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PDU
1.00
Event ID
c018160502
Program Description

This session will provide a high level overview of the five core capabilities that high performing organizations utilize to effectively achieve their strategic objectives: 
1. Talent Management 
2. Change Management 
3. Portfolio Management 
4. Program/Project Management 
5. Benefits Management and Realization

This course will also cover how these capabilities relate to each other and how they integrate to create a strategic execution "ecosystem" that provides a consistent, repeatable framework to select and deliver the right initiatives.

Special Instructions

4:30 – 5:30pm Career Networking Group: Project Management Career by Your Design
5:30 – 6:15pm Register, Local Interest Groups (PrCs), Networking
6:00 – 6:30pm New Member Orientation
6:30 – 7:20pm Dinner 
7:20 – 7:30pm PMI-MN Chapter Business / Intros
7:30 – 8:20pm Presentations
8:20 – 8:30pm Q & A 

Reservations by 05/04/2016: 
PMI-MN members $27, non-members $37
Partners: PMI members $25, non-members $35

Reservations from 05/05- 05/16/2016:
PMI-MN members $32, non-members $42 
Partners: PMI members $30, non-members $40 

Reservations for Speaker Only:
PMI-MN members $15, non-members $25
Partners: Members $14, non-members $23
Speaker Only Walk-ins: $25 

LIVE Webstream - Register by 05/16/2016:
PMI-MN members $20, non-members $30
Partner discount does not apply

LIVE WEBSTREAM REGISTRANTS:
Link to Adobe Connect login for participation is emailed to registrants one hour prior to start of webstreamed event

Speaker(s) Bios

Brian Grafsgaard
Brian Grafsgaard, PMP®

Brian Grafsgaard is the Director of Professional Services at QBS | Datacom Consulting. Brian has been a practicing Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 1998. Brian is also a proven Program Manager and in 2007 became the first in the world to attain the Program Management Professional (PgMP®) credential. In May 2014, Brian also became one of the first to attain the Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP®) credential. As a program and project manager Brian has lead the transformation and delivery of enterprise-class solutions in multiple industries.

Brian is an active volunteer for PMI Global and was selected to serve on the core team that developed The Standard for Program Management–Third Edition (2013). Brian recently served as the Chair of the core team that developed Requirements Management: A Practice Guide (2015). Brian is also a contributing author of Program Management: A Life Cycle Approach (2012, Boca Raton, Florida: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC).

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