Event Calendar

Sunday. 15 September, 2019 - Saturday. 21 September, 2019
WEEK 38
Tuesday. 17 September, 2019
6:00 pm

Agile Forum - 190917

Motion Recruitment

 

"Fear Is the Value Killer"
presented by Rob Gordick, Daugherty Business Solutions/Sr. Principal

The Agile Forum meetings offer an opportunity for professional networking and knowledge sharing with other agile practitioners as well as provide a learning environment for professionals interested in learning about agile techniques. Everyone is welcome to participate.                                                      

Presentation

RobGordickHow happiness, trust & security enables great teams.

To deliver great value to the customer, software product teams must be able to; build & deploy, measure, and learn as fast as possible. To truly embrace a ‘continuous improvement’ culture, key values must be nurtured and strengthened. If our goal is to maximize value delivery, then our ‘people-focused’ objectives should continuously reduce wasteful behaviors.

In this session, we’ll identify and discuss core values of strong agile and lean minded delivery teams. You will learn coaching techniques, to help teams understand their desired values compared against its practiced values. We’ll discuss methods to measure and track these values over time. Then, together, learn ways to help teams self-regulate their behavior. Along the way, key practices encouraging great values will be examined, including ways to help spot and adjust poor values which inhibit a team’s full potential.

Finally, we’ll look at how trust, happiness, and psychological security interrelate with Lean and Agile approaches (e.g., Scrum, XP, Kanban) and how conquering fear at the personal and team level significantly enables a team to achieve its maximum potential.

(Note: New Venue Address Below)

Matrix Resources Inc., 400 Perimeter Terraces, Suite 300, Atlanta, Georgia 30346

Wednesday. 18 September, 2019
6:00 pm

Healthcare Forum - 190918

Philips Healthcare

"BRCA1 Linked Cancers: Moving Bench Research Towards Personalized Medicine"
presented by Dr. Veena Rao, Morehouse School of Medicine, Professor and Director Cancer Biology Program, Department of OB/GYN

The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum has 9 planned sessions throughout 2019. 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.

RaoVeenaPresentation

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women. The majority of young women with BRCA1 mutations have a so-called triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) and high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) with an aggressive phenotype. Currently there is no targeted therapy for TNBC and HGSOC. Ongoing work in the lab is geared towards understanding the molecular mechanism of BRCA1 dysfunction in these cancers to develop biomarkers for early detection of these cancers.

This work has led to the discovery of a BRCA1 function-based assay Patent 8,372,580, the only one in the world that can stratify risk for TNBC and HGSOC development. Additionally the Patent can be used to develop drugs for targeted therapy of these cancers, which currently have no targeted treatments available.

Thursday. 19 September, 2019
6:00 pm

Entertainment Forum - 190919

Manuel's Tavern

Opportunities in Georgia's Billion-Dollar Film Industry

presented by Forrest Tuff, Founder and CEO, One Vision Productions

The PMI Atlanta Entertainment Forum is focused on expanding knowledge and appreciation of Project Management and its benefits in unconventional fields by providing informational, educational, and networking events for individuals in various roles in the entertainment industry. 

Entertainment Industry = those businesses involved in providing entertainment
• Media – film, television, radio, theater
• Music
• Sports
• Fine arts
• Digital - Gaming

PresentationTuff-Forrest

Topics
• Understanding Georgia's film industry
• Transferable skills to the film industry
• Project Management software for film

In fiscal 2018, film and television productions in Georgia generated $9.5 billion in economic impact. Georgia is now the No. 3 filming location in the nation, hosting a record 455 film and television projects to include several Marvel movies, AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” and Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” Careers and business development in Georgia’s film industry abound with an array of opportunities available from creative to project management and everything in between.