Network Forum - COMO

Good projects are often at the forefront of radical change in an organization. This means as a PM, you are not just delivering a new product or process or technology to your organization, you are helping them adopt a new way of thinking or doing business. Unfortunately, sometimes that isn’t the team’s choice. This causes people to actively work against your project’s success at times. Come to this session and let’s talk about how to become a pro at using your projects to lead positive change.

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The Multi-Vote Tool & 2019 Topics

Join us for a fun and interactive session where we will learn to use the tool of “multi-voting” in focus groups and projects as we prioritize our top 10 topics for 2019. Don’t worry – we will still adjust topics when the needs arise – but let’s start with a solid set of ideas and learn a fun project tool in the process.

Bring your lunch and join us at City of Columbia Municipal Government Building on January 24th!

We all know the stories, "Here is your next project. It needs to be done by (insert some date identified before any project planning has been done.)" Project Managers are the navigators between sponsor expectations and the realities of the time and space continuum of the team. So - how do we help our teams succeed? What about using estimation techniques, time management tools for the team and transparent sponsor communication? Bring the tools you like to use and let's help set a course for success.

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Risk management is a core component of project management; but much of the time it seems like the toolkit that hides in the back of the shed. Let's do some spring cleaning and talk about when it is best used and how we can dust off some of these critical tools to make our projects more successful!

Bring your lunch and join us at City of Columbia Municipal Government Building on March 28th!

It often seems like Requirements Gathering should have its own certification; it can be so complex. Let's talk through the best times to gather requirements in perfect (and not-so-perfect) projects, the best tools to do it well, and how we can use those requirements to fulfill contract obligations, the hopes of end users, and the needs of our design teams.

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