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2 Day Workshop Details

When:

Tuesday February 28th, 8:30am to 4:30pm; and Wednesday February 29th, 8:30am to 4pm.

Where:

ASU Skysong Conference Center, 1475 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ

Global Room, second floor, room 201

Who should attend:

Project managers, Program Managers and Team Leaders from Fortune 500,mid-size and smaller companies; contract and consultant project managers especially for projects with 15 or more people.  CBPM has demonstrated results in essentially all types of projects (e.g. product development, software and IT, construction, etc.) in both private and public sectors.  

Sponsored by:  

Ensemble Management Consulting, LLC

Timm Esque and Mike Porter, Partners

The Challenge:

The stakes for excellence in project performance have never been higher.  Projects take too long and often don't deliver exactly what was requested, or in some cases, demanded.  Teams are under pressure to work seamlessly together, even though they report to several different departments, or even different enterprises, often with competing goals.  Leaders are under pressure to speed up the team, but also must respond to change and avoid surprises. In this environment people need a way to work that enables them to perform at their best with others.  Commitment Based Project Management addresses these needs and typcially results in 30% or more improvements in productivity.

Commitment-Based Project Management: 

• Focuses on results, the real deliverables that make up a project's business purpose 
• Builds commitment and trust within a project team while focusing on getting deliverables done.
• Provides simplified tools and methods for creating and managing to project plans in rapidly changing environments.
• Overlays onto your existing internal project processes; CBPM clarifies and enhances purpose, aligns stakeholders, enrolls all participants in the project deliverables.
• CBPM has a 15+ year record of improving productivity as measured by schedule, quality, cost.  Improvements of 30%-50% have been documented consistently.

What is included with this complete CBPM Course: 

Everything you need to get started implementing CBPM...

Workshop Day One:  Key concepts that distinquish CBPM from other approaches; a project simulation with multi-functional groups, using the Map Day technique; includes all stakeholders in developing a deliverables based project plan, where shared experience builds commitment to the project goals.

Workshop Day Two: How to turn project level deliverables into weekly individual commitments and manage them on a rolling basis to surface trade-offs and kepp projects on track.  Each participant finishes the two days with a plan to implement CBPM.  We'll adjourn at 4pm on Day Two to enable your return travel.

Post Workshop Coaching: Immediately following the two days, each participant will receive 4 hours of telephone coaching from EMC over a 4-6 week period as they apply the methods in their workplace.  Following the coaching period, all participants will share experiences and results in a teleconference facilitated by EMC that will cement learnings.

CBPM Tools and Materials:

• CBPM Commitment Tracking tool for project tracking and reporting
• A set of CBPM step-by-step instructions to refer to back on the job
• Pre and post reference reading materials, including two books to help you master CBPM

CBPM Certification:

Participants who complete all aspects of the course and demonstrate understanding of key concepts and tools per predefined criteria will receive a CBPM Team Leader Certification from Ensemble in partnership with the International Society of Performance Improvement.  The certification is performance-based, it indicates you not only understand CBPM team leadership, but you've demonstrated it. 

Your Course Leaders:

Timm Esque and Mike Porter, Partners of EMC, have been leading and helping high stakes project teams do what they commit to for 20 years.  Timm has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal as an expert on "performance under pressure".  He is the author of 3 books, including "No Surprises Project Management' which was born out of his experiences at Intel Corporation where product development teams worked under extreme pressure to meet the exploding demands of the high tech market.  Mike managed the construction and startup of $2Billion worth of high tech capital projects for Intel Corporation and has been consulting and leading workshops world wide since 2004.

Ensemble Partners Timm Esque or Mike Porter determine who meets certification requirements per the pre-defined criteria.  There are no refunds if the certification criteria are not met.  Coaching is offered for a limited time after completion of the workshop. There are no refunds if participants do not  take advantage of the coaching offered in that timeframe.