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Welcome to the PMI
South Florida Chapter’s Thanks for being a part of the 2009
Professional Development Day 2009! Professional Development Day!
I sincerely hope you realize that you are not alone in your
quest for excellence and that all of us (hundreds around
you while you read this booklet and several thousands
more around the world) are working really hard on the
future of your profession and our business community.
Ricardo Triana, PMP
Let’s ensure that after this day, you have really made a President
difference in your life and will be able to add value by
transforming and leading the global portfolio that is waiting
for us all.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Researchers at the Carnegie Foundation devoted Get more done and get home sooner! Missed
a great deal of time and money studying what deadlines, churning priorities, and 50-hour weeks
makes people successful. Their findings have been plague today’s high-achievers. With this fresh
translated into a laugh-provoking, motivational approach, you’ll master six powerful productivity
presentation. This high-energy keynote will give you principles and a novel control-point technique that
tips that you can use immediately to attract and keep obsoletes traditional time management.
clients, build strong relationships in your office and
strengthen relationships with friends and at home. Skillfully blending the essentials of time management,
project management, and productivity with the
You’ll learn specific rapport-building techniques you latest research on multi-tasking, sleep, and other
can use right away. You’ll benefit personally and performance affecting choices, you’ll transform the
professionally from attending and both you and your way you work forever.
organization will profit from what you will learn.
Vicki Hitzges’s high-voltage personality lights up Ron Black helps business leaders and professionals
the room. As an award-winning TV news anchor thrive in an environment of accelerating complexity
and talk show host, she learned to communicate. and explosive change. As the founder of nine
As a publicist for several of Dallas’ best-known businesses, a four-time turn-around executive,
corporations and celebrities, she learned the art of and a Fortune 500 marketing VP, Ron knows what
business. Vicki uses that rich background to educate it takes to lead organizations through growth,
and entertain audiences around the globe. She has turbulence, and change. He’s consulted to over 200
spoken from New England to New Zealand, bakes start-up businesses, authored two books on project
brownies so rich you can feel your aorta snap shut management including the popular Complete Idiot’s
and loves to laugh.You’ll enjoy her warm personality Guide to Project Management with Microsoft Project
and vibrant, fun delivery. Plus, you’ll leave with new 2003, and created the train-your-team-over-pizza
skills you can use right away. seminar on DVD, Acrobatics for Overachievers. He’s
spoken to over 1000 groups in 47 states, throughout
Australia, Canada, and in Russia.
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PDD SCHEDULE 2009
Attendees of the PDD 2009 are entitled to claim up to 7 PDUs under category 3 of the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements
Program (CCR). PMPs are expected to record their attendance via the PMI website at www.pmi.org
To report your PDUs, just enter the program number C038-PDD2009 and then enter the number of PDU’s associated with the
sessions you attended.
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CREATING VALUE THROUGH PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS
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SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS
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SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS
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CREATING VALUE THROUGH PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS
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SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS
Sandra Rowe, PMP, MBA, MSCIS has more than 11:00 to 12:00 and 4:00 to 5:00
20 years of project management experience.
Sandra also develops project management
processes, tools and techniques, and designs, This session was so popular at last year’s PMI Global
develops and delivers project management
Congress in Denver that Sandra was asked to provide an
training programs. She has taught graduate
level project management classes and speaks “encore” presentation. When managing multiple small
regularly at project management conferences projects you need to be more efficient, you need more
on a variety of topics related to project control, and you need a tool to communicate project
management processes, project management interdependencies. Sandra will share with you a project
for small projects, and project office. Sandra is management process designed to manage multiple
also the author of Project Management for Small
small projects providing consolidated reporting, allowing
Projects and currently sits on the Projects@
Work Editorial Board. the project manager to view the progress of the entire
project portfolio.
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SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS
Project Manager as
Strategic Leader
Nathaniel Quintana, PMP Nathaniel Quintana
11:00 to 12:00 and 4:00 to 5:00 Mr. Quintana is the Director of Chaos at Harvest
PM. He has over 10 years of experience in the
field of Information Technology and 5 years
During this presentation attendees will learn how serving of training experience. He has consulted and
as a project manager will help develop their skill to worked in an array of industries such as the
become a strategic leader. A variety of leadership skills Department of Defense, Civil Government,
will be discussed and sited to demonstrate how PMs can Aerospace, Manufacturing, Convention
Services, Call Centers and Education. He has
add to the success of their organizations. By the end of provided thought leadership on a variety of
this presentation attendees will learn how being a project areas including process improvement, project
manager can build their skills to become strategic leaders management maturity, EVM, communications
and apply these skills to help their organizations become and resource management. He is currently the
more successful. The presentation will demonstrate how 2009 Chair for the PMI Nomination Committee
project managers can use strategic leadership skills and has been a volunteer for the PMI Standards
Consensus Body as well as the 2008 OPM3
to make a difference. The skills reviewed will discuss Update Team.
transforming organizations and adding value.
Creating Transformational
Performance during a Recession
Simone Brown
Simone Brown
Simone Brown is a management consultant,
11:00 to 12:00 and 4:00 to 5:00 public speaker and a talk radio personality who
routinely creates opportunities for organizations
to deliver faster, better services, less expensively.
Many organizations now have to do more with less. You She is an electrical engineer with certifications
can find hidden opportunities in your project management in both Project Management and Lean/Six
and IT processes that can improve performance, even Sigma. Her areas of expertise include strategic
in a recession. Our Transformational Performance planning, business process improvement and
strategies use methodologies in portfolio management, project management. Simone improves people,
performance and profits by providing valuable
risk management and process improvement to reduce expertise to help executives and professionals
costs and accelerate results. Join us and learn how to “take it to the next level”. Her experiences in
use the tools that will enable delivery of faster, better reducing costs and improving performance
services, less expensively. We’ll show you how to have enabled her to make lasting organizational
develop initiatives with clearer goals, shorter timelines changes across industries like Financial
and reduced risk. Services, Supply Chain, Telecommunications
and Higher Education.
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SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS
Facilitation Essentials
for Project Leaders
Ron Black
Ron Black
Ron Black helps business leaders and
professionals thrive in an environment of 2:30 to 3:45
acceleraing complexity and explosive change.
As the founder of nine businesses, a four-time Designed expressly for project managers, sponsors,
turn-around executive, and a Fortune 500 and core team members this session applies meeting
marketing VP, Ron knows what it takes to lead facilitation best practices to the challenges of leading
organizations through growth, turbulence, and
effective project teams. Learn how to boost your team’s
change. He’s consulted to over 200 start-up
businesses, authored two books on project authentic participation, build a shared clarity of purpose,
management including the popular Complete generate better ideas, integrate competing demands
Idiot’s Guide to Project Management with and viewpoints, weight and prioritize options, and make
Microsoft Project 2003, and created the better project decisions. With an easy-to-use three-step
train-your-team-over-pizza seminar on DVD, facilitation framework and selected process tools, you’ll
Acrobatics for Overachievers. He’s spoken
be able to lead even the most challenging meeting with
to over 1000 groups in 47 states, throughout
Australia, Canada, and in Russia. complete confidence and professional composure—and
harvest the wisdom of your team!
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FACILITY LAYOUT
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