Governance Forum (Virtual) - 210324

Webinar

"Governance Risk and Compliance Program"
presented by Abdul Badruddin, Sr. Director of GRC

The Governance Forum provides value to the PMI Atlanta community by offering participants:

Discussion of field-tested best practices, Decisions frameworks to assess culture and apply optimal strategy, Key takeaways to “take to work tomorrow” to maximize realization of value through introduction and standardization of best practices in the oversight and execution of projects, programs, and portfolios.

Presentation 

What does it take to establish a Governance Risk and Compliance Program? This topic is about the GRC advisory role in building Enterprise Resilience. We will discuss the role GRC plays in alignment across the company leadership board, in alignment companywide, and alignment along the values of a given company. We will look at processes involved, including technology support and operational nuances.
In this aspect, Governance brings value to companies by building up robust frameworks of procedures for enterprise resilience and risk management that are also aligned with Cybersecurity, Legal and Operational regulations, best practices and compliance standards. In the security and operational stature of a project, the GRC umbrella term may mean:

• IT Audit preparation and Audit management
• Business operations support
• Analytics and ongoing insight for Leadership on current risk posture
• Training and awareness initiatives
• Establishing clarity around processes
• Establishing monitoring and controls required for reaching security and operational goals

We will discuss:

• How to start the GRC Program and manage different components of the Program as Projects.
• What does the success of GRC mean?
• People aspect – how to get Leadership and companywide buy in.
• How to incorporate compliance into daily enterprise operations and new projects.

Due to coronavirus concerns, we will be hosting this event through webinar. Because of this change, member rate is now $8 and non-member rate is $10.    

PMI Atlanta Toastmasters (Virtual) Meeting - 210325

Webinar

If you would like to earn PDUs while improving your communications and leadership skills, this opportunity is for you! PMI Atlanta has teamed up with Toastmasters International to offer you a chance to hone your public speaking, critical listening, and leadership skills in a supportive environment. You will also have an opportunity to practice speaking off-the-cuff, giving and receiving feedback, emceeing a meeting, and many other valuable business skills. Since this club is exclusively for PMI Atlanta members, you will also have an opportunity to develop bonds within the PMI community.

Agile Project Management: From Scrum to Scaled Agile and Disciplined Agile (Virtual) - 210226

WebEx Virtual Class

What is Agile Project Management?  Why is Agile Project Management becoming the chosen approach by innovative organizations in delivering high quality products to the market faster.

Agile Scrum methods work very effectively for innovative agile teams. Many organizations devise “hybrid” agile frameworks including Scrum practices plus additional agile practices that work for them.  What is Agile Scrum or hybrid Agile framework?

When the organization launches dozens or hundreds of agile teams throughout the enterprise, a majority of the business units of the enterprise need to operate in an Enterprise Agile environment.  The organization needs to scale up agile to improve the corporate performance and execute organizational strategy. 

In August 2019 PMI acquired Disciplined Agile. What is Disciplined Agile (DA)?  The DA toolkit is the world’s only comprehensive agile body of knowledge (BOK) that provides straightforward and practical guidance to help individuals, teams and organizations optimize their traditional or agile practices, customize any method or framework -- such as traditional, Scrum, or SAFe® – to drive outcomes that differentiate them from their competitors.

This seminar covers Agile Project Management as utilized by Scrum teams, as well as by Enterprise Agile teams, when there are dozens or hundreds of agile teams throughout the organization. Agile practices and methodologies are utilized to optimize individual team performance, as well as corporate performance and execute organizational strategy.  The Disciplined Agile toolkit will be introduced as a guide for continuous improvement of agile methods and practices and help participants in choosing their new (agile) way of working, customizing their agile methodology in order to optimize their organizational performance in executing organizational strategy.

Disciplined Agile comes with a certification roadmap for PMI members along with agile training to help project practitioners and PMI members attain and maintain the DA certifications.  This seminar will also cover DA training and certifications and why/how project professionals should create their own DA certification roadmap.   

In closing, the seminar describes the future of project management in an Agile world.

This seminar has been offered by the same instructor, Victoria S. Kumar, PMP, PMI-ACP, DASSM, CDAI, CSM, CSPO, ICP-ACC, SAFeAgilist for various PMI Chapter Professional Development Symposia.