Events

JUL

Fair Lakes Luncheon: Managing Cloud Migration Engagements for DoD

In the current environment of Federal Agencies' budget cuts, how to do more with less and how to manage Cloud migration projects is a skill Project Managers can use. Also leveraging new technologies to reduce cost and embrace innovation.

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JUL

Sunrise Valley Luncheons - Introduction to Earned Value

Earned value is an approach to track the value of a project’s product as it relates to planned and actual spending. This session will introduce the audience to basic earned value concepts and how to use these concepts to forecast and report project costs.

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JUL

Chantilly Local Community - Planning for Future Change with a Stay Plan

For individual homeowners, HomeSpan has teams of recognized experts at planning for the future. They provide clarity to what the future brings, determine what it takes to support that vision, and develop workable plans to help make that vision a reality.

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JUL

Member Orientation Webinar

Need some help understanding what the PMIWDC chapter is all about?

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JUL

M2D2 Monthly Downtown DC Meetings—Introduction to Earned Value: A Case Study

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JUL

Book Club Meeting—Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation by Tim Brown

Date & Time

13 July 2021

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (EST-05:00)

Location

Virtual Meeting

PDUs

6.00 PDUs for Certified PMs

Based on the amount of time you will spend in self-directed study of negotiation – we estimate up to six hours of reading, which converts to up to 6 PDUs for qualified PMPs who are under the 30 PDU limit for their current three year certification cycle. Please note that these PDUs will need to be reported as Self-Directed Learning. For full details on PDU reporting refer to the PMP Handbook.

The subject of “design thinking” is the rage at business schools, throughout corporations, and increasingly in the popular press—due in large part to the work of IDEO, a leading design firm, and its celebrated CEO, Tim Brown, who uses this book to show how the techniques and strategies of design belong at every level of business.

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JUL

Agile Wednesday Webinar: Want More Value Faster? Take Many More Much Smaller Steps

"Take many more much smaller steps". It's blind advice, to people whose detailed context one really doesn't and can't know.

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JUL

Industry Insights: Eye-Witness Account of PMI's Transformation in 2015-2021: Where we've come from, where we are headed with Davidson (David) Frame

Managing A cursory look at the dramatic transformation from PMI 1.0 to PMI 4.0 suggests that it occurred by means of a logical step-by-step progression. But there was nothing automatic about the transition. Each decision that fed into the transformation required balancing alternative options and weighing these against worldwide strategic shifts, PMI core values, global changes and the radical evolution of management practice. Davidson Frame served nine years on the PMI Board of Directors during a time when crucial decisions brought us to where we are now. In his presentation, he provides first-hand insights on how a continually changing Board (with roughly a 25-33% annual turnover in directors) working with four CEOs and constant technology-driven changes in management theory and practice made the decisions that got us to PMI 4.0.

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JUL

Agile Wednesday Webinar: Developing a Product Mindset is the Key to Delivering Business Value

Regardless of the business you are supporting, the problem you are solving and the operations you are refining, focus has to be on the 'product'. How you define products are based on the needs of the end user.

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JUL

Member Orientation Webinar

Need some help understanding what the PMIWDC chapter is all about?

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JUL

Agile Book Club: Scrum: The Art of Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland

Date & Time

28 July 2021

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (EST-05:00)

Location

Virtual

PDUs

6.00 PDUs for Certified PMs

Based on the amount of time you will spend in self-directed study of negotiation – we estimate up to six hours of reading, which converts to up to 6 PDUs for qualified PMPs who are under the 30 PDU limit for their current three year certification cycle. Please note that these PDUs will need to be reported as Self-Directed Learning. For full details on PDU reporting refer to the PMP Handbook.

For those who believe that there must be a more agile and efficient way for people to get things done, here is a brilliantly discursive, thought-provoking book about the leadership and management process that is changing the way we live.

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