workloads—this session is for you! Effective teams need trust, respect, and camaraderie to get the job done. Building that when you aren’t always in the same area code can be tricky. Come and explore some fun and efficient ways to get your group to know each other in a digital world. Explore some out of the box ideas for getting the group to share insight about themselves individually as well as a group. You’ll learn how to build team albums, find commonalities, and much more. This session will help you find some activities that will help to build meaningful relationships within your working environment. |
Project Management in a Matrix OrganizationMost organizations are matrixed to some extent, with functional reporting lines independent of the formal corporate hierarchy. Project managers face unique challenges operating in these collaborative, cross-functional environments. This seminar will improve your ability to deliver cross-departmental projects by introducing you to better practices in matrix management. The session introduces matrix-management concepts, including: understanding the challenges of being a project manager in a matrix organization; negotiating for resources; providing performance feedback; resolving conflict among team members; organizing competing priorities; and delegating effectively. You will learn how to manage team members who do not normally report to you, including how to give them performance feedback. You’ll learn how to negotiate for and with resources, how to influence others, and how to delegate project work. |
Implementing Enterprise Program Management Portfolio SystemsQuestion: Why do business executives fail? The projects and programs that you are responsible for are pivotal and mission critical to the strategic success of your corporation. The desire to have a strong, mature project management infrastructure that ensures success is not enough. Recognizing that implementing project management requires a huge cultural change is a high risk project is the first step. Bill Stewart, CEO of Project Management Leadership, Inc., will share his expertise and advice and will provide tips and techniques for rapidly changing the organizational culture so it will accept PM as a core business discipline. |
A Project Without the Fundamentals Flounders, But When the Basics of Project Management are Applied it Yields ResultsAnyone coming to this conference likely believes in the value of solid project Management. We work hard to convince organizations that beginning a project based on PMBOK fundamentals will dramatically improve the chances of success. But what if they don’t listen until the project is well underway and floundering. Is it time to walk away and scrap the initiative or can it be salvaged. David Booth presents a real, candid case study of a program that had meandered without results for many months. Instead of starting over and undertaking significant cost and rework, David decided to leverage the PMBOK and bring the basics of project management to this effort in hopes it could be salvaged. The results were remarkable completing four of five projects in just four months. David explains how it was done. |
Tuesday – May 4, 2010 | 2:15 to 3:15
Tyler’s Teambuilding with Intelligence Tool Kit for Team Debriefing and IcebreakersTake your team from Good to Great by developing their soft skills. Join expert facilitator Tyler Hayden as he demonstrates how to hand craft a team into a highly cohesive unit. For over a decade, businesses have trusted Tyler to move their people in some extraordinarily different ways. Tyler will use two of his best selling tools: the Leader’s Pack (based on experiential and adventure based learning), and Teambuilding with Intelligence (a schmorgasboard of icebreakers and cool debriefing tools). Don’t worry – Tyler is actually really bad at selling his stuff so this isn’t a “buy my stuff” presentation. Nobody likes those. In fact, Tyler is going to give away tons of stuff for free! The result is a program that will help you deliver your team meetings they will not soon forget. You will learn to choose from Tyler’s endless supply of soft skill development activities and immediately target your group’s real time needs. If you are ready to be outside the box, then you’re ready to jump into Tyler’s Leader’s Pack. |
Advanced Risk ManagementParticipants will be exposed to methods that assure they realize the benefits of applying sophisticated Risk Management techniques in a simple, easy-to-understand way. No hyperbole, just a straight forward, from the gut treatise of how the individual contributor and project manager alike can take advantage of the product of realistic, out-of-the-box thinking when it comes to identifying and handling project risks that may have significant future impact on their ability to deliver on stakeholder expectations. Risk Management isn’t brain surgery, but using your brain is helpful. Students using real world examples will learn how to anticipate the less obvious, but potentially significant project risk events – before they occur, thus allowing the impact of these events to be coordinated, communicated, minimized or eliminated entirely. The content of this workshop will be based on Carl L. Pritchard’s best-selling book: Risk Management – Concepts and Guidance. |
The PMO – What it Takes to be SuccessfulMany agencies have recognized a need to improve their project management, and have implemented a Project Management Office (PMO). All PMO implementations, however, are not equal. An effective PMO, aligned with the organization’s strategic goals, is a powerful tool to make project team members and management alike successful. When an effective PMO is combined with best practices for program management and portfolio management, the teams can be even more powerful. This presentation will explain what a PMO is and is not; what makes a PMO successful and why it is important; discuss best practices and how to make your PMO second nature to your staff. |
Effective Communications in a Project EnvironmentLack of, or ineffective communication, is often cited as a major contributor to project failure. Successful communication goes beyond simply identifying stakeholders and reporting on project performance: it is a key strategic tool. Understanding the role of communication styles, filters and interpersonal principals is crucial to your success. When this strategic importance is championed by Senior Management, the project environment adopts effective communication as part of its culture. We will examine the role of effective communications, both vertical and lateral, with a view to identifying communication challenges and tips to avoid or deal with those challenges. A few of the questions we will address include the following:
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