In-Person Chapter Meeting: Transformation with Agile Business Teams

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Join us for our bi-monthly in-person chapter meeting! Earn up to 1 PDU while building your professional network and enjoying a boxed dinner.   

Newcomers Meeting - 6:00pm - 6:45pm

If you are a new member to PMI Atlanta, you do not want to miss this opportunity to hear how PMI Atlanta can help you achieve your goals and meet members of the leadership team. 

Structured Networking - 6:00pm - 6:45pm

For those familiar with the Chapter's offerings, this is the session for you! We will provide structured networking exercises to help you hone your communication skills.

Keynote Presentation - 7:00pm - 8:00pm

"Transformation with Agile Business Teams" by Bill Petritz

If you thought only IT teams could use agile methodologies effectively, you’ll take away a fresh perspective from the March presentation topic.  Organizations can accelerate development and delivery of what’s important to their customers by adopting agile principles across all functions of their business.  Whether it’s Marketing, Operations, Human Resources or IT initiatives -- agile methodologies help establish self-organizing teams that facilitate transformation, strategic alignment and innovation. 

UPS Capital is a company that has embraced agile teams and uses them to spearhead a number of major projects.  In this presentation, learn how adding agile principles helped UPS Capital and see how you might be able to apply several best practices to your teams.  Explore tools used in managing iterative projects, such as ProjectPlace, which offers collaborative workspaces for Agile Business teams. Register to attend today!

 

Architectural, Engineering, & Construction (Virtual) Forum - 230314

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"Why Don’t People Tell Me Things?!" by Kim Wasson, CEO of IvyBay Consulting LLC

The PMI Atlanta AEC Forum is a focus group that hosts regular events with ranging topics in the architectural, engineering, and construction fields. We will show the importance of solid project management in these related fields of study.

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If you don’t know what’s going on with your team members, you’ll find it difficult to do all the scheduling, risk assessment, risk avoidance, and day-to-day management of your project. It can be tough for project team members to confess that they’re worried or having trouble with an assignment, and harder still for project managers to figure out how to ask. Not only that, but if people on the project team aren’t motivated, they will have a challenge performing at a high level. Social intelligence to the rescue – there are practical ways to make it easy to understand motivation and to gain the trust of your team so they feel they can tell you, well, anything!

Healthcare (Virtual) Forum - 230315

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"The Power of Diverse Teams in Project Management" by Lauren Gohde, Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity at Philips

The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum has 9 planned sessions throughout 2023. Proposed topics include IT & IT PMO in Healthcare, Healthcare SME/Domain Forums such as Clinical, Laboratory, Research, Tomorrow's Healthcare & Government practices/law, Thought Leadership in Healthcare, and Innovation in Healthcare Technology. 

Presentation Details   

Did you know that….Diverse and inclusive teams are by far the best way to secure innovation and increase profit. Research has shown that compared to a single decision-maker, a diverse team will make better decisions up to 87% of the time. If your team only consists of male members, the decisions will be better at 58% compared to a gender-mixed team at 73%—the more diverse, the better decisions and overall performance. Diverse teams excel in troubleshooting, creating novel ideas, and accounting for a larger number of variables in their planning

Get a diverse team, and you will have high performance? Quite the opposite! You have to demonstrate a high level of inclusion and manage a diverse team to harvest the benefits from it. They will need to be well managed, and they need time to be formed and find the strength in their complementary competencies and perspectives. If there is inclusive and compassionate leadership and an inclusive culture within such a team, they will soon start producing great work. Team members will experience how they complement each other and will be able to deliver high performance through teamwork.

In our session, we will accomplish the following together:

• Define Diversity & Inclusion
• Understand the business case for Diversity & Inclusion in the workplace
• Understand the business case for Diverse Teams
• Align upon best practices to include intentionally
• Discuss the power of a diverse team in Project Management