2010 Rocky Mountain Project Management Symposium

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Symposium Schedule

Start	End	Description (click on link for more info)
7:00	8:00	Symposium Check In/Registration
8:00	9:15	Opening General Session Keynote by Dr. Leroy Chaio
9:00	9:15	Break
9:30	11:30	High Energy Two Hour Workshops Ed Tate - Turning Project Managers into Project Leaders Ted Corcoron - Changing Communication and Leadership Skills Rory Vaden - Raising Your Performance to the Next level
11:30	12:15	Hot & hearty buffet lunch & networking
12:15	1:15	Breakout seminars Joanne Yamaguchi - Goldratt, Deming, Feynman & Bond - James Bond Morag Barrett - Cultivating Winning Relationships Kelly Stangel , Denver Business Journal - Tools for Professional Success Philip Horhager & Steven Mood - Effective Integration Management Practices for Project Managers Thomas Morris - Eating Your Cake and Having It Too - Managing Constraints While Upgrading an Electric Distribution System at the Denver Mint Jordan Braunstein - SOA Today: How to Get Started on an SOA Journey and Achieve Rapid Results Kent Smiley - Expanding Your Career into Homeland Security and Business Continuity
1:15	1:30	Break
1:30	2:30	Breakout seminars Kelly Russell- The 4 P's -- Ingredients for PMO Evolution (A Case Study) Gwynne Dawdy - Effective Meeting Management Shari Harley - The 10 Things That Will Derail Your Career That No One Else Will Tell You Guy Cabana - Building Bridges. The Art of Successful Negotiations. Mark Brown - An Environmental Management Information System (EMIS) Project -From Government Regulations to Reporting Jake Calabrese - Overcoming Requirements Elicitation Challenges Jeff Nielson - Are you a Great Project Manager
2:30	2:45	Break
2:45	3:45	Breakout seminars Lisa Meriweather - Identity Theft: Strategies for Obtaining, Regaining and Sustaining Control of Your Project Richard Hewitt - How to Use Your Project Management Skills to Cut Your Job Search Time in Half Lisa Mackenzie & Rick McCoy - Using Cultural Differences as a Point of Inquiry to Improve Project Communication Danielle Rice - Claims & Back Office Systems Migration: Troubled Project Recovery Using Agile Project Management Korby Johnson- Government Enterprise Project Management Susan McMillin, MHMC Winner - The Happy Project Manager: Using Happiness Science to Learn, Lead and Succeed in a Changing Environment
3:45	4:00	Break, transition to Ballroom
4:15	5:15	Closing session/Keynote by Ed Tate

Breakout Sessions

Green Industry

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
An Environmental Management Information System (EMIS) Project - From Government Regulations to Reporting	Mark Brown, PMP

Project Management Tools

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
Identity Theft: Strategies for Obtaining, Regaining and Sustaining Control of Your Project	Lisa Meriweather, PMP
Goldratt, Deming, Feynman & Bond…James Bond	Dr. Joanne Yamaguchi, PMP, Ph.D., MCSE, CCNA

Soft Skills

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
Cultivating Winning Relationships	Morag Barrett, MA, CFCIPD, CCUG
Effective Meeting Management	Gwynne N. Dawdy, Ph.D

Career Advancement

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
The 10 Things That Will Derail Your Career That No One Else Will Tell You	Shari Harley, MA
How to Use Your Project Management Skills to Cut Your Job Search Time in Half	Richard L. Hewitt, Ph.D. Operations Research
Tools for Professional Success	Kelly Stangel

Aerospace & Defense

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
Effective Integration Management Practices for Project Managers	Philip Horhager, MS, MBA, PMP
Effective Integration Management Practices for Project Managers	Steven Mood, BEng (Hons), FInstBE, PMP

Construction

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
Eating Your Cake and Having It Too…Managing Constraints While Upgrading an Electric Distribution System at the Denver Mint	Tom Morris, MA, PMP

Healthcare

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
Claims & Back Office Systems Migration: Troubled Project Recovery Using Agile Project Management	Danielle Rice, MBA, PMP

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
How to Get Started on an SOA Journey and Achieve Rapid Results	Jordan Braunstein, PMP, CSM
Overcoming Requirements Elicitation Challenges	Jake Calabrese, CBAP, PMP

Government

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
Government Enterprise Project Management	Korby L. Johnson, PMP

Communications

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
Using Cultural Differences as a Point of Inquiry to Improve Project Communication	Rick McCoy
Using Cultural Differences as a Point of Inquiry to Improve Project Communication	Lisa MacKenzie, PMP
Building Bridges. The Art of Successful Negotiations.	Guy Cabana

PMO

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
The 4 P's -- Ingredients for PMO Evolution (A Case Study)	Kelly M. Russell

Other

Topic	Presenter (click on name for more info)
Expanding Your Career into Homeland Security and Business Continuity	Kent Smiley, PMP, CBPC
Are you a Great Project Manager	Jeff Nielsen, PgMP, PMP, MSCIS

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