PPM Attendee Program Agenda
As of April 23, 2008. Subject to change without notice.
| Monday, June 16, 2008 | |
| 12:00pm - 8:00pm | Registration |
| 4:30pm - 6:30pm | Roundtables |
| 7:00pm - 8:00pm | Kickoff Session
Program and Portfolio Management: Keep the People In and the Complexity Out Audrey Apfel |
| 8:00pm - 10:00pm | Welcome Reception |
| Tuesday, June 17, 2008 | |
| 7:30 - 8:00am | Breakfast |
| 8:30am - 9:30am | Keynote Session New PPM Options: The Pervading Business Process Perspective William Rosser |
| 9:15am - 10:15am | Breakout Sessions
Portfolio Objective Alignment: IT’s Just One Portfolio Robert A. Handler, Vice President Program Management Planning: The Achilles' Heel Mike Hanford PPM Maturity: Walking the Walk Donna Fitzgerald & Lars Mieritz |
| 10:25am - 11:25am | Crawl-Walk-Run: Building Public-Sector IT Portfolio Management Maturity David McClure, Research Director IT Modernization: It's Not a Project, It's a Process David Cappuccio, Managing Vice President Workshop - Connecting the Dots: Aligning Strategy with Projects (Part 1) Donna Fitzgerald, Research Director & Bill Rosser, Research VP and Gartner Fellow |
| 11:45am - 12:45am | Application Portfolio Management: A Practitioner's Guide Jim Duggan, Research VP PPM Practices: A World Gone By Mike Hanford, Research Director Workshop - Connecting the Dots: Aligning Strategy with Projects (Part 2) Donna Fitzgerald, Research Director & Bill Rosser, Research VP and Gartner Fellow |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm | Lunch |
| 1:45pm - 2:45pm | General Session Enabling PPM: Applications Help Make It Work Matt Light, Research Director Daniel Stang, Principal Analyst |
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Breakout Sessions Interfacing Projects and Requests: Changing IT Change Management Kris Brittain, Research VP The Process of PPM Matt Hotle, VP Distinguished Analyst IT Professional Outlook: Preparing for a Future Unlike the Past Diane Morello, Research VP & Gartner Fellow |
| 4:10pm - 5:10pm | Breakout Sessions The New IT Governance: Skills for Business Demand Management Mike Gerrard, VP Distinguished Analyst PPM Best Practices: Balancing Process Adoption and Process Automation Dan Stang, Princial Analyst IT Transformation: What Will the Future Look Like? Barbara Gomolski, Research VP |
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm | General Session Technology Provider Panel |
| 6:30pm - 8:30pm | PPM Pavillion |
| 8:30pm - 10:30pm | Networking Opportunity |
| Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | |
| 7:30am - 8:00am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 - 10:00am | Practitioner Panel |
| 10:25am - 11:25pm | Breakout Sessions Costs, Risks & Returns: Striking the Optimal Portfolio Balance Matt Light, Research Director Measuring and Improving Application Projects Matt Hotle, VP Distinguished Analyst A Performance-Based Competency Standard to Assess Project Managers Guest Speaker, W. Duncan |
| 11:45am - 12:45pm | Breakout Sessions Portfolio Management Workshop: Sharing Best Practices Donna Fitzgerald, Research Director & Matt Light, Research Director Program Risks ARE Different Mike Hanford, Research Director The Quest for Talent in a Digital Age Diane Morello, Research VP & Gartner Fellow |
| 12:45pm - 1:45pm | Lunch |
| 1:45pm - 2:45pm | Breakout Sessions The New View of IT Demand and Supply Governance Mike Gerrard, VP & Distinguished Analyst Roundtable - 2 Ups and 2 Downs Mike Hanford, Research Director IT Success Is All About Business Benefits Lars Mieritz, Research VP |
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Breakout Sessions Trends in IT Spending Barbara Gomolski, Research VP Convergence of Application Change and Configuration Management Jim Duggan, Research VP What You Should Know About Launching A BPM Initiative Bill Rosser, VP & Distinguished Analyst |
| 4:10pm - 5:10pm | Breakout Sessions Beyond the Business Case: Projects in the Enterprise Architecture M Handler Reducing Risks in Large Public Sector IT Programs Dave McClure, Research Director Towards 2012: The PMO Emergent Donna Fitzgerald, Research Director & Matt Light, Research Director |
| 5:30pm - 8:00pm | PPM Pavillion |
| 8:30pm - 10:30pm | Awards |
