PMIWDC

The August KXF webinar features two presentations that will be simulcast globally. 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.

• Morning Session
• Evening Session
• Times are US EDT, -0400 UTC

5 Things you Must Know
to Implement a PMO with Minimum Costs

featuring

Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP
Principal, Macro Solutions

11:00am to 12:15pm, August 26, 2010 and
9:00pm to 10:15pm, August 26, 2010

Applying Project Management Discipline to Six Sigma Work

featuring

Francisco Pulgar-Vidal
President, fkiQuality

12:30pm to 1:45pm, August 26, 2010 and
10:30pm to 11:45pm, August 26, 2010 

About the Webinar

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

Attendees will receive 2.5 PDUs. (Note that you can not receive 5 PDUs from attending both sessions. The two sessions are identical)

• Morning Session Registration: 11:00am ET to 1:45pm ET
• Evening Session Registration: 9:00pm ET to 11:45pm ET
• All times are USA Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) -0400 UTC

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, August 26, 2010

First Session: 11:00am ET to 1:45pm ET

5 Things you Must Know: 11:00am to 12:15pm

Applying Project Management Discipline to Six Sigma Work: 12:30pm to 1:45pm

Second Session: 9:00pm ET to 11:45pm ET

5 Things you Must Know: 9:00pm to 10:15pm

Applying Project Management Discipline to Six Sigma Work: 10:30pm to 11:45pm

Online webcast via www.pmiwdc.org

About the Presentations

5 Things you Must Know to Implement a PMO with Minimum Costs

Applying Project Management Discipline to Six Sigma Work

• Six Sigma incorporates a number of project management elements which give it a higher degree of success than other methods’.
• Project management is present in six sigma projects from inception to conclusion.
• A focus on the customer, discovery and deployment routes, well-define stage gates, benefits identification and team building are all six sigma strengths borrowed from project management

About the Speakers

Ricardo Viana Vargas, MSc, IPMA-B, PMP

Project, portfolio and risk management specialist. He is author of 10 books in Portuguese and English. Consultant in projects, administering an investment portfolio of over 18 billion dollars worldwide. He was Chairman of the Board for the Project Management Institute (PMI), the largest project management association in the world.

Francisco Pulgar-Vidal

Francisco Pulgar-Vidal is the President of fkiQuality, a consultancy focused on helping companies raise operational performance levels.

Francisco is a process improvement professional with Lean Six Sigma certifications from the American Society for Quality and IBM Corporation. Francisco has a record of success deploying continuous improvement practices and changing work cultures. His consulting experience includes companies in many sectors such as consumer packaged foods, retail, energy, financial services and the government.

Almost 20 years of work have taken Francisco to companies in the Americas , Europe and Asia. He is fluent in English, Spanish and French. Francisco's education includes a Masters of Science degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Business Administration. He teaches at the college and graduate level courses in business administration, industrial engineering and lean six sigma practices. Francisco also volunteers with several job networks helping professionals in job transition.