Dick Rutledge

Program Director & Master of Ceremonies

Founder of Project Leadership Conference (1994-2002)
Founder of Delivering Project Excellence (2005 & 2006)

Mr. Rutledge has a sterling reputation for developing conferences heralded as the Gold Standard in the technology space.

"I have always been amazed at the stellar programs he produces. The tremendous blend of leadership, management and project technology topics puts this Summit at the top of my 'must attend' list." -----Pamela Hollington, President of Rebound Consulting and Publisher of CIO-On-The Go!

Terry Schmidt Pre-Summit Event

Practical Strategic Project Management Tools for Resource Planners

Fortune Magazine estimates that 70% of strategies and projects fail, and noted that most of the strategies were basically sound, but could not be executed. This session proclaims a fresh way to protect good ideas and turn them into spectacular results through a step by step systems thinking approach to planning and execution. Terry Schmidt is Founder, ManagementPro, and author of Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Practical Tools for Leaders and Teams. His session covers the Four Critical Strategic Questions you must answer, and introduces a simple organizing tool called The Logical Framework. You'll learn rapid-start methodologies that help teams design and execute successful strategic initiatives. This approach adds value to projects aimed at improving the budgeting and resource planning process.

Welcome Reception

Sunday, June 28th at 6:30 PM

Sponsored by:

User Product Training Forum

Sunday, June 28, 1:30-5:30PM

Do you or your organization fall into any of these seven categories:

• We have key new players who need to be brought up to speed on the PDWare Profolio
• We have lost some players and need to retrain other members of our team
• We have spread the use of PDWare Portfolio and need to offer them training
• We are a new User and some important members need some basic training
• We need more training on the product, but training budgets are tight
• I would like to refresh my technical knowledge of the product
• I am not a User but would like to attend to learn more

If so, then the Resource Planning Summit offers an opportunity to achieve two Learning goals: (1) Learning from Speakers and attendees at the inauguration of the Summit and (2) free training that saves your organization up to $4,000 plus the consultant's travel expenses.

Training Seminar Content

• Application Overview and Definitions
• How to get started
• Basic Application Characteristics
• Defining Resource Capacity (Supply)
• Defining Project Demand (Assignment)
• Analyzing Resource Demand
• Supply-Demand Calculation
• Views, Reports and Portfolio Status Overview

Training will take place in concurrent seminar groups of 20-25 attendees
PLEASE BRING YOUR LAPTOP COMPUTER

Dr. Hank Weisinger

In this after-dinner presentation, Dr. Weisinger will summarize some of the major themes from his new book, The Genius of Instinct. New evolutionary psychology reveals stunning new lessons about the power of instincts and their capacity to transform lives from surviving to thriving. Unfortunately, in these modern times, most of us are disconnected from our basic instincts, and too often rely on our rational mind to cope with life and business challenges. Consequently, we make all the wrong moves, all the wrong choices and the results are self-defeating. Hank identifies six indispensable instinctual behaviors that we need to follow in order to reconnect with our instincts. For technologists, one of them is Curiosity---So You Can Stay Ahead of the Pack.

Beat the PDware Bowling Pros

Beat Portfolio DecisionWare Best Score!

Prizes! Prizes! Prizes!

4-Hole Night Golf

Twosomes, Foursomes, Sixsomes or Eightsomes---Your choice!

Additional Conference Activities

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