On-site registration available at 4:30pm, Today, Monday, Sep 8, 2014!
The PMI Atlanta Dinner Meeting, The Project Management Event of the month, features networking, two presentations, and dinner.
Newcomers Meeting: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
If you are a new member to PMI Atlanta, you do not want to miss this opportunity to hear how PMI Atlanta can help you achieve your goals and meet members of the leadership team.
Keynote Presentation - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
"Motivating Project Teams" by Andy Crowe, CEO and founder of Velociteach
Earn up to 2 PDUs while building your professional network, viewing new products and services, and enjoying dinner. Earn 1 PDU for attending the Professional Growth event and 1 PDU for attending the dinner meeting. Click Here (PDF) to view the Fee Schedule for this event.
In August 2014 the US Government CIO published the US Digital services playbook. This talk will cover the 13 plays and how they relate to the 12 principles of Agile software delivery. The talk will conclude with resources to help educate project managers on Agile Delivery practices.
The following people from each of your teams would benefit from this session on requirements:
• Product and Line Managers
• Portfolio Team Members
• Project Managers
• Product Owners
• Testers
• Analysts
• Developers
• Scrum Masters
This keynote by best-selling project management author Andy Crowe explores the topic of motivating project teams to operate at their peak performance. In his high-energy style, Crowe weaves existing motivational studies with cutting edge behavioral research to unlock how project managers can channel the underlying motivation of individuals and teams. By exploring such topics as contingent, intrinsic, and extrinsic motivators, managers will be exposed to techniques they can immediately put into practice to help their teams operate at their full capacity.
Agenda:
• Is Motivation New?
• The Alpha Study – Self Awareness
o Intensive professional survey and interviews of 3,000 project managers, team members, senior managers, and customers
• Explores the three most important PM Skills ranked by Senior Management and asks the PM’s themselves – How they differ
• Compares answers to “What Motivates YOU?” versus “What Motivates YOUR TEAM?” - How the views of Senior Management and PMs differ
• Motivational Theories
o Fredrick Taylor
o Abraham Maslow
o Daniel Pink
o Mihaley Csikszentmihalyi
• How to increase Intrinsic Motivation
o Control/Autonomy
o Skill/Mastery
o Impact/Purpose
Biography:
Andy Crowe is the CEO and founder of Velociteach, and author of Alpha Project Managers: What the Top 2% Know that Everyone Else Does Not, The PMP Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try, and The PMI-ACP Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try. His books have sold over 150,000 copies worldwide.
Velociteach has recently been awarded the Cobb County Small Business of the Year, the Sam Olens Business Community Service Award, and was recognized as one of 2013’s top 100 small businesses in the USA by the US Chamber of Commerce.
He is a PMP, a PgMP, and a Six Sigma Black Belt, and he lives in Kennesaw, GA.