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October 3rd, 2008

Seminar: Agile Project Performance Management

A 1-hour seminar open to the public at the PMI Central Iowa Chapter's "2008 Professional Development Day."

With the widespread growth of agile project management and agile development methods, we face challenges when these projects don’t (or can’t) provide us with our standard performance metrics for project health assessment and project portfolio management. Proponents of agile methodologies, who tend to emerge from the development community, rebel against standard organizational processes for project tracking and control, and few in the project management world really understand these agile methods well enough to try and adapt traditional tracking mechanisms to these high-change projects. Many ask “how can I apply earned value measurements when the baseline keeps shifting?”

Join Kevin Aguanno, an executive project manager and a well-known expert on the agile methodologies, as he explains how project managers can adapt existing control systems (and incorporate the metrics provided by the agile methods themselves) to better track and control projects using these methods.

Participants will learn:

• How traditional planning and metrics fail on high-change projects
• What is agile project management?
• The benefits of agile approaches on high-change projects
• The various agile performance metrics used for tracking schedule, budget, and quality
• Recent statistics showing the adoption rate of agile methods in the industry

Governance and control is one of the key “missing links” identified by organizations in why some are still hesitant about adopting agile. Fill this knowledge gap with tips from the experts in this presentation.

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Format:  60-minute Seminar
Location:  Polk County Convention Centre, Des Moines, Iowa
Sponsor:  PMI Central Iowa Chapter

related links:
www.reg-pmicentraliowa.org/pub2660.4/index.htm
www.agilepm.com/presentation-agile_project_performance_management.html

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