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Session 1: From Strategy to IMPACT: The PMO’s Role in Delivering Business Value

Laura Barnard, PMP

What if your PMO was the business engine driving your organization’s strategy well beyond project planning and delivery? Executives want results, and in this session, Laura Barnard will show you how to position your PMO to deliver exactly what they need—making you an indispensable strategic partner to your leadership team.

Discover a transformative approach to the PMO’s role that spans the entire strategy lifecycle, aligning goals, execution, and value realization. Learn actionable steps to accelerate the delivery of your organization’s strategy and create measurable business impact that leaders will recognize and reward.

Walk away with a fresh perspective and the tools to elevate your PMO’s influence across your organization.

PDUS: .5 Business Acumen

 

Session 2: Proactive Testing™--Project Manager’s Best Friend

Robin Goldsmith

Testing often is considered an obstacle to project delivery. That’s too-often true of traditional, reactive testing; but not for a dramatically different approach—Proactive Testing™, which actually enables delivering projects quicker and cheaper, as well as better! 

Learn how they differ and why smart project managers can use Proactive Testing™ to look even smarter!

•            Why traditional, reactive testing indeed can delay project delivery.

•            How Proactive Testing™ cuts development time, effort, and aggravation.

•            Putting Agile test-first development “on steroids.”

PDUs .5 Ways of Working