PMI Global Conference 2019

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Projects are the vehicles of change. Projects are funded and provided resources not so they can simply be delivered on time, within budget and according to scope, but because they help drive the necessary changes, both individually and organizationally, that create value. Unfortunately, many practitioners today still espouse the traditional inefficient approach of treating the organizational change management/people related side separately from the technical/project related side. This is a recipe for failure and frustration. Orchestrating Total Project Success details a better way by illustrating how to plan for and mitigate both the project related and people related challenges within each phase of the project life cycle. PMI® recognizes that change is delivered through projects and programs, and because of that, organizational change management, along with deft stakeholder management, is something that should be integrated throughout the project life cycle. From project initiation all the way through to supporting, sustaining and enhancing the value of project-driven change, this seminar will focus on all the tools, structure, techniques, and insights necessary to facilitate workforce readiness, user adoption, beneficial organizational change, and overall project success. Your conductor for this event will be Thomas Luke Jarocki, one of the world?s leading experts on integrating project and change management.

Learning Objectives:
Understand what it takes to successfully plan an initiative all the way from project initiation through deployment, change adoption, and value creation; Develop the skills necessary to advise, execute, and lay the necessary foundation for overall project success, regardless of what phase the project may currently be in or what the limitations of your formal job description may be; Become competent in the use of essential tools and techniques from both the project management and change management disciplines that are necessary to orchestrate and achieve total project success; Understand what the unique needs and challenges are for each stakeholder group, how these needs vary from phase to phase, and what tools and techniques are most appropriate for any given time or challenge; Developing the skills necessary to execute in well-defined project phases that focuses resources, improves project quality, aligns stakeholders, maintains executive support, and eliminates costly rework.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Program management is now universally recognized as the best way to implement strategic initiatives and as a vehicle for organizational change. This seminar is designed for to help deliver value to stakeholders and will clearly link program and component projects to business' strategic objectives to show how to measure success and create value. The seminar covers the whole program life-cycle from formulation to transition. It reviews six key program performance domains: strategic alignment, stakeholder and benefits management, governance and decision management as well as organizational change. Through a series of group exercises based on a real life case studies, participants will learn techniques to realize strategic and business objectives by formulating and organizing a program, and developing a sound business case and manage the program. Pre-Work: 1.5 hours. Attendees are required to review materials and submit a summary.

Learning Objectives:
Define alignment with organizational objectives and strategic goals; Demonstrate capability to oversee multiple interrelated projects; Prepare project definition and initiation, project management assignment; Analyze use of program resources to ensure benefits delivery; Plan for change and make decisions to realize strategic and business objectives; Actively manage business value and stakeholders' benefits; Assess why, when and how to use program management; Organize the development of a program framework and culture.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

An effective project leader must be able to think systematically and act in multiple time frames. This intensive workshop goes beyond traditional project tools and techniques, to develop leadership skills and behaviors that ordinarily take months, even years to acquire. A NASA developed simulation exercise takes you through the experience of planning and executing a complex IT project and provides exposure to all the major issues faced by project managers in their daily work. The simulation places you in another time and space where you become the agent of your own learning. The workshop is a real learning laboratory – you learn from the highly experience instructors, the simulation, and above all from your teammates and other participants. You are guided through a structure approach to planning and execution of a complex project, providing exposure to all the major issues faced by project managers in their daily work. You must balance cost, schedule, quality issues while interfacing with stakeholders and managing crisis events. The focus is on integrating critical management tasks, such as planning, implementing with the key leadership behaviors for building working relationships and teams. You confront and must resolve an array of problems associated with tasks, vendors contractors, quality requirements, schedule commitments, customer interactions, a staff of varying personalities, skills and experience, and other typical project elements – just like real life. A combination of rapid team learning techniques is used, including lectures, a computer simulation, video, process consultation, assessment instruments, group discussions and action/reflection exercises.

Learning Objectives:
Deliver on strategic objectives through the application of project management useful practices; Prepare and execute team development activities that contribute to creating high performing teams; Demonstrate capability to manage multiple interrelated tasks, resources and project issues; Prepare defensible plans, plan for changes and use adaptive leadership techniques to sustain project integrity during execution; Analyze and effectively apply the use of resources to ensure benefits delivery.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Turn your PMO from lackluster to brilliant and performing at the highest levels. A decade ago, Kent Crawford created the term "Project Office" in his first book, "The Strategic Project Office." Since then, the project office has changed and evolved in dramatic ways as thousands of organizations have implemented this cultural remake to create "projectized" organizations. Today's successful PMOs are being replicated across other organizational business units and many are rapidly evolving into Enterprise PMOs. Through decades of working with corporate leadership, the seminar leader will interweave the latest concepts of governance, portfolio management, resource optimization, and organizational performance measurement to help the participant understand how to evolve the project office into a highly valued demand management office. This course is especially useful for those preparing to implement a PMO or expanding their existing Project Office to incorporate organizational demand planning and management.

Learning Objectives:
Define best practices PMOs, Enterprise PMOs, and their requirements to manage demand; Describe Governance: Building the organizational model, culture, and structure of your PMO; Apply Portfolio Management and the seven steps to strategy execution; Demonstrate Resource Optimization: Understanding program and project utilization while integrating operations, support, and maintenance.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

To compete in the future, project managers will need to be able to ?connect the dots? between projects, project management practices, and their company's business practices. In short, they must develop their project business-savvy in addition to their technical savvy. In this informative, content-intensive seminar, participants will gain a considerable head start on the path to enhancing their project-related business-savvy. Participants will "roll up their sleeves," through in a comprehensive case study (including practice on their own laptops!) that is woven throughout the program. Hands-on competency-building, business-centric case study activities include: Project portfolio evaluation and ranking; Project business case preparation; Project financial analysis [ROI calculations]; ROI-based sensitivity analysis [business risk analysis]; ROI-based scope change analysis.

Learning Objectives:
Organizational Planning Techniques; Strategic Planning Techniques; Tactical Planning Techniques; Operations Planning Techniques; Organizational Cost Management; Capital Expenditures vs. Project Expense; Relationship Between Sunk Costs and Project Termination; Process Management and Modeling Methods; Common "Value" Terminology/Approaches; Calculating Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Net Present Value (NPV) and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC); The Legal Environment of Projects; Purchasing Law/Uniform Commercial Code; Business Communications,Cross-Cultural Conduct and Ethics; System Analysis/System Reliability Concepts; Kaizen, Poke-A-Yoke, QA vs. QC; Voice of the Customer Methodology; The "Marketing Mix" and Microeconomics; Decision Sciences; Financial Accounting vs. Managerial Accounting

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

By attending this 4-day course and workshop, participants will build confidence and the skills needed to identify problems and objectives, visually model requirements, manage requirements, prepare for elicitation sessions, conduct interviews, deal with difficult stakeholders, and apply models during the elicitation process using a combination of lectures, group activities and individual activities designed to provide an opportunity to learn, explore and test in a "safe" environment. The integrated workshop allows for additional practice on the concepts where students can apply them to their own project challenges. Requirements Core Concepts Day 1: This day is the perfect introduction for anyone looking to hone their team's skills and knowledge around gathering requirements. This course also helps experienced business analysis teams level-set across an organization on requirements terminology and concepts. This course emphasizes the importance in understanding business objectives to manage scope. This course will teach the students to recognize different types of requirements and get an introduction to techniques for elicitation, scope management, models and requirements review. Requirements Visualization Day 2: This day provides intermediate and advanced business analysts, project managers, and product managers an incredibly powerful addition to their skill set through requirements visualization. As an extension of the first day, it dives deeper into requirements models and when to use them. Understanding how to select models provides you with the ability to communicate with any audience – customers, developers, product managers, and senior management. Elicitation & Facilitation Day 3: This day provides intermediate and advanced business analysts, project managers, and product managers a set of elicitation and facilitation skills fundamental to their roles. The course teaches you where to start with requirements elicitation on a project, including how to build an elicitation plan and individual agendas for elicitation sessions. The course builds confidence and the skills you need to prepare for sessions, to conduct interviews, to apply models during the elicitation process, and to take effective notes. Workshop Day 4: This day encourages the students to practice the concepts from the previous three days of the class by applying them to their own personal projects. The instructor will facilitate the students working in groups and alone on business objectives models, business data diagrams (or ERDs), ecosystem maps, report tables and display-action-response models, process flows, a requirements mapping matrix/traceability matrix, and any other models that the students select. The class will be able to use more relevant examples than previously practiced so that they can take the work products back to their jobs after training.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of Requirements Core Concepts (Day 1), students should: Understand the value of requirements (models); Understand various elicitation techniques; Create clear requirements using the attributes of a good requirement and requirements set; Analyze requirements for gaps using requirements models; Apply techniques for managing requirements; Understand how to measure the quality of requirements. By the end of Requirements Visualization (Day 2), students should: Create requirements models to organize complex information rather than using only thousands of "system shall" statements; Understand 15 different types of Requirements Modeling Language (RML®) models, including Process Flows, Ecosystem Maps, Report Tables, Business Data Diagrams, and Feature Trees; Analyze and select the right model for the appropriate audience and situation; Understand how the proper use of models allows you to ensure the completeness of your requirements; Understand different types of models and how they relate to each other; Apply learned concepts to use models together and create a complete understanding of the system; Integrate models with any development methodology-from waterfall to agile. By the end of Elicitation & Facilitation (Day 3), students should: Apply various techniques to elicit requirements; Understand how to plan elicitation on a new project; Identify the right audience for elicitation sessions; Execute a tailored elicitation session for a particular audience; Create and execute facilitated sessions; Understand what tools to use within a facilitated session;Analyze and understand what to do with elicitation results. By the end of the Workshop (Day 4), students should: Feel comfortable with the concepts learned in the previous three days of training; Know how to apply the concepts to their daily work/projects; Have their project-specific example work products started to take back to their project.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Projects are the vehicles of change. Projects are funded and provided resources not so they can simply be delivered on time, within budget and according to scope, but because they help drive the necessary changes, both individually and organizationally, that create value. Unfortunately, many practitioners today still espouse the traditional inefficient approach of treating the organizational change management/people related side separately from the technical/project related side. This is a recipe for failure and frustration. Orchestrating Total Project Success details a better way by illustrating how to plan for and mitigate both the project related and people related challenges within each phase of the project life cycle. PMI® recognizes that change is delivered through projects and programs, and because of that, organizational change management, along with deft stakeholder management, is something that should be integrated throughout the project life cycle. From project initiation all the way through to supporting, sustaining and enhancing the value of project-driven change, this seminar will focus on all the tools, structure, techniques, and insights necessary to facilitate workforce readiness, user adoption, beneficial organizational change, and overall project success. Your conductor for this event will be Thomas Luke Jarocki, one of the world?s leading experts on integrating project and change management.

Learning Objectives:
Understand what it takes to successfully plan an initiative all the way from project initiation through deployment, change adoption, and value creation; Develop the skills necessary to advise, execute, and lay the necessary foundation for overall project success, regardless of what phase the project may currently be in or what the limitations of your formal job description may be; Become competent in the use of essential tools and techniques from both the project management and change management disciplines that are necessary to orchestrate and achieve total project success; Understand what the unique needs and challenges are for each stakeholder group, how these needs vary from phase to phase, and what tools and techniques are most appropriate for any given time or challenge; Developing the skills necessary to execute in well-defined project phases that focuses resources, improves project quality, aligns stakeholders, maintains executive support, and eliminates costly rework.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Program management is now universally recognized as the best way to implement strategic initiatives and as a vehicle for organizational change. This seminar is designed for to help deliver value to stakeholders and will clearly link program and component projects to business' strategic objectives to show how to measure success and create value. The seminar covers the whole program life-cycle from formulation to transition. It reviews six key program performance domains: strategic alignment, stakeholder and benefits management, governance and decision management as well as organizational change. Through a series of group exercises based on a real life case studies, participants will learn techniques to realize strategic and business objectives by formulating and organizing a program, and developing a sound business case and manage the program. Pre-Work: 1.5 hours. Attendees are required to review materials and submit a summary.

Learning Objectives:
Define alignment with organizational objectives and strategic goals; Demonstrate capability to oversee multiple interrelated projects; Prepare project definition and initiation, project management assignment; Analyze use of program resources to ensure benefits delivery; Plan for change and make decisions to realize strategic and business objectives; Actively manage business value and stakeholders' benefits; Assess why, when and how to use program management; Organize the development of a program framework and culture.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

An effective project leader must be able to think systematically and act in multiple time frames. This intensive workshop goes beyond traditional project tools and techniques, to develop leadership skills and behaviors that ordinarily take months, even years to acquire. A NASA developed simulation exercise takes you through the experience of planning and executing a complex IT project and provides exposure to all the major issues faced by project managers in their daily work. The simulation places you in another time and space where you become the agent of your own learning. The workshop is a real learning laboratory – you learn from the highly experience instructors, the simulation, and above all from your teammates and other participants. You are guided through a structure approach to planning and execution of a complex project, providing exposure to all the major issues faced by project managers in their daily work. You must balance cost, schedule, quality issues while interfacing with stakeholders and managing crisis events. The focus is on integrating critical management tasks, such as planning, implementing with the key leadership behaviors for building working relationships and teams. You confront and must resolve an array of problems associated with tasks, vendors contractors, quality requirements, schedule commitments, customer interactions, a staff of varying personalities, skills and experience, and other typical project elements – just like real life. A combination of rapid team learning techniques is used, including lectures, a computer simulation, video, process consultation, assessment instruments, group discussions and action/reflection exercises.

Learning Objectives:
Deliver on strategic objectives through the application of project management useful practices; Prepare and execute team development activities that contribute to creating high performing teams; Demonstrate capability to manage multiple interrelated tasks, resources and project issues; Prepare defensible plans, plan for changes and use adaptive leadership techniques to sustain project integrity during execution; Analyze and effectively apply the use of resources to ensure benefits delivery.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Turn your PMO from lackluster to brilliant and performing at the highest levels. A decade ago, Kent Crawford created the term "Project Office" in his first book, "The Strategic Project Office." Since then, the project office has changed and evolved in dramatic ways as thousands of organizations have implemented this cultural remake to create "projectized" organizations. Today's successful PMOs are being replicated across other organizational business units and many are rapidly evolving into Enterprise PMOs. Through decades of working with corporate leadership, the seminar leader will interweave the latest concepts of governance, portfolio management, resource optimization, and organizational performance measurement to help the participant understand how to evolve the project office into a highly valued demand management office. This course is especially useful for those preparing to implement a PMO or expanding their existing Project Office to incorporate organizational demand planning and management.

Learning Objectives:
Define best practices PMOs, Enterprise PMOs, and their requirements to manage demand; Describe Governance: Building the organizational model, culture, and structure of your PMO; Apply Portfolio Management and the seven steps to strategy execution; Demonstrate Resource Optimization: Understanding program and project utilization while integrating operations, support, and maintenance.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

To compete in the future, project managers will need to be able to ?connect the dots? between projects, project management practices, and their company's business practices. In short, they must develop their project business-savvy in addition to their technical savvy. In this informative, content-intensive seminar, participants will gain a considerable head start on the path to enhancing their project-related business-savvy. Participants will "roll up their sleeves," through in a comprehensive case study (including practice on their own laptops!) that is woven throughout the program. Hands-on competency-building, business-centric case study activities include: Project portfolio evaluation and ranking; Project business case preparation; Project financial analysis [ROI calculations]; ROI-based sensitivity analysis [business risk analysis]; ROI-based scope change analysis.

Learning Objectives:
Organizational Planning Techniques; Strategic Planning Techniques; Tactical Planning Techniques; Operations Planning Techniques; Organizational Cost Management; Capital Expenditures vs. Project Expense; Relationship Between Sunk Costs and Project Termination; Process Management and Modeling Methods; Common "Value" Terminology/Approaches; Calculating Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Net Present Value (NPV) and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC); The Legal Environment of Projects; Purchasing Law/Uniform Commercial Code; Business Communications,Cross-Cultural Conduct and Ethics; System Analysis/System Reliability Concepts; Kaizen, Poke-A-Yoke, QA vs. QC; Voice of the Customer Methodology; The "Marketing Mix" and Microeconomics; Decision Sciences; Financial Accounting vs. Managerial Accounting

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

By attending this 4-day course and workshop, participants will build confidence and the skills needed to identify problems and objectives, visually model requirements, manage requirements, prepare for elicitation sessions, conduct interviews, deal with difficult stakeholders, and apply models during the elicitation process using a combination of lectures, group activities and individual activities designed to provide an opportunity to learn, explore and test in a "safe" environment. The integrated workshop allows for additional practice on the concepts where students can apply them to their own project challenges. Requirements Core Concepts Day 1: This day is the perfect introduction for anyone looking to hone their team's skills and knowledge around gathering requirements. This course also helps experienced business analysis teams level-set across an organization on requirements terminology and concepts. This course emphasizes the importance in understanding business objectives to manage scope. This course will teach the students to recognize different types of requirements and get an introduction to techniques for elicitation, scope management, models and requirements review. Requirements Visualization Day 2: This day provides intermediate and advanced business analysts, project managers, and product managers an incredibly powerful addition to their skill set through requirements visualization. As an extension of the first day, it dives deeper into requirements models and when to use them. Understanding how to select models provides you with the ability to communicate with any audience – customers, developers, product managers, and senior management. Elicitation & Facilitation Day 3: This day provides intermediate and advanced business analysts, project managers, and product managers a set of elicitation and facilitation skills fundamental to their roles. The course teaches you where to start with requirements elicitation on a project, including how to build an elicitation plan and individual agendas for elicitation sessions. The course builds confidence and the skills you need to prepare for sessions, to conduct interviews, to apply models during the elicitation process, and to take effective notes. Workshop Day 4: This day encourages the students to practice the concepts from the previous three days of the class by applying them to their own personal projects. The instructor will facilitate the students working in groups and alone on business objectives models, business data diagrams (or ERDs), ecosystem maps, report tables and display-action-response models, process flows, a requirements mapping matrix/traceability matrix, and any other models that the students select. The class will be able to use more relevant examples than previously practiced so that they can take the work products back to their jobs after training.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of Requirements Core Concepts (Day 1), students should: Understand the value of requirements (models); Understand various elicitation techniques; Create clear requirements using the attributes of a good requirement and requirements set; Analyze requirements for gaps using requirements models; Apply techniques for managing requirements; Understand how to measure the quality of requirements. By the end of Requirements Visualization (Day 2), students should: Create requirements models to organize complex information rather than using only thousands of "system shall" statements; Understand 15 different types of Requirements Modeling Language (RML®) models, including Process Flows, Ecosystem Maps, Report Tables, Business Data Diagrams, and Feature Trees; Analyze and select the right model for the appropriate audience and situation; Understand how the proper use of models allows you to ensure the completeness of your requirements; Understand different types of models and how they relate to each other; Apply learned concepts to use models together and create a complete understanding of the system; Integrate models with any development methodology-from waterfall to agile. By the end of Elicitation & Facilitation (Day 3), students should: Apply various techniques to elicit requirements; Understand how to plan elicitation on a new project; Identify the right audience for elicitation sessions; Execute a tailored elicitation session for a particular audience; Create and execute facilitated sessions; Understand what tools to use within a facilitated session;Analyze and understand what to do with elicitation results. By the end of the Workshop (Day 4), students should: Feel comfortable with the concepts learned in the previous three days of training; Know how to apply the concepts to their daily work/projects; Have their project-specific example work products started to take back to their project.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Projects are the vehicles of change. Projects are funded and provided resources not so they can simply be delivered on time, within budget and according to scope, but because they help drive the necessary changes, both individually and organizationally, that create value. Unfortunately, many practitioners today still espouse the traditional inefficient approach of treating the organizational change management/people related side separately from the technical/project related side. This is a recipe for failure and frustration. Orchestrating Total Project Success details a better way by illustrating how to plan for and mitigate both the project related and people related challenges within each phase of the project life cycle. PMI® recognizes that change is delivered through projects and programs, and because of that, organizational change management, along with deft stakeholder management, is something that should be integrated throughout the project life cycle. From project initiation all the way through to supporting, sustaining and enhancing the value of project-driven change, this seminar will focus on all the tools, structure, techniques, and insights necessary to facilitate workforce readiness, user adoption, beneficial organizational change, and overall project success. Your conductor for this event will be Thomas Luke Jarocki, one of the world?s leading experts on integrating project and change management.

Learning Objectives:
Understand what it takes to successfully plan an initiative all the way from project initiation through deployment, change adoption, and value creation; Develop the skills necessary to advise, execute, and lay the necessary foundation for overall project success, regardless of what phase the project may currently be in or what the limitations of your formal job description may be; Become competent in the use of essential tools and techniques from both the project management and change management disciplines that are necessary to orchestrate and achieve total project success; Understand what the unique needs and challenges are for each stakeholder group, how these needs vary from phase to phase, and what tools and techniques are most appropriate for any given time or challenge; Developing the skills necessary to execute in well-defined project phases that focuses resources, improves project quality, aligns stakeholders, maintains executive support, and eliminates costly rework.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Program management is now universally recognized as the best way to implement strategic initiatives and as a vehicle for organizational change. This seminar is designed for to help deliver value to stakeholders and will clearly link program and component projects to business' strategic objectives to show how to measure success and create value. The seminar covers the whole program life-cycle from formulation to transition. It reviews six key program performance domains: strategic alignment, stakeholder and benefits management, governance and decision management as well as organizational change. Through a series of group exercises based on a real life case studies, participants will learn techniques to realize strategic and business objectives by formulating and organizing a program, and developing a sound business case and manage the program. Pre-Work: 1.5 hours. Attendees are required to review materials and submit a summary.

Learning Objectives:
Define alignment with organizational objectives and strategic goals; Demonstrate capability to oversee multiple interrelated projects; Prepare project definition and initiation, project management assignment; Analyze use of program resources to ensure benefits delivery; Plan for change and make decisions to realize strategic and business objectives; Actively manage business value and stakeholders' benefits; Assess why, when and how to use program management; Organize the development of a program framework and culture.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

An effective project leader must be able to think systematically and act in multiple time frames. This intensive workshop goes beyond traditional project tools and techniques, to develop leadership skills and behaviors that ordinarily take months, even years to acquire. A NASA developed simulation exercise takes you through the experience of planning and executing a complex IT project and provides exposure to all the major issues faced by project managers in their daily work. The simulation places you in another time and space where you become the agent of your own learning. The workshop is a real learning laboratory – you learn from the highly experience instructors, the simulation, and above all from your teammates and other participants. You are guided through a structure approach to planning and execution of a complex project, providing exposure to all the major issues faced by project managers in their daily work. You must balance cost, schedule, quality issues while interfacing with stakeholders and managing crisis events. The focus is on integrating critical management tasks, such as planning, implementing with the key leadership behaviors for building working relationships and teams. You confront and must resolve an array of problems associated with tasks, vendors contractors, quality requirements, schedule commitments, customer interactions, a staff of varying personalities, skills and experience, and other typical project elements – just like real life. A combination of rapid team learning techniques is used, including lectures, a computer simulation, video, process consultation, assessment instruments, group discussions and action/reflection exercises.

Learning Objectives:
Deliver on strategic objectives through the application of project management useful practices; Prepare and execute team development activities that contribute to creating high performing teams; Demonstrate capability to manage multiple interrelated tasks, resources and project issues; Prepare defensible plans, plan for changes and use adaptive leadership techniques to sustain project integrity during execution; Analyze and effectively apply the use of resources to ensure benefits delivery.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Turn your PMO from lackluster to brilliant and performing at the highest levels. A decade ago, Kent Crawford created the term "Project Office" in his first book, "The Strategic Project Office." Since then, the project office has changed and evolved in dramatic ways as thousands of organizations have implemented this cultural remake to create "projectized" organizations. Today's successful PMOs are being replicated across other organizational business units and many are rapidly evolving into Enterprise PMOs. Through decades of working with corporate leadership, the seminar leader will interweave the latest concepts of governance, portfolio management, resource optimization, and organizational performance measurement to help the participant understand how to evolve the project office into a highly valued demand management office. This course is especially useful for those preparing to implement a PMO or expanding their existing Project Office to incorporate organizational demand planning and management.

Learning Objectives:
Define best practices PMOs, Enterprise PMOs, and their requirements to manage demand; Describe Governance: Building the organizational model, culture, and structure of your PMO; Apply Portfolio Management and the seven steps to strategy execution; Demonstrate Resource Optimization: Understanding program and project utilization while integrating operations, support, and maintenance.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

To compete in the future, project managers will need to be able to ?connect the dots? between projects, project management practices, and their company's business practices. In short, they must develop their project business-savvy in addition to their technical savvy. In this informative, content-intensive seminar, participants will gain a considerable head start on the path to enhancing their project-related business-savvy. Participants will "roll up their sleeves," through in a comprehensive case study (including practice on their own laptops!) that is woven throughout the program. Hands-on competency-building, business-centric case study activities include: Project portfolio evaluation and ranking; Project business case preparation; Project financial analysis [ROI calculations]; ROI-based sensitivity analysis [business risk analysis]; ROI-based scope change analysis.

Learning Objectives:
Organizational Planning Techniques; Strategic Planning Techniques; Tactical Planning Techniques; Operations Planning Techniques; Organizational Cost Management; Capital Expenditures vs. Project Expense; Relationship Between Sunk Costs and Project Termination; Process Management and Modeling Methods; Common "Value" Terminology/Approaches; Calculating Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Net Present Value (NPV) and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC); The Legal Environment of Projects; Purchasing Law/Uniform Commercial Code; Business Communications,Cross-Cultural Conduct and Ethics; System Analysis/System Reliability Concepts; Kaizen, Poke-A-Yoke, QA vs. QC; Voice of the Customer Methodology; The "Marketing Mix" and Microeconomics; Decision Sciences; Financial Accounting vs. Managerial Accounting

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

By attending this 4-day course and workshop, participants will build confidence and the skills needed to identify problems and objectives, visually model requirements, manage requirements, prepare for elicitation sessions, conduct interviews, deal with difficult stakeholders, and apply models during the elicitation process using a combination of lectures, group activities and individual activities designed to provide an opportunity to learn, explore and test in a "safe" environment. The integrated workshop allows for additional practice on the concepts where students can apply them to their own project challenges. Requirements Core Concepts Day 1: This day is the perfect introduction for anyone looking to hone their team's skills and knowledge around gathering requirements. This course also helps experienced business analysis teams level-set across an organization on requirements terminology and concepts. This course emphasizes the importance in understanding business objectives to manage scope. This course will teach the students to recognize different types of requirements and get an introduction to techniques for elicitation, scope management, models and requirements review. Requirements Visualization Day 2: This day provides intermediate and advanced business analysts, project managers, and product managers an incredibly powerful addition to their skill set through requirements visualization. As an extension of the first day, it dives deeper into requirements models and when to use them. Understanding how to select models provides you with the ability to communicate with any audience – customers, developers, product managers, and senior management. Elicitation & Facilitation Day 3: This day provides intermediate and advanced business analysts, project managers, and product managers a set of elicitation and facilitation skills fundamental to their roles. The course teaches you where to start with requirements elicitation on a project, including how to build an elicitation plan and individual agendas for elicitation sessions. The course builds confidence and the skills you need to prepare for sessions, to conduct interviews, to apply models during the elicitation process, and to take effective notes. Workshop Day 4: This day encourages the students to practice the concepts from the previous three days of the class by applying them to their own personal projects. The instructor will facilitate the students working in groups and alone on business objectives models, business data diagrams (or ERDs), ecosystem maps, report tables and display-action-response models, process flows, a requirements mapping matrix/traceability matrix, and any other models that the students select. The class will be able to use more relevant examples than previously practiced so that they can take the work products back to their jobs after training.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of Requirements Core Concepts (Day 1), students should: Understand the value of requirements (models); Understand various elicitation techniques; Create clear requirements using the attributes of a good requirement and requirements set; Analyze requirements for gaps using requirements models; Apply techniques for managing requirements; Understand how to measure the quality of requirements. By the end of Requirements Visualization (Day 2), students should: Create requirements models to organize complex information rather than using only thousands of "system shall" statements; Understand 15 different types of Requirements Modeling Language (RML®) models, including Process Flows, Ecosystem Maps, Report Tables, Business Data Diagrams, and Feature Trees; Analyze and select the right model for the appropriate audience and situation; Understand how the proper use of models allows you to ensure the completeness of your requirements; Understand different types of models and how they relate to each other; Apply learned concepts to use models together and create a complete understanding of the system; Integrate models with any development methodology-from waterfall to agile. By the end of Elicitation & Facilitation (Day 3), students should: Apply various techniques to elicit requirements; Understand how to plan elicitation on a new project; Identify the right audience for elicitation sessions; Execute a tailored elicitation session for a particular audience; Create and execute facilitated sessions; Understand what tools to use within a facilitated session;Analyze and understand what to do with elicitation results. By the end of the Workshop (Day 4), students should: Feel comfortable with the concepts learned in the previous three days of training; Know how to apply the concepts to their daily work/projects; Have their project-specific example work products started to take back to their project.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
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Program management is now universally recognized as the best way to implement strategic initiatives and as a vehicle for organizational change. This seminar is designed for to help deliver value to stakeholders and will clearly link program and component projects to business' strategic objectives to show how to measure success and create value. The seminar covers the whole program life-cycle from formulation to transition. It reviews six key program performance domains: strategic alignment, stakeholder and benefits management, governance and decision management as well as organizational change. Through a series of group exercises based on a real life case studies, participants will learn techniques to realize strategic and business objectives by formulating and organizing a program, and developing a sound business case and manage the program. Pre-Work: 1.5 hours. Attendees are required to review materials and submit a summary.

Learning Objectives:
Define alignment with organizational objectives and strategic goals; Demonstrate capability to oversee multiple interrelated projects; Prepare project definition and initiation, project management assignment; Analyze use of program resources to ensure benefits delivery; Plan for change and make decisions to realize strategic and business objectives; Actively manage business value and stakeholders' benefits; Assess why, when and how to use program management; Organize the development of a program framework and culture.

Description:
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An effective project leader must be able to think systematically and act in multiple time frames. This intensive workshop goes beyond traditional project tools and techniques, to develop leadership skills and behaviors that ordinarily take months, even years to acquire. A NASA developed simulation exercise takes you through the experience of planning and executing a complex IT project and provides exposure to all the major issues faced by project managers in their daily work. The simulation places you in another time and space where you become the agent of your own learning. The workshop is a real learning laboratory – you learn from the highly experience instructors, the simulation, and above all from your teammates and other participants. You are guided through a structure approach to planning and execution of a complex project, providing exposure to all the major issues faced by project managers in their daily work. You must balance cost, schedule, quality issues while interfacing with stakeholders and managing crisis events. The focus is on integrating critical management tasks, such as planning, implementing with the key leadership behaviors for building working relationships and teams. You confront and must resolve an array of problems associated with tasks, vendors contractors, quality requirements, schedule commitments, customer interactions, a staff of varying personalities, skills and experience, and other typical project elements – just like real life. A combination of rapid team learning techniques is used, including lectures, a computer simulation, video, process consultation, assessment instruments, group discussions and action/reflection exercises.

Learning Objectives:
Deliver on strategic objectives through the application of project management useful practices; Prepare and execute team development activities that contribute to creating high performing teams; Demonstrate capability to manage multiple interrelated tasks, resources and project issues; Prepare defensible plans, plan for changes and use adaptive leadership techniques to sustain project integrity during execution; Analyze and effectively apply the use of resources to ensure benefits delivery.

Description:
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Turn your PMO from lackluster to brilliant and performing at the highest levels. A decade ago, Kent Crawford created the term "Project Office" in his first book, "The Strategic Project Office." Since then, the project office has changed and evolved in dramatic ways as thousands of organizations have implemented this cultural remake to create "projectized" organizations. Today's successful PMOs are being replicated across other organizational business units and many are rapidly evolving into Enterprise PMOs. Through decades of working with corporate leadership, the seminar leader will interweave the latest concepts of governance, portfolio management, resource optimization, and organizational performance measurement to help the participant understand how to evolve the project office into a highly valued demand management office. This course is especially useful for those preparing to implement a PMO or expanding their existing Project Office to incorporate organizational demand planning and management.

Learning Objectives:
Define best practices PMOs, Enterprise PMOs, and their requirements to manage demand; Describe Governance: Building the organizational model, culture, and structure of your PMO; Apply Portfolio Management and the seven steps to strategy execution; Demonstrate Resource Optimization: Understanding program and project utilization while integrating operations, support, and maintenance.

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To compete in the future, project managers will need to be able to ?connect the dots? between projects, project management practices, and their company's business practices. In short, they must develop their project business-savvy in addition to their technical savvy. In this informative, content-intensive seminar, participants will gain a considerable head start on the path to enhancing their project-related business-savvy. Participants will "roll up their sleeves," through in a comprehensive case study (including practice on their own laptops!) that is woven throughout the program. Hands-on competency-building, business-centric case study activities include: Project portfolio evaluation and ranking; Project business case preparation; Project financial analysis [ROI calculations]; ROI-based sensitivity analysis [business risk analysis]; ROI-based scope change analysis.

Learning Objectives:
Organizational Planning Techniques; Strategic Planning Techniques; Tactical Planning Techniques; Operations Planning Techniques; Organizational Cost Management; Capital Expenditures vs. Project Expense; Relationship Between Sunk Costs and Project Termination; Process Management and Modeling Methods; Common "Value" Terminology/Approaches; Calculating Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Net Present Value (NPV) and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC); The Legal Environment of Projects; Purchasing Law/Uniform Commercial Code; Business Communications,Cross-Cultural Conduct and Ethics; System Analysis/System Reliability Concepts; Kaizen, Poke-A-Yoke, QA vs. QC; Voice of the Customer Methodology; The "Marketing Mix" and Microeconomics; Decision Sciences; Financial Accounting vs. Managerial Accounting

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
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By attending this 4-day course and workshop, participants will build confidence and the skills needed to identify problems and objectives, visually model requirements, manage requirements, prepare for elicitation sessions, conduct interviews, deal with difficult stakeholders, and apply models during the elicitation process using a combination of lectures, group activities and individual activities designed to provide an opportunity to learn, explore and test in a "safe" environment. The integrated workshop allows for additional practice on the concepts where students can apply them to their own project challenges. Requirements Core Concepts Day 1: This day is the perfect introduction for anyone looking to hone their team's skills and knowledge around gathering requirements. This course also helps experienced business analysis teams level-set across an organization on requirements terminology and concepts. This course emphasizes the importance in understanding business objectives to manage scope. This course will teach the students to recognize different types of requirements and get an introduction to techniques for elicitation, scope management, models and requirements review. Requirements Visualization Day 2: This day provides intermediate and advanced business analysts, project managers, and product managers an incredibly powerful addition to their skill set through requirements visualization. As an extension of the first day, it dives deeper into requirements models and when to use them. Understanding how to select models provides you with the ability to communicate with any audience – customers, developers, product managers, and senior management. Elicitation & Facilitation Day 3: This day provides intermediate and advanced business analysts, project managers, and product managers a set of elicitation and facilitation skills fundamental to their roles. The course teaches you where to start with requirements elicitation on a project, including how to build an elicitation plan and individual agendas for elicitation sessions. The course builds confidence and the skills you need to prepare for sessions, to conduct interviews, to apply models during the elicitation process, and to take effective notes. Workshop Day 4: This day encourages the students to practice the concepts from the previous three days of the class by applying them to their own personal projects. The instructor will facilitate the students working in groups and alone on business objectives models, business data diagrams (or ERDs), ecosystem maps, report tables and display-action-response models, process flows, a requirements mapping matrix/traceability matrix, and any other models that the students select. The class will be able to use more relevant examples than previously practiced so that they can take the work products back to their jobs after training.

Learning Objectives:
By the end of Requirements Core Concepts (Day 1), students should: Understand the value of requirements (models); Understand various elicitation techniques; Create clear requirements using the attributes of a good requirement and requirements set; Analyze requirements for gaps using requirements models; Apply techniques for managing requirements; Understand how to measure the quality of requirements. By the end of Requirements Visualization (Day 2), students should: Create requirements models to organize complex information rather than using only thousands of "system shall" statements; Understand 15 different types of Requirements Modeling Language (RML®) models, including Process Flows, Ecosystem Maps, Report Tables, Business Data Diagrams, and Feature Trees; Analyze and select the right model for the appropriate audience and situation; Understand how the proper use of models allows you to ensure the completeness of your requirements; Understand different types of models and how they relate to each other; Apply learned concepts to use models together and create a complete understanding of the system; Integrate models with any development methodology-from waterfall to agile. By the end of Elicitation & Facilitation (Day 3), students should: Apply various techniques to elicit requirements; Understand how to plan elicitation on a new project; Identify the right audience for elicitation sessions; Execute a tailored elicitation session for a particular audience; Create and execute facilitated sessions; Understand what tools to use within a facilitated session;Analyze and understand what to do with elicitation results. By the end of the Workshop (Day 4), students should: Feel comfortable with the concepts learned in the previous three days of training; Know how to apply the concepts to their daily work/projects; Have their project-specific example work products started to take back to their project.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
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In this interactive seminar, participants will strengthen their understanding of planning and monitoring quality in their projects. They will increase their knowledge of the Six Sigma method and Lean Six Sigma, their applications in their organizational setting (manufacturing, IS/IT, financial services, healthcare, government, etc.), and the role of Yellow Belts, Green Belts, Black Belts, Executive Black Belts, Champions, and other participants in Six Sigma projects.Participants will reinforce their understanding of the cost of quality, ISO 9000, and ISO 21500 standards for effective project quality management. They will expand their knowledge of selected, relevant tools of quality and Lean Six Sigma, and enhance their understanding of the integration of project management and Lean Six Sigma strategies.

Learning Objectives:
Identify appropriate quality, Six Sigma, and Lean Six Sigma strategies for their projects; Understand the main concepts of the Six Sigma method and Lean Six Sigma; Clarify the relationship between project management maturity models and project quality; Use effective quality, Six Sigma, and Lean Six Sigma planning tools; Understand the cost of quality and its importance to efficient project management; Understand the concepts of life cycle costing and total cost of ownership; Understand where and how to use selected, relevant, effective quality assurance methods, quality control techniques, and Lean Six Sigma tools; Clarify the main elements of identifying and managing Lean Six Sigma projects; Understand the roles of White Belts, Yellow Belts, Green Belts, Black Belts, Champions, and other participants in Six Sigma projects; Clarify the relationship between Six Sigma method, Lean Six Sigma, and project management, and plan integration of project management and Lean Six Sigma strategies in their organizational settings (manufacturing, IT, financial services, healthcare, government, etc.).

Description:
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Attend this interactive session and develop a scorecard to track ongoing project management performance as well as the business impact of project management to your organization. Learn the basics in setting up a measurement program designed to help improve project management performance as well as justify the organization's continued investment in project management. With this comprehensive introduction to measurement you will discover how to assess what's performing well and what needs improvement to build a business case for project management improvement initiatives. Become proactive in implementing measurement strategies aimed at improving your organization's project management performance.

Learning Objectives:
Lead a measurement team through the major steps in the Project Management Measurement Framework (PEMARI); Establish a good set of project management performance and value measures; Create a scorecard/dashboard for collecting, analyzing, and reporting performance and value information; Plan to communicate performance data to a variety of stakeholders; Learn steps to lead, implement, and overcome barriers for a performance measurement program; Strategize how to overcome common barriers when implementing a measurement program.

Description:
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Resource estimation in a multiple-project, shared-resource matrix environment must be a collaborative effort between resource managers, project managers, and portfolio managers. Most organizations rarely have these roles work together in the formation, application, tracking and correlation of resource and project estimates. They also rarely collaborate in developing the tools to be used ? and thus the tool suite is designed in a silo-based approach with a specific purpose in mind: portfolio management system, resource management system, project management lifecycle; and project schedules. This workshop will discuss the knowledge which can and must be shared in order for estimation to become more accurate and for critical resources to be used more effectively.

Learning Objectives:
Recognize the different types of estimates and estimating processes and use the variety of tools which can be used to determine and track estimates; State the definitions of precision, accuracy, assumptions, constraints, uncertainty and risk; Apply the use of a phased or gated project life cycle in the continual refinement of estimates; Collaboratively share estimating information within the organization and continually update the resource and project forecasts; Know the distinction of the roles and responsibilities of Project Managers, Resource Managers, Portfolio Managers, and Project Team Members; Refine estimates based on tracking and communicating status, progress and forecasting.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

In this interactive seminar, participants will strengthen their understanding of planning and monitoring quality in their projects. They will increase their knowledge of the Six Sigma method and Lean Six Sigma, their applications in their organizational setting (manufacturing, IS/IT, financial services, healthcare, government, etc.), and the role of Yellow Belts, Green Belts, Black Belts, Executive Black Belts, Champions, and other participants in Six Sigma projects.Participants will reinforce their understanding of the cost of quality, ISO 9000, and ISO 21500 standards for effective project quality management. They will expand their knowledge of selected, relevant tools of quality and Lean Six Sigma, and enhance their understanding of the integration of project management and Lean Six Sigma strategies.

Learning Objectives:
Identify appropriate quality, Six Sigma, and Lean Six Sigma strategies for their projects; Understand the main concepts of the Six Sigma method and Lean Six Sigma; Clarify the relationship between project management maturity models and project quality; Use effective quality, Six Sigma, and Lean Six Sigma planning tools; Understand the cost of quality and its importance to efficient project management; Understand the concepts of life cycle costing and total cost of ownership; Understand where and how to use selected, relevant, effective quality assurance methods, quality control techniques, and Lean Six Sigma tools; Clarify the main elements of identifying and managing Lean Six Sigma projects; Understand the roles of White Belts, Yellow Belts, Green Belts, Black Belts, Champions, and other participants in Six Sigma projects; Clarify the relationship between Six Sigma method, Lean Six Sigma, and project management, and plan integration of project management and Lean Six Sigma strategies in their organizational settings (manufacturing, IT, financial services, healthcare, government, etc.).

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Attend this interactive session and develop a scorecard to track ongoing project management performance as well as the business impact of project management to your organization. Learn the basics in setting up a measurement program designed to help improve project management performance as well as justify the organization's continued investment in project management. With this comprehensive introduction to measurement you will discover how to assess what's performing well and what needs improvement to build a business case for project management improvement initiatives. Become proactive in implementing measurement strategies aimed at improving your organization's project management performance.

Learning Objectives:
Lead a measurement team through the major steps in the Project Management Measurement Framework (PEMARI); Establish a good set of project management performance and value measures; Create a scorecard/dashboard for collecting, analyzing, and reporting performance and value information; Plan to communicate performance data to a variety of stakeholders; Learn steps to lead, implement, and overcome barriers for a performance measurement program; Strategize how to overcome common barriers when implementing a measurement program.

Description:
**Pre-registration is required to attend PMI SeminarsWorld and not included in Global Conference registration fee**
Click here to register for PMI SeminarsWorld in Philadelphia – space is limited!

Resource estimation in a multiple-project, shared-resource matrix environment must be a collaborative effort between resource managers, project managers, and portfolio managers. Most organizations rarely have these roles work together in the formation, application, tracking and correlation of resource and project estimates. They also rarely collaborate in developing the tools to be used ? and thus the tool suite is designed in a silo-based approach with a specific purpose in mind: portfolio management system, resource management system, project management lifecycle; and project schedules. This workshop will discuss the knowledge which can and must be shared in order for estimation to become more accurate and for critical resources to be used more effectively.

Learning Objectives:
Recognize the different types of estimates and estimating processes and use the variety of tools which can be used to determine and track estimates; State the definitions of precision, accuracy, assumptions, constraints, uncertainty and risk; Apply the use of a phased or gated project life cycle in the continual refinement of estimates; Collaboratively share estimating information within the organization and continually update the resource and project forecasts; Know the distinction of the roles and responsibilities of Project Managers, Resource Managers, Portfolio Managers, and Project Team Members; Refine estimates based on tracking and communicating status, progress and forecasting.