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June 15-17, 2009 | Washington, DC
The 2009 Project Management Office Summit
Optional Pre-Conference Workshop: June 15, 2009
Optional Post-Conference Workshop: June 17, 2009
The 2009
Project Management
Office Summit
Developing and Implementing a PMO to Maximize Project Efficiency
You Will Learn How To:
• Successfully Market Your PMO Internally to Engage Stakeholders and Staff
• Advance an Established and Operational PMO
• Utilize Your PMO to Mitigate Risk and Keep Your Project on Budget
• Identify and Apply PMO Measure and Metrics to Increase Success
• Featuring Two Interactive Workshops
In Association with:
Earn up to 18 PDUs
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Who Pre-Conference Seminar: Monday, June 15, 2009
Pre-Conference Seminars are hands-on, interactive sessions with specially designed exercises
Should Attend: and projects that have immediate application. With this full day application session, you will
enhance your training experience by establishing a reference point of knowledge, language
and methodologies for the rest of the event. This seminar will dive deep into strategic planning
and financial management to help improve your expertise and gain knowledge of practical
tools to implement from field experts. Enrollment space is limited, so registered today to reserve
• Project Managers
your place.
• Program Managers
• Portfolio Managers 8:30
• Team Leaders Registration and Continental Breakfast
• Quality Assurance Personnel
9:00
• Planners
Workshop A:
• Performance Management Staff
• Program Analysts PMO Implementation
• Project Support Staff Building your PMO can be a complicated procedure. There are many options to consider
when creating one, and there are so many places where everything can go wrong. Being
able to learn from the mistakes of others will help increase your chances of success and
have a better understanding of the process. This workshop will address the real-life lessons
learned from implementing a PMO and how to properly go about executing a PMO in your
office successfully.
Reasons • Discover what to do and what not to do in order to create an efficient PMO in your office
• Lean how other organizations went about implementing their PMO, which strategies
worked and which did not
to Attend: • Identify problematic issues that may arise before they actually do
Dr. Gary J. Evans, PMP
President
1. Discover Best Practices to Create CVR/IT Consulting LLC
a Business Case for the PMO
12:00
2. Develop Effective Staff and
Lunch Break
Resource Your PMO for
Maximum Results
1:00
3. Obtain Key Strategies to Quickly Seminar Continued
Progress with the Implementation
of Your PMO 4:00
Seminar Adjourns
4. Effectively Integrate Multiple
Projects with PMO Implementation
5. Identify the PMO Project Life
Cycle Framework
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Day One: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
“This conference 8:30
Continental Breakfast & Conference Registration
was very helpful
9:00
and informative. It Keynote Address: Develop a Business Case for PMO Success
is going to help This keynote address will offer proven cross-industry strategies and case studies to support
the PMO business case and measure PMO effectiveness. Discover not only the benefits
me develop and of implementing a PMO but also learn to explain how to communicate these benefits to
senior executives and how to successfully drive organizational results.
implement a PMO in James Hannon
International Development Manager
my organization
Sungard Brokerage and Clearance
Sonya Lucas, The TAC Companies
10:00
Break & Refreshments
10:15
Build a World-Class Project Management Office: Implement Key
Techniques and Best-in-Class Practices
• Discuss the five maturity levels of a PMO along with each stage’s characteristics
• Review each phase’s objectives, activities, outcomes and key deliverables
• Encourage interaction and prepare your organization’s upper management for a
change of this magnitude
Maureen Weverka
First VP of Strategic Development
Mutual of Omaha
11:15
PMO Staff Levels: What’s the Right Amount?
• Find out what the appropriate staffing level is for your project management office
• Utilize best practice strategies for creating a staffing plan to best fit your needs
• Develop a check-list for determining how and when to adjust PMO staffing levels to
maximize end outcomes
Michael Bitter, PMP, PMO
Project Manager
Lincoln Financial Group
12:15
Lunch Break
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Day One: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, Continued
1:15
Create an EPMO Today
• Examine the various PMO structures for enterprise implementation
“Good combination • Review strategies for determining if an EPMO is right for your entire organization
• Hear lessons learned and strategies for success for taking your department PMO
of examples, organization-wide
experiences and Carol Rauh, Ph.D., PMP
Senior PMO Specialist
exercises used.” AARP
Pamela Stender, Eclipse Inc.
2:15
Break & Refreshments
2:30
Develop PMO Measures and Metrics for Success
• Determine how to select the appropriate measures and metrics to evaluate PMO
performance
• Identify the components of project portfolio management
• Build key performance measures for your project management off
Dan Prather
Strategic Projects Leader
3:30
Establish an Effective Virtual Project Management Office
• Understand the advantages and challenges of a Virtual PMO
• Learn how to correctly apply the 3 levers of engagement, governance, and
enabling technology
• Examine best practices that lead to successful Virtual PMOs
Wanda Curlee, PgMP, PMP®, DM
Senior Manager
BearingPoint Management & Technology Consultants
4:15
Day One Adjourns
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Post-Conference Day Two: Wednesday, June 17, 2009
8:30
Webinar Continental Breakfast
9:00
Keynote Address: Advance an Established and Operational PMO:
Apply Earned Value Lessons from a Mature PMO
Management to Project Planning Being able to effectively identify various operational challenges before they arise can make
In today’s turbulent economy, many the difference in implementing a successful PMO. The team needs to discover how to ex-
government agencies of all sizes want to pand the role of the PMO over time and understand how to implement a PMO strategic plan
improve their project planning process and plan for the future. This keynote address will discuss what barriers you can possibly
in order to stay within scope, schedule expect while creating a project management office and the lessons learned.
and budget. Being able to foresee early Mike Stratton
warning signs of performance problems has
never been more valuable. Earned Value Senior Project Manager
Management is a project management BCA Program Planning & Control Core, The Boeing Company
technique for measuring project progress in
an objective manner and is known to be very 10:00
effective when properly implemented. Break & Refreshments
Our Earned Value Management webinar
will highlight the leading innovations in EVM 10:15
and teach you how to manage and report Project Portfolio Management and Its Relationship to the Project
project data and enhance performance.
Learn to discover the warning signs for Management Office
underperforming projects and improve the • Streamline the PMO and PPM to enhance your organization’s strategic goals
definition of project scope, prevent scope • Implement a consistent approach to planning and execution
creep and effectively communicate your
• Review key challenges and lessons learned when integrating PMP and PPM
progress to stakeholders.
Tom Mochal, PMP, TSPM, ITBMC
During this webinar you will learn:
President
• Earned Value Overview TenStep, Inc
• Standard EVM terminology
• How EVM provides powerful information 11:15
about your project Successfully Market Your PMO
• To strategically apply performance metrics • Recognize that it is your job as a director to market your PMO and institute a change that
to predict end outcomes everyone can accept
• Innovative techniques for enhancing • Understand that no matter what your PMO maturity level is, you must create and sustain a
project execution project culture within the organization
• Identify the warning signs for • Learn to help build consistency across your organization and get everyone onboard
underperforming projects
• Essential features of any EVM Tom Mochal, PMP, TSPM, ITBMC
Implementation President
TenStep, Inc
12:15
Conference Adjourns
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PDUs Post-Conference Workshops:
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
1:15
Post-Conference Workshops:
Post-Conference Seminars are practical, supplementary application sessions which incorporate
® and review tools, techniques and methods presented during the event. Participants will obtain a
further understanding of how to use newly acquire tools and cutting-edge strategies to improve
PMI Registered Education Provider strategic planning and financial management performance. Through group exercises and
PDUs: 9 for the conference, and 6 scenario-based learning, you’ll walk away with the expertise and resources needed for immedi-
ate and practical application. Enrollment space is limited, so registered today to reserve your
for the Pre-Conference Seminar, 3
place.
for Post Conference Workshop
The Performance Institute has been The ABCs of OPM3
reviewed and approved as a provider of
project management training by the Project OPM3 provides requirements for assessing and developing capabilities in portfolio, program,
Management Institute. As a PMI Registered and project management, helping organizations to advance organizational strategies through
Education Provider (R.E.P), The Performance projects. It contains three different elements to help enhance results elements - a knowledge
Institute has agreed to abide by PMI foundation, assessment, and improvement. The purpose of the OPM3 model is to enable orga-
established quality assurance criteria. nizations to assess and accordingly improve their project, program, and portfolio management
“PMI” and the PMI logo are service and capabilities. By attending this workshop you will be able to:
trademarks registered in the United States • Review the OPM3 Structure and terminology used in the OPM3 standard
and other nations; “PMP” is a certification • Obtain ideas on how the OPM3 can used based on the PM role
mark registered in the United States and
• Gain a thorough understanding of the process steps needed for OPM3 Implementation
other nations; “PMBOK” and “CAPM”
are trademarks registered in the United • Review the necessary requirements for full OPM 3 certification
States and other nations by the Project
Management Institute, Inc., which is not 4:15
affiliated with The Performance Institute. Workshop Adjourns
Earning PMI Credits
The Performance Institute is a Registered
Education Provider of The Project
Management Institute. All of our project Ensure That All Projects Are Aligned with
management trainings, conferences and
webinars offer credits to help you take the
PMP Exam or stay accredited with PMI.
Organizational Processes
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Sponsorship In-House Training
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Opportunities delivery of on-site trainings and management facilitations. Bringing a training or facilitation
in-house gives you the opportunity to customize a program that addresses your exact
challenges and provides a more personal learning experience, while virtually eliminating
travel expenses. Whether you require training for a small group or for an organizational-
wide initiative, the advanced learning methods employed by The Performance Institute will
As a conference and training create an intimate training atmosphere that maximizes knowledge transfer to enhance the
provider, The Performance Institute is talent within your organization.
an expert in bringing together leaders Customization:
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While many training providers will offer you some variation of their standard training,
and innovations. We connect
The Performance Institute’s subject matter experts will work with you and your team to
decision-makers with respected examine your programs and determine your exact areas of need. The identification of real
life examples will create a learning atmosphere that resonates with participants while at
solution providers.
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exercises that employ actual projects or scenarios from your organization, instructors can
The Institute offers four different pre- address specific challenges and align the curriculum of each session to your objectives.
While the majority of on-site trainings are focused on smaller groups, The Performance
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Utilizing multiple instructors, The Institute has the capacity to deliver courses to groups of
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For more information on sponsorships Workforce Management
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Venue & Hotel REGISTRATION
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