PMIWDC

Knowledge Exchange Forum's Field Trip to The Nature Conservancy

The Art of Creating, Maintaining & Growing a Successful PMO

Please register only for the session you would like to attend.  A few days before the TNC Field Trip you will receive an e-mail confirming your registration and providing directions. Onsite check-in for each session will be open thirty minutes prior to session start time.

The PMI, Washington DC Chapter and the KXF Committee invite you to attend the first Knowledge Exchange Forum field trip. This is a great new addition to the KXF concept where private, public, government, and non-profit organizations in the DC area open their doors to show and tell their successes in Project Management. The Field Trip program furthers the spirit of the KXF by offering attendees peer-to-peer knowledge sharing with leading organizations in our community.

Our first field trip is to The Nature Conservancy (TNC). TNC, along with CGI Federal, will share real world PMO know-how with you and your peers on Friday November 17, 2006. We are excited about having our first field trip with these two organizations.

Why Attend?
By attending the Field Trip program, you have the opportunity to increase your social network and take away (as well as provide to others) practical tips, tricks, lessons learned, and new techniques in managing projects.

Specifically, the field trip to The Nature Conservancy will provide PMO know-how from PMO architects and managers from two organizations: a non-profit (TNC) and a federal systems integrator (CGI Federal). Together, TNC and CGI Federal PMO architects and managers, who have first-hand experience building and growing their organization’s PMO, will present their unique perspective and share details surrounding the following topics:
• History and how these organizations developed their PMO
• Critical Success Factors
• Lessons Learned, including real-life examples and insight into what worked and what did not work
• Measures of PMO Success

In the spirit of the KXF, our agenda will allow you to discuss and engage with your peers in small group dialogue. TNC and CGI Federal will kick off the session with a 30 minute presentation per organization, followed by break-out sessions in which attendees will engage in peer-to-peer knowledge sharing. Please bring your experience and questions.  Also, please let us know if there are additional topics that you would like to explore.

The PMO recommendations for you to take away and apply immediately are less than two months away! We hope you can participate and don’t forget, with your participation, you will earn 2 PDUs. Additionally, a lite fare selection of food and drinks will be served at each session.

About TNC and CGI Federal
The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest conservation non-profit, engaged in a major re-organization early in the 21st century, to prepare for a more global approach to conservation. TNC is operated in more than 400 offices around the world and has grown to be one of the nation’s top 15 charitable institutions, as measured by private funds raised.

CGI Federal is a full service IT and managed services provider with focused industry expertise and innovative service models that help clients achieve their missions. As an independent U.S. operation, allowing us to fully serve any of your IT and business process services needs, CGI Federal has access to the depth and scale of CGI’s 25,000 professionals operating in 100+ offices in 16 countries around the world.

For any questions, please contact Kathy Adams at