Agile (Virtual) Forum - 220621

Webinar

"Running Scaled Retrospectives" presented by Colleen Johnson, Enterprise Agile Coach at ScatterSpoke

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 

Retrospectives are a chance for a team to come together to reflect on how they are working and identify small adjustments that will improve their practices. Teams grow through honest discussions to find specific solutions tailored to the needs of their work. Processes begin to evolve to fit the team and the team takes greater ownership over how they work. Making these improvements are infinitely beneficial to an individual team but they often fail to address the needs of teams working together or of the organization as a whole.

PMI Atlanta Toastmasters (Virtual) Meeting - 220623

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.

Transformational Leadership in this Digital Age for the Project Economy - 2022908

WebEx Virtual Class

The digital age is disrupting every area of business. Adapting to digital transformation requires more than new strategies, a complete restructuring of the organization and its operations and processes. This begins by understanding how digital is transforming the industry value chain and how new value propositions can be defined for the digital customer. The leadership needs to reimagine & transform the organization for ambitious purpose.

What are the leadership competencies needed to thrive in this era of rapid technology and business model change? This presentation will examine the challenges/issues presented and the new leadership models/theories that have emerged over the past few years. The entrepreneurial success stories of the digital economy definitely supports the theory that ‘Leaders aren't born, they are made’. We will discuss the impacts of digital age and some ‘bold’ & ‘inspired’ leadership successes. For this age of digital disruption, the demand is for Transformational leadership, where a leader identifies the needed change, creates a vision to guide the change and executes through inspiration.

Organizational transformations are happening through projects. As projected by PMI, project-oriented economic activity worldwide would grow to $20 trillion in 2027. There will be cultural & organizational impacts due to this transformation to a project economy. In this change-driven world, leadership can use the project canvas framework to strategically define the value and benefits.

This Half-day Seminar addresses why project/program/portfolio managers need to understand & acquire this skill to lead the transformational aspects of strategic initiatives in this digital age. A Case Study of a successful transformational leadership will be discussed. Social media clips and digital surveys will be used to engage the participants. Harvard Business Review(HBR) articles/case studies on Transformation and Reinventing Team Leadership will be discussed to thrive in this digital economy. Participants earn 4 PDUs (3 Leadership PDUs + 1 Strategic PDUs). PMI members have the advantage of discounted rates for attending the half-day seminar.

After completing the course, you will be able to

1. Describe the new business & leadership opportunity created due to digital transformation.

2. Recognize different leadership behaviors and develop new digital skills for this era of technology, change in markets and social media.

3. Learn from Case Study/ examples presented and apply the transformation principles/ techniques to various projects.

This course is ideal for Business leaders, Project/Program management consultants & Practitioners.

Measure What Matters - 2022906

WebEx Virtual Class

One of the keys to successful project, program, and portfolio management is measuring the success in ways that support critical decisions. Planned vs. actual duration and cost, number of defects, and number of change requests are only a few of the powerful metrics that can help drive strategic decision-making. There are lots of metrics that can be measured but the key question is whether they are all relevant? It is extremely important for project managers to work with sponsors and stakeholder to identify the metrics that matters for customers, sponsors, stakeholders and the team, and then develop a plan to collect, analyze and report them on a regular basis.

In this webinar we’ll cover the relevant metrics at project, program and portfolio levels for both waterfall and agile projects. You will participate in individual and group exercises to reinforce your understanding of metrics and how to determine which matters for your project. You will leave the course prepared to identify and use powerful metrics that matters for your projects, programs, and portfolios.

After completing the course, you will be able to

· Explain why metrics are important to measuring the success of projects, programs, and portfolios.

· Identify key metrics that matter to track for projects, programs, and portfolios.

· Compile reports and communicate results to stakeholders.

This course is ideal for project managers, PMO leads/directors, business analysts, and others in the organization involved with metrics.

Earn 4 PDUs (2 Technical PDUs + 2 Leasdership PDUs)