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Workshop 2 - Sessions

Concurrent Workshop Sessions #2
Monday, May 5 @ 11:00 am

Stream: Strategic Project Management

Strategic Project Management

It is time to put project management on the agenda of your organization's next executive board meeting. Traditionally project management has been a tool for scheduling, planning, and execution. It brings efficiency and predictability to organizations that embrace it. Usually it is adopted by mid-level management to optimize one or two department's activities. Learn how the President and CEO of a 400-employee company used project management as their primary method to drive their Strategic Plan. Project management is ready for the board room. Learn ways to bring it to the attention of senior managers. This presentation was delivered to a standing-room-only crowd at the PMI 2006 North America Congress, and was chosen as one of the top presentations for that event. Do not miss the chance to see this presentation right here in Edmonton.

Speaker: Alex S. Brown

Alex S. Brown, PMP IPMA-C is an experienced project manager and award-winning leader and speaker. He has spoken at dozens of project management events in North America and Asia, on topics ranging from scheduling techniques to organizational strategy. He has been published in newsletters internationally, and provides his speeches and articles free-of-charge at www.alexsbrown.com. He has been a project manager for software development and financial services projects since 1993. Alex owns Real-Life Projects, Inc. Using project management techniques to solve strategic problems, the company specializes in timely, focused, practical solutions. Alex graduated from Princeton University and has worked at ADP, Merrill Lynch, Chubb, and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance. He is active in project management professional groups, including PMI, asapm, and AACEi. He currently serves as the VP of Professional Development for the PMI Troubled Projects SIG. Alex lives in central New Jersey with his wife and seven kids.

Stream: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

APEGGA Project of the Year: Agruim ESN 150

ESN (Environmentally Smart Nitrogen) 150 Project resulted in the world's first commercial scale (150,000 tonnes/year) production unit for Controlled Release Fertilizers targeted at broad acre agricultural crops. Prior to this project, a semi-works plant had been utilized to produce product for large scale field trials and to demonstrate the economic viability of the product made with Agrium's proprietary technology. This $50 million project, which represented a four times scale-up from the semi-works unit, was constructed in 10 months from full project approval and successfully started up within two weeks of Mechanical Completion. Despite the challenges posed by the extremely high level of construction activity in Alberta, this fast track project (100) was completed with a very modest 10 percent cost overrun. This combined Agrium/Jacobs presentation will discuss several key leadership factors and decisions that led to the success of the project, including bridge financing between project development phases, treating the projects as a turnaround, and close cooperation between Agrium, Jacobs and the sub-contractors involved.

Speaker: Glen Ford and Tyler Gervais

Glen Ford has worked with Agrium for the past 30 years in a wide variety of production roles. Currently, he is the Manager of Controlled Release Products at Carseland Nitrogen Operations. Glen has been a leader in Agrium’s Controlled Release initiative from the inception. Responsibilities have included research and development of Agrium technologies, pilot plant scale up which lead to the design, construction and operation of a semi works plant and finally construction the ESN 150 plant. During the design and execution of the ESN Project at Carseland, Glen’s responsibilities included technology owner, process equipment design and plant start up.

Stream: Project Leadership

Accountable Teams Apprentice Style

Join us and we will combine Team Building Material with energizing Team “Challenges” so the participants can examine themselves and their team-mates throughout a session of activities “Survivor Style”. Our goal has always been to make learning fun and interactive. After the session your team will come away with:

An outlet for fun and humour that will be essential in the success of the team. Throughout the session we bring in “Team Challenges” that will bring out specific behaviours in the individual team members, while keeping the entire group Laughing and Energized.

Speaker: Linda Edgecombe

Linda Edgecombe, CSP is an internationally renowned award-winning humorous speaker, trainer and consultant. She is a best selling author who energizes every room as she leads people to loosen up, lighten the load and laugh. Her audiences are motivated and shown how they can shift their perspectives on life, work and themselves. Change has never been this painless! As a professional, with a degree in Physical Education, Linda brings 20 years of Recreation, Employee Wellness, Lifestyle and Corporate Consulting experience to her programs and her clients. She was a consultant for PARTICIPACTION promoting healthy living to Canadians and is known for being one of the countries most popular Speakers. Most recently featured in the Wall Street Journal as an expert in “Shifting Perspectives”.

Stream: Project Management Fundamentals

Bringing Clarity to IT Governance, Practical Approaches to Achieving Sustainable ITG

Business and IT alignment presents unique challenges. Companies may have too much or too little data. It may be stored and presented haphazardly. Or, it may not be relevant or useful at all. Today’s CIOs need every advantage to make themselves the most agile and proficient to present their case, improve their operations, and lead their businesses. Bottom line -- today's CIO’s need a “view,” or portfolio dashboard, to provide them with a new and pragmatic approach to gain rapid, predictable value from their IT investments and manage their businesses.

The effective CIO needs to know how to be best prepared to speak to their Board and other executives, and be equipped to effectively present the way IT is running successfully. The truly proficient and effective CIO is not focusing on IT Governance due to mandates, but is doing it because it makes the whole IT organization exceptionally effective.

Speaker: Michael J. Mulicka

Michael J. Mulicka is vice president and global practice manager for CA’s IT Governance (ITG) practice, where he directs the development of governance-related service offerings based primarily on CA’s Clarity project portfolio management and change management technologies. With over 28 years in IT, Michael’s has significant experience in systems and application development, architecture, enterprise systems management, asset management, project & portfolio management, IT services and IT governance. Michael joined CA, Inc., from BearingPoint’s London office, where he led their IT strategy and transformation practice, providing senior-level advisory and consulting for best practices, and overseeing development of service offerings for project portfolio management and service portfolio management. Michael also worked for 25 years in JPMorganChase’s New York office directing line support functions, projects and programs, account relationships, and system/application development teams. Michael is an industry speaker on advancing the IT management and business agenda at professional seminars. He has written many articles and white papers relating to IT transformation, the business of IT, and IT management

Stream: The Mixed Bag

You've Got Way TOO Many Issues!

Project Managers realize that they must manage risks and issues in a timely and effective manner. However, many project teams do not practice effective and continuous risk management throughout the project life cycle, preferring to wait until the risk becomes realized, and becomes an issue, before taking any action. This presentation will discuss the differences between Project Risk Management and Issues Management and review some tools and best practices that make both jobs more effective. It will also cover some techniques and recommendations for applying these tools. The objective of this presentation is show the difference between risks and issues, how to best develop the effective mindset and attitude to deal with them, learn risk management best practices, as well as risk management tools and techniques to apply consistent risk management throughout the project, and learn issue management best practices, and some effective tools for identifying, assessing and controlling issues on a project.

Speaker: Ernest Baker

Ernie Baker, PMP, is the president of Start to Finish PM, Inc., a Project Management Institute Registered Education Provider, headquartered in Verona, NJ. The focus of Ernie’s practice involves working with organizations on program and project management initiatives. Over the past 20 years, he has worked on projects for clients such as MetLife Insurance, Morgan Stanley, Disney, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mercedes Benz USA, IBM, United Technologies, A&P, and Johnson & Johnson. His experience covers Information Technology, Engineering, Pharmaceutical, Consulting, Sales and Marketing, and Project and Program Management. Prior to entering the corporate world, Ernie served as an Engineer Officer in the US Army Reserves, serving as a Project Manager for various Military Civil and Combat Engineering projects. His last assignment was as a Commanding Officer for a Combat Engineer Company and held the rank of Captain, USAR. Ernie was awarded certification by the Project Management Institute (2001) as a "Project Manager Professional". He is also a Certified Technical Trainer (CTT+ - 1998), a certified Information Technology Project Manager (Project +-2000) and a Microsoft Solutions Framework Practitioner (2002). Ernie is a frequent presenter, offering presentations throughout the US and Canada. Past attendees may remember that he presented to standing-room-only crowds in past Global Congresses. Ernie is best known for his sense of humor, his analogies, stories and insights into the world of the project manager.

 

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