DAMA Meeting for January 21, 2021 Virtual Zoom

                                 "Discipline Agile, A New Way of Working                                            

Beth Ouellette, The Ouellette Group

Disciplined Agile is the topic of many conversations across the Agile and PMI Communities. We hear these kinds of questions: Why did PMI add it to their product portfolio? What is Disciplined Agile?  What is the value of Disciplined Agile to Chapter Members? How can you bring value to your team/organization with Disciplined Agile? How do I get started? What is possible for your personal and chapter roadmap?

Join us to hear Beth Ouellette share answers to all these questions and more. She will guide us through key components of Disciplined Agile as she shares practical applications, analogies and stories to connect the dots. She will even share the roadmap she used for her DA journey that you could leverage too.   Though it is only an hour, we hope to gain a clear understanding of the potential of Disciplined agile for individuals, our members, and our com  

Beth Ouellette Speaker Bio

Beth Ouellette, PMP, PgMP, PBA, MBA, CDA, DALSM, CDAI, CDAC, PMI Fellow, and CEO of The Ouellette Group, works with teams across the globe implementing value-added Disciplined-Agile approach to Portfolio, Program and Project Management best practices. With her unique blend of business management and technology skills, she has been exceptionally successful in assisting executive teams with organizational strategy, alignment of programs to that strategy, and outlining processes to best implement those strategies. Whether the methodology is traditional, agile or even a hybrid, the best practices which fit the organizational needs will be discovered, outlined, and implemented with Beth’s guidance and a Disciplined Agile Way of Working. Many customtailored training programs have been delivered across the globe as a result; some include Negotiating through Change, Strengthening Team Communications, Establishing a PMO for Strategic Success, Data Management, and Certification Prep Training.

She partners to deliver DMM Assessments, Data Management Strategies, providing a “reality check” of the organization’s current state and then creates a strategic and tactic plan to bridge to the exec strategy and guide the organization to its desired state. Embracing the Disciplined Agile Way of Working, Beth is the 36th person to achieve the Certified Disciplined Agile Coach designation. She has experience in partnering with senior executives across the globe, she has hands-on experience in the following industries:

Banking, Finance, Insurance, Retail, Utility, Telecom, Manufacturing, small business, Academia, US Government Agencies, and the entertainment/luxury industry. Her prior experience includes: setting up and managing the cross-business, Corporate-wide program Office to reengineer the securities trade life cycle at Prudential Financial, where she reported to the COO for the initiative, and setting up and running IT PMO reporting to the Company’s CIO, which coordinated over 400 programs and projects representing $2.4 billion dollars of IT work. The Ouellette Group created the Master’s Certificate Program in PM for CUNY SPS and Graduate Center and has been an adjunct professor since the NY State DoE approved the curriculum in 2008. Her presentations and writings are global and varied. She presented at PMI’s Leadership Institute Meeting for the past several years, the PMI Leadership Institute 2009-2020 and PMI National Congress 2014, 2016, 2019 many PMI Chapter Events, including Professional Development Days 2011, 2013, 2015,2016, 2017 multiple Project Zone conferences 2009 - 2013, Project Management Forum, PMINJ [email protected], Delivering Project Excellence, CIO Forum, Enterprise Application Strategy Conference, IT World Congress, Women in Technology, and Women in Computing. She has been published in Brazil, Canada, India and USA. As a PMI member since 2000, and an active volunteer since 2006 Beth continues to contribute to the PM Community globally. She
received the prestigious PMI Fellow in October 2018. She also received the “Component Leadership” of the Year Award in 2010 for work with the PMINYC chapter and the “Distinguished Contributor Award of the Year” in 2009 for the Content Integration Analyst work on the PMI Standards Teams.

She has served as the Advisor and initial manager of the Disciplined Agile Chapter Champion Program 2019-2020, Chapter Member Advisory Group 2016-2019, Co-chair of Committee for PMIEF and PMI Chapters globally, Requirements Management Steering Committee Member 2012-2014, Requirements Management CoP Co-Leader 2012-2015, Channel Management team member 2010-2011, PMINYC BoD 2008-2010 (President 2009), Co-Author and Core team-Program and Portfolio Management Standards from 2003-2006, Content Integration Analyst-December 2008 release of PMBOK, Portfolio, Program and OPM3 Standards. Beth holds a Finance MBA from NYU’s Stern School, a BA in Education from Eastern Michigan University, and an AA in Computer Programming from Greenville Technical College. She is an adjunct professor at the CUNY Graduate Program and School of Professional Studies where she provided the content and partnered in the initiative to create a Project Management Certificate Program. She lead the creation of this multi-course program which was approved by the NY State DoE in 2008, and is an ongoing program for the CUNY SPS and Graduate Center Programs since then. She has served on the DAMA NYC Board of Directors in varying capacities since 1999.