Lunch and Learn - Learning to Lead with Agility
Presentation Overview:
Regardless of the project management techniques your organization chooses to utilize (predictive, agile, or hybrid), do you as a project manager instinctively desire to improve the communication, stakeholder engagement, or effectiveness of business/technology partnerships to deliver higher value for your customers?
In this interactive session, discover how one research university’s Project Management Office (PMO) was founded under challenging circumstances. Even before the director had Agile expertise, she focused the process improvements on her stakeholders—and unexpectedly learned to lead with Agility.
Come enjoy the engaging storytelling, gain a practical overview of Agile practices, and discover how you may influence your organization’s Agility with a few simple steps.
Learning objectives
- Learn about a university PMO founding use case
- Review the Agile Manifesto and Principles
- Reflect on how the project management to launch the PMO did/not align with Agile best practices
- Consider how the PMO use case may influence your organization’s Agility
About Our Speaker:
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Speaker - Dr. Arden Dudek, PMP Dr. Arden Dudek leads Planning Management Consulting, LLC, and serves as a fractional planning executive with a servant’s heart. PMC clarifies organizational priorities, builds teams of leaders, and delivers higher value to customers. Director of PMOs and Scaled Agile (SAFe) Teams, Dr. Arden improved a university PMO’s maturity by 30% in one year. More recently, she led a corporate planning team that assisted with Wall Street’s largest and most successful merger and acquisition (M&A). Dr. Arden has presented at the University of Texas at Dallas’ Project Management Symposium, taught PMP Preparation classes, and encouraged small-midsized business (SMB) leaders. A published author, her dissertation is Exploring University Project Management Presence as Related to Organizational Models, and she contributed to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) Guide—Fourth Edition. Dr. Arden enjoys relaxing in Krum, TX, attending classic car events with her husband, and participating with the Revival Today Church in Fort Worth. |
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