Practical Approaches to Change Management from Farm Credit Mid-America

Change is inevitable, that's a fact. And it's never easy. But if there's one thing we can learn in today's project landscape, it's that not adapting to change isn't even an option.

Project timelines are accelerating at an unprecedented pace and you're expected to work with brand new tools and solutions that weren't even available a few years ago - how are you and your teams coping?

 

PW&WCBA is Your Partner in Advancing Your Change Management Strategies:

Change is Tough: The Alternative is Tougher.  A Case Study on Organization-Wide Change Management Emphasizing Practical Approaches and Lessons Learned

Farm Credit Mid-America's Vice President of Process Improvement & Execution, Chuck Millhollan will lead you through a multi-faceted case study which incorporates strategic portfolio management, the practical application of Lean concepts in a service organization, a complex program impacting every employee in one of the largest associations in the Farm Credit System, and a multi-year change management initiative on the organization's Journey to 2020. Special attention is given to the practical tools and tactics the Farm Credit Mid-America teams have used to enhance delivery and change management.

In addition to Chuck, also hear from:

• Lou Russell, CEO, Learning Faciliator, Russell Martin & Associates on The IT PM as Change Leader

• Myles Miller, CEO & Founder, LeadUp discussing Change Agents - Are You Ready for Change?

• Brunella Lahey, Senior Business Systems Analyst sharing how to Implement Global Solutions at a Fortune 100 Company

• Wayne Kremling, PMP, Senior Project Manager, The Boeing Company revealing Managing Risks, Issues and Opportunities with a Mitigation Burndown

• And much more!

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Join us in October and walk away with an action plan to increase your ability to manage projects during times of change. Register today with code PW15BL and receive $100 off current rates! http://bit.ly/1EDAgB8

We hope to see you in Seattle!

Cheers!

The PW&WCBA Team

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As a thank you for being a member of our ProjectWorld & The World Congress for Business Analysts LinkedIn group, we’d like to invite you to join us for the following complimentary presentations in our PW&WCBA webinar series:

Building Metrics that Tell the Complete Story – Going Beyond Earned Value Management

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

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Join Dwayne P. Myers, I&DS Rotorcraft Project Manager, Boeing, in a presentation that takes a deep dive into Earned Value Management. He’ll reveal best practices and lessons learned in understanding and explaining the numbers, as well as where variances meet the stakeholders.

Reserve your webinar seat now: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/217800313 Cyber Security Thursday, December 4, 2014 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Join Silvanus David, Programme Manager – IT Infrastructure Projects, in a presentation about how cyber security is a shared responsibility, and each of us has a role to play. Emerging cyber threats require the engagement of the entire society - from government and law enforcement to the private sector and most importantly, members of the public. Today in cyberspace, the nation faces a myriad of threats from criminals, including individual hackers and organized criminal groups, as well as technologically advanced nation-states. Government, non-governmental and private sector entities, as well as individuals, families and communities must collaborate on ways to effectively reduce risk. Reserve your webinar seat now: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/346620408 After Action Reviews – Capturing Lessons Learned  Tuesday, December 9, 2014 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Join Wayne Kremling, Senior Project Manager, Everett Program Planning & Control, Boeing, in a presentation about how capturing and leveraging lessons learned should be a strategic goal of all enterprises.  By putting action to this strategy organizations can avoid repeating mistakes and take advantage of opportunities.  Many projects or organizations conduct lessons learned meetings at the end of a project.  The problem they run into is that the value of the lesson is not leveraged.  A change in processes or tools is needed as an outcome of these reviews so that the value of the lessons can be realized. Reserve your webinar seat now: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/176980225 BAs and PMs Unite to Avoid Projects Destined to Fail Wednesday, December 10, 2014 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST Join Robin F. Goldsmith, JD in a presentation about how project managers often get blamed for failure of projects that no project manager could save.  Frankly, many projects are destined to fail from the beginning. Managing such projects is a disheartening effort to minimize failure rather than an uplifting quest to success. The problem stems inevitably from widely-accepted but mistaken project and requirements models.  In this eye-opening presentation, Robin Goldsmith shows how appropriate business analysis is essential for initiating projects that can succeed. Reserve your webinar seat now: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/264834208

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Don’t Let Your Project Fail: Management and Communication Practices for Project Success

Next month, Naomi Karten, Author of Changing How You Manage and Communicate Change, will share critical management and communication practices for project success at ProjectWorld & World Congress for Business Analysts. There are countless reasons why a project fails. One of the most common is the increasing difficulty of projects. In addition to budget and resource constraints and technology challenges, projects face shifting project demands, demanding stakeholders, and the list goes on and on.

In addition industry leaders from Bank of America, Boeing, Cisco, FedEx, Humana, Shire HGT, Travelers and more will reveal PM and BA best practices and skills needed to accelerate your professional development.

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#PWWCBA Speaker Spotlight: William J Purpura of The Boeing Company

This November at Project World and the World Congress for Business Analysts, William J. Purpura, MSME, MBA, PE, & PMP; Senior Project Engineer at The Boeing Company will be presenting "Earned Schedule (ES), Correcting Earned Value Management’s (EVM) Errors in Cost & Schedule Predictions on Complex Projects"

Over his 35 year career, (including 28 years at Boeing), Purpura has served in both Senior Project and Senior System Engineering roles on a widely diverse range of programs. Bill has been awarded BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineer, an MBA, as well as four post graduate Certificates in Software Engineering from California State University Fullerton. He is Project Management Professional (PMP) certified, a registered Mechanical Professional Engineer (PE) in the state of California, and a SEC certified Registered Investment Advisor.

Bill is currently supporting Boeing’s Strategic Development & Experimentation organization, focusing on the creation of next generation Net-Enabled architectures and environments as well as development roadmaps for technologies critical to Boeing’s new business thrusts. Bill has been awarded 13 US patents (2 more pending), 3 International patents, and one Boeing trade secret. He has also authored/presented scores of papers and training courses within Boeing as well as workshops at Project World in 2006, 2007, 2008, & 2009.

This year's session will focus on Earned Schedule (ES). Called out in the 2005 PMI Earned Value Management Practice Standard as an “emerging practice”, Earned Schedule provides analytical tools to address known EVM errors in predicting cost & schedule for complex projects. Drawing on the same data underpinning EVM systems ES Schedule Performance Indicators (SPIs) are calculated based around time, not cost. This allows management to better understand the true progress being made on complex systems in terms aligned with today’s most important project constraints; time-to-market and/or contracted product delivery. This one day workshop will provide attendees with the essential understanding of the theory of ES as well as a working knowledge of the tools and process required to implement it on current/future complex projects.

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Training Tip Tuesdays: The Journey to Formal PM and Portfolio Management

Join us on Monday, November 16 at PW&WCBA 2009 for a presentation by Michael Schertz, Senior Project Manager of Learning and Training Development at Boeing.

Currently, the PM team within LTD managed by Michael, addresses approximately 1000 to 1500 projects with life cycles of less than 200 hours. These projects touch all functional areas across the Boeing enterprise and requirement alignment to specialize programs and project management across the company. This is done with a PM team that is entirely virtual and with over 70% of the developmental work being outsourced to vendors, requiring the PM team to scope the requirements well, but craft statements of work quickly and effectively. This presentation will cover our journey of bringing Project Management and Portfolio Management to Boeing's Learning, Training and Development organization.

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