Optimizing Your IT Portfolio: Best Practices from Planning to Delivery - 10/11/2012  

 
This course has been cancelled 
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Course Description:
 
Optimizing Your IT Portfolio: Best Practices from Planning to Delivery course supports the entire acquisition and project management lifecycle, including strategic planning, budgeting, project planning, acquisition, surveillance, and deployment.   This course is designed to provide a fundamental understanding of the best practices for reviewing project proposals, prioritizing projects based on strategic objectives, and insuring the current portfolio of projects are on track to deliver the planned benefits.    For Federal Agencies, this process requires the development of business cases, completion of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Exhibit’s 300 and 53, as well as monthly updates to the Federal IT Dashboard. 
 
What You Will Learn:
 
1.    Best practices for Portfolio Management
2.    Understanding of the process and completion of OMB Exhibit 300 and 53 
3.    Familiarization with the investment data required to address these exhibits
4.    Federal IT Dashboard Reporting
 
Why You Should Attend:
 
1.    Federal Executives are under increasing pressure to cut budgets for Federal IT Investments.  
2.    The current administration has also implemented systems and processes which require greater transparency and accountability for program and project performance.    
                                          
Format:
 
Classroom with interactive discussion
 
Agenda:
 
  • Project Portfolio Management overview
  • OMB 300/53 submission process overview
  • BY13 Exhibit 300 changes
  • Federal IT Dashboard updates
 
Instructor:
 
Kevin Martin, President of KM Systems Group
 
Kevin Martin, President of KM Systems Group, founded the company in 2002. Mr. Martin’s experience spans more than 25 years of planning and implementing information-driven business improvements for Fortune 500 clients and major government agencies by employing business process improvement and systems integration solutions. His work has included all phases of the information systems development lifecycle, from strategic planning, to the design, development, and implementation of large-scale systems. Mr. Martin is a recognized expert and frequent speaker on project and earned value management topics.
Prior to founding KM Systems Group, Mr. Martin was Senior Vice-President and Global Chief Knowledge Officer at KPMG Consulting where he served on the firm’s Executive and Operating Committee. He was responsible for developing the $3 billion global consultancy’s business strategy, process improvement, and knowledge management solutions offerings. He also developed KPMG’s Program and Project Management methodologies. Mr. Martin is an active member of the Project Management Institute EVM Community of Practice, College of Performance Measurement (CPM), and National Defense Industry Association (NDIA) Program Management Systems Committee (PMSC). Mr. Martin represented his previous company on the PMSC since the mid-1980’s and directly supported the NDIA PMSC Working Group (1997-8) that developed the initial version of the EVMS Standard (ANSI/EIA 748-98).
 
 
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