PM Connect Meetings

One Ashburton Place,
Boston, MA  02108

 HRD

Self Awareness & Effective leader

One Ashburton Place,
Boston, MA  02108

 Curt Wood

What it takes for PMs to be successful here at the Commonwealth

One Ashburton Place,
Boston, MA  02108

 Mark Horvath

Topic - DevSecOps … an Emerging Agile Best Practice

One Ashburton Place,
Boston, MA  02108

 Mario Moreira

Topic - Agile in the Wild: The Many Ways to Apply Agile (not just Scrum and Kanban)

 21st floor conference room,

One Ashburton Place,
Boston, MA  02108

Topic: Program Showcase on Business Process Management (BPM) 

• Mike Syversen – Topic: Business Process Management (BPM)  in the Cloud
• Tracy Williams, PMP  – Topic: PCMS System: Cloud Based BPM Solution Implementation 

 21st floor conference room,

One Ashburton Place,
Boston, MA  02108

Topic: Commonwealth’s Vision for Project Success

• Mark Nunnelly, MassIT Executive Director  
• Jordan Harris, MassIT Director of Client Project Success Team (CPST)

 Project Showcase

 - Hire Now by Helen O’Malley (How to measure Project success)

- Data Visualization by Elizabeth Lovece (Applying Agile principles)

 Project Showcase

 - Hire Now by Helen O’Malley (How to measure Project success)

- Data Visualization by Elizabeth Lovece (Applying Agile principles)

J.J Sutherland

Topic - Transitioning from Waterfall to Scrum and How to Scale Up!

Beyond Post Mortems & Leassons Learned

• Tips from the Trenches - David Chirokas
• Agile Retrospective - Tosin Davis 

Four Pillars of the New Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO)

• Don VanSlochem, EPMO Program Leader
• David Weiher, EPMO Program Leader

What's in your toolbox?  Commonwealth Project Management Tools!

• Kevin Martin, Chief Applications Officer at MassIT, will discuss EPMO and MassIT’s Clarity PPM direction
• Rich Wolverton, Manager of MassIT Enterprise Tools, will discuss Clarity PPM
• Brian Chase, Director of IT Controls and QA at EOHHS, will talk about MassForge
• Tan Gopal, Chief Information Officer at the Dept. of Early Education, will cover Team Foundation Server
• John McDowell, System Administrator at MassIT, will cover JIRA
• Clay Martin, Associate Chief Information Officer at the Executive Office of Education, will discuss Rational Team Concert
• Jayashree Dattar, PMO Director ANF, will facilitate a panel discussion and get all your questions answered

Transformation Now! How the Commonwealth is using Agile

• Tom Skinner, PMO Director EEA, will set the stage on how the Commonwealth started this journey.
• Rich Highland, Sr PM MassIT, will discuss the initiatives that are underway.
• Brian Clark, CSM, CPO, will take you through Energy and Environment’s journey using Agile.
• Tan Gopal, CIO Early Education, will show you how effective Agile is after using it for two years!
• Jayashree Dattar, PMO Director ANF, will facilitate a panel discussion and get all your Agile questions answered

Bill Oates, Evolving IT at Commonwealth

1. Jim O' Neill, getting to Agile
   Special Presentations:

• Tony Parham, Enterprise Agile Scrum Roll out 
• Tom Skinner, Agile activities at EEA

 Part1:     Part 2:

Jeff Sutherland, The Power of Scrum

1. Bob Brennan, Juvenile Justice Project 
2. Domenico Sestito, Child Care Financial Assistance Project 

1. Patrick Masson, Chief Technology Officer,
   UMass Online  "Perfect is the enemy of goodPMConnect-MassonPres.pdf"
2. Kevin Coluci, CIO , Attorney General Office.
   (The agency preferred that the presentation not be posted)

 Video of Patrick Masson Presentation

February 28th, 2013

Tony Parham

Continuous Innovation for 
More Productive Commonwealth

December 13th, 2012

Priscilla Glidden

High Value Project
Leadership

September  20th, 2012

Minihan Hall Hurley Building --
 6th Floor 19 Staniford St
Boston, MA  02114

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Project Showcase:

Patricia Wada - Mass HR
Brian Clark - EPA's Vernal Pool
Steve Denney - Spring field Data Center

June 21st, 2012

Minihan Hall Hurley Building --
 6th Floor 19 Staniford St
Boston, MA  02114

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Carl Belack

Managing Complex Projects

March 15th 2012

Minihan Hall Hurley Building –
6th Floor 19 Staniford St
Boston, MA  02114

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Bonnie Cooper

Stakeholder Management - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

December 15th 2011

Minihan Hall
Hurley Building –
6th Floor 19 Staniford St
Boston, MA  02114

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Prof. Virginia Greiman

The Big Dig -  Managing Risks and
Complexity on Mega Projects

September 14th 2011

Minihan Hall
Hurley Building – 6th Floor
19 Staniford St
Boston, MA  02114

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John Letchford, CIO

June 15th 2011         

Minihan Hall
Hurley Building – 6th Floor
19 Staniford St
Boston, MA  02114

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Gina Abudi

March 23rd 2011

Minihan Hall
Hurley Building – 6th Floor
19 Staniford St
Boston, MA  02114

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Darrel Harmer, CCPO

Project Management

PowerPoint

Word

Excel

PDF

Mass.Govt page

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