PMIWDC

The November Speaker Exchange webinar features two presentations that will be simulcast globally, courtesy of the PMIWDC Chapter-to-Chapter Outreach program. 

Both sessions will each be held twice to accommodate international viewers in other time zones. The webinars are free for PMIWDC members and members or C2C Speaker Exchange organizations

Important Note: The November Speakers Exchange webinar will be held on November 19th. Some email advertisements listed the program as November 26th by mistake. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Great Project Managers

featuring

Michael O’Brochta, PMP
Zozer, Inc

11:00am to 12:00pm, November 19, 2009 and 9:00pm to 10:00pm, November 19, 2009

Using PM to Build Social Networks for Natural Disaster Prevention
An Earned Value approach to measure effectiveness

featuring

Fernando Roque
Parm, Guatemala City, Guatemala

12:15pm to 1:15pm, November 19, 2009 and
10:15pm to 11:15pm, November 19, 2009

About the Webinar

This PMIWDC webinar is being presented globally, and is available to anyone interested in attending. 

Attendees will receive 2 PDUs. (Note that you can not receive 4 PDUs from attending both sessions. The two sessions are identical)

Cost

PMIWDC and C2C Chapters: Free
The session is free of charge to PMIWDC members, and to members of the C2C Speaker Exchange Program.

Non-Members: $5.00

Members of the following groups may attend free of charge.

Interested in becoming part of the C2C speakers exchange program? Contact us to learn more.

Date and Time:

Thursday, November 19, 2009

First Session: 11:00am ET to 1:15pm ET

Great Project Managers: 11:00am to 12:00pm

Social Networks for Natural Disaster Prevention: 12:15pm to 1:15pm

Second Session: 9:00pm ET to 11:15pm ET

Great Project Managers: 9:00pm to 10:00pm

Social Networks for Natural Disaster Prevention: 10:15pm to 11:15pm

Online webcast via www.pmiwdc.org

About the Presentations:

Great Project Managers

What does it take in project management to be the best-of-the-best, the top dog, a superstar, or world-class? What does it take to practice project management at the high-end? What does it take to be a great project manager? Thanks to recent studies and research the answers to these questions are closer now then they have ever been before.

This is a how-to presentation. It describes how to become a great project manager and it identifies a list of top factors associated with great project managers. This presentation draws on recently published results of studies and research by PMI and others about what top project managers know and do, about why their projects succeed or fail, and about their project manager competencies. This presentation explores how great project managers are successfully dealing with the evolving and expanding definition of project success, with the expanding complexity of projects, and with their increasing dependency on executives and others for their success. A central theme is that great project managers have mastered the basics, and have the discipline to adhere to them.

Using PM to Build Social Networks for Natural Disaster Prevention
An Earned Value approach to measure effectiveness

Central America is vulnerable to natural disaster due climate change. Starvation, advance of dried lands and hurricanes are among them. An environmental organization working in the atlantic coast of Guatemala, FUNDARY, the Disaster Prevention Agency of the Guatemalan government and Italian cooperation have propose a plan to face these threats.

One of the major challenges of third world countries for disaster prevention is social integration, good professional training and the build of communications infrastructure. To keep alive the social network and give a continuous training is a high demand task that has to be accomplished to be sure that the community will be ready to respond a disaster emergency.

About the Speakers:

Mike O'Brochta

Mr. O'Brochta, who has been a project manager for over thirty years, is also an experienced line manager, author, lecturer, trainer, and consultant. He holds a master's degree in project management, a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and is certified as a PMP. As Zozer Inc. President, he is helping organizations raise their level of project management performance. As senior project manager in the CIA, he lead the maturing of the project management practices agency-wide. Since his recent climb of another of the world’s seven summits, he has been exploring the relationship between project management and mountain climbing. Mr. O'Brochta's papers and presentations at PMI national, international, and regional conferences have consistently been popular and well received; his recent three PMI Global Congress presentations have drawn the largest audiences at those events.

Fernando Roque

Fernando Roque works as a consultant Cost and Financial Engineering projects for PARM AG (www.parm.com) which is a Swiss company based in St Gallen working in Latinamerica. He designs financial and risk models for Project Management using Earned Value. He lead the Cost Engineering Software produced by PARM for use in Latinamerica. He has been a presenter in multiple occasions at the PMI-CPM Northamerica Global Conferences in the use of Earned Value in projects.