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APM Workshop - September 28, 2007
Agile Project Management Workshop
Welcome and Opening Session
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Objectives

• This Workshop is expressly designed to respond to
  
• 3 critical topics
• What is Agile Project Management?
• How can APM help me?
• How is APM Different?

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Not Objectives!

• This workshop will not
• Deepen the several agile methods that have been
  developed in todays project environment
• Give a magic formula to solve every problem or a
  single and predictive way of managing agile
  projects
• Answer to every possible question about Agile
  Project Management and its implementation in the
  different contexts

This workshop represents a starting point and
not an ending point for APM development
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Structure

• General session on APM theories the
  international speaker Sanjiv Augustine summarizes
  the APM basic concepts and presents his APM model
  and its 6 Practices, described in the book
  Managing Agile Projects
• Working session in subteams participants are
  subdivided in 6 working groups. Each group
  examines one of the 6 APM Practices, providing
  considerations, findings and proposals that will
  apply on site the specific APM Practice.
• General presentation and discussion session of
  the APM proposals each group presents their
  results to others attendees and to the Keynote
  Speaker. The Keynote Speaker comments each
  presentation, replies to the participants
  questions and concludes the workshop with his
  final considerations about the APM topics.

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Agenda
9,15 -9,30 Welcome and opening session by the PMI-NIC President and the Project Manager of the event
9,30-11,00 General session on APM theories lecture by the Keynote Speaker Sanjiv Augustine
11,00-11,30 Coffee Break
11,30-13,00 Working session in subteams
13,00-14,15 Lunch Break
14,15-15,00 Working session in subteams
15,00-16,00 General presentation and discussion session of the APM proposals first part
16,00-16,30 Coffee Break
16.30-17,30 General presentation and discussion session of the APM proposals second part
17.30-17,45 Final considerations by the Keynote Speaker
17,45-18,00 Closing Session by the Project Manager of the event
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Sanjiv Augustine

• Sanjiv Augustine is the President of LitheSpeed,
  an innovative Agile and Lean training and
  consulting company, and an industry-leading agile
  and lean expert.
• He is a co-founder and board member of the Agile
  Project Leadership Network (APLN). He is also the
  author of several publications and the book
  Managing Agile Projects (Prentice Hall 2005) and
  the founder and moderator of the Yahoo! Agile
  Project Management discussion group.
• He presents regularly at several agile
  conferences and user groups worldwide, and
  project management conferences including Project
  World and Project Summit.
• Sanjiv has assisted clients in deploying agile
  and lean methods at many institutions large and
  small and he has managed agile projects varying
  in size and coached numerous project teams.

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Sponsor

• CA, one of the world's largest information
  technology (IT) management software companies,
  unifies and simplifies the management of
  enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is
  headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves
  customers in more than 140 countries.
• Inside its offering we can mention CA Clarity,
  the industry-leading IT Governance solution that
  enables IT organizations to achieve world-class
  performance by improving the quality of their
  engagement with the business and enhancing their
  ability to run at peak efficiency. The Clarity
  system features integrated portfolio planning,
  demand management, project management, resource
  planning and time and cost management.
• For more information, please visit http//ca.com.

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Sponsor

• InfoCamere created and currently operates the
  national system linking Italys 104 Chambers of
  Commerce and 300 branch offices. This system
  provides users mainly central and local
  administrations, professionals and private and
  public companies with immediate access to the
  documents and data contained in the Chamber
  archives.
• One of InfoCameres most significant
  achievements is the electronic Business Register,
  established in 1993 (implementing specific
  legislative provinsions). This distinguishing
  feature was a first among European Commerce
  Registers.
• For more information, please visit
  www.infocamere.it

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Sponsor

• Nexen is a business consulting company devoted
  to the design, the planning and the creation of
  functional organization models capable to support
  all activities related to the commercial,
  management and administration of financial and
  services companies. All this is carried on with a
  distinguishing competence in knowing how to
  harmonise all the decisions affecting the
  processes, the people and the infrastructure of
  the company.
• Nexen consulting services are provided by
  specialists with background experience gained in
  leading international consulting firms. Nexen is
  able to support the customer in all its
  information systems integration, consolidation
  and development projects, from the early
  beginning of the planning design to the
  implementation and operative usage www.nexen.it

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cli-NIC Team

• cli-NIC is a pun, born during a brainstorming
  session, thinking about the role of our NIC
  (Northern Italy Chapter) facilitators
• cli-NIC is a very particular first-aid team,
  who skillfully helps the groups, assisting them
  in achieving the right objectives or in
  eliminating every possible desease, perfectly
  aligned to the agile and innovative cut of the
  day!

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cli-NIC Team Paolo Scapini

Organic Teams
EMC² PMP, Project Manager
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cli-NIC Team Pierluigi Assi

Guiding Vision
RGM CONSULTANTS PMP, Project Manager
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cli-NIC Team Angelo Gaspani

Simple Rules
SIA-SSB PMP, Architecture and Data
Administration Manager
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cli-NIC Team Marco Valioni
Open Information
SIA-SSB PMP, Client Demand Management
Manager
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cli-NIC Team Luca Boschetto

Light Touch
EMC² PMP, Project Manager
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cli-NIC Team Vito Mazzotta

Adaptive Leadership
CA PMP, Project Manager
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cli-NIC Team Antonella Tantalo

Agile cli-NIC Team Coordinator
PMLAB PMP, Project Manager
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Useful Information

• Simultaneous translation will be available during
  the Keynote Speaker speech
• Proceedings will be available on www.pmi-nic.org
  starting from the end of October 2007
• Professional learning credits for PMP 8 PDU