IT Project Management Community of Practice

Vision Statement

A community of professional public-sector project managers collaborating via tools, processes, and knowledge to make every project, and every project manager, succeed.

The Washington state IT project management community of practice (CoP) provides state IT project managers an opportunity to exchange best practices, lessons learned, share helpful resources, tools, and templates, and establish a peer network of support to transform IT project delivery in Washington state.

We encourage you to join our Microsoft Teams site where you will find announcements for future events, recordings of past events, project management resources and access to join conversations with your peers.

Please contact WaTechmiPMCoP@watech.wa.gov and request to join the CoP Team site.

Project Resources

• IT Project Management Community of Practice 2024 Calendar of Events (PDF)
• IT Project Management Community of Practice Recordings
  • Recording Lunch and Learn Agile Management & Examples(link is external) (Multi-presentation from February 2024)
  • Skills for IT Oversight Process(link is external) (Multi-presentation from November 2022) Click here to view the slide deck
  • Integrated Schedule Management(link is external) (Multi-presentation from September 2022)
  • Vendor Procurement and Management(link is external) (Multi-presentation from July, 2022)
  • Vision for Agile in State Government, WaTech Director & State CIO Bill Kehoe.(link is external) (Part one of the Project Management Community of Practice multi-presentation from May 24, 2022)
    • Part one presentation.
  • Pivoting to Agile, Greg Smith, Founder of GS Solutions Group.(link is external) (Part two of the Project Management Community of Practice multi-presentation from May 24, 2022)
    • Part two presentation.
  • Integrated Scheduling in Agile Projects, Megan Pilon, PMI President-Elect.(link is external) (Part three of the Project Management Community of Practice multi-presentation from May 24, 2022)
    • Part three presentation.
  • Journey for Adapting Agile, James Gutholm, Public Disclosure Commission CIO.(link is external) (Part four of the Project Management Community of Practice multi-presentation from May 24, 2022)
    • Part four presentation.
  • Event Privacy Considerations for Project Managers, State Chief Privacy Officer Katy Ruckle.(link is external) (Part Five of the Project Management Community of Practice multi-presentation from May 24, 2022)
  • Part five presentation.
    • Essentials of State Funding Cycles for Project Managers (March 16, 2022)(link is external)
    • Using Governance to Remove Roadblocks (January 19, 2022)(link is external)
    • Agile Project Management (October 20, 2021)(link is external)
    • Investment Planning (August 18, 2021)(link is external)
    • A Guide to Project Budgeting (June 16, 2021)(link is external)
    • Effectively Managing Change (April 21, 2021)(link is external)
    • Project Management in a Virtual World (February 24, 2021)

Whitepapers

• Agile for non-software projects
• Death by bullet points
• How to respond to QA readiness assessment
• Vendor Managment
• Governance First!
• Effective Governance Part 1: Growing strong, confident and engaged sponsors.
• Effective Governance Part 2: Using your executive steering committee.
• Effective Governance Part 3: Amplify your stakeholder voices.