2008 Vancouver Symposium Track Sessions Schedule

Symposium Track Sessions
The Symposium program serves the needs of every business and I.T.professional. The Symposium has 6 dedicated track sessions; 3 ProjectWorld, 2 BusinessAnalystWorld, and 1 shared session for both.

Each session is 60 or 75 minutes in duration.


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  ProjectWorld + BAWorld 
           
8:45 Formal Roundtable Discussions and Networking
  The Strategic PM Tips, Tools and Techniques Peer to Peer Leadership, Agility, Vision The Strategic BA Tips. Tools and Techniques
10:15-11:15 

Business Requirements: Becoming the means to manage the project

Jared Chartrand,

TELUS           PDF

The best ways to teach and learn Project Management
Martine Janicki
Quartech Systems Ltd.

PDF

Who said this is easy? A PM's first-hand account of implementing SOA
Ed Polaczuk
IBM

PDF

Change Management: Myths & Concepts
Siobhian Heaney
City of Vancouver

PDF

Requirements Hierarchy: A Journey through the Requirements Lifecycle

Marie Halsey

EDS, an HP company

PDF

Flying an Analytical Kite
Kirk Bridger
McKesson Medical Imaging Group

PDF

11:30-12:30

A Dozen Dumb Ideas from Conventional Project Management

Ken Hanley

KTH Project and Program Management Inc.

Top 10 Things You (Probably) Did Not Know About Estimation
Jamal Moustafaev
THINKTANK Consulting

Dare to Win-Win:
Conflict Resolution Tools for PMs & BAs

Robin Levesque,
DREAM Team Consulting

PDF

What is Agile?
Geoff Hewson
SPC

PDF

Virtual BA Teams

Judy Shandler

Information Technology Group

PDF

12:30-1:45
Lunch
1:45-3:00

Leadership in Project Management – Multiple Roles we play
Lisa Rapley

PDF

What does a Good Project Plan Look Like?

Nav Bassi

University of Victoria

PDF

ECM Rescue - Picking up the pieces from a failed implementation

Greg Clark

C3 Associates

PDF

Project Lessons from the Great Escape
Mark Kozak-Holland
HP Services

PDF

Acronym Stew -

How Do Multiple Certifications Play Together?
Dave Davis
AT&T

The Next Generation of Business Analysis Methodologies

Tim Joshi

Synovia Inc.

3:15-4:30 Closing Plenary: 2010 Olympic Readiness
Dan Doyle
Executive Vice President of Construction
VANOC

Mind Mapping
Cathy Byrnes
Human Potentials Consultants Inc.

PDF

Mentoring and Coaching for Agile Analysys

Heather Donnelly

Shaw Communications Inc.                             PDF

BA's Beyond The Project – BA Roles When The Project Is "Over"

Mary Berger

Winfield Solutions,

A Land O’Lakes Company

PDF