Monday - September 24 |
Pre-conference Workshops |
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7:00–8:00 |
Continental Breakfast & Registration |
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8:00–12:00 |
AM Half-Day Session
A
"Setting
Project Priorities for Effective Pipeline and Portfolio
Resource Management"
Mark Deck & Jeff Dupuie, PRTM |
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8:00–5:00 |
Full-Day Session
C
"Implementing
the TOC Multi-Project Method"
Tony Rizzo, Product Development Institute |
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12:00–1:00 |
Lunch |
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1:00–5:00 |
PM Half-Day Session
B
"Agile
Pipeline/Portfolio Management: How to Create Buy-In"
Greg Githens, Catalyst Consulting |
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5:00–6:00 |
NPD Executive Roadmap Series
Welcome
reception for series participants |
Tuesday - September 25 |
Main Conference - Day One |
|
7:00–8:00 |
Continental Breakfast & Registration |
|
8:00–8:15 |
Welcome, Management Roundtable |
Agile Pipeline and Portfolio Management |
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8:15–9:30 |
Keynote:
"Agile Project Management: Problems, Principles and
Practices"
Jim Highsmith,
Cutter Consortium |
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9:30–10:00 |
Break |
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10:00–11:00 |
Case Study:
Balancing Strategies for Program Management
Curt Raschke,
Texas Instruments |
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11:00–12:00 |
Case Study:
Implementing Constraint-Bsed Program and Resource Management
at LSI Logic
Linda Blauner,
LSI Logic |
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12:00–1:15 |
Lunch & Breakout Session:
Knowledge-centric New Product Development
Charles
Weinstein, Sopheon Corporation
Make Profits, not processes: Using constraint-anchored
throughput management
Sanjeev Gupta,
Speed to Market
XIS Breakout
Paul Webb, XIS |
|
12:00–1:15 |
NPD Executive Roadmap Series
Lunch/Breakout Discussions |
Resource Management and Allocation |
|
1:15–1:30 |
Overview
Mark Deck, PRTM |
|
1:30–2:30 |
Case Study:
Telecommunications Service Development Pipeline Management -
"Just Say No!"
Paul Sapenaro,
Sprint NCO |
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2:30–3:00 |
Break |
|
3:00–4:00 |
Case Study:
An Integrated Approach to
Pipeline
Management: Linking
People,
Processes and Data
Mark Kleinle, Director of New
Product Development, Shure, Inc. |
|
4:00–5:00 |
Keynote:
"Strategic Portfolio Management: Leveraging Your Pipeline"
Dr. Scott Edgett,
PDI |
|
5:00–6:30 |
NPD Executive Roadmap Series
Reception
and Intergroup Networking |
|
5:00–6:30 |
Wine and Cheese Reception |
Wednesday - September 26 |
Main Conference - Day Two |
|
7:00-8:00 |
Continental Breakfast
Breakfast Breakout Session:
Implementing Strategic Priorities: Who Decides What Doesn't
Get Done
Bill Kern, IPS
Associates
|
Platforms, People and Information Flow |
|
8:00–9:30 |
Keynote:
"Multiproject Management in Product Development"
Michael Cusumano,
MIT/Sloan School of Business |
|
9:30–10:00 |
Break |
|
10:00–11:00 |
Case Study:
Anticipating Change: Optimizing Resources at Cisco
Bob Frazier,
Cisco Systems |
|
11:00–12:00 |
Case Study:
Optimizing a Portfolio Across an F2B Product Development
Architecture
Noo Mangat,
Hercules Corp. &
Paul O'Connor, The Adept Group |
|
12:00–1:00 |
Lunch |
|
12:00– |
NPD Executive Roadmap Series
Lunch &
Special Session with Dr. Edgett |
Optional Post-Conference Mini-Workshops |
|
1:00–2:30 |
Option 1:
"Real Benefits in Only 60 Days: A Non-Threatening,
Incremental Approach to Critical Chain Project Management
Implementation"
Eugene Kania, NPDP, formerly with Lucent Technologies |
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Option 2:
"Integrating Process Management with Program Management"
Stephen Armstrong, Principal, AMGI |
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2:30 |
Program ends |
