“APM Workshop - September 28, 2007”
Agile Project Management
Workshop
Welcome and Opening Session
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Objectives
This Workshop is expressly designed to respond to
3 critical topics:
1.
What is Agile Project Management?
2.
How can APM help me?
3.
How is APM Different?
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Not Objectives!
This workshop will not…
1. Deepen the several agile methods that have been
developed in today’s project environment
2. Give a magic formula to solve every problem or a
single and predictive way of managing agile projects
3. Answer to every possible question about Agile
Project Management and its implementation in the
different contexts
This workshop represents a starting point
and not an ending point for APM development
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Structure
• General session on APM theories: the international speaker
Sanjiv Augustine summarizes the APM basic concepts and
presents his APM model and its 6 Practices, described in the
book “Managing Agile Projects”
• Working session in subteams: participants are subdivided in
6 working groups. Each group examines one of the 6 APM
Practices, providing considerations, findings and proposals that
will apply on site the specific APM Practice.
• General presentation and discussion session of the APM
proposals: each group presents their results to others
attendees and to the Keynote Speaker. The Keynote Speaker
comments each presentation, replies to the participant’s
questions and concludes the workshop with his final
considerations about the APM topics.
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Agenda
9,15 -9,30
Welcome and opening session by the PMI-NIC President
and the Project Manager of the event
9,30-11,00
General session on APM theories: lecture by the Keynote
Speaker Sanjiv Augustine
11,00-11,30
Coffee Break
11,30-13,00
Working session in subteams
13,00-14,15
Lunch Break
14,15-15,00
Working session in subteams
15,00-16,00
General presentation and discussion session of the
APM proposals – first part
16,00-16,30
Coffee Break
16.30-17,30
General presentation and discussion session of the
APM proposals – second part
17.30-17,45
Final considerations by the Keynote Speaker
17,45-18,00
Closing Session by the Project Manager of the event
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Sanjiv Augustine
• Sanjiv Augustine is the President of LitheSpeed, an
innovative Agile and Lean training and consulting
company, and an industry-leading agile and lean
expert.
• He is a co-founder and board member of the Agile
Project Leadership Network (APLN). He is also the
author of several publications and the book Managing
Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005); and the founder
and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile Project
Management discussion group.
• He presents regularly at several agile conferences and
user groups worldwide, and project management
conferences including Project World and Project
Summit.
• Sanjiv has assisted clients in deploying agile and lean
methods at many institutions large and small and he
has managed agile projects varying in size and
coached numerous project teams.
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Sponsor
CA, one of the world's largest information technology (IT)
management software companies, unifies and simplifies the
management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is
headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more
than 140 countries.
Inside its offering we can mention CA Clarity, the industryleading IT Governance solution that enables IT organizations to
achieve world-class performance by improving the quality of
their engagement with the business and enhancing their ability
to run at peak efficiency. The Clarity system features
integrated portfolio planning, demand management, project
management, resource planning and time and cost
management.
For more information, please visit http://ca.com.
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Sponsor
InfoCamere created and currently operates the national
system linking Italy’s 104 Chambers of Commerce and 300
branch offices. This system provides users – mainly central and
local administrations, professionals and private and public
companies – with immediate access to the documents and data
contained in the Chamber archives.
One of InfoCamere’s most significant achievements is the
electronic Business Register, established in 1993 (implementing
specific legislative provinsions). This distinguishing feature was
a first among European Commerce Registers.
For more information, please visit www.infocamere.it
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Sponsor
Nexen is a business consulting company devoted to the
design, the planning and the creation of functional
organization models capable to support all activities related to
the commercial, management and administration of financial
and services companies. All this is carried on with a
distinguishing competence in knowing how to harmonise all
the decisions affecting the processes, the people and the
infrastructure of the company.
Nexen consulting services are provided by specialists with
background experience gained in leading international
consulting firms. Nexen is able to support the customer in all
its information systems’ integration, consolidation and
development projects, from the early beginning of the
planning design to the implementation and operative usage:
www.nexen.it
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cli-NIC Team
• cli-NIC is a pun, born during a brainstorming session,
thinking about the role of our NIC (Northern Italy Chapter)
facilitators
• cli-NIC is a very particular “first-aid team”, who skillfully
helps the groups, assisting them in achieving the right
objectives or in eliminating every possible “desease”,
perfectly aligned to the agile and innovative cut of the day!
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cli-NIC Team: Paolo Scapini
Organic
Teams
EMC²
PMP®, Project Manager
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cli-NIC Team: Pierluigi Assi
Guiding
Vision
RGM CONSULTANTS
PMP®, Project Manager
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cli-NIC Team: Angelo Gaspani
Simple
Rules
SIA-SSB
PMP®, Architecture and Data
Administration Manager
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cli-NIC Team: Marco Valioni
Open
Information
SIA-SSB
PMP®, Client & Demand Management
Manager
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cli-NIC Team: Luca Boschetto
Light
Touch
EMC²
PMP®, Project Manager
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cli-NIC Team: Vito Mazzotta
Adaptive
Leadership
CA
PMP®, Project Manager
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cli-NIC Team: Antonella Tantalo
Agile cli-NIC
Team Coordinator
PMLAB
PMP®, Project Manager
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Useful Information
•
Simultaneous translation will be available during the
Keynote Speaker speech
•
Proceedings will be available on www.pmi-nic.org starting
from the end of October 2007
•
Professional learning credits for PMP®: 8 PDU
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