IT Governance & Project Management
Milwaukee, Wi | April 12th, 2006
 Strategic IT development projects are initiated to advance an organization's business and achieve something beyond its current capabilities. Since these projects are extremely important to the future of the company, IT Managers are under great pressure to deliver successful results on time and on budget.
Every IT project involves associated risks which could impact the project in the form of diminished quality of the end product, increased costs, delayed completion, or failure. All of which have the potential to adversely affect the organization. As a result, IT Managers have had to become experts at mitigating risks. Meeting requirements and bug testing are no longer adequate. Risk management is now an art form - a critical element of each step of the project lifecycle. |
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Event Logistics |
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Check In & Continental Breakfast
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 $75 Members
$95 Nonmembers
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
8:00–11:00 AM
Milwaukee Athletic Club
758 N. Broadway
Milwaukee |
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| 8:15–8:30 |
Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 8:30–9:00 |
Successful IT Governance Implementation |
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Carissa Rollins, Senior Manager, WHITTMANHART
Ms. Rollins has over 15 years of experience in IT, including 10 years of consulting in Fortune 500 companies. Her areas of expertise include large-scale international project management, business intelligence package implementation, IT Governance program development and implementation, IT strategic planning and Corporate Performance Measurement program development. Her several years of IT and management consulting have provided many opportunities for large initiative developments and deployments at multi-national firms. |
| 9:00–9:30 |
IT Process Consulting
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Rob Peters, Director, Kanbay
(sponsored by CA)
Rob has 22 years of coaching senior executives which regards to the implementation and governance of significant IT investments. Rob is the co-founder of DePaul’s IT Executive Leadership Laboratory and is on the 4th year of a 5 year study of the CIO role. |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Project Jeopardy: The Hidden Reasons Projects Fail |
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Rob Balon, Principal
Clerestory Consulting
Robert Balon has an extensive background leading companies through significant change. Mr. Balon has led innovative engagements in a variety of industries, including financial services, media, entertainment, healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, and government. Specific areas of expertise include improving business operations, managing large, complex initiatives, and helping companies achieve value from major investments in enterprise software. |
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Mike Fenske, Principal,
Clerestory Consulting
Michael Fenske has more than 20 years experience helping organizations improve. He has led complex engagements with clients in the manufacturing, financial services, insurance, wholesale distribution, healthcare, and utilities industry segments. Specific areas of expertise include: business process improvement, change management, program management, portfolio optimization, and software integration. Mr. Fenske has worked with both business and IT executives of Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies on projects with budgets exceeding $100M. |
10:00-11:00
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Keynote Panel
Moderator: Jeff Swisher, Director Consulting Services, Dunn Solutions Group (sponsored by Borland)
Jeff is an experienced technical manager and applications development expert, he handles complex, mission-critical projects as architect and programmer. He has focused on helping transferring management best practice knowledge through consultative mentoring – a blend of consulting and educational services.
Jeff is a certified instructor in a number of software development tools and an experienced instructional designer. He is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences, a highly regarded seminar presenter, and the co-author of several books on applications development tools and processes. |
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Panelists:
Mimi Norris, Engineering Information Technology Director - GPO, Abbott Labs
Mimi started at Abbott in 1993 as a help desk support analyst in CMIS. Prior to joining Abbott she was a database analyst for Data Deluxe Corporation. While at Abbott, Mimi has held the positions of Manager, HPD Help Desk Operations; Manager, HPD Network Services; Manager, CED IT Operations; and Manager, CED Project Management. In October 2003, she assumed her current position as Director Engineering Systems in GPO. |
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Greg O’Hearn, Applications Development Supervisor, Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District
Greg has over 20 years of experience managing projects and people in the private and public sector. He has managed projects consisting of multi-office installations of local and wide area networking, converting to enterprise financial systems, implemented enterprise reporting, intranet developments, organizational web sites, outsourced and in-sourced corporate messaging. Greg believes in a pragmatic approach to project management. |
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Karina Willes, Project Manager, Foley & Lardner
Karina is responsible for mission-critical, highly visible projects
within Foley & Lardner LLP, including mergers and acquisitions, web
application/site development and infrastructure-related projects.
Karina has 10 years of project management experience, more than six
years of those in IT and three in public relations. In the last two years, she played a key role implementing FOLEY's
IT Governance system. Karina led projects within this initiative to
create a formal project management methodology, document all key
processes, and assisted with the implementation and customization of
Microsoft Project Server 2003.
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| 11:00–11:30 |
Networking Reception
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