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Thursday, August 04, 2005
CALL FOR SPEAKER PARTICIPATION ANNOUNCED FOR NASA'S PM CHALLENGE 2006
The "Call for Speaker Participation" in NASA's Project Management Challenge 2006, to be held March 21-22, 2006 in Galveston, Texas is now open, according to Conference Co-Chair, Dorothy Tiffany.
Project Management Challenge 2006 is the third Annual NASA Project Management Conference established to further leadership, teamwork, knowledge sharing, training and lessons-learned in the areas of program and project management within the agency. It is sponsored by NASA's Academy of Program and Project Leadership (APPL) and is a centerpiece of NASA's Project Management training.
Project Management Challenge 2005, held at the University of Maryland's Conference Center in College Park, Maryland in March 2005, attracted 125 speakers, 37 exhibitors and 800 attendees, including NASA employees and contractors from every NASA center, and participants from the US Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress, and several foreign countries.
"Putting Ideas into Action" is the theme for PM Challenge 2006, and also a challenge to NASA program and project management practitioners as new leadership, transformation, return of the space shuttle to flight, advances in Earth and space science, the Exploration Vision and other NASA initiatives unfold.
Speakers are invited to submit proposals under 10 tracks:
Project Management Challenge 2006 is the third Annual NASA Project Management Conference established to further leadership, teamwork, knowledge sharing, training and lessons-learned in the areas of program and project management within the agency. It is sponsored by NASA's Academy of Program and Project Leadership (APPL) and is a centerpiece of NASA's Project Management training.
Project Management Challenge 2005, held at the University of Maryland's Conference Center in College Park, Maryland in March 2005, attracted 125 speakers, 37 exhibitors and 800 attendees, including NASA employees and contractors from every NASA center, and participants from the US Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress, and several foreign countries.
"Putting Ideas into Action" is the theme for PM Challenge 2006, and also a challenge to NASA program and project management practitioners as new leadership, transformation, return of the space shuttle to flight, advances in Earth and space science, the Exploration Vision and other NASA initiatives unfold.
Speakers are invited to submit proposals under 10 tracks:
- New Ideas - Stay on the leading edge of new project management approaches, techniques and theories, and see how they apply to your project.
- Hot Topics - Come find out about "what's new" and innovative within project management at NASA.
- Back to Basics - Introductory training for those new to project management, or those who would like a refresher.
- Risky Business - Enhance your risk management tool kit with these sessions in Quantitative Risk Assessment, Probabilistic Risk Assessment, Cost and Schedule Risk Analysis and others.
- Dream Team Building - Bring out the best in your project teams by experiencing these innovative dialogues in team building, leadership, communications, managing people and related topics.
- Keep Control! - Engaging topics in program control for the experienced project team member such as Earned Value Management, Scheduling, Cost Estimating, Quality and Safety.
- Launch and Learn - Highly informative lessons-learned panel discussions with some of the best project managers from both inside and outside of NASA.
- The Right Stuff - It's what you learn after you have seen it all that really counts, so come to these Case Study Discussions and hear how NASA's experienced program and project managers faced their challenges.
- PM Perspectives - Learn how current and former NASA Project Managers overcame challenges on their Projects in these highly informative sessions.
- Tool Time - A chance to see in-depth demonstrations of project management software tools by vendors and practitioners.
