UMT360 Strategic PMO Breakfast Series: Chicago

Driving PMO Transformation

Join Microsoft & UMT360 to Learn How Business Controls Power the Strategic PMO

If outdated PPM techniques are still holding your PMO back, we have good news. Join us for our breakfast event featuring three sessions designed to help you understand what it takes to step forward as a Strategic PMO.

Microsoft Project Online & Server are unmatched for project and program management (PPM) execution. But to truly drive business transformation, today's PMO must manage every project, program, IT asset and product as the strategic investments they really are. Join our breakfast event to learn how strategic PMOs are leveraging their Microsoft PPM solution investment to activate critical business controls and eliminate the inefficiencies and manual processes that plague traditional PPM.

Session 1: Three Pillars Of The Strategic PMO – How can increased efficiency, better visibility and an enterprise-wide approach transform your PMO? In this session, you’ll learn the importance of:

Consolidating project and financial data and streamlining processes
Gaining a more strategic perspective to improve decision-making
Connecting portfolios to drive transformation across all business and IT assets

Session 2: Strategic PMO Case Study – Dan Smith will share how a PPM platform upgrade – including the addition of missing financial controls – increased his PMO’s maturity. Learn how incorporating comprehensive and sophisticated business planning and controls into a common process and set of tools can help your PMO more effectively address stakeholder needs and facilitate capital selection.

Session 3: Strategic PMOs Require Metrics. But Which Ones? – PMOs use many metrics to benchmark and track portfolio performance – from budget utilization to estimating accuracy to failure rates and cost overruns. But which metrics are most important? This session will focus on the metrics and benchmarks that help improve PPM performance and demonstrate the value of the PMO, including strategic yield – one metric that could be the key to helping ensure your programs deliver maximum business value.

We'll wrap-up the sessions with an open Q&A. Ben and Carl will be joined by Brian Quick, Project & Portfolio Management Solution Specialist with Microsoft, so come prepared with questions and join this lively discussion.

Agenda

7:30 to 8:00
Check-in, breakfast

8:00 to 8:15
Welcome, introductions, kick-off

8:15 to 9:00
Session 1: Three Pillars Of The Strategic PMO

9:00 to 9:45
Session 2: Strategic PMO Case Study

9:45 to 10:00
Networking Break

10:00 to 10:45
Session 3: Strategic PMOs Require Metrics. But Which Ones?

10:45 to 11:00
Wrap-Up / Q & A

Join us in Chicago
on Tuesday November 3
at the Westin O'Hare

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About Our Speakers

Dan Smith is the Deputy CIO of IT Services at Marquette University. In this role Dan is a key member of the Executive Team as well as Change Manager and head of the Project Management Office (PMO). As head of the PMO Dan provides guidance to all of IT Service Project Managers in execution of IT Services projects and personally runs several projects. Dan has a BS in

Ben Chamberlain is UMT360’s Chief Product and Marketing Officer and is responsible for the strategic direction and worldwide go-to-market activities for UMT360’s Enterprise Portfolio Management solutions. He has more than a decade of experience of building innovative Portfolio Management solutions that have helped global 2000 companies align

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investment decisions with strategic priorities and transform the way they manage their product, project, application and IT service portfolios.

Brian Quick, Project & Portfolio Management Solution Specialist at Microsoft.

Aerospace Engineering from the US Naval Academy, and three Masters the most recent being an MBA from Marquette University. Dan also has his PMP certification and his ITIL Practitioner in release & control (change, configuration & release management).