Advanced Program Management Workshop Offered in Oregon
The Program Management Academy has announced a new workshop for advanced training in Program Management! This workshop is built around the latest and leading reference book: Program Management for Improved Business Results and taught by two of the authors, Russ Martinelli and Jim Waddell. It is designed for project and program managers seeking to grow their skills in the Program Management discipline and provide greater value to their companies.
Russ and Jim have many years of experience in high risk, high profile programs and offer their own as well as contemporary examples of program management challenges and effective solutions. Their approach is ideal for small group discussions and activities, which is the design of the workshop. While participants in the workshop bring their own situations and experiences, they build expertise with direct contact with these two leading edge experts.
The next 2-day workshop is September 17-18, 2008, in Beaverton Oregon where there is easy car and light rail access from the Portland (PDX) airport, and within easy walking distance from hotels and restaurants.
As one recent student noted: "This is an excellent opportunity for project and program managers to significantly extend their skills and learn from others in their field".
This course is offered in collaboration between the Program Management Academy and Innovation Frameworks. Sixteen PDUs are available for this course. More details can be found at: http://www.programmanagement-academy.com/ or www.innovationframeworks.com/programmanagementcourse.htm
Click here to register now or email the registrar for assistance at rose.marshall@innovationframeworks.com.
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University Executives Open 2nd UT Dallas
Project Management Symposium in Texas
The 2nd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium was opened in Richardson, Texas on Monday, 18 August, by James Joiner, Director of the Graduate Program in Project Management at UT Dallas. Jim welcomed attendees to the second annual conference and the first one held on the UT Dallas Campus. Approximately 200 executives, project management professionals, speakers, volunteers and university staff attended the event’s first day.
Mr. Joiner was followed by at the podium in the School of Management’s auditorium by Dr. Hasan Pirkul (pictured at right) Dean of the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, who provided a warm welcome to delegates.
Dr. Pirkul also concurrently holds the Caruth Chair of Management at UT Dallas. Prior to joining UT Dallas, Dr. Pirkul was at Max M. Fisher College of Business of the Ohio State University, where he was Director of Information Systems Programs and Founding Director of the Center for Information Technologies in Management, as well as Professor of Accounting and Information Systems. A graduate of the University of Rochester, he received the M.S. degree in Management Science in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Information Systems in 1983, after earning a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University in 1977.
Dr. Pirkul’s research interests include design of telecommunication networks, distributed computer system design, knowledge based systems, locating facilities, neural networks, genetic algorithms, tabu research and other heuristic algorithms. Dr. Pirkul is a member of the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations and Dallas Council on World Affairs. He participates on the Dallas Morning News Technology Board. He was a member of MTBC (Metroplex Technology Business Council) Entrepreneurship Committee and a founding member of Dallas Chamber of Commerce Technology Business Council. He is a member of "21 Leaders for the 21st Century" class. Recently, he was selected as one of Inside Collin County Business's Most Influential People in Collin County.
Dr. Pirkul was immediately following by Dr. David E. Daniel (pictured at left), president of UT Dallas who delivered a keynote speech on the topic of "Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Implications for Managing Critical Infrastructure Systems".
In 2005 through 2008, Dr. Daniel served as Chair of the External Review Panel of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which reviewed the facts surrounding the performance of New Orleans’ levees during Hurricane Katrina. His speech highlighted management and technical failures leading to the failed levees, and lessons learned that can be applied to developing new and better infrastructure systems across the United States. His message, of course, could be applied anywhere.
Dr. Daniel is the fourth president of The University of Texas at Dallas. He received his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and served on the faculty at UT Austin from 1980 to 1996. In 1996, he moved to the University of Illinois, finishing his service there as Dean of Engineering before being appointed UT Dallas' president in 2005.
Dr. Daniel’s professional work has focused on environmental controls for contaminated land and groundwater. He has published more than 100 technical articles and authored or edited five books. His work has been recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which awarded him its highest honor for papers published in its journals (the Norman Medal) and on two separate occasions awarded him its second highest honor, the Croes Medal. In 2000, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the nation’s most prestigious organization recognizing engineering achievement.
The 2 Day Project Management Symposium was being held on the UT Dallas campus in Richardson, Texas during 18-19 August 2008. In addition to the Opening Ceremony with Keynote Speakers, day one included more 23 presentations over five tracks of topics, a vendor exhibition, and a Monday evening networking reception. Day two on Tuesday will feature an opening keynote by Michael Kennedy, CEO of Targeted Convergence, 16 paper presentations, three panel discussions and closing keynote addresses by Ricardo Viana Vargas, member of the board of directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI), and Veikko Valila, President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA).
The symposium is being sponsored by the Graduate Program in Project Management at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), in cooperation with the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and PMForum, Inc. Papers and presentations featured at this year’s symposium will be posted after the event on http://pmsymposium.utdallas.edu, where additional information about the conference and keynote speakers can currently be found.
For more information about the Graduate Program in Project Management at UT Dallas, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/project/. For information about the PMI Dallas Chapter, visit www.pmidallas.org.
For information about PMForum, visit www.pmforum.org.
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Day One of 2nd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in Texas
Features Big Names and Local Leaders
The 2nd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium was opened in Richardson, Texas on Monday, 18 August, by James Joiner, Director of the Graduate Program in Project Management at UT Dallas. Jim welcomed attendees to the second annual conference and the first one held on the UT Dallas Campus. Approximately 200 executives, project management professionals, speakers, volunteers and university staff attended the event’s first day.
Mr. Joiner was followed by Dr. Hasan Pirkul, Dean of the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, who provided a warm welcome to delegates. Dr. Pirkul was immediately following by Dr. David E. Daniel (pictured at right), president of UT Dallas who delivered a keynote speech on the topic of "Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina and Implications for Managing Critical Infrastructure Systems".(see news article previously published on pmforum.org at http://www.pmforum.org/blogs/news/2008/08/university-executives-open-2-nd-ut.html.)
The second keynote speaker on Monday morning was George Consolver, Director of Strategy Process at Texas Instruments (TI), who spoke on the topic of "Strategy and Project Management Connections." Mr. Consolver discussed processes at TI that have evolved over the last 15 years for ensuring that programs and projects support strategic initiatives, markets and customers. The balance of day one was spent in presentations spread over five streams on global PM, project governance, project management methods, information systems and Agile Project Management.
Several well known executives and internationally-known project management figures presented papers during the day, including Robert Prieto, senior vice president of Fluor Corporation ("Program Management: Getting on the Right Path"); J. Kent Crawford (pictured left), Author, consultant, CEO of PM Solutions and former Chair of the Board of Directors of the Project Management Institute (PMI)("State of the PMO"); David Anderson, author of Agile Management for Software Engineering – Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results ("Kanban – Creating a Kaizan Culture and Evolving a High Maturity Software Engineering Organization"); Harry Rever, Director of Six Sigma for International Institute for Learning (IIL) ("Five Key Elements to Process Improvement"); Tresia Eaves, Vice President for SENTEL corporation in Virginia, Chair of the PMI Information Systems SIG, and 2007 recipient of the Kerzner International Project Manager of the Year Award winner ("A Journey from CMM Level 0 to CMM Level 3 – A Software Project Improves with PM Leadership"); Mark Marlin, Sr. Vice President with the Westney Consulting Group in Houston (Implementing an Effective Lessons Learned Process in a Global Project Environment"); and Andrew Filev, founder and CEO of Wrike, a leading online PM solutions company ("Project Management 2.0 - Ultimate Benefits of the New Approach to Project Management").
Others presentations on Monday by prominent local project management authorities and professional leaders included the following:
"International Kick-off Meetings: How to Make them Work", by Lothar Katz, adjunct professor of project management at UT Dallas and author of Negotiating International Business and Principles of Negotiating International Business.
"Delivering Multiple Sites and Time Zone Projects - A Case Study in the Telecom Industry", by Ram Garg, program manager for Alcatel Lucent and member of the PMI Services & Outsourcing SIG’s board of directors.
"Project Management Through Email for Global Teams – Lessons Learned", by Anwar Ali, Team Lead at Atos Origin, a global information technology company with revenues of EUR 5.4 Billion and a worldwide IT partner for the 2008 Olympic Games.
"What Does Portfolio Management Really Provide?", by Nayan Patel (in photo at right), corporate manager of Portfolio Management for Baylor Health Care System, Information Services in Dallas.
"Managing Rogue Systems", by Jim Smelley, IT strategy and energy industry advisor for Pariveda Solutions.
"A Quantative Framework for Value, Risk and Opportunity Management in Projects", by Tyson R. Browning, PhD, Assistant Professor fo Enterprise Operations in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas.
"Risk Project Management Methodology", by Dwight Davis, Principal Program Manager for EDS in Plano and well known former director and vice president of the PMI Dallas Chapter.
"Knocking Down Barriers to Become a Championship Project Team", by Tom Sheives, PhD (in photo at left), president, project consultant and coach for Better Project Results of Arlington, Texas.
"Project Management and the Stockholm Syndrome," by Eric D. Brown, author, consultant, current doctoral student at Dakota State University, and an alumni of the masters in project management at the UT Dallas.
"Three Steps to Building Solid Project Management Maturity," by Timothy MacFadyen, certified OPM3® consultant and member of the OPM3 2008 update team for PMI.
"Project Planning for Emergency Response after 9/11," by Ronda Hayes, IT faculty member at Northlake College in Irving, Texas and Jim Buchanan. Dallas area PM consultant and former operations planner for US military special forces.
"Reducing the Document and Process Load in Project Management," by Darrel A. Raynor, senior technology executive, consultant and turnaround specialist.
"Techniques for Driving Project Execution Accountability Beyond the PM", by Sarah McCrary, a telecommunications and information technology project manager who lives and works in Dallas.
"Improving Project Management Optics through Architecture Methods," by Gurvinder Ahulwalia, an embedded systems, wireless devices and information technology expert and consultant.
The 2 Day Project Management Symposium was held in the School of Management on the UT Dallas campus in Richardson, Texas during 18-19 August 2008. In addition to the Opening Ceremony with Keynote Speakers, day one included 23 presentations, a networking lunch, a Monday evening reception and many interesting discussions about project and program management. This annual event is intended to contribute to the productivity and success of organizations and industries in North Texas, and to local economic development.
The symposium was organized by the Graduate Program in Project Management at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), in cooperation with the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and PMForum, Inc. The corporate sponsor was Global Knowledge, a leading project management training and education provider. Papers and presentations from this year’s symposium will be posted soon on http://pmsymposium.utdallas.edu, where additional information about the conference can be found. Individuals or organizations interested in participating in next year’s symposium should contact Debbie@utdallas.edu.
For more information about the Graduate Program in Project Management at UT Dallas, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/project/. For information about the PMI Dallas Chapter, visit www.pmidallas.org. For information about PMForum, visit www.pmforum.org.
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Agile Project Management Emerges as Major Topic at 2nd UT Dallas
Project Management Symposium in Texas
Agile project management was featured as a main stream topic at the 2nd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in Richardson, Texas, USA during 18-19 August. The conference was held at the School of Management on the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) campus. Day one of the conference began with a welcome by James Joiner, Conference Chair and Director of the Graduate Program in Project Management, and Dr. Hasan Pirkul, Dean of School of Management, at The UT Dallas.
Following keynote speeches by Dr. David E. Daniel, president of UT Dallas, (see breaking news on 19 August) and Mr. George Consolver, Director of Strategy Process for Texas Instruments, attendees attended paper presentations in five streams: global PM, project governance, PM methods A & B, and Information Systems/Agile PM. The Agile PM track continued into Day two and featured presentations by leading experts on this increasingly popular new approach to managing projects in the software, systems and product development arenas.
David J. Anderson (pictured at right), President of Modus Cooperandi Inc. and Chief Process Scientist for Valtech, gave a talk on Monday entitled "Kanban - Creating a Kaizen Culture and Evolving a High Maturity Software Engineering Organization." David's talk focused on the use of Kanban, a popular "lean thinking" approach popular in manufacturing that is now seen as a significant innovation in managing agile work. This approach has been adopted at such firms as Yahoo! David Anderson introduced the first electronic kanban system at Microsoft in 2004 and has since extended the technique through is work at Corbis. David is also author of the successful book, "Agile Manufacturing for Software Engineering - Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results", which introduced ideas from Lean and Theory of Constraints to software engineering.
Tony Johnson, founder and CEO of Crosswind Project Management, presented a talk on Monday on the "Integration of Agile Development." According to Tony, "In our project environment today, projects get larger, more complex, and have more connections to other work throughout the organization. This creates a need for program management to handle more complex and inter-related work. As global competition and shorter time-to-market for products evolves, companies need to be agile to be at the front of the pack. Organizations need to blend these approaches together to effectively handle larger inter-related initiatives.”
Samir Ray and Dipesh Patel, experienced IT professionals who also consult on Agile PM, gave a presentation and led a discussion on Tuesday on the subject of "Managing Chaos in an Agile World" to a room full of over 50 attendees. The authors (in photo at right) provided an overview of some common characteristics and steps in an agile project, then discussed how agile projects inherently represent a more complex project management challenge than many traditional projects.
According to Ray and Patel, "Contrary to popular belief, this chaos is not bad. When managed using proper project management discipline, it can deliver tremendous value to your customers..."
Others who delivered presentations related to Agile PM on Tuesday, 19 August included Niel Nicholaisen ("Breaking the Project Management Triangle - The Purpose Alignment Model") and Greg Indelicato ("Project Management in the Adaptive Development Environment").
Tuesday's Agile PM track ended with a Panel discussion on the topic of "Traditional PM vs. Agile: Can they co-exist?" The panel moderator was Julie Chickering; panelists included Charley Seaman, Susan Fojtasek, Susan Hamilton and Will Whitfill of Motorola.
The 2 Day Project Management Symposium was held on the UT Dallas campus in Richardson, Texas during 18-19 August 2008. In addition to the Opening Ceremony with Keynote Speakers, day one included more 23 presentations over five tracks of topics, a networking lunch, and a Monday evening reception. Day two on Tuesday featured an opening keynote by Michael Kennedy, CEO of Targeted Convergence, 16 paper presentations, three panel discussions and closing keynote addresses by Ricardo Viana Vargas, Director-at-Large for the Project Management Institute (PMI), and Veikko Valila, President of the International Project Management Association (IPMA).
The symposium was sponsored by the Graduate Program in Project Management at The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), in cooperation with the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and PMForum, Inc. Papers and presentations featured at this year’s symposium will be available for download at http://pmsymposium.utdallas.edu, where additional information about the conference can be found. This annual event was intended to contribute to the productivity and success of organizations and industries in North Texas, and to local economic development. Individuals or organizations interested in participating in next year’s symposium should contact Debbie@utdallas.edu.
For more information about the Graduate Program in Project Management at UT Dallas, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/project/ . For information about the PMI Dallas Chapter, visit www.pmidallas.org. For information about PMForum, visit www.pmforum.org.
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Authors of New Program Management Book to Deliver
Public Course in Oregon
With the recent surge in interest in the newly published book, Program Management for Improved Business Results, the authors are offering a 2 day course, September 17-18, 2008. The course will be open to the public.
The course, to be taught by Russ Martinelli and Jim Waddell, is designed for project and program managers seeking to grow their skills in the Program Management discipline and provide greater value to their companies. The new skills, tools and techniques are even more efficiently implemented when multiple people attend from the same company, so we have created a discount price when 3 or more people attend from the same organization. There is also an early bird discount and with
a ceiling number of participants, we strongly encourage signing up early
(before Sept 1).
Attendees will get personal insights from these two highly experienced experts and will be able to connect with like-minded program managers from other companies and fields. Attendees should benefit from the sharing of experiences and creating a new community of those in similar situations.
Russ and Jim have many years of experience in high risk, high profile programs and offer their own as well as contemporary examples of program management challenges and effective solutions. Their approach is ideal for small group discussions and activities, which is the design of the workshop. While participants in the workshop bring their own situations and experiences, they build expertise with direct contact with these two leading edge experts.
The 2-day workshop is September 17-18, 2008, in Beaverton Oregon where there is easy car and light rail access from the Portland (PDX) airport, and within easy walking distance from hotels and restaurants. Another course is scheduled for November.
As one recent student noted: "This is an excellent opportunity for project and program managers to significantly extend their skills and learn from others in their field".
This course is offered in collaboration between the Program Management Academy and Innovation Frameworks. Participants can receive sixteen professional development units (PDUs) for attending the course. For more information, visit one of the following websites: www.innovationframeworks.com or http://www.programmanagement-academy.com/.
Click here to register now or for assistance
contact rose.marshall@innovationframeworks.com.
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