2016 Symposium Avoiding Project Horror Stories 2016 Symposium

2016 Symposium Avoiding Project Horror Stories 2016 Symposium Embassy Suites May 13, 2016

AGENDA 7: 30 AM 8: 00 AM Registration 8: 00 AM 8: 15 AM Welcome Amazon/Rio Grande Pre Function Area Amazon/Rio Grande La. Plata Nile 1 Murray 8: 20 AM 9: 10 AM John Stenbeck Lessons Learned and Best Practices = Managing Virtual Teams: Three Vital Keys Successful PMs Can’t Live Without! Rick Morris In Project Management, Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn Rusty Hyde From Bad to Worse… Breakdown in the process Molly Wasko Emotional Intelligence & Project Success 9: 15 AM 10: 05 AM John Stenbeck Lessons Learned and Best Practices = Managing Virtual Teams: Three Vital Keys Successful PMs Can’t Live Without! Rick Morris In Project Management, Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn Rusty Hyde From Bad to Worse… Breakdown in the process Molly Wasko Emotional Intelligence & Project Success 10: 15 AM 11: 15 AM Putting Project Horror Stories to Good Use Keynote Speaker 1: John Morgan Amazon/Rio Grande 11: 15 AM 12: 45 PM Lunch & Vendor Expo Murray 12: 50 PM 1: 45 PM John Stenbeck Lessons Learned and Best Practices = Managing Virtual Teams: Three Vital Keys Successful PMs Can’t Live Without! Rick Morris In Project Management, Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn Rusty Hyde From Bad to Worse… Breakdown in the process Molly Wasko Emotional Intelligence & Project Success 1: 45 PM 2: 35 PM John Stenbeck Lessons Learned and Best Practices = Managing Virtual Teams: Three Vital Keys Successful PMs Can’t Live Without! Rick Morris In Project Management, Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn Rusty Hyde From Bad to Worse… Breakdown in the process Molly Wasko Emotional Intelligence & Project Success 2: 40 PM 3: 40 PM A Tale of Three Projects (Lessons Learned the Hard Way) Keynote Speaker 2: Wally Johnson Amazon/Rio Grande 3: 45 PM 4: 30 PM Closing and Door Prizes Amazon/Rio Grande For More About PMI Central Alabama please visit: www. pmicac. org

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Symposium Charity The mission of the Community Food Bank of Central Alabama is to serve people in need by securing and storing surplus food and household items and distributing it through 235 local partnering service agencies. We incorporate into our mission our compassion, good stewardship, dedication, urgency, and inclusiveness. The CFBCA was founded in 1982 to combat the growing hunger problem in the Birmingham area. During the ensuing 33 years, the number of counties served by the CFBCA has increased from three to twelve, and the number of Partner Agencies has grown to over 235, including food pantries, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, residential facilities for the disables and homes for abused women and their children. The Food Bank is the main source of food for all of these agencies, allowing each of them to operate efficiently with small budgets that do not require large purchases at retail prices. Additionally, CFBCA provides direct services to those in need through its Mobile Pantry, Hospital Pantry, and Weekenders Child Hunger programs. As Central Alabama’s largest hunger relief organization, CFBCA serves as the primary hunger safety net for an area that includes over a quarter-million people in poverty, of which nearly 90, 000 are children.

Keynote Speaker 1 John Morgan Putting Project Horror Stories to Good Use Bio John Morgan is the strategy consultant and technical advisor for the Balanced Scorecard Unit of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama’s Corporate Strategy Office. On average, John has grown into a new technology-related position every two to three years since his start with the company in 2005. In that time, he has served as a technical claims trainer, learning technology specialist, and application lifecycle management system administrator, fulfilling project management roles within each position. John is sought out for his expertise in areas ranging from documentation and design to process improvement and change management. Topic While project horror stories are things we’d like to avoid, a fact of project management is that there will be things that happen during our projects that are less than desirable. So when these undesirable things happen, what do we do? How do we respond? What can we salvage and redeem? How is this going to affect our future? Let’s explore together how we can make the most of our project horror stories past, present, and future

Keynote Speaker 2 Wally Johnson A Tale of Three Projects (Lessons Learned the Hard Way) Bio A PMP since 1999, Wallace Johnson works for Deloitte Consulting LLP in Washington DC. He completed college with a varsity letter in football from Oklahoma University and later graduated with an Industrial and Systems Engineering degree from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He started project management early in his career when he and a colleague were challenged to develop a schedule to meet an optimistic salesmen’s delivery date of a new radar system. Wallace Johnson has presented at the 2014 and 2015 PMI North American Congress. . Topic In this short final keynote, you will experience the synthesis of my twenty-six years in project management through multiple positions, companies, and industries. This started way before my 1 st unsuccessful sitting for the PMI certification exam, repeated twice more before finally acquiring my PMP in 1999. My intention was to be successful during the first round. Have you ever prepared for something and it not go as you expected? While many projects have been very successful, not all of my projects through the years have been executed as planned or ended as desired. It has been said, “It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you that determines who you are in this life. ” This presentation will contain some vignettes / lessons learned from my past project experiences, both good and bad. I selected three projects, from my pool of project encounters, for this journey. One project with “leadership gone wild”, another effort contained heart attack levels of stress, and another surviving and succeeding in a “fire -set-ready” culture. Since “hindsight is 20/20”, you’ll get the benefit of my time and you’ll “walk away gracefully and wiser” in less than an hour. You know the saying “no pain; no gain”. My presentation will provide you “gains” based off of my pain, not yours. During this presentation you will laugh, (possibly cry), relate, and definitely gain insight.

Breakout Session Speaker John Stenbeck Managing Virtual Teams Three Vital Keys Successful PMs Can’t Live Without! Bio John G. Stenbeck, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSP, is the President of GR 8 PM, Inc. (pronounce. D “Great PM”). John is an Amazon #1 Best Selling author. His first two books achieved over $1 million in sales and his most recent one – the Agile Almanac – was ranked the Amazon #1 Best Seller in Agile Project Management and the Amazon #2 Best Seller in Project Management, where it trails only the PMBOK Guide. He is a sought-after Keynote speaker delivering over 50 events a year. His programs engage hard-to-impress technical and engineering professionals with a unique Keynote-Workshop style that enables participants to be powerfully productive! He has been a guest on Good Morning America, the Today Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show and Voice. America talk radio. He has been featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union. Topic Have you been wrestling with how to lead a virtual team and create reliable commitments? Are you struggling with English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and the lack of visual clues? !? In this powerful session you will see solutions that you can implement immediately when you return to work to improve your results when leading virtual teams! Apply what you’ll learn and your teams will solve problems more effectively, overcome conflict more quickly, and take ownership of creating effective, efficient production! You need these answers because managing distributed, remote, and virtual teams is “mandatory” everywhere today! You will learn what to do, when to do it, and why it impacts your team’s choice to create powerful accountability. You will also be shown how to systematically increase your leadership skills and career by leveraging a real world, no risk “test bed” opportunity…at no additional cost! This energized session will help you achieve clarity about when and how to apply every practice and process. It will help you be well equipped to manage distributed, remote, and virtual teams and projects. This will be a powerful jolt of career acceleration so grab your biggest cup of java before we start!!

Breakout Session Speaker Rick Morris In Project Management, Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn Bio Rick A. Morris, PMP, is an ITIL Practitioner, consultant, author, mentor, and evangelist for project management. Rick is an accomplished project manager and public speaker. His appetite for knowledge and passion for the profession makes him an internationally sought after speaker delivering keynote presentations for large conferences and PMI events around the world. He holds the PMP (Project Management Professional), MPM (Masters of Project Management), OPM 3, Six Sigma Green Belt, MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, TQM, ATM-S, ITIL, ISO certifications, and recently became a John Maxwell Certified Speaker. Rick is the Owner of R 2 Consulting, LLC and has worked for organizations such as GE, Xerox, and CA and has consulted to numerous clients in a wide variety of industries including financial services, entertainment, construction, non-profit, hospitality, pharmaceutical, retail, and manufacturing. Rick has over 100 implementations of Project and Portfolio Management systems including Clarity, Project Server, Planview, Primavera, Daptiv, and Workfront. Rick has two previous books (“The Everything Project Management Book”, 2 nd Edition published by Adams Media and “Project Management That Works!” published by AMACOM) that were released in 2008. His latest book is "Stop Playing Games!" published by RMC Publications. Rick also appears weekly on his live radio show “The Work/Life Balance” on the Voice America Business Network Fridays at 5 PM EST/ 2 PM PST. An active member of the Project Management Institute, graduate of the PMI Leadership Institute Masters Class (LIMC), and Mentor to the 2012 PMI LIMC, Rick is no stranger to being center stage in front of large groups of people. At the early age of 11, Rick was a Walt Disney World Performer in their seasonal shows. In high school, he worked at MGM Studios on various projects including the New Mickey Mouse Club. Taking the experience of his youth and blending it with the knowledge he attained throughout his career, Rick has been able to inspire and mentor many project managers. His blend of real world experience and down to earth delivery style makes his passion for the profession contagious. Topic Project Management can be a tough industry. With seemingly more failures than successes, impossible dates, and a true lack of understanding of what it means to manage a project, many project managers become frustrated with the process. Rick Morris has shared many secrets of success for many years on the subtle procedures to becoming a successful project manager. Now working with The John Maxwell Team, Rick blends his project management knowledge with the leadership power of John to bring you inspirational messages of personal growth and success in the workplace. Rick will discuss key leadership lessons found in John’s book “Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Learn” and blend it with his down to earth delivery style of project management expertise to make this a session that you can’t miss!

Breakout Session Speaker Molly Wasko Emotional Intelligence & Project Success Bio Dr. Molly Wasko is a Professor and Chair for the Management, Information Systems and Quantitative Methods Department in the Collat School of Business. She holds a Ph. D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park, an MBA from Averett University, and a BBA from James Madison University. She has a combined Business/Academic background with 15+ years of leadership experience in the areas of project management, high-techn start-ups, strategic planning and production/operations management. Dr. Wasko maintains an active research agenda investigating the intersection of digital and social networks, open innovation and social network analysis. She is also an active entrepreneur and currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer for in. Degree, winner of the 2012 Alabama Launchpad Business Plan Award. Topic Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the ability to be self-aware of our own emotions, be conscious of the emotions of others and use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior. While most Project Managers rely heavily on their IQ and hard work at the outset, it is critical to understand how the rational (IQ) and the emotional (EQ) together shape continued success. There are three core dimensions that characterize emotional intelligence: self-reflection, empathy and self-regulation. When managed effectively, EQ enables project managers to empathize with others, communicate effectively and work through challenging situations.

Breakout Session Speaker Rusty Hyde From Bad to Worse… Breakdown in the Process Bio Russell “Rusty” Hyde, PE, started his career in the United States Air Force, where he served for 12 years. Following his service he returned to Alabama and started his first business Southern Applied Technologies in 1990, where he developed and patented an airborne remote sensing system. He later joined his wife Liz when she started Hyde Engineering in 1995, and just recently in 2014 started a new venture, Blastone, LLC, an engineering studies company. Rusty earned his bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in 1983 and earned his master’s in Electrical Engineering from UAB in 2007. During his 20 plus years of progressive electrical engineering experience Rusty has managed more than 1000 projects ranging from small renovations to new facility construction. He specializes in the areas of security, fire alarms, data/voice and computer systems for institutional, scientific, and technical facilities. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards, including USAF Instructor Navigator of the Year in 1988, an ACEC State Award of Excellence for the Birmingham School of Law renovation project in 2014, and two ACECA state awards in 2015 for his work on the new Gardendale City Hall and the Mountain Brook Community Church renovation. Topic In high risk, fast paced projects, poor early decisions most often lead to project failure. We will examine examples of poor early decisions and how they affect overall project success. We’ll look at techniques to help decision making and mitigate associated risk.

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