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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Infusion Theory technology news at ATL event

Executives Agile Into Waterfall Using the "Infusion Theory" event happened last night in Matrix Resources headquarters in Sandy Springs. Presenters were Reo Oravec & Norman Brodeur.

"In our current challenging IT environment with strained resources, rapid delivery schedules and dynamic team structures, agile even in Waterfall Delivery is required in nearly every step of a project. This includes product launch, scrums and milestone setting. Personal and project team delivery are called for and the best practices for both are covered in this mini-workshop session. Material from the new version of the Infusion Theory will be covered and put into practice. We will review expanding individual execution skills and techniques, along with an interactive project team centric scenario created by Norman Brodeur.

"Advance your negotiation ability to a whole new level with workbooks, tips and techniques sheets, and outlines from the Infusion as you participate in sessions tailored to software quality projects."


About the Speakers:
Reo Oravec is Adjunct Professor Global Executive Academy of the Internazionale Instituto di Decisioni Scienze. He is also certified in International Project Management and Strategic Planning, and attended Harvard Law School, the University of Oxford and the Sloan School of Business at MIT. The Infusion Theory Thesis material in this workshop are from his “Best Practices Guild-Book Series” in which the Infusion Theory was used as foundational content. In his over 25 years in IT, Oravec has delivered tens of millions of dollars of projects with F100 companies for the EU Division of Anderson Consulting and was a CIO of a Dot-Com.
 

Norman Brodeur has a passion for project management and quality management and because of his passions he often looks for ways to better improve process for both projects and quality management teams. He has developed over the year’s ways to increase productivity by up to 40% by reducing timelines and/or budget for projects. Norman helps organizations determine the optimal pieces of a process or methodology that will work in their organization. His accomplishments include:
- Developed Rapid IT Infusion for organizations to implement Agile into a Waterfall environment
- Developed Rapid Compliance Program for Life Science organizations to speed up their remediation times for regulatory compliance issues
- Developed Rapid IT Agility to provide a framework

Hope Global Forums meet in Atlanta

The 2018 Hope Global Forums Annual Meeting ended yesterday at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. It was sponsored by Operation Hope, Inc. and organized by CEO John Hope Bryant. (http://hopeglobalforums.org/2018-annual-meeting/)
When I told one attendee, Gina West who works for Fannie Mae, that I didn't know about the event until it was over, she said, "You wouldn't have known about it unless you were in the financial community."

There was no mention of it in the AJC although it was supposedly "covered by 100 media outlets from around the world." I did find this article posted after the fact:


According the organization's website, "Last year, the corporate, financial, governmental, technology, academic, nonprofit, startup, diplomatic, philanthropic, media and faith-based sectors were all represented. Over 3,200 thought leaders and influencers representing over 25 countries attended."

The forum brands itself as being "the largest and most prestigious gathering in the world on behalf of empowering the poor." How is that done??? What representatives from "poor" organizations were invited, and what poor people were invited?
 
It's like the meeting in Europe when all the monarchs from the European countries decided how to divide up or manage Africa, and no Africans were in attendance. ---Tomi Johnson

According to their website (http://hopeglobalforums.org/about/), "The HOPE Global Forums are a community of events that serve as a call to action: to re-imagine the global economy so the benefits and opportunities of free enterprise can be extended to everyone."

The forum's theme was “Navigating a New World Order” and challenged "participants to outline a vision for a new, global economy – where the poor, underserved and dislocated middle class are viewed as untapped assets for entrepreneurship, job creation and economic growth." Six key tracks examined were The Future of Work, Social Mobility, Financial Inclusion, Media and Culture, Technology and Innovation and Public Policy. 
 
I will post more on this event when information is available.

This video is a mind opener: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSnENL0huA8

FYI: http://hopeglobalforums.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Agenda-DescriptionPDF.pdf