8:30am-12:00pm

Clark A. Campbell

Clark Campbell is a Senior Vice President at O.C. Tanner, the world’s leading provider of service milestone awards. He is author of the award winning, best selling book, The One-Page Project Manager: Communicate and Manage any Project With a Single Sheet of Paper and the soon to be released second book: The One-Page Project Manager For IT Projects. Mr. Campbell has advised corporations such as General Electric, PetroChina, Tasley Pharmaceuticals, Society of Certified Public Managers and has taught university graduate students how to create and use this exceptionally useful one page document.

Topic: Communicate And Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet Of Paper

Project Management today is often more about managing data regarding the project than it is about managing the project team and the tasks needed to complete the project. And, with the vast amount of data available, it is difficult to determine what to save, what to share, and how to communicate the complex simply.

The power and simplicity of the One Page Project Manager (OPPM) template (the one sheet of paper) is a combination of:

1. All five essential parts of a project (Tasks, Objectives, Timeline, Cost, and Owners)

2. The linkages and alignment of each

3. A clear, efficient, and accurate representation of both plan and performance

4. An addition to, rather than a replacement of, current powerful project management tools, and finally

5. An intuitive picture that is easy to create and maintain.

This highly interactive, hands-on, half-day workshop is designed to increase your project management competence and effectiveness and to amplify your confidence and ability to communicate powerfully and efficiently. This session draws on the combined experience and expertise of the learners in concert with the presentation of simple, unique tools the project manager can put to use the very next day.

As elements are taught, they are immediately put to use as small groups together construct each part of the OPPM template for a real project. This repeating couple of “presentation-and-practice” provides for rapid comprehension, an atmosphere of engagement, opportunities for recognition, and a great deal of fun!

The Communicate And Manage Any Project With A Single Sheet of Paper workshop is the ultimate experience for today’s beleaguered project managers who understand the value of simplicity.

12:00pm-1:00pm – Lunch (Buffet lunch will be provided)

1:00pm-2:45pm

Michael J. Cunningham

Michael Cunningham is the President and founder of Harvard Computing Group, a professional services and software organization whose clients include Bank of America, Mayo Clinic, and numerous Government agencies. Mr. Cunningham is author of four books, the latest being his best-selling book in Project Management, Finish What You Start: 10 Surefire Ways to Deliver Your Projects On Time and On Budget.

With over 20 years of project management experience in the development, delivery and deployment of complex software systems, he is a much sought after speaker and contributing writer.

Topic: The Essential Components of Finishing What You Start on Time and On Budget

In today’s highly competitive environment, project managers are charged not only with producing their project objectives, but doing so within specific time and budget constraints.

In this presentation, Mr. Cunningham, a project manager with a wealth of experience, takes his audience on a journey to prove effective project management is not all magic and complex terminology. In fact, by balancing the three critical factors in all projects, time, money and resources - almost any project can be delivered on schedule and on budget. This program, derived from his most recent book, Finish What You Start focuses on simple, proven principles with a three-step process to plan, manage and implement every project.

Real world examples provide heavyweight support to his arguments and approach, causing both new and experienced project managers to incorporate “Surefire Ways” into their project management skills.

2:45pm-3:00pm Afternoon Break (Snack Served)

3:00pm-4:45pm

Andy Crowe

Andy Crowe, PMP is founder and CEO of Volociteach and is one of the most dynamic and riveting voices in twenty-first century project management. As author of the books Alpha project Managers: What the Top 2% know That Everyone Else Does Not and The PMP Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try, he is a much sought-after project management speaker, instructor, and writer. As an expert on project management, he recently served on the Project Management Institute’s team for the 3^rd edition of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) and the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3).

Topic: What it Takes to Be an “Alpha” Project Manager

The top 2% of the world’s project managers (“the Alphas”) outrank their peers in almost every measurement. Find out what they know that the other 98% do not. The majority of professional project managers generally share a common set of misconceptions about the knowledge and tactics that make the Alpha project managers highly successful. The Alphas work approximately the same number of hours as everyone else, face the same challenges, and deal with the same difficulties; yet they manage their projects, teams, and stakeholders in a way that takes them far ahead of the pack.

In this fast-paced and information-packed presentation, acclaimed project management author and speaker Andy Crowe explains myths and realities surrounding the world’s top project managers, as well as the underlying traits that make the Alphas stand out among their peers. The presentation is built around the fact that all project mangers can incorporate these same characteristics, skills, and successes into their management style.

You can expect to leave this session with practical tools and techniques that you can use to your advantage the very next day at work.