July 10, Friday
Seminar (Columbia, MD 21045)
Advanced Risk Management ­ Risk Metrics, Tools and Models.
Presented by Mr. Carl Pritchard, PMP, EVP
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This program is designed to move one step beyond the basic applications of risk management and identification, qualification, quantification, response planning and control. In this dynamic one-day workshop, Carl works through key elements of the risk management plan, as well as the application of such advanced tools as Monte Carlo analysis and portfolio risk model creation. Participants will actually create a risk model in class to determine whose projects are the “riskiest”, and how to consistently measure the seemingly amorphous concept of risk across projects.

July 16, Thursday
Dinner & Networking Meeting (Frederick, Maryland)
Integrating Business and Financial Management Functions
Presented by William R. Fast, CDFM
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Behind any successful Program Manager (PM) one usually finds a competent Business Financial Manager (BFM). This BFM has expertly integrated the business and financial aspects of the program both horizontally, across the life cycle of the program, and vertically, up the program/budget review chain and through the Congressional Enactment process. The objective of this workshop is to discover how the BFM integrates cost estimating, budget development and defense, and ensures timely budget execution to enable the PM to succeed. Bill Fast joined the Defense Acquisition University (DAU) in 2006. He is a Professor of Financial Management for the Capital and Northeast Region at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He facilitates Program and Financial Management courses with members of the Defense Acquisition Workforce and consults with Department of Defense and Defense Industry program management offices on program and budget formulation and execution.

July 16, Thursday
Dinner Mtg. - ALTERNATE SITE (Timonium, MD 21093)
9/11 Disaster Management
Presented by Joseph A. Frazetti, CIPM
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PLEASE NOTE: This meeting is at an ALTERNATE LOCATION. The Loyola Graduate Center at 2034 Greenspring Drive, Timonium MD 21093 (Right next door from our usual Crowne Plaza location)

This presentation addresses the lessons learned from the restoration of the telecommunication network in New York City, Washington D.C. and other locations. Pictures of the devastation and the restoration activities make up the backdrop of the presentation that address leadership, program activities and the human impact of a prolonged disaster; as well as the unique lessons learned during the project and the planning that was required to achieve restoration in record time

During his tenure at AT&T and Lucent, Mr. Frazetti has provided leadership in the management and recovery of major telecommunication service outages which affected residential, business and governmental communications and data; which culminated in the support of Verizon and government agencies during the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania

6:00pm - Networking; 6:30pm - Dinner; 7:30pm - Presentation

July 27, Monday
Luncheon Meeting (Columbia, MD)
Life in the Vortex – When Quality Advisors Collide
Presented by Jonathan Addleston, PMP
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The software project management teams most responsible for providing product quality are engineering, quality assurance (QA), and independent verification and validation (IV&V). In mature projects, these same teams are responsible for providing project management and the customer with objective measurements and insight into the evolving product quality, in time for constructive corrective action. These teams are generally expected to provide insightful analysis of the quality data including root cause analysis, risk analysis, defect prevention approaches, and suggestions about corrective action choices (including process improvements). All this information is expected to be provided in an unambiguous form in terms the project manager (assumed to be a technical generalist, not a specialist) can understand and interpret. What happens from the project management perspective when these product quality related teams disagree, provide different data, conflicting analysis, antithetical root cause analyses, and clashing corrective action suggestions? This presentation will describe how these circumstances arise and what project management can do to avoid them, mitigate their impact, and resolve their differences. Jonathan D. Addelston is currently leading a Department of Navy CIO Enterprise Architecture effort for Maritime Domain Awareness. He was the IV&V Team Lead at the DoD Defense Business Transformation that is developing an extensive Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) for the DoD Business Transformation Agency. He started UpStart Systems as a systems and software engineering consulting practice in 1996, focusing on enterprise architecture, process improvement, business process re-engineering, process management, and independent verification and validation. He graduated from MIT in 1965 (before it had an undergraduate computer science major). He is the co-founder and program chair of the first chapter of the Software Process Improvement Network (in Washington DC).

August 5, Wednesday
Virtual Meeting (Columbia, MD)
Enlightened Leadership – Pathway to Success
Presented by Joanne Aaronson, PMP
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This one-hour program presents the case for a needed paradigm shift in corporate America today; one that is defined by the qualities of Enlightened Leadership. Two opposing models of leadership are presented. First, the negative model and then how it can be countered by the positive forces represented by Enlightened Leadership. Working examples are presented to encourage leaders at every level of the organization – whether the project manager, team lead, or executive to make the shift to the Enlightened Leader paradigm as a pathway to success. Don’t miss this unique presentation! Ms. Aaronson has over 20 years of project/program management experience in public and private sectors. She has received several awards for project management and has presented at various PMI meetings and seminars. She is a PMP, holds a degree in Physics from the University of Denver and lives in the Reston VA area.

August 7, Friday
Full-Day Seminar (Phoenix, MD)
How to Determine and Delivery Bad News — In a Good Way
Presented by Lee R. Lambert, PMP
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August 24, Monday
Luncheon Meeting (Columbia, MD)
Disaster Management Following 9/11 - Lessons Learned
Presented by Joseph Frazetti, CPIM
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This presentation addresses the lessons learned from the restoration of the telecommunication network in New York City, Washington D.C. and other locations following the disaster on 9/11/2001. Pictures of the devastation and the restoration activities make up the backdrop of the presentation that address leadership, program activities and the human impact of a prolonged disaster as well as the unique lessons learned during the project and the planning that was required to achieve restoration in record time. Mr. Frazetti has over 38 years of experience in telecommunications and information technology specializing in program management, network engineering, build, operations and technical support. Fifteen of the thirty-eight years were in executive leadership positions with nine years at the AT&T Corporation and six years as an executive with Lucent Technologies. During his tenure at AT&T and Lucent, Mr. Frazetti has provided leadership in the management and recovery of major telecommunication service outages which affected residential, business and governmental communications and data culminating in the support of Verizon and government agencies during the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Currently, Mr. Frazetti works with various telecommunication consulting firms and lectures on Disaster Management techniques.