Agenda at a Glance
11:30 am
Conference registration at the Convention Center will open at 11:30am and remain available throughout the day. |
12:00 pm to 3:30 pm
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We have arranged Region 5 attendees to explore one of Washington DC’s most interesting monuments – the US Capitol. During their visit, Region 5 attendees will have the opportunity to take a guided tour to the US Capitol, the symbol of the American people and their government, and visit current exhibitions. To sign up for the tour on Thursday, March 19th, please complete the form at region5.pmiwdc.org/content/us-capitol-tour-registration. Pre-registration is required for the tour. |
3:45 pm to 4:30 pm
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4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
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5:30 pm to 6:45 pm
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7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Author of "Brothers Forever" |
8:00 am to 9:30 am
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8:30 am to 9:30 am
Featuring Joel Epstein |
9:30 am to 9:45 am
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9:45 am to 10:30 am
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Jennifer Baker, PMI Metrolina In late 2012, the Metrolina Chapter Board of Directors met to discuss strategic planning for the chapter with short term and long-term goals for the chapter including increasing member engagement as we had seen a decline in recent months. Part of the conversation included commentary from the 2012 Regional LIM where many of the R5 chapters were showing 20% engagement for metropolitan areas and 10% or less for geographically diverse chapters. |
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Ken Halloway, PMI Hampton Roads Each local PMI Chapter is chartered to advance the Project Management profession and Body of Knowledge and to provide value to its members. Learn how you can provide both through sponsoring quality education programs. One of these programs is the PMP Examination Preparation Course. See how Chapters can help candidates focus their learning in a concise way, and provide an enjoyable ex-perience while doing it. |
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Kevin Roney, PMIWDC |
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Roy Burton, PMIWDC Does your Chapter have: |
10:30 am to 10:45 am
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10:45 am to 11:30 am
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Denise Baker, PMI North Carolina Using the 5 phases from PMBOK, we will outline how our past success can help other chapters host a great PDD. We start with Initiating — recognizing that a project or phase should begin and committing to do so. We then spend most of our time in Planning — devising and maintaining a workable scheme to accomplish the business need that the project was undertaken to address. Controlling is quite im-portant with a team of volunteers — ensuring that project objectives are met by monitoring and measuring progress and taking corrective action when necessary. |
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Laura Barnard & Kendall Lott, PMIWDC Are you looking for ways to engage your volunteers in a meaningful way? Grow your member-ship? Provide professional development opportunities? Grow interest in the Project Management profession? Give back to your local community? The Project Management Day of Service gives you all of this with one event! The Project Management Day of Service was the first of its kind to bring together 400 project managers with 100 nonprofits in the region to do an all-day Scope-A-Thon. |
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Lance Holland, PMIWDC The core offering by any PMI chapter is PDU generating speaking events. This session is a presentation AND a conversation around the best practices of the event life cycle including speaker identification, selection, screening, tracking, presentation review, risk management, surveys, and closeout. There will also be a brief walk-through of the PMIWDC Speaker Database. |
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Kelly Evans & Kerrie Arkwell Our Leadership Team looked at our membership trends – no membership growth, few members engaged – and decided to fund and try out different ideas to see if we could impact our growth and engagement. 2014 was our ‘break out’ year to implement these changes to see what impact we can have on our member engagement. This presentation walks through some of the changes we made and the results that we achieved. |
11:30 am to 11:45 am
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11:45 am to 12:30 pm
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Kevin Roney, PMIWDC PMI Chapters carry a unique Professional Brand as the source to bring career growth and development resources in Project Management. This brand is recognized by both individuals and corporations. Many individuals seek to solidify their credentials as Project/Program/Portfolio Management Professionals. These budding professionals often look to the Chapter as the means to that development. This ready demand for professional development creates challenges and opportunities for Chapters. |
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Jay Benigno, PMI Southwest Virginia When we volunteer our time with a chapter or are elected to a leadership role, many of us are stepping into a great big "unknown" for the first time. Sometimes things can go south on you in a hurry. And then they can snowball into a serious situation even faster. This session is a case study (all names and roles will be changed to protect identities) and discussion about how this can happen, how you can recover, and how to better prepare for the possibilities. |
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Marcus Parker, PMI Silver Spring In FY 2014, the Silver Spring Chapter instituted Quarterly Scorecards that provide chapter members a transparent view into the operations of the chapter. We feel that Quarterly Scorecards are a PMISSC strength because there is a concerted effort at consistent, frequent, user-friendly transparency with the chapter membership. Chapter members regularly express their appreciation for this transparent communication. This type of transparency has increased the chapter's credibility with its membership and its leadership. |
Chapter Best Practices Sessions Loretta Letke, PMI Baltimore PMI Baltimore uses a distributed model for member meetings that include lunch and dinner meetings. In addition to the Chapter meetings, PMI Baltimore held various Special Events in 2014 including a Professional Development Event that drew close to 200 attendees, a Golf Outing, and a Bull Roast. In total, PMI Baltimore has 100+ volunteers who support the Chapter goals and offerings on a consistent basis. |
12:30 pm to 1:00 pm
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1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Jocelyn Davis |
2:00 pm to 2:15 pm
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2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Volunteer Management Erika Flora A PMI chapter is only as good as its volunteer team. However, volunteer leaders are often thrown into roles with little to no training, staff, or resources. The good news is you CAN build a world-class volunteer organization from nothing. In fact, that’s exactly what the PMI Phoenix chapter did – growing from 2 to 200 volunteers in a single year. It just takes some creativity and the right attitude. This interactive workshop will talk about effective ways to uncover, excite, and inspire volunteers and build a world-class volunteer organization within any PMI chapter. |
Chapter Management Gerald J. Leonard Great organizational culture accounts for a 20 to 30% performance improve according to Harvard Professor Emeritus James L. Heskett. Leaders must implement the principles of great culture development to create a truly high performing organization. These are the same principles required to implement a world-class portfolio management capability for your chapters. This presentation reveals the 7 principles that organizations must implement to develop a culture that works. |
Leadership Susan Parente Servant Leadership is focused on serving your team, rather than your team serving you. Out of serving one's team, a desire to lead is manifest. Servant Leadership is radically different than when the leader is leading first. When the focus is on leading first, it is very easy to use your power, your title (role in the hierarchy), or the fact that you were put in charge, as the basis of your actions. When we employ servant leadership, we support our team as a whole, and its individual members, in their growth and development. |
3:15 pm to 4:00 pm
Leadership Tina Taylor Effective Project Management is a combination of art and science. While the PMBOK is filled with tools and techniques for managing tasks, i.e. the science of project management, this seminar focuses on the delicate art of leading people. We provide practical tips and resources for building a leadership tool kit as well as discuss some of the most common challenges of leading a volunteer team. This engaging presentation includes content on: How to motivate workers How to "compensate" volunteers How to move a team from complacency to high performance |
Volunteer Management Lisa Hammer & David Newman Too often we hear this excuse when it comes to missed deadlines and unrealized performance expectations. Project managers have a fantastic opportunity to apply their hard-earned people skills and eliminate this language from their team of volunteers! Motivation and performance management are as critical to leading a team of volunteers as in any leadership scenario. We need to engage our volunteers so that they treat the position as if it were a real job. In this presentation we will discuss the importance of performance management and solid leadership in volunteer organizations. |
Chapter Management Michael R. Van Dyke Over the past few revisions of the PMBOK, Stakeholder Engagement has grown in importance from one process to its own Knowledge Area. Acknowledging the Stakeholder’s critical role in successful project outcomes can provide insight to defining a PMI Chapter’s effectiveness. Given that no Chapter can be all things to all people as well as the constraints of volunteer time and not-unlimited budgets, prioritizing Chapter initiatives sets the foundation for overall Chapter success. |
4:15 pm to 5:00 pm
Volunteer Management Colleen McGraw Acquiring and managing appropriate project resources is a challenge for any project manager. In volunteer-based organizations, this can be especially difficult. Challenges with availability, communication, and accountability can make planning difficult, and execution fraught with the risk of personality and mission conflicts. This discussion will focus on several techniques that the project manager can use to successfully manage volunteers. |
Leadership Erin Bankey The essential first step to effective project management and leadership is being able to understand yourself, your communication style, and the vision of the project’s sponsor to be able to work effectively with a team and continuously grow your own skills and abilities. This talk will give a framework to help you learn more about you and charter a course for developing your own professional development plan to seek, land, and thrive on projects. You’re able to best serve others when you’re at your best, so its time to know what that truly means. |
Chapter Management Paul Boos Ever felt overwhelmed on what to do next with your chapter? How do the activities you do connect to your customer? Do you have the right partners to help you? In this workshop, we'll use a business canvas to capture what you do and look at all the different aspects that can help you target where you can make changes. This essential tool puts all the key components needed for a business, non-profit, or your chapter on s single page! Use it when talking with stakeholders or other members. |
5:15 pm to 6:30 pm
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7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
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8:00 am to 9:30 am
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8:30 am to 9:30 am
Keynote Presentation Featuring Martha Johnson, former GSA Administrator |
9:30 am to 9:45 am
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9:45 am to 12:15 pm
Victor Carter-Bey, DM As partners in advancing project management, it is important for chapter leaders to have a clear understanding of the strategic priorities of the Institute and how chapter efforts in accomplishing them will create member value for our members. This session will provide an update of PMI’s 2015 strategic initiatives and priorities and how they are advancing project management in the markets we serve, and the regions we support and the global and local activities underway to accomplish them. |
Kendall Lott The Virginia Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (VA HIMSS) and VA PMI (Hampton Roads, Southwest VA, PMIWDC) are launching a cross-training pilot to kick off the VA HIMSS PM Special Interest Group (SIG). In this last R5 session, the Virginia chapters would like to share a cross-chapter iniative designed to create new awareness and training for our members in the area of Health Care. In 2015 we intend to launch a cross-training of professionals in the Health Care industry with those in project management, using a PMO structure between the chapters. |
12:30 pm to 1:00 pm
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