Welcome to our Workshop!

Synopsis:
What’s the role of a project manager in an agile project? Is there a role? While many claim there is no need for a project manager - product owners and team members perform those duties - out here in the real world that direction may not be practical. Many product owners have full time marketing jobs and asking them to do the additional tasks needed for a project is just not going to happen.

Because of this reality, even companies that realize they need to hire a full time dedicated product owner are hiring people with project management background. Can you guess why? Yep, a rose by any other name is still a rose. So whether they’re called product owners or project managers there’s still a lot of project management tasks that need to be done.

 How do you get approval to begin an agile project?
 How do you estimate a budget so that the sponsor will commit funding?
 How do you justify needed resources?
 How do you do release planning?

Speaker: Ricki Henry, PMO Director, Clark County IT Services

to a whole new level.

Join us to learn:
 Mature Risk Management processes
 To generate more innovative strategies than you’ve previously learned
 To understand organizational risk tolerance
 Align your risk strategy with your industries and organizations realities
 Ways to manage unknown risks

Speaker: Ricki Henry, PMO Director, Clark County IT Services

Addmission Fee: $55 Members / $85 Public
Additional Military discount: $10 off ($45 Members / $75 Public)*

*Note: Please contact VPEducation to receive the military discount.

PDU: 2
(1.5 Technical = 0.5 Leadership)

Topic Description:

Software projects mostly fail and they sometimes fail spectacularly. The Project Manager is
always the prime suspect for causing the failure just like the husband is always the prime
suspect when the wife is murdered in a TV movie. What can a Project Manager proactively due
to prevent participating in a starring role in yet another failing software project?

Speaker: Greg Gamsky, Executive Program Manager, HELMConsulting, Inc.

Location: Elks Lodge (address: 4100 W Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV).

Early bird: members $25 / non-members $30 
EARLY BIRD rate expires on Tuesday (10/16) noon!
Walk-In: members $30 / non-members $35
---  If no dinner, subtract $15 ----

Students: additional discount $10 off *
*Students, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to receive the discount code.

PDU: 1