EXECUTIVE BREAKFAST: IT Investment Management Governance in the sequestered and post sequestration environment

This event qualifies for .3 CEUs

Many Government organizations currently use technologies such as Microsoft Project as part of their program management solution. This Executive Breakfast will show how to leverage this investment to implement improved program management and compliance. Lessons learned from this Executive Breakfast can help prevent program management issues such as those recently reported in the news.

Overview of the Executive Breakfast: What Government Executives, Managers, Staff and Industry partners Need to Know to Reduce Budgets and Increase Transparency

Agency Executives Need Reliable and Accurate Internal Program Management Data to provide oversight of programs and management information before it goes public. In the New Era of Transparency and Reduced Budgets, Agency Leadership Can Better Focus on Tools and Techniques that Meet the New pre and post sequestration Federal budget redections.

What You Will Learn:

How Microsoft Project can help in tracking progress and functionality results in support the decision making for, improved program management and track project performance

How Executives can Align investments to strategic objectives, budget and resource availability and investment review
How to Managers can Track project objectives against actual project execution
How to Manage projects in a modular, gated and flexible way to be alerted of issues and adjust to stay on track and meet release cycles
How to Identify and assign issues and risks and tack their mitigations
How to Incorporate a collaborative environment to collect community comments, response to deliverables and suggestions
How to Create budget tracking that aligns with modular development
How to Take advantage of existing It investments and training
How Project/Program Information Can be Used by an Executive or Manager to Monitor Project Performance

Why You Should Attend:

To learn how to take advantage of existing investments to implement Investment Governance
Prepare for the intense OMB and Congressional Oversight and increased focus on IT Investment Reviews Including TecStat and PortfolioStat 2.0
To hear from your peers how they are addressing their own challenges
Learn lessons that can help improve internal program management to help prevent major program management failures

Who Should Attend:

CIOs, Deputy CIOs and Executive/Management Staff
CFOs, Deputy CFOs and Executive/Management Staff
Department/Agency Executive Management
Program/Project Executives and Managers
Contracting Officers
Capital Planners
IGs, Auditors and Staff
Government Executive, Managers and Staff responsible for Program/Project Management and Reporting
Senior managers responsible for Program Performance and Reporting New Large Program Executives appointed in reduce budgets by making difficult program management decisions. ||
Members of Department/Agency IT Investment Review Boards who want to better understand IT Program Reporting
Industry Partners Supporting the Federal Government

Speaker and Presenter Information

Keynote Address: Barry West Chief Information Officer Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Speakers Include: Fawn Freeman, PMP Director, Mission Investment Solutions Division Office of Environmental Information Environmental Protection Agency Ben Chamberlain Senior Vice President Product & Partner Management UMT Consulting Group Jerry Harper Director, Office of IT Policy and Planning Office of the Secretary U.S. Department of Commerce Beth Ward IT Program and Portfolio Services Federal Aviation Administration

Relevant Government Agencies

Air Force, Army, Navy & Marine Corps, Intelligence Agencies, DOD & Military, Office of the President (includes OMB), Dept of Agriculture, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Education, Dept of Energy, Dept of Health & Human Services, Dept of Homeland Security, Dept of Housing & Urban Development, Dept of the Interior, Dept of Justice, Dept of Labor, Dept of State, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Treasury, Dept of Veterans Affairs, EPA, GSA, USPS, SSA, NASA, Other Federal Agencies, Legislative Agencies (GAO, GPO, LOC, etc.), Judicial Branch Agencies, State Government, County Government, City Government, Municipal Government, CIA, FEMA, Office of Personnel Management, Coast Guard, National Institutes of Health, FAA, Census Bureau, USAID