PMIGLC Dinner Meeting

Location: Southfield Marriott

Title: The Power of Enterprise Project Management

By: Dennis Bolles, PMP, DLB Associates

Time:

Check-in ~ 6:00pm

Dinner ~ 6:30pm

Presentation ~ 7:30pm

	PDU Code C011-121007
	Presentation materials

PMIGLC Forum

Title: Deliverables-based Scheduling- Strategy and Techniques

By: Patricia Woodward, CQA, PMP, Managing Consultant, EDS, Government Solutions Sector.

Forum Time: 5:30-6:30 - Before the Dinner Meeting

Fees: $20 (Member), $25 (Non-member)

PDUs: Earn 2.5 PDUs by attending the dinner meeting and the forum; forum only…1 PDU.

PDU Code C011- 121007F

Dinner Meeting Presentation Abstract

The “Enterprise-wide Project Management House of Excellence”  is the framework that we use to visualize the arenas in which Project Business Management and Metrics Management need to be established within any organization whether the enterprise is large or small, private or governmental, or for-profit or non-profit.  The EWPM House of Excellence allows us, as project management practitioners, to focus on four major performance areas when working to establish a specific set of metrics management and measurement methodologies. They are:
·1  Governance
·2  Standardization
·3  Capability
·4  Execution
Symposium participants will walk away understanding:
Execution facilitates implementation of Metrics Management processes and stage-gate reviews -- to achieve continuous improvements across the organization.

Speaker Biography

Dennis L. Bolles, PMP has more than 30 years experience with providing business and project management professional services.  Dennis Bolles is president of DLB Associates, LLC, whose primary focus is working with organizations to establish project business management processes. Bolles is the PMI Standards project manager who led the project core team to a successful completion and on-time delivery of the PMBOK® Guide Third Edition in 2004. He is a published author of many project management articles, seminars, and two books entitled Building Project Management Centers of Excellence, AMACOM, NY, June 2002 and co-author of The Power of Enterprise-Wide Project Management, AMACOM, NY, December 2006. 

FORUM INFORMATION

Presentation Abstract:
The odds are very good that somewhere in a Project Manager's toolkit is at least one life cycle methodology. Often the schedule for a project is structured around the life cycle phases. For complex projects with multiple deliverables and teams however, a life cycle based schedule may not be practical. For these types of projects a deliverables based scheduling strategy is considerably more effective.
In this forum we will explore the strategy behind deliverables based scheduling and techniques to effectively perform the scheduling functions. These techniques are not specific to any scheduling tool rather a discussion of how to approach scheduling complex projects.

Participant Objectives:

1. Identify the differences between phase-based and deliverables-based scheduling
2. Understand fundamental deliverables-based scheduling techniques
3. Understand the benefits of deliverable activities templates
4. Review Deliverables-based scheduling considerations when multiple teams are involved
   

Presenter:
Pat Woodward is a Managing Consultant with Electronic Data Systems in the United States Government Solutions business sector. She is currently the Quality Systems Manager for ITES-2S a US Army contract.

Ms. Woodward has over 25 years of experience in project management office development and operation, complex program schedule development and management, change management and software quality assurance.
She obtained her BS in Computer Science from The University of Michigan and a MS in Computer Science from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has been a Certified Quality Analyst since 1984 and a PMP since 2003.