CHAOS UNIVERSITY 2008: Creating a Healthy Project Management Ecosystem

To be held at the Seaport Hotel World Trade Center

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What can we do to make more of our projects succeed? Projects live in an organizational environment. All projects will benefit from a healthy project environment. A healthy environment starts with understanding and promoting the CHAOS Five Commandments, which are Community, Awareness, Purpose, Pride, and Earnestness (CAPPE). The theme for CHAOS University 2008 is "Creating a Healthy Project Management Ecosystem." The purpose of the event is to explore ways to identify the CAPPE commandments, take action to enhance and promote them, and raise the project success quotient. This 2008 event will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Seaport Hotel World Trade Center on November 6th and 7th.

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Program Overview

Feedback from past CHAOS University retreats indicated that workshops and their presentations were the most valuable parts of each event. In addition, many executives have expressed that they are squeezed for time; therefore we have streamlined the event to two days and focused on the workshops. Other than the opening and closing remarks, the event will feature only three items: workshops, case presentations, and case studies. Here is a general description of these sessions:

Workshop Overview: In our "CAPPE" workshops we will break out into small groups of eight to 10 people. A Standish moderator will facilitate each workgroup. The workshop will run for 45 minutes. The groups are given a different case puzzle with a set of directions, problems, and goals. For example, in the first workshop each group will be given a story of the sense of Community. The goal is to recognize this skill and find ways to improve it.

Workshop Presentations: After the workshop group has solved their puzzle, each group will then elect a spokesperson and create a predefined formatted presentation. The groups will then return to the general assembly and each group's spokesperson will be given five minutes to present their results.

Workshop Commentary: Each executive sponsor will provide a case study that provides an example how the commandment has lead to a better project ecosystem and promotes greater project success.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
10:00 - 10:30	Opening Keynote:: James Johnson, Chairman, The Standish Group In the opening talk, Jim Johnson will set the stage for this Executive Retreat. First, Jim will define the goals of the retreat and the individual workshops. Second, he will provide the rules of engagement and how each workshop will be handled. Third, he will provide a set of common definitions to be used throughout the workshops. Fourth, Jim will discuss some of Standish's primary research and how it applies to the retreat and the workshops.
10:30 - 11:30	First Workshop: Community How do you recognize it? How do you promote and enhance it? What can you do to emphasize the positive aspects of Community and create sustainable and consistent positive outcomes. In this workshop we will work together on improving the sense of and participation in the project Community.
11:30 - 12:00	Tim Chou, Chairman, Openwater Networks Timothy will talk about how technologies born in the Consumer Internet, such as search, wikis and social networking can be applied to the world of work.
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch & Networking
1:30 - 2:00	Brian Carter, Vice President, Sapient Brian will talk about what techniques Sapient uses to help their organization promote and focus on Awareness and making everyone aware of a common set of goals.
2:00 - 3:00	Second Workshop: Awareness How do you recognize it? How do you promote and enhance it? What can you do to emphasize the positive aspects of Awareness and create sustainable and consistent positive outcomes? In this workshop we will work together on improving the sense of and participation in the project Awareness.
3:00 - 3:30	Break & Networking
3:30 - 4:00	Herb Strauss, Chief Strategy Officer, Robbins-Gioia Herb's talk will focus how prepared are firms and their project ecosystems to manage rapid restructuring of program initiatives across the enterprise.
4:00 - 5:00	Third Workshop: Purpose How do you recognize it? How do you promote and enhance it? What can you do to emphasize the positive aspects of Purpose and create sustainable and consistent positive outcomes? In this workshop we will work together on improving the sense of and participation in the project Purpose.
5:00 - 6:00	Networking
6:00 - 7:00	Cruise on Boston Harbor
7:00	Dinner

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Friday, November 7, 2008
7:00 - 8:30	Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00	Opening: James Johnson, Chairman, The Standish Group In this talk Jim will discuss the major trends in IT to showcase our forecast of current and future direction and movement to new technologies, methodologies, standards, processes, and/or performance. He will further discuss the major elements that are driving these trends.
9:00 - 9:45	Fourth Workshop: Pride How do you recognize it? How do you promote and enhance it? What can you do to emphasize the positive aspects of Pride and create sustainable and consistent positive outcomes? In this workshop we will work together on improving the sense of and participation in the project Pride.
9:45 - 10:15	Break & Networking
10:15 - 11:00	Fifth Workshop: Earnestness How do you recognize it? How do you promote and enhance it? What can you do to emphasize the positive aspects of Earnestness and create sustainable and consistent positive outcomes? In this workshop we will work together on improving the sense of and participation in the project Earnestness.
11:00 - 12:00	Keynote: Rising Clouds, Bill Coleman, Chairman & CEO, Cassatt Cloud computing is one of an ever progressing cycles of information technology invention and innovation. In this talk Bill Coleman will layout his vision of the next waves of information technology cycles, where cloud computing fits within these cycles and how you can benefit from these opportunities.
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch & Final Words

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