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Topic: Effective Scheduling/Planning and Communications

Speaker:  Jane Claire Carter

Highlights:  

Effective scheduling/planning and communication, and the impact of external variables. It touches on how to effectively involve stakeholders while remotely working and make sure project members stay engaged. 

 AGENDA: 

6:00-6:15pm: Check In / Social Chat

6:15-6:30pm: President's Comments

6:30-7:30pm: Speaker

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Topic: Only Amateurs Start at the Beginning

Presenter:  Ken Hanley

Moderator:  Jeremy Bradford

Highlights:  This is a pre-recorded presentation.

This session will cover the three key questions that’ll help you and your team key in on what really matters for your projects: outcomes and results. Starting your project without a clear view of the end in mind is, at best, speculative, and at worst, a complete waste of time. Amateurs begin at the beginning and plan forward. Experts begin at the end and plan backward."

 AGENDA: 

6:00-6:15pm: Check In / Social Chat

6:15-6:30pm: President's Comments

6:30-7:30pm: Presentation

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Dinner Meeting at Capital City Club

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Topic: Aim Small to Go Fast

Presenter:  Jason Knight, Project Manager/Scrum Master @ Southern Company

Description of presentation:

Fast delivery is a natural outcome of building smaller.  Given two things of the same size, Agile approaches in-and-of themselves are no faster than other approaches.  We get speed by building smaller “Minimal Viable Products” that provide real value to the user.

Bio:

Jason Knight has over 20 years working in the IT industry as a programmer, systems administrator, product manager, scrum master, and agile coach. He started his career as a junior programmer for EDS right here in Montgomery, AL. He spent 7 years as a systems administrator for HP, supporting the Alabama Medicaid Agency and 5 years as a programmer for the Alabama Department of Human Resources. In 2016, he entered the consulting arena where he served as the Product Manager for the Alabama CARES Project, The State of Alabama's largest agile development project. Recently he has worked with several start-ups and large IT companies in Birmingham, AL as an Agile Coach before joining Southern Company in 2020.

Jason joined in 2018 Sigao Studios, a leading agile training and consultant company in Birmingham, AL, where he worked to implement agile best practices at start-ups and large IT companies, including McCleod Software, AtlasRFID, and Purilan Technology before joining Southern Company in 2020.

Jason holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of West Alabama.

He is an avid fishing kayaker and resides in Wetumpka with his wife Selina. Together they have two adult children and two grandchildren.

 AGENDA: 

5:45-6:00pm: Check In / Social Chat

6:00-6:25pm:  Dinner

6:25-6:30pm:  President's Comments

6:30-7:30pm: Presentation

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Dinner Meeting at Capital City Club

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Topic: An Introduction to PMBOK Version 7

Presenter:  John Dennett, Past President

Description of presentation:

The presentation will provide and overview of PMBOK version 7 and related digital standards that are linked to the new standard. The presentation will involve a comparison of the between PMBOK 6 and its successor that will provide a highlight as to how PMBOK 7 and its predecessors are interrelated.

 AGENDA: 

Capital City Club                                            Virtual

5:45-6:00pm: Check In / Social Chat

6:00-6:25pm:  Dinner                                                    Sign in Via Zoom

6:25-6:30pm:  President's Comments                          President's Comments

6:30-7:30pm: Presentation                                           Presentation

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Topic: Planning for Success: Large-Scale Enterprise Projects

Presenter:  Mason Tanaka

Description of presentation:

Project Management is often called upon to engage with the most exciting and yet, most challenging projects a typical business or organization might undertake. Today, the Alabama Medicaid Agency (AMA) is faced with a federal mandate to modularize and modernize their aged, monolithic Claims Processing system. This daunting effort will affect almost every agency business process and will take an estimated seven years to complete. In this session Mr. Tanaka will describe how AMA went through a comprehensive effort to plan and establish the foundation to tackle such extremely large enterprise-level projects before the first module is even procured. Join us and Mr. Tanaka to learn how project portfolio management at the strategic level can help to greatly reduce risk and deliver a series of related projects successfully for businesses and organizations of all sizes.

 AGENDA: 

Capital City Club                                            Virtual

5:45-6:00pm: Check In / Social Chat

6:00-6:25pm:  Dinner                                                    Sign in Via Zoom

6:25-6:30pm:  President's Comments                          President's Comments

6:30-7:30pm: Presentation                                           Presentation

Register:  pmisouthalabama.org

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