Dinner Meeting - 200511

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Join us for our first virtual Dinner Meeting! Earn up to 2 PDUs while building your professional network, viewing new products and services, and enjoying dinner.  Earn 1 PDU for attending the Professional Development event and 1 PDU for attending the Keynote Presentation.  

Newcomers Meeting - 5:30pm - 6:15pm

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. 

Professional Development - 5:30pm - 6:15pm

“Project and Portfolio Best Practices and the Tools Needed to Excel” presented James Watson, McKesson

Keynote Presentation - 6:30pm - 7:30pm

"Disciplined Agile – a New Way of Working. Can You Discover your WOW?" presented by Beth Ouellette, The Ouellette Group

Professional Development Presentation

Improving your PM maturity score requires a top down strategy and a bottom up governance structure. Stop building processes for the snowflake projects and standardize your structure and add in an effective tool kit to help automate and communicate your portfolio.

2 Best Practices: End-to-End Governance and Smartsheet

Professional Development Presenter Biography

More than 15 years leading project and portfolio organizations around the world. James has led PMO transformations at Walmart Corporate for both IT and business PMO’s and is currently leading the business PMO transformation for McKesson corporate finance and accounting as the Sr Director of Strategic Execution. A strong advocate for transparency and accountability, James has implemented governance best practices and cutting-edge tools to dramatically increase probabilities of success and reduced overhead and confusion.

James recently move to the Atlanta area with is wife and 5 children. He has traveled all over the world for both business and pleasure, but his most favorite place to visit is Disney World; where he has spent more than 150 days of happiness with his family.

Keynote Presentation

We all know how Agile methods sparked a revolution in project management. Now comes Disciplined Agile, the next big topic in the PMI Community. What is Disciplined Agile? This methodology combines many of the agile/scrum methodologies in use today.

Why did PMI add it to their product portfolio?  What is the value of Disciplined Agile to Chapter Members? How can chapters use Disciplined Agile? How do I get started?  

Join as Beth Ouellette shares answers to all your questions and more.  She will guide you through key components of Disciplined Agile as she shares practical applications, analogies and stories to connect the dots.  During the hour long conversation, you will gain a clear understanding of the potential of Disciplined Agile for our Chapter, our members, and our community. You may even discover that you already apply a Disciplined Agile “Way of Working” today!  

Keynote Speaker Biography

Beth Ouellette, the CEO and founder of The Ouellette Group, has successfully partnered with organizations globally to bring strategic change, portfolio, program, and project management best practices. She has continuously improved business analysis and data management by adopting an agile way of working.

Combining business management and technology skills, Beth has been successful assisting executive teams with organizational strategy, helping them align their programs to strategy, and outline processes and procedures. Embracing the Disciplined Agile Way of Working, Beth teaches organization new ways to deliver strategies. While she has many certification, she also has the rare Certified Disciplined Agile Coach designation, and is only the 36th person to achieve it.

She has been a PMI global volunteer with the Chapter Member Advisory Group, co-founded and lead the PMI Requirements Management CoP and paved the way as a Trail Blazer onto the ProjectManagement.com platform, served as the Content Integration Analyst for the 25th anniversary edition of the Project, Program, and Portfolio Management Standards, and more. She served as the NYC PMI Chapter President in 2009, and was on that BoD for 3 years. She is the current Disciplined Agile Chapter Champion Program Advisor.

PMI member since 2000, volunteer since 2006, with PMP, PgMP, PBA, CDA, DASLM, CDAI, and CDAC designations.

PMI Fellow Award – 2018 for accumulated years of Project Management Global service

Component Leader of the Year Award - 2010 for work with NYC Chapter

Distinguished Contributor of the Year Award – 2009, Content Integration Analyst for the Standards’ 25th edition

Connect with Beth on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-ouellette-a54406/.

When

Monday, May 11, 2020, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Location

Virtual Meeting

Fees

Member: $8
Non-member: $10