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APRIL 3 - 5, 2017 | HILTON GARDEN INN AT SEAWORLD

GREETINGS FROM THE CONFERENCE DIRECTOR

RUDDEL Y L M A

WE ARE THRILLED TO BE BRINGING PROJECTSUMMIT*BUSINESSANALYSTWORLD TO ORLANDO! ProjectSummit*BusinessAnalystWorld is the leading educational training conference for project managers and business analysis professionals. As an endorsed PMI and IIBA education provider, PS*BAW offers attendees PDUs and CDUs for each hour of learning. Delegates can acquire up to 19 credits over a three day period. With the support of the Orlando Advisory Board, along with local Association Chapters, our goal is to provide the insight, tools, and relationships necessary for project success. The following pages will prove that ProjectSummit*BusinessAnalystWorld is an event not to be missed. Symposia sessions are facilitated by leading experts and practitioners while the workshop program provides a ‘deeper-dive’ into pertinent subject matter. Our flexible registration process allows you to create a package that bests suits your time and budget. If should you have any questions or require additional information, please don’t hesitate to contact me directly. Thank you, I look forward to seeing you at ProjectSummit*BusinessAnalystWorld Orlando! Amy Ruddell | Senior Group Director PS*BAWorld Orlando Email: [email protected] | Phone: 1 888-443-6786 ext. 2236

WHY ATTEND: Earn up to 19 PDUs & CDUs

Top Quality Education at Competitive Prices

The PMI Registered Education Provider logo is a registered trade mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Regional Advisory Board that targets local issues

NETWORKING

Face-to-Face Interaction with your Peers

Unique Conference Model

COMBINED

Convenient Location

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APRIL 3RD, 2017 8:30AM - 9:45AM

CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS: 5 CRITICAL CONCEPTS TO HELP YOU EFFECTIVELY DISCUSS WHAT REALLY MATTERS MOST Let’s face it, there are just some conversations that you don’t want to have. There are some people you simply don’t want to talk to. What happens when we don’t? Everyone loses. If we want healthy, productive teams and projects, crucial conversations must be had.

Bob The BA

BOB PRENTISS

2017 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

CURTIS MICHELSON

APRIL 3RD, 2017 3:45PM - 5:00PM

KUPE KUPERSMITH

It’s time to stop ranting, raving, complaining and avoiding, and to start having meaningful, persuasive conversations that make an impact. Are you ready for less stress and more successful conversations? Do you want behaviors to change? Do you want ideas to be heard? Then it’s time we have a crucial conversation about crucial conversations. This highly interactive and dynamic keynote will take you on a journey to discover the critical concepts of crucial conversations that will help you effectively discuss what matters most.

APRIL 4TH, 2017 8:30AM - 9:45AM

FUTURE FORWARD: DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS, CUSTOMER AND EMERGING FUTURE TRENDS

Minds Alert, llc

The good’ole triad of creating systems to meet the needs of people, process and technology, while serving us well, is no longer sufficient. The era of mergers, acquisition, consolidation and process optimization has given away to a new era of customer centricity, faster product development, service design, and the larger overarching goal of designing for the triple bottom line. Enterprises must balance intrenal corporate objectives with larger global environmental interests. Winning products, services and businesses going forward will design for people (HR), process (Ops), technology (IT) AND customers, partners, ecosystem, user communities and more. How far are you prepared to stretch as a designer of these integrated experiences? And what design patterns do you need to be on the lookout for as your firm makes this shift?

IMPROVING COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION THROUGH IMPROVISATION

B2T Training

Talking and reacting in the moment is the core of what you do as a project manager and business analyst. Much of what happens on a project is unscripted. To propel to the senior level of your profession you need to continually improve your creative thinking skills and how you interact and communicate with your stakeholders. It just so happens that improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment. This highly interactive and fun keynote focuses on key improvisation lessons that will help you be a more attentive and flexible business analyst and project manager

The McClain Companies

TROY McCLAIN

EQ vs IQ APRIL 4TH, 2017 3:45PM - 5:00PM

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know people make decisions based on their emotions. Just look at politics, religion and retail purchases across the world. Furthermore, we know marketing experts have learned the best way to motivate a person, group or company is through their emotions. Yet over the years, the basic belief and standard for defining and choosing a strong leader within a company has always been to measure ones IQ, which in fact, measures logical reasoning, word comprehension and math skills rather than their creative potential or ability to relate to a person, group or company team. Join Troy McClain, season one Apprentice finalist, who will share his story of how he developed a leadership role and successful business by focusing on EQ rather than IQ. This session will take you on an eye opening journey of discovering yourself, how to manage your emotions, learn how others think, and how to process these emotions to work more efficiently with others in your organization. This session aims to bring it back into the workforce.

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APRIL 3 - 5, 2017 | HILTON GARDEN INN AT SEAWORLD

SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE MONDAY, APRIL 3TH CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS: 5 CRITICAL CONCEPTS TO HELP YOU EFFECTIVELY DISCUSS WHAT REALLY MATTERS MOST

8:30AM 9:45AM

BOB PRENTISS Bob The BA

10:00AM 11:00AM

BA

AGILE

PM

Think Like Your Customer? It’s Crazy Enough to Work Brian Fredrick & Josh Greenberg

Agile Transformation: Happy Ever After? Steve Martin Pegasystems

Can the Zombie Apocalypse Help You Survive Your Projects? Hans Eckman

Parlay Like a BA Pirate Jennifer Battan

Easy, Early & Lasting Adoption of Agile Culture Using Open Space Agility Jon Jorgensen

Project Dashboards: Are You Looking Out the Front Window? Martin Fenelon

University of Maryland

11:15AM 12:15PM

Out of the Box BA

Jon Jorgensen and Associates

CGI Group, Inc.

LUNCH BREAK 1:15PM 2:15PM

Is Chef Robert Irvine a Business Process Improvement Genius? Process Improvement Insights Gained While Watching Reality Television. Cari Faanes-Blakey

The Adaptive Agile Business Analyst - How to Maximize Your Effectiveness Regardless of Your organization’s Agile Maturity Leon Sabarsky

Pin the Tail on the Metric Steve Martin

What’s Next: From Business Analyst to Business Relationship Manager Susan Heidorrn

Organizational Agility A case for Embracing Change Anjali Leon

Courageous Project Management Martin Fenelon

Vertex

2:30PM 3:30PM

Watermark Learning

3:45PM 4:45PM

Pegasystems

Healthy Agile LLC

Pragmatic Project Leadership, LLC

CGI Group, Inc.

FUTURE FORWARD: DESIGN SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS, CUSTOMER AND EMERGING FUTURE TRENDS

CURTIS MICHELSON Minds Alert, LLC

4:45PM 6:00PM

NETWORKING RECEPTION

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SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCE TUESDAY, APRIL 4TH IMPROVING COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION THROUGH IMPROVISATION

8:30AM 9:45AM

KUPE KUPERSMOTH B2T Training

10:00AM 11:00AM

11:15AM 12:15PM

BA

AGILE

PM

Tools of the Trade - The Business Analyst Toolbox Tina Underhill

Scrum, Kanban, or Scrumban: Which is Right for You? Heidi Araya

Create a Winning Enterprise System Deployment Strategy Chris Vandersluis

Stop Gathering Requirements and Start Building Them! Perry McLeod

The Agile Business Analyst Bob Prentiss

15 Traits of Top Performers Erica Woods

The Handy BA

BrightLogic

Bob the BA

HMS Software

Apex Systems

The New BA Ltd.

LUNCH BREAK Real World Elicitation Jamie Champagne

1:15PM 2:15PM

The Queens Health System

PMI’s Business Analysis Standards – Must Have Guidance for Supporting Business Analysis Efforts on Agile Projects Laura Paton

Top Reasons Why Projects Fail-and How You Can Avoid Failure Neal Whitten

Creating a Modern PMO: Balancing Organizational Rigor with Agile Delivery Julee Bellomo

Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over: Using stories To Influence Stakeholders Lori Silverman

The Neal Whitten Group

BA Academy, Inc.

2:30PM 3:30PM

The Real Value of the Business Case Journey Ingrid Myers Slalom

AgileThought

3:45PM 4:45PM

EQ vs IQ TROY McCLAIN

The McClain Companies

Partners for Progress

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APRIL 3 - 5, 2017 | HILTON GARDEN INN AT SEAWORLD

WORKSHOPS

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5TH | 8:30AM - 4:30PM

PROVEN WAYS TO ENHANCE STRATEGIC THINKING IN YOURSELF AND OTHERS LORI SILVERMAN Partners for Progress

BADASS BUSINESS ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES! BOB PRENTISS Bob The BA

We live in a VUCA world. It’s easy to be consumed by shortterm challenges posed by leaders, team members, and other stakeholders and only be tactical in our responses. To respond for the long haul, we must think strategically. We need to know when to stop analyzing and breaking apart data. We need to figure out how to create useful meaning from the uncertainties and trends that seem far out, but have begun to impact us. In this workshop, you’ll walk away with a variety of practical strategic thinking tools you can immediately apply.

Are you ready to expand your frame of reference and re-look at how you facilitate? It does not take a Badass Business Analyst to learn these new techniques, but if you are willing, you are well on your way to becoming a Badass Business Analyst! Gone are the days when negotiations involved plaid suits, cigars, flashy ties and the manipulative “negotiation” tactics used in that era. In a global marketplace where clients have unlimited access to information and choices, professionals focus on building partnerships and long-term relationships with their clients, suppliers, business partners and colleagues.

NO-NONSENSE BEHAVIORS THAT LEAD TO EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE NEAL WHITTEN The Neal Whitten Group

Neal reveals 27 important leading-edge, bestpractice, results-oriented leadership behaviors that can promote your professional and personal success. Then, using an assessment instrument and exercise templates, assess your proficiency in key behaviors, recognize your inhibitions that are holding you back from becoming your best, identify your top three behaviors with which to improve and learn how to create your personalized performance improvement plans. Bonus: Assess your work-life balance.

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APRIL 3 - 5, 2017 | HILTON GARDEN INN AT SEAWORLD

ADVISORY BOARD: • Cari Faanes-Blakey

• Laura Paton

• Steve Granese

• Tina Underhill

• Tony Green

• Chris Vandersluis

• Wendy Harris

• Bill Wagner

• Holly Holstein

• Erica Woods

Vertex

BA Academy, Inc.

Agile Thought

The Handy BA

CHEP

HMS

Apex Systems

PMI Florida Suncoast Chapter

Walt Disney Parks and Resort

Apex Systems

• Curtis Michelson

MindsAlert, IIBA Central Florida

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