PAST EVENTS

9:00am-10:00am: CPO – Finally a Seat at the Table

Jeff Manhardt, Chief Project Officer, Kaleida Health

Manhardt

10:00am-10:30am:  Sponsor/Networking Break

10:30am-11:30am: Roadmap to Agility: A Framework for Today’s Adaptive PMO (Hybrid)

Louise Allen, Senior VP, Product Management & Solutions Marketing, Planview
Todd Myers, Director, Global IT PMO, Stericycle

The role of the PMO is changing. Once focused on centralized control, standardized execution and structured governance, today’s PMO needs to be more flexible as goals and strategies shift. How is your PMO adapting? You can respond faster to change and deliver greater value to your customers by adopting a more modern approach to planning and delivery with just enough governance.

Join this session as we dive into what it looks like for PMOs to embrace hybrid work and become more adaptive. Todd Myers, Director Global ITPMO at Stericycle, will share their own journey to agility.

     
Allen          Myers

11:30am-12:30pm: Managing Portfolio Risk in a Time of Crisis

Tim Washington, President, Acuity PPM

In this pandemic, portfolio risk management is no longer an option. In order to protect portfolio value, companies need to manage portfolio level risks as well as manage the risk tolerance in the portfolio. This presentation will cover both of these foundational aspects of portfolio risk management and leverage the recent experience of a financial services organization.

Washington

12:30pm – 1:30pm:  Lunch Break

1:30pm – 2:30pm:  How to Facilitate the Shift from a Project to a Product Organization

Claude Scher, Director Applications Development and Maintenance, Charter Manufacturing

One of the most talked about topic in PPM is the need and sometimes urgency to move your project to a product based organization. It sounds like a very attractive option. But like many other transformational initiatives in the past, this can be a complicated and at times frustrating journey and you have to select what is the right approach for your organization.. In this virtual and interactive presentation, I will address some of my lessons learned and best practices experienced over the years as a practitioner and researcher.

• WHY of product management
• What’s a product (and product lines)?
• Foreseeable benefits
• What approaches can companies take to embark on this journey?
• Critical success factors
• Roadblocks you may encounter and how to deal with them
• Impact to organizations in general
• New roles being introduced
• The role of the business
• Final takeaways
• Q&A

Scher

2:30pm-3:00pm:  Sponsor/Networking Break

3:00pm-4:00pm:  Overview of the Annual Planning Process – from Intake to Master Scheduling

Amit Mehta, Senior Consultant, Sia Partners

The portfolio manager plays a vital role supporting the organization’s annual planning process. Typically sitting within the IT or Enterprise PMO, they help build a realistic picture of the overall project portfolio while balancing various factors (e.g. resources, budget, etc.).

This presentation will provide an overview of the annual planning cycle and a practitioner’s guide to go from intake to master schedule. We will also discuss challenges and opportunities that may surface during this process lifecycle.

Mehta

Conference Price: $0.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations.  During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.