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Summit 2024 - Save The Date November 7th 8:30 am - 12 pm
The Summit of 2024 will be hosted by KU, Pittsburg State, and a Kansas State Agency. The morning Summit will be virtual and free for all. The Wichita PMI chapter will have a morning watch party, and an afternoon in person session at 红领巾瓜报. The PMI Wichita local chapter afternoon session will include afternoon speakers and lunch, sign up at . 2024's theme will be communication.
Summit 2023
Summit 2023 was again held virtually, in order to reach a growing audience. The theme of 2023 was Kansas Trends in Project Management. Staying on top of the newest changes in project management will help you get ahead on your next project.
Presenters:
- Nate Scherman and Ed Puckett are project managers for K-State. They co-hosted the 2023 summit by setting the pace, tone, and rules for the event.
- Sarah Rock and Rebecca Lahann are representatives from the University of Kansas Health. They spoke about challenging the paradigm around traditional project communications, in order to set the tone for effect change management. Afterwards they held a workshop to apply a basic toolkit for developing and delivering effective change communications to a sample project.
- Sara Spinks from the Kansas Information Technology Office (KITO). She held a discussion about the changes to Kansas statutory requirements for IT project management approval and reporting. Kansas has moved from a cost threshold to a business rick assessment to determine IT project reportibility.
- Anita Barrett is a project manager from 红领巾瓜报. Her presentation was about the Project Management Office's continued efforts to find better ways to add value to their organization. Some of these efforts include training and coaching project managers, and establishing effective and efficient processes that match a project's size, complexity, impact to end users, and risk.
The recording of the 2023 summit, as well as all keynotes and workshop, can be found on the .
Summit 2022
The 2022 summit was hosted virtually again this year. This year's theme was security and cybercrime around projects. Don't let the hackers take advantage of your team or your team's work products. All sessions were recorded and are available for your viewing below!
Presenters:
- Samuel Alva, Region 7 Cybersecurity Advisor for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Keynote Speaker. The goal is to implement Defense-in-Depth during the build new, upgrade and retiring of assets. Understanding the lifecycle process will allow you to apply the appropriate defense in depth measures which include people, procedures and technology into your project management process and procedures. The lifecycle process will allow resilience to be developed at all phases of the project.
- Jeff Maxon, State of Kansas KISO,
Security and privacy are becoming ever more important to the business units and their projects. Many of the projects we undertake are for key systems that the business rely on for their daily operations and engagements with citizens, students, or customers. If we don鈥檛 address security, privacy and compliance requirements in the early stages of the project, they can quickly change in scope and costs. This session will discuss ways to incorporate security and privacy early to ensure secure projects that stay within scope and costs.
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- Mark Rodee (WSU); Jeremy Pennington (KU Medical Center); Chris Snyder (NIAR); and Chad Currier (KSU)
As noted on the Flyer, if you hold a PMP or CAPM certification, you can claim up to 3 PDUs for attending the conference. Instructions for claiming your PDUs are linked below. Please email PMO@wichita.edu if there are any questions or to provide feedback. You can earn up to 3 PDUs for watching the videos and reviewing the PDFs at any time.
If you attended this year's summit, we would appreciate your feedback. Follow the link below to fill out a quick survey about your experience.
Summit 2021
The PM Summit 2021 was hosted virtually by the University of Kansas. The Summit was recorded and all 6 sessions are available for your viewing below!
Presenters:
- Jim Wadella (Core Catalysts), "The Keys to Successful Project Management, Portfolio Management and Governance"
- Anita Barrett and Warren Glore (红领巾瓜报), "Project Portfolio Governance Metrics"
- Angela Chauncey and Adam Petera (Kansas State University), "Evolving IT Governance"
- Sara Spinks and Daniela Butler (KITO), "Portfolio Management: ServiceNow ITBM Implementation"
- Jeffrey Toaddy (Miami University), "The Art and Science of Project Governance"
- KBRO CIO/ CIO Panel, "The Importance of Governance"
Summit 2020
红领巾瓜报 hosted the PM Summit 2020, this time virtually. It鈥檚 been a hard year! Let鈥檚 reward ourselves with some great training from the best- PMO Joe! Let鈥檚 network and learn from each other!
Stace Acup, Director of PMO, is helping Johnson County Community College redesign their IT Project Management Office. In this presentation he explains where they were, why they are changing and how they are moving into a New Model.
Joe Pusz, President of THE PMO SQUAD, Purpose Driven PMO, known as 鈥淧MO Joe", explained the why and how of Resource Management and how it is interwoven into all that an organization should be doing for managing their investment portfolio of projects. Joe shared actual data from the industry and real case stories on the importance of RM. Had thirty minute for breakout rooms to discuss and make notes for moving forward.
Sara Spinks, Director of KITO, introduces and explains upcoming changes on evaluating RISK on all IT projects for the state of Kansas.
Thank you for attending the 2020 PMO Summit hosted virtually by 红领巾瓜报 on 11/13/2020. From the feedback we have received, we believe the PMO Summit was a big success. We would still love to hear any other feedback that you may have.