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This session will be an active discussion with input from the audience on how to select project management tools. The presenters have been using ClickUp for a year or more as their primary project management tool. They will start the discussion by presenting the features that have drawn them to ClickUp and some of the difficulties with adoption.

Grab your coffee and breakfast and plan to join us online. A link to the virtual meeting will be provided on registration.

An important corollary to Brook's Law is Christianson's Law: An increase in the communication channels/programs will decrease productivity (https://bit.ly/jsc-law). Can unified communication tools like Slack, Discord, and MS Teams help, or do they add to the problem? Prof C will present his experience and his desperate attempts to limit how clients communicate with him to start the discussion with PMI members regarding their strategies.

Grab your coffee and breakfast and plan to join us online. A link to the virtual meeting will be provided on registration.

Do you remember the first time you worked on a project? Were you thrown into the deep end or isolated in the kiddie pool? New Project Managers need both encouragement and big challenges to excel. Drawing on his experience as a Project Management teacher and numerous interviews with mentors and mentees, Professor C will provide practical advice on getting new Project Managers off to a great start on their Project Management adventure.

Grab your coffee and breakfast and plan to join us online. A link to the virtual meeting will be provided on registration.

Whether you have a new project just getting started or a project that is already in progress but could use a boost, join us to learn about creating Project Hype! Hype is important for team energy, for communicating to external customers, and for selecting team members. This session will talk about what hype is – how to create it – and where/when to use it. Get excited and get ready to infuse your projects with some hype!

Grab your coffee and breakfast and plan to join us online. A link to the virtual meeting will be provided on registration.

Every company is an IT company whether they know it or not.  These organizations need servant-leaders to guide them and their teams through a pragmatic approach to pick their ways of working from inception to consumable solutions and beyond.  As 21st-century project practitioners, we need a new fresh set of tools that create a space for our teams and their organization to choose their best ways of working.  The Disciplined Agile (DA) toolkit is just in time.  As the second certification through the DA body of knowledge, the Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master training equips you to guide teams through complex initiatives.  It’s a fantastic map of goals and choices a team can take through all their phases of inception to support all packed under-fit for our digital age-principles, promises, and guidelines.  This session will cover the DASSM content at a 10,000-foot view, over a couple of exercises, and help you determine if DASSM is your next path to continuous improvement. 

Grab your coffee and breakfast and plan to join us online. A link to the virtual meeting will be provided on registration.