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Professional Development Days 2017Speakers | Monday, September 18th

Paul Schempp - Opening Keynote Achieving the Extraordinary: Expert Strategies and Principles for Reaching Your Peak Performance

As human beings, we aren’t born extraordinary. The ability to consistently outperform peers and competitors is not the result of inherent characteristics, but rather the adoption of a specific set of attitudes and actions. And the good news is that each of these characteristics can be learned by

anyone looking to perform at the highest levels in business, sport and life.

Blending contemporary research, industry appropriate examples, and personal experience as a University of Georgia professor and leading researcher, Dr. Paul Schempp identifies the strategies and principles the experts use to achieve the extraordinary.

This entertaining, stimulating, and life-changing presentation is perfect for organizations and individuals looking to not only succeed, but lead within their organizations and personal lives.

Paul Schempp Workshop: Under Pressure: Secrets of Superior Decision Makers

Imagine how many decisions you make along the life of your project. Some decisions need to be made quickly and intuitively, while others require critical thinking. What sets apart the good from the poor decision makers? How can you make great decisions with positive long-term impact to help ensure the success of your project? Join Dr. Paul Schempp for this engaging yet practical presentation that is backed by scientific research. Paul will reveal easily adoptable strategies for making the best decisions, individually as well as collectively. In this session, learn:

• The reasons behind poor decision making and how to avoid them• How to make the best decisions under pressure• How to become a “forward thinking” decision maker• How to make analytical decisions to help “predict the future”• How and when to intuitively trust your gut on short-term decisions• Learn how to identify your prime time for making decisions• How to adapt your decision-making style under change

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Stefana Saxton Innovating PM, The Art of Being Wrong

Project Managers must embrace failure to accelerate project innovation. Through mental framing, learn to create freedom from the fear of failure using adaptive analytical perspectives that encourage ideas and discovery. Keep your project team innovative and successful by creating a culture of passion, drive and ambition in the midst of failure.

Brenda Pozek Cerner’s Journey from InfoPath to Project and Portfolio Management

Learn about the challenges that Cerner Corporation faced with IP investment and project management, and how they selected and implemented a tool that streamlines the entire process from idea to general availability.

Shazhad Zafar Creating a Culture of Learning & Experimentation; Succeeding in a world of CD & DevOps

Continuous Delivery (CD) and DevOps are two industry buzz words today, however, both are changing as fast as we can learn about them. They require a fundamental mindset shift, where learning and experimentation become part of the daily vernacular and are ingrained in everything a

team or organization does.

In this talk, we will drill into how to create a culture of learning and experimentation. We will discuss the value of holding hackathons, logistics & key things to include in them. Value Stream Mapping is another concept we will talk about and the goal of making it a regular activity as well as starting the concept of holistic Team Health i.e. getting beyond quality metrics to look at delivery and team perception.

We will tie each of the ideas back to the worlds of CD and DevOps. The goal would be for the participants to walk out of the session with a road map to achieve a culture of learning and experiment, including ideas they can implement immediately and ones that would require a longer investment.


Wayne Hurst The Changing Landscape for IT Project Managers

1. IT Transformation is increasing the rate at which companies deploy new applications and services2. Containers, microservices, APIs, DevOps and cloud offer new opportunities as well as new

challenges3. From legacy/monolithic applications to microservices; application development is rapidly

changing4. As software projects decrease in scope, schedule and budget so does the size of project teams5. What these new projects might look like6. Skills and strategies that PMs can adopt as application development programs change

Paul Carter Agility Beyond Software Development

Apply the Agile Manifesto, principles and framework as a business strategy to compete in a disruptive world. Real experiences from new product development, marketing, sales, legal and business operations...even in a retail bank branch - all leveraging agility to understand the customer, get to market quicker, close a sale and increase productivity. Use agility to organize your home or

next strategic project. Business transformation beyond software development.


Joe Ziadeh and Jolene Jangles Epic Rap Battle of Agility - Bring Fun Back to Learning

How can you inspire people to think outside of the box when we resort to death by PowerPoint? To get people to think and learn differently you need to work differently. To foster a culture of innovation we need to show people we are innovating the way we interact.

In this session, we quickly walk through brain based learning techniques highlighting engagement methods common in music, movies, and TV. We breakdown aspects of Training from the Back of the Room. We also demo a quick game we created titled “Epic Rap Battle of Agility” to show how we use these concepts to teach agile principles and concepts. Finally, you will work as a team with other attendees to create an engaging short video to post on social media and/or bring back to your organization.

You will leave with the tools you need to bring the fun back to your sessions. When you return to work and start using these skills you will demonstrate the fun, courage, and openness that your organization needs.



Gary Broils International Project Management: Trends, Challenges and Innovative Solutions

Successful projects do not occur by luck or by chance. In fact, many projects do not achieve their organization’s goals! This especially applies to international projects involving global participants. This session explores trends in globalization and how today’s project managers can better prepare

themselves to handle challenges characteristic of international projects including language, cultural, time zones, distance, etc. RSM US LLP has an U.S.-based global project management office (gPMO) that, in partnership with our RSM International offices around the world, has successfully coordinated projects for our clients with global compliance requirements. We’ll share what we learned from several real-life case study experiences managing international projects and innovative solutions we have adopted that address challenges encompassing people, process and technology.

Adam Bormann Lessons learned in Maturing a PMO and implementing Portfolio Management

Journey of maturing an immature PMO through governance, portfolio management, resource capacity / demand management, and business cases. This will be a journey of how GEHA and two of our critical vendors were able to mature the PPMO function at GEHA within 18 months and our lessons learned (positive and negative) along the way. There will be governance committee and

executive buy-in lessons learned, enterprise understanding and process to get people to submit business cases (articulate value and measure benefits), and reduce context switching to deliver more results for the business. We have a portfolio of 60+ project at a cost of $17.5MM delivering $53MM in benefits through 2020.

Dale Crandell What’s Next for Earned Value

A project management best practice and mandated process on large federal projects for decades, earned value has a love-hate relationship among project management professionals. Praised for its simple calculation and easily communicated indexes, but criticized for failing to provide timely or accurate projections, has the time come for earned value 2.0? This session explores a probability

approach to earned value projections and indexes; no longer saying our budget at completion is $1.2 million but instead saying we have an 80% chance of completing below $1.2 million.



Jessie Shternshus - Afternoon Keynote Talk the Talk - Making Your Message Stick

Having a superior product or service does not guarantee business success. As business leaders, we have to get people to understand our brand and rally behind it, as well as speak to the change that is always around us. Therefore, the ability to improvise, craft a presentation, and deliver it effectively is crucial.

In this experiential talk, Jessie will share her personal stories of applying her improv background to her life as a business owner. You will hear about insights and learn exercises that can be used when casually speaking to your team, sharing an idea with the CEO, pitching in the elevator, presenting to a prospective client, or addressing an audience at a conference.

Mark Shead Lean Simulation Whether your organization makes software or widgets, it is important to focus on how efficiently you produce value. In this session, each table will simulate an organization doing some simple work of flipping over tokens that will let us run experiments and track statistics. The goal is to watch how changing the way we do the work impacts the value being delivered at both the departmental level

and the organization level. This simulation will give participants a chance to think holistically about the way value flows through their own organizations. Participants will leave with the ability to run the simulation themselves to help foster discussion about how to better work together in their own teams.

Jessie Shternshus Workshop: Presentation Skills This experiential workshop focuses on sharpening presentation skills, both formal and informal. It will consist of skill building exercises, as well as applied improvisation techniques, woven in real world scenarios. Guided practice will play a crucial role in learning and practicing the new skills; and group debriefs will be used throughout the workshop to ensure comprehension by all participants.

This session will follow the keynote and will provide a deeper dive into the topic. The expected outcome is to better participant’s ability to: Deliver convincing pitches; Sell their ideas; Be clear, simple, and concise.


John Kohrs The Atomic Power of Startup Teams Startup teams when fused with corporate innovation can be a powerful combination. These teams have the potential to either deliver an atomic amount of value or completely blow-up the culture of the core business. This session presents learnings from a decade of creating startup-style teams both inside and outside corporations. Explore how to tune your reactor of innovation or product

development, colliding process with teams in new ways.

Adam Walker The Follies of Implementing a PPM Application Thinking of taking your PMO to the next level with a PPM application? We’re in year 5 of improving on an initial deployment of an application that combined time sheets, project schedules, resource tables, risks, issues, change requests, and reporting all into one application. We’ve learned a lot. We’d do things differently if we were starting from scratch. Attend this session to find out what,

why, and see how far we’ve come!



Frank Saladis - Morning Keynote The Indispensable Project Manager Managing projects effectively is essential in every organization. The uncertainties of the business economy, rapidly changing technology, and the intensifying focus on sustainability has driven many organizations to develop specific methods for managing projects, which require today’s PMs to accept & adapt to change, lead diverse teams, act as ambassadors for their organizations and deal

with a multitude of challenging project stakeholders.

Additionally, the PM must balance their roles as leader & manager. These challenges require the PM to maintain awareness of personal brand of and the impact it will have on project assignments, career opportunity, and the willingness of project teams to work for & support the project manager.

This presentation addresses the importance of the professional PM & the need for the PM to continually enhance existing skills, adapt to a changing environment, and become a “go to” person in the organization.

Troy Tuttle Learning to Learn “It’s all about execution” proclaims one popular Agile framework. But is it really just about execution? Software development organizations are knowledge work organizations, and they require different thinking about their primary constraints.

In this session, we will explore better learning as a method to improve software development outcomes. Implementing feedback loops enhance the speed and frequency of learning. Understanding the ephemeral nature of tacit knowledge helps us optimize for focus and flow rather than utilization.

A learning approach gives us a different lens to examine the traditional Lean and Agile themes of collaboration, work-in-process, and customer value.

In knowledge work, improved learning enables effective execution. Without learning, execution just becomes motion.

Frank Saladis Workshop: Creative and Innovative Change Leadership Organizational change is a challenging endeavor. Change can be destructive and derail an entire organization. This session will focus on the essential leadership aspects of managing change. During this session you will learn about techniques that will help you to: determine a personal strategy for enhancing your change readiness, effectively prepare to lead and manage change, identify different types of change and adapt to the challenges, and avoid the common mistakes associated with organizational change.

Professional Development Days 2017Speakers | Tuesday, September 19th


Doug Hocott and Huntley Parker Agile Project Planning, Scheduling and Earned Value Reporting At first glance Agile Practices appear to be fundamentally different, if not incompatible with traditional scheduling practices and Earned Value Management (EVM). Agile methodologies utilize several common estimation

and measurement practices for reporting and scheduling purposes. EVM has its own practices, which differ in significant ways from those in Agile. Any attempt to alter the native Agile practices to accommodate EVM creates resistance from Agile teams, and potentially diminishes the benefits of Agile.

By combining new Agile-aligned mechanisms with current Agile measures to generate EVM reporting, we provide valuable analysis without disrupting the existing processes of Agile teams. Additionally, we accommodate differences in the underlying assumptions of EVM and Agile through the introduction of new metrics which provide greater insight to decision makers.

Jaime Schonfeldt Creating a Strategic Road Map for the Future As the Cheshire Cat said to Alice, “…if you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter what road you take…” Your strategic plan is your road map to future success and making strides toward fulfilling your mission. It is critical to know where you are, and to be clear on both where you are heading, and how you’ll know when you’ve arrived. In this session, we will review the key elements

to the creation of a robust strategic plan that will help your organization become more effective, more sustainable, and more successful at delivering outcomes.

Erica Woods 15 Traits of Top Performers Looking for ideas on how you can improve your performance and be known as “one of the best?” Hear our top 15 traits in becoming a top performer, which include being proactively helpful, providing unanticipated value, and having the mentality that building relationships with all internal and external stakeholders and providing superior customer service are part of every job description.



Kay Harper Are You “Doing Teams” or “Being Teams?” A Systems Approach to High Performance Scenario: Your project team is challenged. The results you are seeing fall short of the high expectations you had initially. You see groups of people on ‘teams’ that are working together and pursuing high performance. Yet you feel there is something missing, and you are not sure what it is.

If this sounds familiar, this session is designed for you.Just about everyone has been on a high performing team at some point in their life. Yet 9 out of 10 teams do not characterize themselves as high-performing.

During this workshop, we’ll introduce the concept that teams are Relationship Systems comprised of a web of complex-social interactions. We’ll share how these systems have their own intelligence, voice and direction. Through interactive exercises we’ll help attendees begin to understand how they might tap into this intelligent system. We’ll explore that by revealing the system to itself, teams can gain new perspectives that will help them better align themselves and grow on the journey to high performance.

Heather McCain Rock Your Projects with 4 Useful Tools! Every rock star has a variety of tools to use to make rocking songs. Project managers also have tools that can make their project sing. This presentation will define four tools and provide examples of their use to help your project bring the house down. The tools we will discuss include:

1. Pareto charts 2. Prioritization matrix3. Flow diagrams4. Fishbone diagrams

Kathryn Campbell Organizational Change Management 2.0 - How to Best Lead the Change Needed for Successful Program Implementation This presentation will allow participants to learn key success factors in managing the organizational change needed to ensure your program or project success and how to navigate and resolve barriers to change.



Phil Hansen - Afternoon Keynote Embrace the Shake: Transforming Limitations into Opportunities Success, especially in today’s fast-changing business environment, depends on our ability to make “creativity and innovation” a continuous process. Leaders want to know how their teams can rise above any challenge & succeed no matter what comes their way. Whether it’s to embrace change, overcome obstacles, sustain growth, or take your success to the next level, they want to “Embrace

the Shake.”

The term “Embrace the Shake” is coined from Artist Phil Hansen’s personal story of transformation. After developing a career-ending tremor in his drawing hand, Phil embraced his “shake” both physically & metaphorically by redefining his limitation as an impetus for creativity. Phil not only restored his artistic abilities, he became a much more creative & innovative artist than ever before. Upon sharing his message on the TED stage, “Embrace the Shake” has become a motto for many businesses to approach their limitations in a new way.

Phil’s message of finding creativity within limitations will inspire you to stop looking on the outside, and start looking inside yourself for resources that can transform your challenges into opportunities for success. Are you ready to embrace your shake?

Sarah Harper and Courtney Wilson Hunting Horcruxes: A Cautionary Tale of Risk Management Scope creep has a direct relationship to risk in projects. We’ll use Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as a case study on the ineffective use of Scope and Risk Management. This is demonstrated throughout the novel

where we see how scope creep, which is not controlled, and scope change, which is controlled, can both negatively or positively affect the characters as both affected the time, cost, and risks of the quest to destroy the Horcruxes. Throughout this presentation, we will do a live demo of the risk matrix as the story evolves.



Phil Hansen Workshop: Creative Perspective In this workshop, keynote speaker and artist Phil Hansen will discuss why creativity can be simple yet complex, fraught yet spontaneous, rewarding yet crushing. He will also lead you through an exercise he has developed in order to generate more ideas as well as give insights that can aid in taking control of the creative process.

Rob Christeson 3 Ways to be a Rockstar Agilest Are you struggling with your team’s transition to Agile? Rob will discuss strategies to help your waterfall-capable teams to make the transition to agile, and be glad they did. No matter how long you’ve been a project manager, if you’re finding the transition to agile principles to be difficult, then this experiential learning workshop will give you an understanding of Agile framework and how to

guide your teams to success.

Beth Taylor Gamification Prioritization You know the slogan “When you care enough to send the very best”. Hallmark celebrated our centennial anniversary a few years ago. With a slogan like that, quality, innovation and excellence run deep in our culture. This workshop introduces and blends three key innovation components used in Hallmark’s PMO in a visual and interactive way. We begin with a technique to view a current

state, move into a divergent way to generate and cultivate new ideas. Finally, we’ll introduce a gamification technique that converges and organically prioritizes ideas. This is an interactive workshop with activities designed to engage the audience, introduce techniques, and promote collaboration.



Mario Potts, Ted Deel and Steve Gorman Dispatches from the Front: Real Life War Stories of Delivery Management A panel of experienced PMs conducting an interactive session on the importance of project delivery.

A discussion on the importance of delivery management, no matter what project methodology you use. The panel will be filled with seasoned veterans of waterfall, agile and most importantly, delivery. We would like to share war stories, things that work, things that don’t and field questions from the audience.

Devin Henderson - Closing Keynote When Life’s Hard, Laugh Harder! When the workplace feels like “blah,” sometimes the best remedy is a good laugh. When people engage their sense of humor, they become better communicators, better problem solvers, better decision makers and better with conflict resolution. They are also more creative, more productive, more fun to be around, less stressed, healthier, fresher, and more open to new ideas. This is not a

program about red clown noses, squirting flowers and whoopee cushions. It is about productivity. Attendees will learn to look at their problems in a new light and deal with them in a healthy way. Devin will have you laughing in your chair and all the way back to work. You will find your funny bone and make the workplace more pleasant and more profitable. Humor is not an option when it comes to productivity, it is a necessity. Success in any organization starts with a few chuckles, and chuckles trickle all the way to the bottom line.



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