PDUs - LIVE EVENT - 2025 UMD Project Management Symposium

Professional Development Units (PDUs)

If you would like to receive a PDU certificate for your attendance during the two days of the Project Management Symposium (May 1 & 2, 2025), please complete this survey. There are 13 sessions that you can attend and each is worth 0.75 PDUs (one session on Friday is worth 1.5 PDUs). Therefore, you can earn up to 10.5. PDF files will be emailed to you by the end of May 2025.

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* 1. Your Information

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* 2. Featured Speakers: Please indicate which presentations you attended on April 18th and 19th.

	I watched it live	I did not attend the session
Thursday 9AM speaker: Mark Lines	Thursday 9AM speaker: Mark Lines I watched it live	Thursday 9AM speaker: Mark Lines I did not attend the session
Thursday 12:30PM speaker: Ben Royce	Thursday 12:30PM speaker: Ben Royce I watched it live	Thursday 12:30PM speaker: Ben Royce I did not attend the session
Thursday 4:30PM speaker: Dr. Morris Thomas	Thursday 4:30PM speaker: Dr. Morris Thomas I watched it live	Thursday 4:30PM speaker: Dr. Morris Thomas I did not attend the session
Friday 9AM speaker: Cynthia Gayton	Friday 9AM speaker: Cynthia Gayton I watched it live	Friday 9AM speaker: Cynthia Gayton I did not attend the session
Friday 1:30PM speaker: Laura Barnard	Friday 1:30PM speaker: Laura Barnard I watched it live	Friday 1:30PM speaker: Laura Barnard I did not attend the session

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* 3. Thursday, May 1, 2025, 10 AM. Indicate which session you attended.

The Power of Persuasion in Project Management: Communicate to Influence!

Hardening Federal Procurement: Using Agile-at-Scale with Product Management and Discovery to Drive Up Federal Project Success Rates

Project Failure is NOT an Option: Making Projects Successful

Reactive to Proactive: Injecting Collaborative Project Planning to Improve Delivery Success

I did not attend a session during this time frame

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* 4. Thursday, May 1, 2025, 11 AM. Indicate which session you attended.

Communicating Bad News: Practical Ways to Say What No One Wants to Hear

Strengthening Delivery Success in Federal Projects: Why FAC-P/PM Certification Matters

Reimagining Project Management

Agile Amplified: Driving Success in Complex Healthcare IT Projects

I did not attend a session during this time frame

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* 5. Thursday, May 1, 2025, 1:30 PM. Indicate which session you attended.

Project Manager to Project Motivator: Unlocking the Secrets of Strength-Based Project Management (SBPM)

Managing by the Numbers: Using ROI to Lead a Federal Training Redesign Project

Project Controls Overview for Project Management Professionals: how project controls can benefit both projects and project managers

From Vision to Reality: Building a Project Management Core to Support Scholarly Research

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* 6. Thursday, May 1, 2025, 2:30 PM. Indicate which session you attended.

Beyond the Project: Mentoring the Next Generation of PMs

Team Based Planning – A Framework for Modernizing Public Sector Program Funding

The Citizen Scientist’s Guide to EVM: Bringing Clarity to Project Performance

Jumping in the Deep End: Creating a PMO from Scratch

I did not attend a session during this time frame

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* 7. Thursday, May 1, 2025, 3:30 PM. Indicate which session you attended.

Public to Private Sector: Navigating Transitions for You and Others

No one Wants Your Awesome Product. They Want an Awesome Experience!

From Blueprint to Completion: How Smart Contracts Are Redefining Managing Project Phases in Infrastructure Projects

Creating Experience-Driven Organizational Culture – How to drive transformative change with project and portfolio management

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* 8. Friday, May 2, 2025, 10 AM. Indicate which session you attended.

Game On: Boosting Leadership Skills Through Engaging Learning Games

Modeling Optimization across Multidimensional Portfolios

Intentional Hybrid Project Management

Next Gen Project Risk Management – The Value of Project Production Analytics

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* 9. Friday, May 2, 2025, 11 AM. Indicate which session you attended.

The Thin Line: Innovative Strategies to Balance High Performance and Burnout in Project Management

Replacing ANSI 748 with a TESTED and PROVEN EVM System that has been in Use for 120+ Years

Effective Project Controls

From Risk to Resilience: Strengthening IT Project Outcomes with Risk Assessments

I did not attend a session during this time frame

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* 10. Friday, May 2, 2025, 12:00 PM. Indicate which session you attended.

The Well-being Experiment: How Curiosity Can Drive Success in High-Intensity Projects

User savvy PMIS technology implementation to drive change management

Show Me Your RAID Log

Navigating Stakeholder Engagement in UMD’s Campus Network Refresh

I did not attend a session during this time frame