Project Management Wave

Release Planning for a Large, Complex Project
8:15 - 9:45
Craig Vosper , Clientek
Session Level: 200-300 Level
Audience: Project Managers, Development Managers and Team Leads

Military Wargaming is a step-by-step process of action, reaction and counteraction for visualizing the execution of each friendly course of action (COA) in relation to enemy COAs and reactions. It explores the possible branches and sequels to the primary plan resulting in a final plan and decision points for critical actions.

This presentation will discuss this adapted military technique for coordinating multiple teams. It will show how to develop project plans for large multi-team projects with tight deadlines and conflicting requirements. This technique ensures everyone is delivering in sync, with the same priority, as well as understands all the dependencies each team has and the risks of what content not making it into production on the expected date.



Project Failure: The Real Reasons it Happens
10:00 - 11:15
Gail Sterr, Benchmark Learning
Session Level: 100-200 Level
Audience: Veteran and new Project Managers or those aspiring to be Project Managers

Discuss tips and techniques for requirements collection and hand-off to Operations.

Enterprise Project Management with SharePoint & Project Server 2010
1:30 - 2:45
Ken Barnhart, Occam Group
Session Level: 300-400
Audience: Project Management Office (PMO) Leadership, Program Managers, and Senior Project Managers

This session will look at the current EPM space and how Microsoft’s SharePoint/Project Server 2010 solution stack fits into the competitive landscape and how it stacks up according to analysts like Gartner, Forrester and others. With that context established the session with provide an overview of the emerging trends in deployment strategies and how the Cloud computing, Platform-as-a-Server (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery models are re-shaping the industry. We will then walk through a case study on how the global IT organization of a large multi-national corporation has successfully deployed the Microsoft SharePoint & Project Server 2010 solution in a PaaS/SaaS model to do Demand Management, Resource Management, Project Management, Governance and billing for over a million hours a year of IT services. If you do Project Management in an IT shop you won’t want to miss this session.


Leading Projects through Resistance
3:00 - 4:15
Christine Moore, Arthur Maxwell, Inc.

Session Level: 200 Level
Audience: Project Managers, Program Managers and Portfolio Managers

Resistant people can stop projects on a dime. This session will improve attendees’ abilities to understand and deal with resistance effectively. The session will cover:

  • Understanding resistance and how to adjust your vision to see it more clearly.
  • Evaluating a project’s “Resistance Potential.”
  • Using Project Management tools to identify potential resistance and get ahead of it.
  • Creating action plans to deal pro-actively with a resistant person or group.