Are you thinking about creating a new PMO to increase the effectiveness of your projects?  Is your existing PMO not achieving the results you would have expected?  If so, you’re not alone.  Please join us for a presentation on PMO Best Practices.  Based on years of experience in project and program management, this presentation will offer guidance on how to maximize the value of a Program Management Office.   PMO Directors, Managers and Project Managers will leave with things to consider within their organization to help improve the effectiveness of a PMO, as well as communications, within the organization.   The information can be applied to all PMOs regardless of their level of maturity.  

Presenters:

Mike Broberg, PMP, Director, Hitachi Consulting
Sara Steenhuis, Manager, Hitachi Consulting

Mike Broberg

Mike is a Consulting Services Director in Hitachi Consulting’s Portland office.  He has over 11 years of experience providing consulting services to a broad variety of clients including Microsoft, Wells Fargo, Boeing, Sun Microsystems and many others.  He has extensive experience helping clients with projects ranging from strategy and software selection to implementation and rollout of both packaged solutions and custom applications.  His experience includes providing project and program management services for large scale programs as well as assisting clients with the creation and improvement of Program Management Offices.  Mike also leads the global Business Process Management Competency within Hitachi Consulting.  Mike graduated with both his Bachelors and Masters in Accounting with an emphasis in Information Systems from Brigham Young University and has his PMP certification.

Sara Steenhuis

Sara is a Manager in Hitachi Consulting’s Portland office.  She leads the PNW Project, Program and Portfolio Management (3PM) Competency within Hitachi Consulting.  Sara’s experience includes several years of Project Management experience in the areas of software implementations,  business process management and organizational change management.  She also has experience with project, program and portfolio management software solutions.  Sara received her MBA from the University of Oregon.

Passive?  Aggressive? In a bad mood, or just plain ornery?  When you are dealing with a stressful project and a difficult person at the same time, the label doesn't really matter.  It’s up to you to put out the brushfire and calm everyone down.  Even better is the ability to anticipate, to recognize personality types and communication styles (your own as well as others) and prevent situations escalating to crises. 

Identify quickly what you’re dealing with and have a few strategies up your sleeve:

Recognize what makes people difficult in the first place

Identify the roles and cast of players in this drama

Discover your own behavior challenges

Turn conflict into collaboration, emotion into reason

Jean Erickson Walker, Ed., CMF

Jean Erickson Walker, Ed.D., CMF is an accomplished Executive/Manager Coach who brings a wealth of experience gained over twenty years in Executive Coaching, Career Counseling and Leadership Development across a broad range of industries, non-profit organizations, and boards of directors.

An engaging speaker and author who consistently challenges her audiences to rise above their own limitations and expectations, she is described by Publishers Weekly as “Blunt, Compassionate and Effective.” Jean has been a workshop and seminar presenter for five PMI International Symposiums and was a dinner speaker for PMI Portland Chapter in 2005 on “Using Project Management Strategies to Manage Your Career.” Jean has a bias for action, based on thoughtful consideration of the issues, and she believes strongly in the potential of collaborative leadership.

Jean has been internationally certified as a Career Management Fellow (CMF) and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Governors of ICC International, the only independent, not-for-profit international board certification for career management professionals. She is one of 12 Governors from seven countries.

Dr. Walker is the author of The Age Advantage: Making the Most of Your Midlife Career Transition (Putnam/Penguin, Sept. 2000). 

Pick up your parking voucher at the registration table -- parking is FREE!

PMI Members - Dinner Meeting: $25, Educational Presentation: $10, Both for $35
Non-Members - Dinner Meeting: $30, Educational Presentation: $10, Both for $40
Student Members - Dinner Meeting: $10
Student Non-Members - Dinner Meeting: $15
Dinner Presentation only (without meal): $12

Pre-register for best price! Price is $5 more at the door.
Cancellation: Contact Director of Registration. No refunds later than 24 hours advance of the meeting.

2008 Meeting Rates:

The PMI Portland board of directors voted to increase Dinner Meeting rates beginning January 2008 due to the following two reasons: costs have steadily increased and rates have not been raised in over four years.

Currently the PMI Portland chapter subsidizes the cost of the monthly dinner such that the meetings cost more per person than we charge. With this increase, we will be able to maintain the current level of subsidies for the monthly meeting. The increase will be approximately $5 in each price category (except the pre-dinner Education presentation which will not increase) and will take effect with the January 2008 meeting.

$5 additional if you pay at the door, exept for Dinner Presentation Only (without meal).