Synopsis of the 2016 Conference Topics
Often, a corporation is a number of isolated islands, which operate with their own individual goals and objectives. As a result of this, strategic objectives are not met, change occasionally, which result in lower ROI, inefficiency, and high turnover. The traditional method of allocating funds per department and/or projects does not respond on the market challenges. To avoid decline of revenue and market share, corporations must apply and utilize agile project management approach, which would help them integrate and align strategic, tactical, and operational goals through Portfolio à Value Stream à Product Management à Team. This presentation covers the practical and theoretical aspects of “Agile PMO.” It provides the materials for the experienced managers, working within agile portfolio environment.
"Driving Value with an Agile PMO" - Joe Krebs
Starting but more importantly staying agile isn’t easy. Like in a marathon, teams and organizations will hit the wall that prevents them from achieving great things. Let’s discuss the common barriers and obstacles, and how we break through that wall with an Agile PMO. We will use a model of sustainability to grow a culture that is ready to build those innovative products and services, which we like to use as a consumer in the years ahead.
The reward is an agile enterprise that allows executives to steer a portfolio of agile projects and gives them real insights into the health of their projects and its teams. The agile culture is characterized by empowered and self-organized teams, which produce more in less time. More importantly, they have fun while doing that. We will explore how a PMO in an agile enterprise not only co-exist but participate in a value driven delivery model.
"Agile Scheduling using Microsoft Project" - Angelo Arcoleo
This presentation will demonstrate how to build a Hybryd Agile Schedule that may be used for development-type projects. During this event, you will learn How to create an Agile Schedule using both the Agile features built int Microsoft Project 2013 as well as earlier versions without those new features. We will show Agile Views, you can build, including Grouping Features and how to gage your Project’s Progress for your next development project.
"The Places Your PMO Will Go (Agile Transformation)" - Rob Birkland
Take a peek inside how the PMO at Paychex went through the transition to Agile. The train was leaving and we were not going to get left behind. During this presentation we will take a look at how the PMO changed to embrace new opportunities while saying good bye to some old trusted processes. Leave with an understanding how we aligned our project audits to Agile, how we switched our PPM Tool’s workflow to compliment the Agile workflow, and we changed the organizations PMO’s perception from push to pull.
“Scrum, meet Earned Value Management” - Matt Freece
The benefits of a scrum development methodology have led to a majority of Fortune 500 technology companies adopting the scrum mantra. Excruciatingly detailed, long-term project plans are being eschewed in favor of a flexible, reactive, time-sensitive, agile development approach. Adaptability, project transparency, and a focus on productivity are all well known artifacts of a scrum-based project. What is less well known is how to effectively implement scrum while also satisfying earned value management (EVM) requirements.
A majority of government projects now require earned value management tracking on the part of the government contractor. Earned value tracking reduces risk on government projects by increasing transparency into the project’s actual (rather than perceived) performance. However, many government project managers favor or are more familiar with earned value tracking mechanisms that align with the “waterfall” development mindset rather than scrum. This presentation will explore different techniques for collecting and calculating project metrics to satisfy earned value management, while at the same time not sacrificing the core tenants of scrum that make the methodology so attractive in the first place.
By effectively implementing earned value within a scrum environment, managers will incubate projects with transparent and predictable results that can also adapt easily to changing customer requirements.
“Using Agile for Medical Device Software” - Robin Louvain
Part of the Agile Manifesto states “Working software over comprehensive documentation,” but when one thinks of developing software for a medical device, an image of stacks of documentation comes to mind. Couple that with an overarching waterfall-like commercialization process and developing products using agile becomes even more challenging. Carestream Health has been doing agile development in this environment for almost 10 years. In this session, you will learn about the challenges that the team has faced and how they have overcome some of those challenges. In particular, you will learn how the FDA has embraced agile and provided guidance to medical device companies on how to do agile development while still meeting the FDA regulations.
Conference Logistics
| Duration | 1 Day |
| Seminar Hours | Registration Opens at 7:30. Program starts promptly at 8:00 and runs until 5:00pm. There is an optional networking happy hour (cash bar) from 5:00-6:00pm. |
| PDUs | 7 |
| Date | Thursday, November 17th |
| Location: | Locust Hill Country Club 2000 Jefferson Rd, Pittsford, NY 14534 |
| Cost |
Early Bird Registration runs from June 24th-September 23rd, 2016: $250/person Regular rate from September 24th on: $299/ per person Rate includes continental breakfast, buffet lunch, and afternoon break. Groups of 5 or more $225 each Full-time Students: $125 (contact us for a code) |
| Included with your Fee |
Continental Breakfast in the morning, lunch at noon, and snacks in the afternoon. Door Prizes:
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Learn more about who this year's speakers are!
Jochen (Joe) Krebs is an agile coach, trainer and consultant and most important practitioner. He founded INCREMENTOR, a consulting company specialized in helping organizations with the successful adoption of agile processes for example Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean and other iterative-incremental processes. Joe has the Professional Scrum Master and Scaled Professional Scrum certifications.
Joe has delivered services and training courses in the United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Germany, Switzerland, UK and France, working with Mercedes-Benz, ParcPlace, Valtech, IBM and AOL and INCREMENTOR. He's also collaborated in delivering training courses with both creators of Scrum; Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland.
Joe has authored two books, Agile Portfolio Management and the RUP Reference and Certification Guide and speaks at local chapter events and conferences. He's published numerous articles in magazines about agile practices and processes. He's the founder of AGILE NYC, a community of agile professionals in the Big Apple, the “Agile-Day” conference and the Agile NYC OPEN. Tune into the Agile NYC Podcast to listen to some conversations Joe's recorded with industry experts to spread the wealth of agile knowledge.
Mike Marco, PMP, CSP, PMI-ACP, PME, AE
Mike Marco has been managing and mismanaging projects worldwide for more than 15 years. He gained his project management experience while working in the engineering, IT, telecommunication, construction, utility and waste management industry, for Fortune 5 and Fortune 500, domestic and international corporations, including the USA Government, Navy and Military. He is a founder and CEO of eConsulting Group™, Inc., a company dedicated to consulting and training in the field of agile project management, as well as founder of ABOK.org, an organization that developed the A Guide to the Agile Management Body of Knowledge (ABOK)® framework and Agile Expert® certification.
His mission is very simple. It is about learning, teaching and utilizing project management. He strongly believes in "hands on" approach while presenting project management subjects through his seminars. That is the main reason why he developed an advanced project management certification program - Project Management Expert™.
Mike Marco holds an MBA degree from Andrews University, MI, PMP, PMI-ACP, AE, PME, and CSP certifications. He paints (www.ArtofMarco.com), likes to travel, has a black belt in judo, plays the guitar, horse riding, and enjoys scuba diving, but more than anything he is a project manager. Hear from Mike himself in the above video!
Matthew Freece is a technical project leader at Harris Corporation where he serves as Scrum Master for on-going software development activities and champions the benefits of scrum in an industry entrenched in a waterfall development mindset.
Matt received his B.S. in Computer Science while stationed at Luke Air Force base in Phoenix, AZ, and then later obtained his M.B.A. from the University of Florida in 2011.
Matt has over 10 years of software development experience at Harris Corporation, and has led software projects ranging from small research and development tasks up to multi-million dollar software development efforts.
Angelo Arcoleo is a Lead Execution Planning Analyst, Master Scheduler with Harris Corp., Space and Intelligence Systems Division. He founded A/E Consulting to develop and deliver customized and lively Microsoft Project training to organizations in America. Angelo is currently a team-member of National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Planning & Scheduling Working Group, studying “Techniques Integrating Agile Development Processes into Department of Defense (DoD) Earned Value Management System (EVMS)”. In his day-to-day job, Angelo applies Agile Scheduling techniques in a Hybryd fashion, combining Agile and conventional waterfall scheduling techniques to help manage advanced materials development projects in a Precision Structures manufacturing environment.
Angelo also teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and Monroe Community College (MCC) as an Adjunct Faculty member and is a Trainer with ProjectPro Corp. He was a technical editor on Eric Uyttewaal’s (ProjectPro founder) Forecast Scheduling using Microsoft Project 2013 book.
He is President of the Western New York Chapter of Microsoft Project Users Group (MPUG) and a member of Project Management Institute (PMI). He is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from RIT - Civil Engineering Technology.
Robin Louvain is a Software Portfolio Manager and Senior Project Manager at Carestream Health. With over 15 years of project management experience, seven of which using agile, Robin has been responsible for the commercialization of digital radiography detectors and X-Ray Solutions product software. In her role as Software Portfolio Manager, she has overall responsibility for the product software used on X-Ray Solutions’ medical device products, which are developed in Rochester, NY and Shanghai, China.
Robin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from SUNY Geneseo and a Master’s degree in Product Development from RIT. She is a member of PMI and a certified PMP. Robin is a former nominee for the Rochester Business Journal’s Technology Woman of the Year award as well as a former adjunct instructor in RIT’s Software Engineering Department.
Rob Birkland is the Manager of the Project Office at Paychex. He was on the agile transformation leadership team and now executes the enterprise agile strategy.During his time at Paychex, Rob also has held the roles of Product Manager and Program Delivery Manager. Prior to Paychex, he managed the Project Office at Paetec and has spent 10+ years as a project manager. Rob has the Professional Scrum Master and the SAFe Program Consultant certifications. He got his BS from RIT.
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Many thanks go out to this year's sponsors:
Our Gold Sponsor:
Barbecana: Makers of Full Monte™ schedule risk analysis tool for Microsoft Project
Barbecana produces products to help you validate that your schedules comply with best practices and to perform schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo Simulation) to understand the impact of uncertainty.
Our Silver Sponsor
Critical Tools - Project Planning Software
Makers of WBS Schedule Pro
And thanks to our other sponsors:
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