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Government Project and Portfolio Management in a Time of Transition Training Workshop

February 24, 2009 – City Club of Washington at Columbia Square

Workshop Description

In today's "projectized" enterprise, stressed agencies must manage their projects differently. The reality is that few will make the adjustment. Aversion to risk grows and materially changes organizational behavior as resources get tight. This workshop will help portfolio and program managers look outside their domains to effectively assess how their changing environment affects their project portfolios and evolve their risk models-and business cases-accordingly.

What You Will Learn

  • How are shifting operating environments affecting your project portfolios?
  • What can you do now to mitigate the adverse effects of recession on your projects and operating environment?
  • How can a portfolio approach demonstrate your understanding of the business and the relevancy of the capital investments underway?

Why You Should Attend

You will be guided in exploring what the best, most likely, and worst case scenarios mean to your project portfolios-and what you can do now.

Who should attend

  • Portfolio Managers
  • CIOs, CFOs, CAOs, Deputies and Staff
  • Program Managers
  • Project Leaders
  • Project Teams
  • Contracting/COTR officials
  • IGs
  • Auditors

Format

Lectures by industry subject matter experts with time for Q&A; hands-on workshop to help participants apply what they've learned

Agenda

7:30 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 Welcome
Art Chantker, President, Potomac Forum
8:45 Portfolio management in challenging times: setting the stage
Peter Schmidt, Principal Consulting Manager, Robbins-Gioia
10:00 Break
10:15

Storyboarding your project: showing your new boss its importance to the plan
Keith Kerr, instructor - Managing Director, Practice & Solution Development, Robbins-Gioia

 

12:00 PM Hosted Luncheon
1:00 Program Management and the Transition
Carolyn Brubaker
Chief Transition Officer
Microsoft Corporation
 
2:00  Break
2:15

Using a portfolio management tool to promote transparency and oversight

Keith Kerr PMP
Managing Director, Solutions
Robbins-Gioia LLC 

3:30 Approaching a time of transition as an opportunity to develop your human capital
Paula Pierce PMP HCS
Director of Strategic Human Capital Management
Robbins-Gioia, LLC
4:45 Wrap Up and Q&A
5:00 Workshop Adjourns 
- Additional Opportunity for Discussions with Instructors on Specific Agency Issues

                      Agenda Subject to Change

 

Special Guest Speaker

Carolyn Brubaker
Chief Transition Officer
Microsoft Corporation

Carolyn Brubaker joined Microsoft Corporation in June, 2003.  She currently serves as the Chief Transition Officer for Microsoft Corp. and the Director of Business Development for the Federal District.  In her role as CTO, Carolyn works across the company and with partners - assessing the management and operational priorities of the new Administration and aligning Microsoft solutions accordingly.  Carolyn leads an internal team of 12 companywide working groups which focus on 8 domain and 4 technical priority areas of alignment for Microsoft with the New Administration and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. In her business development role she is responsible for opportunity development and bidding strategies, line of business initiatives, marketing/sales integration, communications, and executive relationships with government customers. Carolyn also serves as subject matter expert for Telework and COOP for Microsoft Federal.  As the subject matter expert for Federal, Carolyn leverages Microsoft best practices and solutions from other sectors to the public sector domain.  Prior to this position Ms. Brubaker served as the Director for eGovernment for Microsoft Corporation. For which she helped develop Microsoft's e-government strategy. She worked with government CIOs and other leaders to establish long-term strategies for more efficient and cost-effective online services. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ms. Brubaker spent several years working for other IT giants including Oracle Corporation and Northrop Grumman.  She started her career working directly for the United States Department of Justice as a statistical analyst and researcher. Ms. Brubaker holds a masters degree in criminal justice and a second masters degree in information technology with a concentration in business. Ms. Brubaker has been deeply dedicated throughout her career to key non-profit organizations including the Churchill Centre, and Cure Autism Now.

Instructors

Potomac Forum, Ltd has selected an "all star" team to present its educational program.  Robbins-Gioia will provide the principal instruction for our Training Workshop. Robbins-Gioia is the recognized leader in portfolio and project management in government and industry.  Microsoft Corporation will participate and provide insight into technology to assist in effective and efficient portfolio management and the Forum will provide insights into Human Capital issues affecting Portfolio Management and the Transition to a new Administration. 

The workshop instructors have unquestionably, extensive, practical experience in Portfolio and Project Management in the government and are recognized leaders in the community. 

Instructors Include:

Keith Kerr

Keith Kerr, PMP, is the managing director of Solutions at Robbins-Gioia, LLC. He is responsible for new solution product management, including market research, development, partner management, and sales strategies. He has overseen the development of Robbins-Gioia offerings such as the Capital Planning and Investment Control, Human Capital Management, and Process Improvement solutions. Keith has more than 20 years of experience in helping private sector, international, federal, and Department of Defense organizations achieve a higher level of performance by applying program management rigor to their business processes.

 

Peter Schmidt

Peter Schmidt, PMP, is a principal consulting manager at Robbins-Gioia. Currently supporting a large government agency's portfolio management office, Peter previously led a capital planning and investment control team and managed an E-Grants development program office for different government engagements. He has more than 20 years of project management experience in government, commercial, and international projects, with a particular focus on project financing and project portfolio management. In his present assignment, Peter is helping to identify and implement a robust portfolio selection approach for his agency's investment control board as a critical first step toward more effective multi-year programming.

 

Paula Pierce

Paula Pierce, PMP, HCS, is the director of strategic human capital management at Robbins-Gioia, LLC. Her 17-year career in performance improvement includes key human capital roles in major government and commercial transformation initiatives. She is skilled at improving organizational performance by aligning people practices to deliver on organizational mission and strategic objectives. Paula's deep experience in human capital strategy, organizational change management, and project management provides a unique ability to translate strategy into action. She has published a number of papers on creating high-performance workplaces, including "Ten Actions Leaders Must Take to Engage Employees and Drive Organizational Performance" and "Get Smart about the Talent Crisis."

 

Registration

 

ON-SITE WALK-IN REGISTRATION IS AVAIALBLE
Please go to the City Club from 7:30 to 8:30 for On-site Registration

Government Employees: $895
(Federal, State or Local Government Issued ID)
Includes instruction, presentations, Training Workshop Notebook, and continental breakfasts, morning and afternoon refreshments, and lunch

"Send Your Team" Rate for Government:   Register two persons from the same government organization and the third registers for 50% of the standard government rate.

Industry and Contractors: $995
(Including contractors on-site and in direct support of government agencies)
Includes instruction, presentations, Training Workshop Notebook, and continental breakfasts, morning and afternoon refreshments, and lunch

 

Send a Team Rate for Government:   Register two persons from the same government organization and the third registers for 50% of the standard government rate.

Cancellation Policy

Confirmed registrations who cancel within 3 business days of the program will be subject to a $250 cancellation fee. Registrations cancelled after the program starts are subject to the full registration fee. Substitutions can be made at any time. In the event a particular training workshop is cancelled, the liability of Potomac Forum, Ltd is limited to refund of any prepaid registration fee.

Meeting Location

City Club of Washington at Columbia Square
555 13th Street N.W.
Washington D.C. 20004
202-347-0818