|
What is Organizational Project Maturity and how can it give your organization strategic advantage? This event answers these questions and will show you how to apply the knowledge you gain, to benefit your organization. You will learn about tools available to help you evaluate and improve the Project Maturity of your organization and you will have the opportunity to hear how other leaders in the Chicago area have been able to advance their organization's competency in performing projects.
Register
Middle Management, Managers of Project Managers and PMO Directors
March 18, 2008, 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
Oak Brook Hills Marriott Resort
3500 Midwest Road
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
630.850-5555
:
Advance $ 75 - Walk-in $ 85
Continental breakfast and buffet lunch included
The PMI Chicagoland Chapter has been in the forefront in presenting the latest techniques in Project Management to benefit any business environment. In keeping with its deep commitment to involve local organizations to adopt PM practices, it has planned a half-day event to emphasize this in its upcoming Spring Leadership Event. The event is intended to attract middle management and will present eminent speakers followed by a panel of experience PM mangers to discuss their successful approach to apply PM practices in achieving greater business value.
7:30 Walk-in registration and continental breakfast
8:00 Introduction and keynote speaker
9:00 Honorable speaker
9:45 Break
10:00 Honorable speakers
11:00 Panel discussion
12:00 Buffet lunch and networking
This year the PM Leadership event is focused on organizational project management maturity. That is the organization’s competency and internal expertise in performing successful projects.
An organization that is mature in its project management capabilities will have documented its project process and effectively implemented a high level of project management best practices. Ultimately, it will have implemented a continuous improvement process for project management. It will also have an established career path for it’s project managers and provide training and individual professional development guidance.
The 2008 PM Leadership event will be held on the morning of March 18th. It will feature the global product manager for OPM3, Larry Bull. OPM3 is PMI’s standard for evaluating and improving organizational project management maturity. OPM3 is slated this year for an update release. Larry has been traveling the world to inform executives how they can use OPM3 to give them a strategic advantage by improving their organization’s ability to perform projects.
The event will also feature John Roecker, the global product manage for the Career Framework. This is the new online tool available for individuals or organizations to evaluate and improve the competencies of individual Project Managers. It also helps organizations develop a Project Management career path.
In addition to these specific tool presentations, there will be local PMO leaders who have been successful in improving the project management capabilities of their organizations. They will share what has worked for them in their organizations. They will cover topics such as implementing MS Project Server and Selling the value of project management and the PMO up to the executive level.
The event will end up with a panel discussion and a chance to ask the experts about their knowledge and experience in leading organizations to better project management capability. After the event, there will be a luncheon with the opportunity to network with your pears and share knowledge and best practices.
Register online through March 14, 2008 or until seating capacity is filled. Walk-ins accepted as space is available. Bring a check for $85 payable to "PMI-Chicagoland." Contact the Director of Registration at registration@pmi-chicagoland.org for cancellation policy or any registration questions.
Contact the event team at sole@pmi-chicagoland.org.
|
