The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights Based on his groundbreaking new book The Blueprint, Conant's session blends stories of success and failure as he shows-and-tells how you can get unstuck, maximize your impact, and even change your life. The Blueprint codifies a lifetime of leadership knowledge into an actionable process designed to work in the here-and-now. It is 40 years of unmatched leadership experience condensed into 6 small steps! This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU
You Design Think More Than You Know Today's world is very volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. What used to work, seems to work less efficient or effective. The pandemic shows us that the consequences in daily life can be huge. For some of us, this means confusion and struggle to find solutions to problems. Others reflect on what is happening and reframe this VUCA world as an opportunity for creating new products, services of systems. Start to think as a designer. Designing solutions serves users and customers. Real human beings with names, moods, needs and problems. We sometimes forget, because while creating solutions we fall in love with them. Our attention focuses on the solution. Design thinking has made empathizing with the customer one of the main anchor points. You always remember for whom you are designing and creating. How many ideas would you need to find the one that fits the problem of your user? Ten, a hundred or maybe more? The answer is, more than you think now. Start with questioning the problem. Play and collect different perspectives on the problem. Every single perspective leads to different ideas. In this way you easily reach a great number of solutions. We will share a few relevant, creative exercises so you can challenge your own dominant reaction to solving problems. Having this personal experience will help you to adopt a design thinking mindset to help your clients. What You Will Learn: Introduction to Design Thinking Two Exercises to change your perspectives on problems and solutions Reflection on one's own thinking system How to reframe constraints as valuable opportunities to find creative solutions
Managing Successful Machine Learning Projects Machine learning projects are a different beast. You have to secure access to the required data, often from multiple siloed sources. You have to switch back and forth between research mode and execution mode. You have to delicately guide data exploration towards a well-defined machine learning objective. You have to align this machine learning objective with your business objectives. You have to ensure that any sensitive data is adequately protected. How do you tame this beast and lead your project to successful completion? In this presentation, Dr. Neeraj Kashyap will share some practical tips for succeeding at machine learning, gained from his years at Google and in healthcare. We will discuss the life cycles of healthy machine learning projects and unhealthy ones so that you can identify impending disasters and avert them before they get out of hand. Throughout the session, we will emphasize data privacy, because no amount of intelligence is worth compromising your users for.
PMO 2030 - What the World's Leading PMO's are Doing to Survive and Thrive Do you know what the best PMOs in the world have in common? What world-class PMO leaders see as the most valuable trends? What makes PMOs effectively recognized by their executives? What the critical factors are for a PMO to generate value for the organization? PMOs have evolved significantly in recent years, but recent challenges on a global scale have reinvented them. A new era of value creation has begun for PMOs - the truth is that doing a technically perfect job is no longer enough for a PMO to survive and thrive. In this session, Americo Pinto will answer the above questions and share valuable insights from the experience of dozens of PMOs, which have had their value recognized at the PMO Global Awards, the most prestigious award for PMOs and PMO Leaders in the world. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. What You Will Learn: Find out the most effective way to make a PMO generate value. Know more about what world-class PMOs are doing to stay relevant. Understand why mature PMOs can also fail miserably. Gain insight about the changing era that PMOs around the world - including yours - are going through.
NextGen Project Risk Management Risk and uncertainty are inherent to projects. They influence every major project decision and eventual outcome. It is paramount to understand them to make the right decisions and achieve successful outcomes. Many organizations have recently adopted risk registers and qualitative methods to manage their project risks. While these methods are a first step, there is a strong need for more sophisticated next generation tools involving quantitative analysis. Such tools can provide us with more realistic cost and schedule estimates. They can also help us establish and manage contingencies more effectively. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.
Changing Times: Growth of Project Management 2.0 In today's business environment, there is a new generation of workers that have grown up in a Web 2.0 world of web-based project management tools - PM 2.0. This video explores how PM 2.0 allows for better governance, improved collaboration with stakeholders, and more meaningful reporting using metrics, KPIs, and dashboards. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.
Implement a Sustainable EPMO for Greater Impact Recent research has shown over 60% of Fortune 1000 companies plan to implement an EPMO over the next 2 years. Don Kingsberry, Deputy Director and Leader of the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the world, will share what he has learned over 30 years in establishing 6 different enterprise-wide PMOs across multiple industries. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.
Innovation Project Management: A Practitioners Approach In today's fast-changing world, we need leadership and project management more than ever to increase innovation. Leadership is an important part of innovation project management. Innovation project management is an area that is new in thought and will need to increase awareness in this area as leaders to move the next generation of project leaders and into future success. Project management creates many innovative products and services. The complexity of innovation project management will make it important to continue to educate and train current and future project managers. New thought process needed to innovate A practitioner's experience working in innovation project management Leadership to create innovation in project management
Leveraging Project Management for Social Good® Leveraging Project Management for Social Good® Learn about the Project Management Institute Educational Foundation's global impact and how you can use your PM expertise and the Foundation's resources to create positive change in your world! This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.
Portfolio as a Value Enabler: How to Make It Real A portfolio as a value enabler is not easy to achieve. It requires not only good process, practices and the right competencies in place but it also needs a change in the mindset of those involved in managing the portfolio. Quite often, a portfolio is not perceived as a value enabler but a necessary administrative burden. But how it can be perceived differently if it is presented as a collection of projects and programs or a massive Gantt chart? In order to change that perception and turn it into something tangible, portfolio management must apply principles of investment management. With this principle, it can turn into a great vehicle to drive business objectives. This and other IIL Learning in Minutes presentations qualify for PDUs. Some titles, such as Agile-related topics may qualify for other continuing education credits such as SEUs, or CEUs. Each professional development activity yields one PDU for one hour spent engaged in the activity. Some limitations apply and can be found in the Ways to Earn PDUs section that discusses PDU activities and associated policies. Fractions of PDUs may also be reported. The smallest increment of a PDU that can be reported is 0.25. This means that if you spent 15 minutes participating in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.25 PDU. If you spend 30 minutes in a qualifying PDU activity, you may report 0.50 PDU.