ProjectWorld Toronto
Project Executive Forum
May 19th - 20th, 2010

All applicants must be pre-qualified to attend. This forum is limited to 50 attendees only.  Email your name, company and title to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Price - $1,500 per person.  (Corporate Sponsors apply 10% discount). 
This Forum cannot be bundled with other ProjectWorld purchases.  We will send a separate registration form upon approval.

Agenda:

Wednesday, May 19

9:00 am   Program Open and Introductions

10:00       CIO Panel - Pulling Project Management into the Strategic Planning Process  
A panel of CIOs will field questions and moderate discussion around the link between project Management and Strategic Planning.  This session will extend through to the lunch hour and our CIOs will be asked to remain for lunch for off line conversations and exploration.

1:15 - 2:15  Open Discussion - What Hurts? Problems and Issues facing the
Project Executive
This is an open discussion for all participants to express concerns about the issue facing themselves and others in the project management practice.  Issues are listed, weighted and discussed as a group with a focus on fixes and repairs.
 
2:30 - 4:30  Presentation and Workshop -
Taking Your Project Management Culture to the Next Level
Winnie Liang, Director, RBC Financial
Winnie Liang has spent the past four years helping the Royal Bank establish themselves as a leader in the practice of project management.  Methodologies, technologies, training and more - it is still a work in progress.  Winnie will present the journey: the good bad and the ugly as she took this culture to where it is today. 
Part two of this session will be a workshop allowing the folks form the large corporations to work together and the small to medium-sized enterprises to work together to discuss how this story can apply to others.     
    

Thursday, May 20

10:15 am  The PMO and its Long and Short Term Effectiveness
Project Management Offices (PMOs) are often seen as non-revenue generating and are therefore vulnerable in these difficult economic times.  Yet they provide important benefits to an organization by ensuring that projects are successfully and efficiently implemented. They can contribute to the overall effectiveness of the organization.  
Business Improvement Architects (bia) undertook research to find out how Project Management Offices can improve the overall effectiveness of their organizations, what strategies they can undertake to realize this goal and what may be stopping them from succeeding.  They started their research by identifying organizations world-wide.  They conducted almost 100 in-depth interviews with CEO's, Senior Executives and PMO staff.  This was supplemented with over 850 comprehensive on-line surveys.  Their first research report was released in 2005.  They included various sizes of organizations from both the private sector and public sector. 
However, BIA continues to observe that implementing and managing a Project Management Office has not been the answer to increasing organizational effectiveness.  Rather, it is the organization's approach to project management that is identified as the root cause of the problem.  As well, we have found that very few organizations focus on the creation of a culture that supports project management as just a part of "what we do". 
This presentation and Roundtable Discussion will reveal the six critical recommendations from the research study that management must implement in order to drive improvement in the management of projects which will lead to measurable improvements in your bottom-line and customer satisfaction.  
Noon   Lunch

1:00 pm  Panel Discussion - 2010 - 2015 - Future Trends in the Project Management Business
 3 panel members will guide us through a look at future trends that we should all be area of. 
Highlighted areas will include:
- Program Management
- Portfolio Management
- Enterprise Project Management (EPM)
and the increasing importance of the Business Analyst in the project management life cycle.
  
2:15-3:15  Managing your Career - what will a senior recruitment executive tell you about career movement, skill development and personal brand awareness and marketing.
 This session will allow all of us to think about the ‘me' in our lives.  What should I be doing to develop my skills, improve my position internally and externally and set myself up for advancement.

3:30  Program ‘Take-Aways' - the Ah Ahs of the two days