Conferences that solve current IT challenges

IT Portfolio Management

Conference Chair: Randy Wimmer, BIS Release Manager, MillerCoors

Wimmer

Utilizing IT Portfolio Management to deliver strategic technology enablers to the organization

October 8-9, 2013

9:00am-5:00pm

14 CPE / 1.4 CEU / CISSP / 14 PDU Credits Awarded

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

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IT Portfolio Management Conference Focus

• Real world experiences from your fellow practitioners

• Best Practices (e.g. PMBOK vs. ITIL) and Tools neutral

• Portfolios – Infrastructure, Application, Service, Discretionary

• Activities

  • Strategy - Business Drivers, Financial Budgeting

  • Demand Management - Ideation, Work Request Processing including Estimation/Cost Benefit/Approval/Scoring

  • Supply/Capacity Management - People, Technical, Dependency and the related Sourcing Strategies

  • Optimization - Trade Off Analysis, Selection, Scheduling

  • Delivery Management – Incident & Problem, Service Catalog, Project, Program, Release
    Reporting

  • Governance

Overview

IT departments are facing greater pressure to make sure their technology portfolios deliver desired results. An established portfolio management framework is a key enabler to achieving results and contributing value to the extended enterprise.

In this two day conference attendees will learn how they may need to tweak their approach given current company challenges.

Topics That Will Be Discussed

• Defining and Implementing Strategic Business Drivers

• Engaging the Business from Ideation Through Delivery

• Creating a Framework for Managing Different Types of Work (Projects, Services, Break/Fix)

• Defining and Implementing a Demand Prioritization Model

• Implementing a Dependency Management Model (People, Interproject, Technology, etc.)

• Aligning Resources to Projects OR Support but Not Both

• The Ying & Yang of Resource Allocation and Utilization

• Resource Management by Roles vs. People

• Optimizing the Project Portfolio on a Quarterly Basis

• Establishing Portfolio Delivery Scheduling

• The Project Manager's Role in IT Portfolio Management

• Portfolio Reporting for the Business

• Rightsizing Governance

• Utilizing Recent Technologies for Portfolio Management

• Staffing an IT Portfolio Management Office

• Top 5 Challenges to IT Portfolio Management

Speakers from IT/PMO Organizations Include:

 

Rachelle Mileur, PMO Director, Russell Investments

Jen Ciolino, Senior Manager, Portfolio Management, Grant Thornton LLP

Ram Narain, Senior Director - PMO, Global Initiatives & Planning, Aon

Rebecca Porterfield, Director, Project Management Office, Performance Trust (tentative)

Jennifer Nicholus, Director of PMO and Portfolio Management, CVS/Caremark

Bill Stamos, Associate Director, IT PMO, Astellas - Panelist

Jeanine Govek, PMO and Portfolio Manager, Bellin

Claude Scher, IT Enterprise Portfolio Manager, MillerCoors

Vishal Shah, Portfolio Manager in Manufacturing IT, Ford Motor Company

Gary Knipe, IT PMO Program Manager, MillerCoors

Conference Price: $689.00 per person

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Exhibits

 

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations.  During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.