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Join us for a knowledge packed evening where we will be talking about Agile Project Management.

This includes a discussion with a panel of Agile advocates on the impact Agile approaches have on project management, how things are changing and its adoption outside of software teams.  Is there a role for the Project Manager in a future where software is everything?

Come over to have a slice of pizza and an honest discussion with some key Calgarian Agilists.  This is a panel discussion so please bring your questions!  

Panelists and Facilitators

Mike Griffiths

Mike is an enthusiastic practitioner with a long history of contributions to the project management community. He helped create the agile approach DSDM in 1994 and has been using agile approaches on his projects ever since. He served on the board of the Agile Alliance and Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and remains active in the agile community.

Mike is a frequent contributor to PMI standards and co-wrote the agile content for the recent PMBOK Guide Sixth Edition. He was also chairman of the author group and helped write the new PMI Agile Practice Guide. He helped create the PMI-ACP Credential and wrote RMC’s PMI-ACP Exam Prep books. He also co-wrote the Software Extension to the PMBOK Guide and participates in the PMI-SAC Mentor program.

Peter McCurdy

Peter is a passionate Project Manager who leverages his projects to improve the capability of the organization. As a Sr. Manager at General Dynamics, he built and led a team of 80 software engineers. As leader of the IT PMO at CP Rail he introduced performance metrics for assessing projects. While at Nortel he led several large scale projects and established processes and metrics to measure development team progress. At SMART Technologies, he instituted a process for delivery of integrated hardware/software solutions. As a consultant, he coached several software development companies on Agile. Currently, he is the Sr. Release and Process Manager at QuirkLogic where he is establishing multi-disciplinary program management processes and coaching its hardware development team on Agile.

Simon Orrell

Accruing experience with business leaders and agile environments since 2004, I became one of three Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise Coach's in Canada in 2010 and have been working with individuals, teams, and leaders to help transform oil and gas, financial services, manufacturing, and construction businesses. A background including P.Eng. and PMP accreditation further provides me with a pragmatic approach to product, team, and organizational development.

John Moura

John is passionate about Agile, Project Management and data driven decisions.

For the past 20 years, he has been a Project, Program, Portfolio, PMO manager, Development Manager and, above all, an Agilist. Most of his experience was in product development, but not just software. He setup an Agile PMO to build a manufacturing plant using Scrum ad other Agile methods.

Since obtaining his PMP designation over 10 years ago, he has been conducting PM activities daily either at work, through volunteer tasks at two different PMI chapters, by teaching project management at RMC and UofC, speaking about project management or participating in other PM-related networking groups. He realized he was really an Agilist leveraging the Agile mindset under the Project Management umbrella since 1994, way before he even knew there was something formalized.

As VP Operations of PMI-SAC, he has been advocating for the tech industry and new methods while driving the convergence of methodologies.  

Metropolitan Conference Centre

333 4th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta

(Across from the Westin on 4th Avenue SW)

Parking for monthly dinner meetings can be found at the James Short Parkade (Center Street) for $2 after 4 pm. It's heated, well lit, and only a couple of blocks from the Conference Centre!

The following rates for chapter events are exclusive of GST.

We Accept 

Note: Requests for attendance after closing date of registration will be accepted based on space availability at cost of $5.00 in addition to the regular posted fee.

Dates:

· January 29-31
· March 19-21
· May 28-30
· September 24-26
· November 19-21

Registration

You can register by email or online:

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Calgary and online

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Our goal is to provide you with the maximum value, flexibility, and ongoing support throughout your journey to obtaining your PMP. After taking the class, you will receive 35 credit hours towards your PMP in order to satisfy the PMI education requirement for certification.

Classroom:
• The in-class portion of your training is a concentrated, instructor-led workshop consisting of 17 modules designed to teach you the full scope of requirements needed to pass the PMP exam. The workshop is facilitated by industry experts sharing advice, study techniques, and best practices for passing the exam.
e-Learning (online – self paced):

• The e-learning portion supplements the instructor-led course and provides additional project management training reinforcement. Participants can go through all of the e-learning modules, or select specific modules to clarify and review specific exam topics. By completing all of the e-learning modules participants can earn up to 35 contact education hours (in addition to the 24 contact hours earned during the classroom session).

• The testing lab allows participants to simulate the taking of an actual four-hour PMP® exam (for an additional 11 contact hours), or create custom tests of any length, focused on specific areas of choice.

Class includes all items outlined below:
• Hardcopy material
o Binder consisting of all classroom instructor slides and room for corresponding student notes
o Course text book to accompany the PMBOK (5th Edition)
o Audio learning collateral (6 CDs)
o Self-Test flash cards
o 6 Sheet quick reference guide
• 3 day interactive classroom boot camp
• 3 month access to the online course collateral, including instructional videos
• 6 month access to the online exam simulator

We will be with you on your journey from initial contact with PMI, through the learning process, and subsequent examination preparation. If you have any questions, concerns or require support at any point in the process, we are there to help every step of the way.

Our student pass rate for the PMP exam is consistently over 95%. If, however, you happen to not pass on your first try, we would be pleased to welcome you to join any of our subsequent classroom sessions at absolutely no charge.

We maintain smaller classrooms in order to ensure that focus, inter-networking, and engagement is maximized for each student.

Once the course has been taken, you are eligible to write your exam immediately after obtaining approval from PMI, however we recommend that you leverage the exam simulator several times (included as part of the course) to ensure that you feel comfortable and prepared prior to the formal exam.
We are pleased to provide a special offer discount back to our 2015 pricing of C$1,245 which includes EVERYTHING you need to pass your PMP® certification exam!