Events Archive

Scott M. Graffius - 10 Ways to Score and Prioritize Project Proposals Based on Multiple Factors, Including Strategic Alignment

How does your organization assess proposals for new projects? Is there a well-defined scoring and prioritization process — based on alignment with the business’ strategic objectives and other factors — to quickly and easily identify the objective value of each proposal (including how important it is relative to other initiatives)? If the answer is “no,” keep reading. If the answer is “yes,” you are likely to find practical information and examples in this talk to adapt and adopt to improve the process at your organization.

 Scott Ambler - Applying Disciplined Agile in Practice

During this webinar Scott Ambler, one of the co-creators of PMI’s Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit, will
answer some of the common questions people have about DA.

Scott is the Vice President, Chief Scientist of Disciplined Agile at Project Management Institute and co-creator of Disciplined Agile. Scott leads the evolution of the Disciplined Agile (DA) tool kit and can be contacted via pmi.org.

Social Media:
Twitter: scottwambler
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sambler/

2020 Virtual Professional Development Day with NEW Speed Mentoring Program!

REGISTER HERE TODAY TO SECURE YOUR SPOT!

Our Professional Development Day is your opportunity to hear from top speakers while earning a PDU from each area of the Talent Triangle!

($15 for members/$30 for non-members)

• 10:30 - 11:00 - Registration and Chapter Update
• 11:00 - 12:00 - Managers Bridge to Agility (1 Technical PDU)
• 12:00 - 1:00 - Speed Mentoring Session (1 Strategic PDU)
• 1:00 - 2:00 - Leading an International Program to Success During a Pandemic (1 Leadership PDU)

For our brand-new speed mentoring session, our speaker line-up will serve as your Mentors to answer your rapid-fire questions via chat or phone about your project management challenges. Bhanu Viswanadha, Diana Sofía Balboa Coronado and Sergio Vásquez Kaufmann will have 10 minutes each to answer as many questions as you can throw at them!

 FLASH!

Sign-up before November 1st and be automatically entered in our drawing sponsored by IIL. The winner will receive Project Leadership Skills ($350 value) or Agile Practices for all Projects ($550 value) on demand classes. But you must be signed up before November 1st to be entered in the drawing.

October 13, 2020 Virtual Meeting: 

Presentation #1:

Ragip Uzuner -
Alphabet Soup: Nontechnical PM in a Technical World

Presentation #2:

Bill Parris- Updates coming in the Seventh Edition in PMBOK Guide. 

1.5 PDUS

Limited number of seats available for this virtual event. Register early. 

 September 8 2020 Virtual Meeting - Lee R. Lambert, PMP, PMI Fellow-Strategic Design and Delivery - Bridging the Gap

This webinar will examine the critical relationship between organizational strategy and the execution of projects.  The potential value of maintaining strategy/project connection will illustrated and way to achieve and maintain that vital connection.

The presentation will explain why “simply” being a good project manager will not be enough to survive in today’s world of careful selection of value-add projects. The sooner it can be determined that a project is not making a strategic contribution to organizational business objects, the sooner alternates can be considered.

Participants will be able to identify how their project fits in the organization’s strategic initiatives.  Using a sophisticated and integrated project management information system to support identify and clarify strategic relevance of decision being made at the project level.