Second Annual Mini-Conference: Portfolio Management, Critical Chain, and Kanban

In the spring of 2016, PM World held its first mini-conference. This year's Mini is even better: more time, more topics, and more panelists. This 3-hour session includes networking, no-host dinner, story-telling by the panelists, and the moderated panel discussion.

The $20 fee is waived for Premium members, panelists, and event team members. Each registrant can bring three guests at no charge. Scroll to the bottom of this page for details.

For those managing multiple unrelated projects that draw from the same resource pool (i.e., portfolio management), Critical Chain Management developed by Eliyahu Goldratt and Kanban-style project management software are important tools. Examples of Kanban tools are Smartsheet, Trello, Taiga, Kanboard, Libreboard, Restyaboard, Taskworld, Taskboard, and others.

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PANELISTS

Elle Bauer is an inspired leader who works with organizational leaders, teams and individual contributors to help them grow in their practices and process. She believes that great people make great companies and continuous growth and improvement in our processes helps companies survive in the ever changing business environment. Elle has supported many teams through their mindset and process transformations.
Topic: Critical Chain

John Pfeifer is a results-oriented Corporate Real Estate leader with 17 years experience overseeing Strategic Real Estate Planning, Implementation, and Facilities Management. Proven subject matter expert in the end-to-end life cycle of global corporate real estate, including portfolio planning, site selection, transaction management, project and construction management, workplace design and experience, facilities management, financial and scenario analysis, and lease administration.
Topic: Portfolio Management

Masa Maeda is the CEO and founder of Valueinnova. He is also a senior consultant with the Cutter Consortium and was a charter member founder of the Lean Kanban University. Masa has helped businesses from Fortune 500 to startups in fourteen countries.
Topic: Kanban

Dr. Seth J. Gillespie, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, CSM®, ITIL®, CISSP®, is a popular educator, speaker, lecturer and subject matter expert in a variety of fields including business, management, and information technology, as well as project, program, and portfolio management, possessing over 20 years of real-world experience in these areas. In addition to speaking engagements, Dr. Gillespie has participated as a noted exam writer for numerous CompTIA and PMI certifications. He earned a Ph.D. in Organization and Management, an MBA, and a BSc in Molecular Biology with a minor in Economics.
Topic: Kanban: an Agile Project Management Method

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KANBAN

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The $20 fee defrays PM World costs for insurance, taxes, MeetUp, Go-to-Meeting, Survey Monkey, etc. Food and beverages are not covered by the fee. Lyons will provide separate checks.

Each registrant can bring up to three guests at no charge! Please provide the name(s) of your guest(s) in a comment at the bottom of this page.

To pay for this event using a credit card or Paypal, click on https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=RCXWMBMRXUUEU

Premium members, event team members, and panelists need not pay! See https://www.meetup.com/project_management_world/pages/20832924/Benefits_of_Premium_membership/