Sanjiv Augustine

About the Program - The Agile PMO: Scaling Agile through Adaptive Governance

How should we scale Agile methods beyond individual projects? How can PMOs avoid being process police and instead truly support Agile teams, enable enterprise rollout of Agile methods, and sustain long-term Agile adoption? 

Learn how industry leaders are scaling Agile with Agile PMOs that:

• Support and empower agile teams through training, coaching, and organizational obstacle removal 
• Track project portfolios using Agile tracking techniques
• Bring lean discipline to project prioritization
• Move towards a stable teams model of resource management

Sanjiv will share principles and techniques for the Agile PMO, and discuss how those concepts are being applied in the industry to scale Agile methods through adaptive governance of programs and portfolios.

About the Speaker

Sanjiv Augustine is the President of LitheSpeed, an innovative Agile and Lean training, consulting and coaching company; and an industry-leading Agile and Lean expert. For over 10 years, Sanjiv has assisted several leading clients adopt Agile methods, including Nationwide Insurance, Capital One, CNBC, Cornell University, NBC Universal, Sprint Nextel, The Motley Fool, T. Rowe Price and StreamSage. 

He is the author of several publications including Transitioning to Agile Project Management: A Roadmap for the Perplexed, The Lean-Agile PMO: Using Lean Thinking to Accelerate Agile Project Delivery and the book Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005); and the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project Management discussion group. 

Sanjiv is also a founder and advisory board member of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), and a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) ’s Agile Forum Steering Committee. 

He presents regularly at several Agile and PMI user groups and conferences worldwide; and project management conferences including Project World and Project Summit. As an in-the-trenches practitioner, he has personally managed Agile projects varying in size from five to over one hundred people, trained thousands of agile practitioners via public classes and conference presentations, and coached numerous project teams.

Karen Browne

About the Program - Negotiating the Compensation You Deserve

Project Managers have to be master negotiators, prepared to negotiate at a moment's notice with anyone from the executive project sponsor about increasing the project budget to a spouse about cancelling the family vacation to Disney World because the project schedule has changed. Even the most mature and confident PM experiences some anxiety when it comes to negotiating about that crucial aspect of any job - the salary. This program includes information about how to prepare, execute and implement your salary negotiation. It covers the common mistakes that people make when negotiating. Participants will leave this session with a personal plan to improve the success of their next salary negotiation. 

About the Speaker

Karen Browne successfully introduced and institutionalized project management practices into entrepreneurial start up technology firms contributing directly to product marketability and long term customer satisfaction. In a recent large ERP implementation project in a politically charged environment, Ms. Browne coached the project team in successfully organizing and presenting difficult and unpopular information for the stakeholder community about the viability of proposed solutions.

Karen specializes in helping project managers develop their management and leadership skills in addition to their project management technical skills. She offers personal coaching and mentoring to project managers as well as training and development programs. Her programs are designed to teach project managers the factors that lead to project and personal success. All programs include self assessment tools to aid individuals in becoming aware of their own strengths and talents, structured, repeated practice of new behaviors, and encouragement to take newly learned behaviors back into the work environment. Topics covered include: Myers-Briggs Type, negotiation, conflict resolution, motivating a team, communicating effectively, navigating the politics in the project environment, influencing stakeholders.

Ms. Browne holds a Bachelors of Art degree from Towson University, a Masters of Business Administration degree from Loyola College in Baltimore. She is certified as a Project Management Professional by the Project Management Institute. Ms. Browne is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Karen has served on the Board of Directors of the Washington D.C Chapter of the Project Management Institute since 2004. She is currently serving as the Vice President of Business Services for the 2009 term.

Mark Buchholz

About the Program: Maximizing PM Networking

Maximizing PM Networking will provide an overview of pointers and suggestions on how to advance your career as a PM now that you’re a PMP.    Whether you’re just getting started as a project manager, or have many years already under your belt, this session will address that all important question: “Now that I’m a PMP what do I do next to advance myself?”  

In this session we will examine some tips on networking within the PM community.  We will cover strategies for advancing your skills, with an eye toward adding even more professional certifications or degrees to your resume.  Drawing upon many sources, including the PMI magazine PM Network, this session will present one man’s view of professional advancement in the community of project management.  We will address that question everyone wants to answer “is there more to this than just having a Linked-In profile?”  

Attendees will be asked to offer their own suggestions, and collaborate with the rest of the participants to develop a top 5 approach to career advancement for the project management.  We will close the session with a discussion about developing a personal 5-year plan, and how to take those all important first steps toward implementing it.

About the Speaker

Mark Buchholz is a PMP with over 20 years in the project management field.  He has been a PMP since 2002 and recently recertified for the second time.  He is the Managing Director for Training at KM Systems Group, a small EVM and PM consulting company in the Washington DC area.  

Mr. Buchholz has extensive experience supporting DOD and federal civilian clients on consulting engagements.  He developed and taught multiple courses in project management including “Effective Integrated Project Planning and Scheduling.”  Mr. Buchholz has been a presenter at EVM World since 2007, the Integrated Project Management Conference since 2006, the PMI-WDC Fall 2007 Knowledge Exchange and numerous PMI-WDC lunch meetings.  

Mr. Buchholz is also an Education Track Coordinator for the PMI College of Performance Measurement.  Mr. Buchholz has been a Project Manager for numerous IT infrastructure and systems projects in the DC area, nationwide, and internationally.

Denis F. Cioffi

About the Program - Project Portfolio Management and the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Project Portfolio Management is not just enterprise project management. In this talk, Denis Coiffi examines theory and practice behind rational decision making in managing project portfolios. A powerful tool, the analytic hierarchy process, will be described in sufficient detail to show how it can play an important role at many junctures, synthesizing the opinions of key players. The presentation will also discuss risk, as fundamental understanding of risk should underlies many portfolio decisions.

About the Speaker

Denis F. Cioffi, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Decision Sciences Department in the Business School at The George Washington University, earned his doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado. After astrophysics research at the University of California at Berkeley, the Goddard Space Flight Center, and North Carolina State University in Raleigh, his science background led directly to his project and program management experience at various federal agencies. 

The transition to management comprised positions at the National Science Foundation, NASA Headquarters, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. He came to GW from the Center for Science, Trade, and Technology Policy at George Mason University. Dr. Cioffi served as Director of GW’s Project Management Program for three years (2001–2004) and currently heads the Project Management Academic Committee. 

With a colleague in the Department, Dr. Cioffi recently received a grant to examine the possible transformation to solar power as the primary source for the US’s electricity, and a system dynamics model was developed this summer. In the Fall, in addition to his academic duties, Cioffi will chair the University’s Research and Instructional Technology Committee. For more information (resume, publications, recent papers), visit his homepage at www.cioffi.us.

Kristin Hanley

Presentation Slides - Why Innovate.pdf

About the Program - Why Innovate? – Innovation Process Management Industry & Trends

In today’s fast-paced global economy, innovation is the key to the next big breakthrough in products, services and processes.  However, businesses are often challenged with facilitating innovation due to governance, technical and other logistical pitfalls.  This session will cover trends in innovation, address common innovation challenges and answer questions like Why innovate? Where does innovation come from?  What percent of innovation investments deliver a positive return?”  We’ll also discuss ways your organization can operationalize innovation including:

• Capturing ideas from anyone within the organization
• Developing business cases for each idea
• Gathering community feedback and ratings
• Running portfolio analytics to select the best ideas
• Successfully executing the resulting projects.

About the Speaker

As an Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Specialist for Microsoft’s Mid-Atlantic office, Kristin Hanley provides high-level counsel for the company’s regional customers and spearheads EPM business development activities and partnerships to ensure customers receive the level of quality they have come to expect from Microsoft.  Kristin has more than a decade of experience in enterprise project and portfolio management, application and innovation process management and IT systems implementations.

Kristin is skilled at aligning project management methodologies and lifecycle management technologies with businesses priorities in order to achieve meaningful solutions for customers. She is experienced in all phases of systems development, including management, planning, design, configuration and deployment.

Kristin joined Microsoft in 2008.  Prior to joining Microsoft, Kristin worked for Project Solutions Group, Inc. (PSG) deploying technology solutions for clients in non-profit, high-tech, communications, financial and environmental industries. In a fast-paced environment with multiple deadlines and stakeholders, Kristin has distinguished herself with her knowledge, leadership and focus on customer satisfaction.

Prior to joining PSG, Kristin was a senior consultant with Extraprise, a systems integrator and business process outsourcing firm specializing in customer relationship management.  Earlier she was a lead consultant with business solutions provider Signature Systems, Inc.

Kristin is a Project Management Professional (PMP), certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI). She is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts degree in government and politics and an active member of the Microsoft Project Users Group (MPUG) and PMI.

Dianne K. LaVanway

Confronting Traditional Thinking with Reality: Leveraging Science & Zen to Manage Your Career More Effectively

How do we manage our careers effectively within the context of widespread uncertainty in the economy and the workplace? Learn how

• The extinction of species correlates with the extinction of firms
• Some basic economic theories are not true in reality
• Some experiences you thought to be personal failures can be perceived differently, and valued and leveraged as iterations on a path to success.

Evolution. Extinction. Innovation. Iteration. Failure. Success.

In this session, we’ll explore these concepts and how you can apply an understanding of them to manage your career more effectively.

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." – Victor E. Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning

About the Speaker

Dianne has more than 20 years experience managing diverse projects across multiple industries. As a PMI certified PMP, she developed a strong interest in risk management, which led her to explore the continuum between failure and success.

Her professional experience includes positions at VeriSign, BellSouth and IBM, as well as smaller entrepreneurial companies.

Dianne earned her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and an M.B.A. from Emory University in Atlanta. She is a member of the local chapter of PMI, PMIWDC; and active in Toastmasters, serving as the Vice President Education for her home club, PMIWDC#01, as well as an Area Governor within District 27.

Dave Maurer

About the Program:  The Job Search Process – Keys to Success

The job search is indeed a process.  In fact – it’s a full time job and requires all the attention associated with a full time job.  To increase the likelihood of success, the prospective candidate should be well organized, thorough, patient and persistent.  One must have a clear understanding of his or her own values and preferences as well as the values, work conditions and expectations of the potential employer. From the initial considerations early on in the job search process to deciding on the final offer, we will discuss the necessary steps and review the keys to maximizing your success.

About the Speaker

Dave Maurer is a Vice President of Axiom Resource Management, Inc., the Project Director for the Continental United States Military Transition Assistance Program delivered by Inverness Technologies, Inc. through the Department of Labor, and the Chief Operating Officer of Synergy Development and Training, LLC, all headquartered in Northern Virginia. In his various leadership capacities, he supervises more than 100 staff members and trainers while ensuring quality service and support to all clients and customers. 

Dave is a native of Trenton, New Jersey and earned his bachelors degree in economics from Seton Hall University and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army’s Adjutant General Corps through the ROTC program there. He served in a wide variety of command and staff positions in the United States and overseas throughout his 22-year military career. His service included tours with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the Joint Staff in the Pentagon and culminated as the 72nd Adjutant General at the United States Military Academy at West Point. 

He holds a master’s degree in management from Central Michigan University and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He has always been active in the community, serving as a director of several civic organizations and as a Hospice volunteer. He has also served as a member of the board of directors of the USO of Metropolitan New Your City and currently serves on several boards including the Washington D.C. chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the George Washington chapter of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) and the Heritage chapter of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA). 

 An energetic and sought after public speaker, Dave offers a wide variety of relevant topics for diverse audiences and organizations. His speaking clients have included the United States Marine Corps, The United States Air Force, The CIA, the FBI, the World Bank, the Project Management Institute, selected faculty members at West Point, and the National Summit on Project Management Excellence, among others. He has also guest lectured for the University of Maryland’s MBA Program and the Virginia Tech Executive MBA Program.

He is the co-author of a newly published book, “Are You the King or Queen of Conflict in Project Management?”

Colleen A. McGraw

About the Program - PMBOK Guide 4th Edition - What's New?

This discussion will briefly present the the 4th Edition of the PMBOK Guide as it compares to the recent 3rd Edition. For both the aspiring and the experienced project manager, this presentation will cover changes to the processes, key changes in approach and framework, and address new additions, definitions, and deletions. This discussion will also provide insights into the process for updating the PMBOK Guide from a member of the PMBOK Guide 4th Edition team.

About the Speaker

Colleen A. McGraw has been managing projects and teams for over 15 years, first in the commercial real estate industry and then in Information Technology and software development. A PMI-certified Project Management Professional with an undergraduate degree in Finance and a Master’s Degree in Management of Information Systems, Ms. McGraw often works with task and project managers to improve financial and schedule control, process improvement, and general management skills.  

Ms. McGraw also uses her project management skills to support the development of volunteer organizations, most recently working to establish a women’s network to aid in the recruiting, mentoring, and promoting of women and their careers. A strong proponent of project management as a professional discipline, Ms. McGraw mentors project managers and teaches PMP certification preparation classes.  

Ms. McGraw has taught project management and PMP and CAPM exam preparation in a number of different venues, and is always looking for opportunities to share her knowledge and experiences with and to learn from others, through teaching as well as speaking at local chapter meetings and company conferences. She is currently working for SRA International as a PMO/project management consultant.

Scott McIntyre

About the Speaker

Scott McIntyre is the managing partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers' Washington Federal Practice business. In this capacity he oversees the operations of PwC's fastest growing business unit of more than 750 professionals serving the business advisory needs of the federal government.  He also leads the firm's Aerospace & Defense Advisory business.  

Scott's consulting experience focuses on operations improvement, strategy development, and systems analysis primarily in the public sector market. His previous responsibilities included leading the $100M public health practice as vice-president of a large systems integrator where he managed multiple accounts, and delivered more than fifty complex consulting engagements for federal, healthcare, and aerospace & defense clients.  He began his career at a defense contractor where he was a program manager.  

Scott holds and MS in Information Systems from The Johns Hopkins University, an MBA from the Atkinson Graduate School of Management and a BA in Business Administration from Washington & Jefferson College.  He is active with the non-profit Prevent Cancer.org and mentoring youth about education and career planning.

Rick Nealis

About the Program - Project Leadership Skills in a Fluid Environment.

An insight of the leadership process which focuses on developing and executing projects and identifies how your personality, chemistry, and focus can transfor an organization to success. Particular emphasis will be reviewing key goals for the 34th Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC and discovering how overcoming anticipated obstacles may help you achiever success for your organization while reinforcing and solidifying your overall mission objectives.

About the Speaker

Rick Nealis has served as the Marine Corps Marathon race directors since 1993. Under his leadership, the Marine Corps Marathon has established itself as one of the best-organized marathons in the world.

Nealis was born on December 15, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduation from Villanova University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps through the Platoon Leaders Course Program in May of 1975.

After completion of The Basic School at Quantico, Virginia, Nealis entered his military occupational training at the Supply Schools in camp Lejeune, North Carolina. During his military career, Nealis served with the 1^st Reconnaissance Battalion and the 31^st Marine amphibious Unite while aboard the USS Tarawa, USS Okinawa, and the USS Tripoli when he was a part of the amphibious ready group during the Iranian Hostage rescue attempt. Additionally, he served with the 1^st Marine Brigade in Kaneohe, Hawaii and with the 3^rd Force Service Support Group in Okinawa, Japan.

While in the Marine Corps, Nealis succeeded in furthering his education earning a Master of Business Administration in Management from Golden State University and a Master of Science in Human Organizational Services from Villanova University. He also attended the Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School and the Marine Corps Command and Staff College. Later, he served as an instructor at the Marine Corps Service Support Schools and at Naval Reserve Office Training Course at Villanova University.

Colin McRae and the PMIWDC Toastmasters Clubs

PMIWDC#01 Toastmasters club, founded in August 2006, is an affiliate of the Washington DC Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMIWDC).

Toastmasters clubs provide a venue for their members to enhance their communication and leadership skills, and PMIWDC#01 Toastmasters Club also allows Project Management Professionals (PMP) to obtain PDUs via continuing education in these skills.

The club will be presenting a one hour demonstration meeting to introduce Career Day participants to the Toastmasters experience.  The demonstration will feature guest speaker David Ross, 1991 Toastmasters International World Champion of Public Speaking, along with club members presenting prepared speeches and engaging in extemporaneous speaking.

Carl Pritchard

About the Program - Communications has Four C's

How well do you communicate with your boss? Your team? Your customer? In this lively discussion, Carl Pritchard (Author of "The Project Management Communications Tool Kit") gives you the tools to ensure you're thinking through your communications with the customer, the team and your organization. 

As he examines the facets of Control, Cost, Community and Charisma, he drives home how virtually anyone can be a more effective communicator with just a marginal amount of planning and forethought. 

About the Speaker

Carl Pritchard is a recognized author, lecturer and teacher in the project management community. He is the author of six texts, co-producer of the "Portable PMP Prep" and is the U.S. Correspondent for the British project management magazine, "Project Manager Today." He has presented keynote addresses around the globe, and sits on the board of directors for ProjectConnections.com and on the advisory board for the Project Management Leadership conference by QAI in Dehli, India. He was the lead chapter author for the risk management chapter of the latest (4th) edition of the Guide to the PMBOK.

Gene Zaino

About the Program: How to Become and Independent Consultant

In today's economy, companies are relying more and more on contract talent, while permanent positions are being cut. If you have the skills and drive, working as an independent consultant can be an appealing career. 

Join us for this one hour seminar as we explore the nuts and bolts of working as an independent consultant. Learn about options for structuring your business (LLC, S-Corp, Portable Employer, etc), Business Insurance, Expenses, Taxes,  and more. 

This session is presented by Gene Zaino, President and CEO of MBO Partners. An avid entrepreneur, Zaino has devoted his life's work to making it easy for independent consultants and their clients to work together, and is a major advocate for career independence. Whether you are working as a consultant already, or just considering the options for going independent, don't miss this session!

About the Speaker

Gene Zaino, an accomplished and nationally recognized expert in the contract workforce market, launched MBO Partners as a business that would re-invent the way independent contractors and organizations work together. Zaino is a major force in the development of best practices, risk mitigation programs, and independent contractor engagement tools that support workplace independence. 

Gene is an avid entrepreneur who graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Economics (BSE). After four years with KPMG Peat Marwick as a CPA and management consultant, he spent 20 years building, merging and selling various consulting companies, some funded by financial luminaries Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Austin Ventures and Goldman Sachs.

He serves on the expert advisory board for the Human Capital Institute and collaborated with other industry leaders to create and develop the Contract Talent Research Practice Area at HCI, furthering education, ethics, and industry best practices. Zaino has led executive seminars at the Project Management Institute, the Institute for Supply Management, and the Military Officers Association of America.  He is a frequent speaker and has appeared in publications, radio and television including the Washington Business Journal, CNNfn and USA Today.