Speaker
Victoria Kumar, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, PMI DASSM, PMI ATP Instructor, is Past Director, PMI (Global) Board of Directors. She is past president of the PMI North Carolina Chapter, where she had served as Board Director for over a decade.
Ms. Kumar is a certified PMP®, PMI-ACP®, DASSM and a PMI Authorized Training Partner Instructor. She is PMI-certified to deliver PMP Exam Prep classes for PMI and PMI DA training workshops including Disciplined Agile Scrum Master (DASM) and Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) certification training.
Ms. Kumar’s professional career includes project management and PMO program management for organizations in both the private and public sectors. She has served the North Carolina State Government for several years as PMO Program Manager, managing large-scale government IT programs and projects. She developed the PMO for the NC Office of the State Controller.
She also served as Sr. Program Manager with large private sector corporations including IBM, AIG and Red Hat, Inc. At Red Hat, she led the development of IT Portfolio Management and implementation of Red Hat IT’s Project Portfolio Management solution.
She has travelled worldwide, presenting on establishing PMOs, leadership development and traditional/agile project management in seminars and conferences. She published several conference papers as part of PMI global congress proceedings.
Ms. Kumar holds master’s degrees in pure mathematics and in computer science from University of Waterloo (Canada), where she has also earned PhD credits in management science. She has a master's certificate in IT Project Management from George Washington University. She is a graduate of the PMI Leadership Institute Master Class.
Title of Conference Presentation: Hybrid Project Management: Strategies for Success
Description/Abstract:
As the landscape of project management continues to evolve, organizations are challenged with bigger, more complex projects. Project practitioners (including Business/Project Analysts, Project Management Practitioners, Program/Portfolio Managers and Executive Leaders) have turned to innovative ways to deliver projects rapidly within scope and on budget.
Hybrid Project Management is a way to combine traditional (Waterfall) methodology and practices with Agile (Scrum, SAFE, Kanban) practices, to benefit from both traditional and agile methodologies in delivering successful projects.
This presentation will discuss Hybrid Project Management and how it has become more widely used by organizations, not only in the IT industry. It will share project outcomes and results from organizations to give participants good insights to consider why/how to use Hybrid Project Management in their projects.
- Learning Objectives
1. To understand Hybrid Project Management and the various ways in which it is implemented in various industries
2. To learn what traditional and Agile project management practices, tools and techniques have been used (blended into a hybrid method)
3. To explore project outcomes and results from organizations that use this versatile approach to project management