breakout session overview
This presentation primarily targets an Enterprise’s business architecture and how this architecture impacts, constrains, supports and guides the work that a PMO will undertake. Business architecture will also help in determining the types of PMO’s which are needed and at what levels they will be needed in order to achieve Enterprise objectives.
As components of business architecture, this presentation will delve into four areas comprised of process, people, systems and data. People will investigate and reveal impacts, dependencies and nuances of how the PMO utilizes, places and distributes resources. This in turn demonstrates the value and efficiencies of the PMO to the Enterprise.
The process area will take a serious look of how a PMO aligns with the Enterprise process and how that alignment determines the types of PMO and their value to the process segment of the organization.
The systems area will be an analysis view of the different systems, not just tools, but the culture of ways of doing work and the impacts and dependencies the PMO has on the systems. If the PMO is misaligned, opportunity exist to miss goals and targets.
The data area will take a push and pull view of data, how it is constructed and utilized to achieve Enterprise goals. The benefit it provides the Enterprise and the PMO and the risks which may be encountered.
The audience will leave this segment with a better understanding of how the PMO fits into and utilizes business architecture to enable their Enterprise to achieve their goals.
Sherry is a investment business advisor with strategic initiative teams providing guidance on process, content, governance and best practices sharing.
Sherry has been a Program manager for Cisco Systems,
Inc. since 1998. Her work began
on Enterprise Resource Planning systems implementations and has engaged in
many different types and sizes of projects such as one of the largest Quote
to Cash infrastructure implementations at Cisco.
Prior to Cisco, Sherry worked nine years with an international refuse
and recycling company managing multimillion dollar municipal contracts.
Sherry’s areas
of expertise are in projects, programs, process and operations, financials,
and Web 2.0 content management. She also specializes in forums and leads PMI
PMO breakfast meetings.
A native of
Mississippi, Sherry studied at the University of Southern Mississippi.
She holds a Bachelors Degree in Business.
She also holds a Master’s Certificate from The George Washington
University School of Business and has achieved a Program Management
certificate from Stanford University.
Sherry holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Sherry spends
much of her spare time volunteering at organizations such as Second Harvest
Food Bank, American Red Cross and Viola Blythe Community Service.
She serves as an officer of her local church, and is engaged in a
variety of social services to the community.
