2014 PMI Scheduling Conference

Scheduling 2014: Introduction: Mark A. Langley, President and CEO
by Mark A. Langley
PMI President and CEO Mark Langley kicks off the 2014 Scheduling Conference and discusses shifting customer demands, the importance of execution and PMI's Talent Triangle.

Scheduling 2014: Keynote - “Infinite Demand in a Finite World”
by Peter Taylor
Peter Taylor brings his engaging style and concept of "productive laziness" to bear on the increasing pressure and never-ending demand for more from today's project managers. Kristy Tan Neckowicz provides the introduction and discusses PMI's Scheduling Practice.

Scheduling 2014: Scheduling and Progress Reporting
by Jonathan Japka
Jonathan Japka kicked off the sessions at the 2014 Scheduling conference with a Scheduling overview. He provides are review of Scope Management, including programs, projects, work breakdown structure, deliverables and sub-deliverables. He follows with a good look at Time Management including milestones, activities, logic diagrams, critical path, relationship types, baselines, activity progress and analysis.

Scheduling 2014: Technical Schedule Analysis Techniques
by Chris Carson
Chris Carson provides key insights into the three primary schedule components necessary to maintain performance:
- Critical Path (CP)
- Near-Critical Path (NCP)
- Non-Critical Path (Mass volume work)

Scheduling 2014: The Project Manifesto: Understanding Critical Chain Values
by Rob Newbold
Rob Newbold explains how the growing need for more speed, more predictability and more productivity is inevitably the need for change. He challenges the technology-first approach to projects and explains that when we create change we create conflict. Whether we resolve this conflict or simply accept it goes along way in determining whether we succeed or simply end up with business as usual. Rob will also describe what critical chain is beyond the technology, compare traditional values and relay race values and give guidance on resolving the conflicts.

Scheduling 2014: PMI – SP credential update
by Simona Fallavollita
Simona provides an update of the PMI-SP credential as of July 2014.

Scheduling 2014: A Toolbox for Schedulers
by Alfonso St. Jago, Patrick Van Weerdenburg
Patrick Van Weerdenburg and Alfonso St. Jago present an overview of the work they've done to increase the quality level at their organization. The toolbox for project schedulers is the result of their successful quality improvement process.

Scheduling 2014: A Product-Library Approach for Improving BIM-Based Schedules of Elements
by Erezi Utiome
Join Erezi Utiome's session from the 2014 PMI Scheduling Conference. This presentation includes:
- A new way of capturing project scheduling information
- An awareness of the implications of product libraries for BIM (Business Information Modeling).
- developing a strategy for Integrating product information from a variety of sources.

Scheduling 2014: Scheduling Past (gasp!) the End Date of Your Project
by Richard Maltzman
Rich Maltzman explains why we should look beyond our project end date and address concerns that will carry beyond that end date and into the steady state or our project's product.

Scheduling 2014: Planning and Scheduling in an Agile Framework
by Nader Rad
Join Nader Rad as he shares his insight on how to plan a project in an Agile environment. He will share:
- The difference between a development process and a management process.
- The difference between a predictive (Traditional) and an adaptive (Agile) lifecycle.
- An example of an adaptive lifecycle (Scrum) and the type of project planning involved in it.

Scheduling 2014: Practical Project Controls – the Art of Getting to ‘Done’!
by Patrick Weaver
Pat Weaver talks about what is needed to successfully get projects to "done":
- On time
- On budget
- To the satisfaction of the stakeholders
He provides a practical framework for achieving this and identifies key reasons why so many projects fail to do so.