|
Speaker
|
Topic
|
| Jay
Gassaway |
Understand Earned Value in
Under an Hour |
| Alex
Brown |
Project Charters Bridge Culture |
| John
Cusack |
Sustainability Principles in
Project Management |
| Peter
de Jager |
Change Management: The Missing
Component of PM |
| Lee
Lambert |
Living in an Info-Centric World—Where
the Universe Revolves around YOU! |
| Jerry
Manas |
Napoleon on Project Management:
Timeless Lessons in Planning, Execution and Leadership |
| Frank Saladis |
Positive Leadership in Project Management:
The International Connection |
| Lynna Hood |
The Use and Misuse of EVM in the Back
Office |
 |
Jay Gassaway |
Topic: Understand Earned
Value in Under an Hour
Abstract:
Earned Value (EV) is a performance tool
that is well accepted throughout the government. Today more and more
corporations are embracing this valuable project reporting tool.
EV allows for a three dimensional view of project technical, cost, and
scheduled performance. Traditional evaluations only looked at variance
between plan costs and actual costs. EV integrates the schedule and
the budget and the work that has been performed to date to provide an informative
picture of project performance. This presentation will enlighten
you to the potential of this increasingly utilized tool. See how
easily it can be understood!
Bio:
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Alex Brown |
Topic: Project Charters
Bridge Culture
Abstract:
Learn how project charters successfully
bridged cultural gaps when making decisions among a community of Japanese
and U.S. executives. Establishing a clear chartering process was the key
to project management’s success at the company. The presentation will include
templates and overviews of the processes established.
Bio:
Alex S. Brown, PMP, is the Manager of
the Strategic Planning Office at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group, USA.
He also helps other firms solve their real-life project problems as President
of his own company, Real-Life Projects, Inc. He has spoken at the last
three PMI North America Congresses and the 2002 PMI Symposium, in addition
to several regional and specific-interest project management events. This
year will be his third presentation at a PMI NJ event. His articles have
appeared in several newsletters, and he provides advice to peers internationally
through his web site, http://www.alexsbrown.com. He has been a project
manager for software development and financial services projects since
1993.
 |
John Cusack |
Topic: Sustainability
Principles in Project Management
Abstract:
Project managers need to incorporate sustainability
(social, environmental and economic) factors, into their work, or face
the danger of late delivery, poor execution, and unhappy clients, especially
when dealing with controversial projects. Sustainability principles can
help develop more economic, and more effective projects, and avoid delays,
public opposition and unanticipated consequences.
Bio:
John Cusack is Executive Director of the
NJ Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability, a consortium of 40+
colleges/universities with the goal of facilitating the use/practice of
sustainability concepts in higher education and society. He also
is the Founder of Gifford Park Associates, a management consulting firm
specializing in sustainability management, climate change risks, and the
relationship between environmental and financial performance. Prior to
founding Gifford Park Associates, Mr. Cusack spent 20 years in staff &
executive positions with ABB, Combustion Engineering, and Con Edison. He
has a MCE & BCE from Manhattan College, an MBA from NYU Stern School,
and is a Professional Engineer.
 |
Peter de Jager |
Topic: Change Management:
The Missing Component of PM
Abstract:
Change means learning new behaviors. It
isn’t as difficult as our many past failures suggest. There is a path of
least resistance to Change and it is neither difficult, nor costly to walk
competently. I will pinpoint the specific things we're doing wrong replacing
them with practical to do correctly.
Bio:
Peter de Jager is a keynote speaker/writer/consultant
on the issues relating to the issue of managing change of all types within
our organizations. He has published hundreds of articles on topics ranging
from Problem Solving, Creativity and Change to the impact of technology
on areas such as privacy, security and business. His articles have appeared
in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Futurist and Scientific
American. He is best known to IT audiences for his efforts
to create responsible awareness of the Y2K issue - For which he received
several awards from IT associations and Govt. Agencies. In
addition to presentations and seminars on the topics above, he writes about
a dozen regular columns. These include; Association Trends, CIPS across
Canada, Enterprise, Globe & Mail online and Municipal World - He's
spoken in more than 35 countries and is recognized worldwide as an exciting,
humorous, provocative and engaging speaker. His audiences have included
the World Economic Forum, The World Bank and The Bank for International
Settlements. His presentations and workshops are highly interactive,
fun, irreverent to mistaken ideas and most distinctively - provocative.
He forces the audience, by demonstrating conflicts between their stated
beliefs and behaviours, to think differently about what they thought they
knew.
 |
Lee Lambert |
Topic: Living in an Info-Centric
World—Where the Universe Revolves around YOU!
Abstract:
Decisions, they are the lifeblood of a
successful project. Sound decisions are based upon quality project
information. Quality information is extracted from the mountains
of 'data' that today’s sophisticated, automated systems generated daily.
The modern day project management professional is responsible for sorting,
sifting and translating the 'data' into decision support information.
When it comes to projects, the only person who has the ability to examine
project related info from every part of the organization IS the project
manager. This is the only place where a holistic view can be taken.
Individual components of the organization have pieces of the project info
puzzle, but only the PM can see all the parts and can make all the right
moves (decisions) to assure everything 'fits' together.
Learn how to capitalize on the power that
comes with living in the middle of today’s Info-Centric World. Understand
why the Project Universe revolves around you. Learn how to make and/or
influence decisions that are founded in sound logic and driven by relevant
information. It is time to stop talking about it and time to take
control of your project world.
Bio:
In the profession of Project Management
training, Lee R. Lambert, PMP has established the standard against which
others in the field are measured. He was an integral part of the
creation of the PMP Certification Program; a recipient of the PMI’s Distinguished
Contribution Award and was a member of the PMNetwork/PM Journal Editorial
Review team for over a decade. As an author of two books and 28 professional
papers, no other project management educator can contend with his uncanny
technical knowledge, material content and refreshing delivery-his hard-hitting,
but humorous style, has mesmerized more than 40,000 students in 22 countries.
Lee can be reached at Lee@LambertConsultingGroup.com
 |
Jerry Manas |
Topic: Napoleon on Project
Management: Timeless Lessons in Planning, Execution and Leadership
Abstract:
Jerry Manas, PMP, author of Napoleon on
Project Management, teaches the art of project management as seen through
the successes and failures of one of history's greatest leaders, Napoleon
Bonaparte. Through this lively and entertaining presentation, you will
learn to apply Napoleon's research, record keeping, and organization methods
to your own projects for better results.
Bio:
Jerry Manas is President of The Marengo
Group, LLC, an organization that specializes in principle-based project
management training and consulting. Jerry is also co-founder of PMThink!
Project Management Thought Leadership (www.pmthink.com), a popular blog
site where topics such as project management, portfolio management, and
organizational leadership are discussed. Mr. Manas is an active volunteer
with the Project Management Institute (PMI), and recently served on the
leadership team for PMIs new standards for program and portfolio management.
He currently serves on the Board of Director's for PMIs Aerospace and Defense
Specific Interest Group. He is the author of Napoleon on Project Management
(Nelson Business 2006).
 |
Frank Saladis |
Topic: Positive Leadership
in Project Management: The International Connection
Abstract:
This presentation discusses the importance
of effective leadership in the project environment, reviews key principles
of project manager effective and demonstrates how project management has
become an 'international language of business'. The presentation discusses
key leadership characteristics, the international project environment and
how project management is emerging as a key strategy the global economy.
Bio:
Frank P. Saladis, PMP, President of Project
Imaginers Inc. is a Consultant and Instructor within the project management
profession and has over 32 years experience in the IT, Telecom and project
management training environment. He is a senior consultant and trainer
for the International Institute For Learning Inc. and has held the position
of National Project Manager for AT&T Solutions Information Technology
Services and was a member of Cisco Systems Professional Services Project
Management Advocacy organization. His responsibilities included the development
of the Project Management Office (PMO) and the development of internal
training programs in project management. He is a Project Management Professional
and has been a featured presenter at the Project Management Institute ®
Annual Symposiums, Project World, and PMI World Congress. He is the immediate
past president of the PMI New York City Chapter and a Past-President of
the PMI ® Assembly of Chapter Presidents. Mr. Saladis is a Co-Publisher
of the internationally distributed ALLPM newsletter and a contributor to
the ALLPM project management website. He has written numerous leadership
and project management related articles and was an author of the AT&T
Corporate ITS Project Management Guidelines. He is a member of the International
Executive Guild and the NRCC Business Advisory Council. He has also held
the position of Vice President of Education for the Global Communications
Technology Specific Interest Group of PMI ® and holds a Masters Certificate
in Commercial Project Management from the George Washington University.
 |
Lynna Hood |
Topic: The Use and Misuse
of EVM in the Back Office
Abstract:
Earned Value Management is the new and
mandatory approach for Federal contract performance reporting, risk management
and cost control. By October of 2006, most new cost-type Government contracts
in excess of 20 million dollars will requirement implementation of an EVM
system for the contract for performance reporting and risk management.
Many accounting departments are ill prepared to meet this requirement and
even those that are gearing up to do so will find it difficult to communicate
with the program managers that will use the system. This seminar is intended
to give accounting personnel with little or no exposure to Earned Value
Management (EVM) an understanding of the concepts behind the discipline,
the terminology it uses and the demands for data that an EVM system may
place on the accounting system. Like all specialized disciplines, EVM has
a language all its own. Participants in this seminar will come away
with a solid grasp of how EVM systems work, why they work, what data they
rely on, what the terms mean and even how to interpret the basic variance
reporting parameters.
Bio:
Lynna Hood, CFCM is a System Consultant
with Deltek and the Program Administrator, Curricula Designer and Instructor
of the Contracting with the Federal Government Certificate Series offered
by George Mason University in partnership with Deltek. Lynna is a
Certified Federal Contract Manager, and comes from a 21-year career in
federal contracting during which she has received such awards as the Outstanding
Contract Specialist for the United States Air Force. Lynna has issued
and administered complex cost type proposals and contracts. She has
experience with leading complex source selections and evaluation teams
for multi-million dollar technical service contracts. She holds a
Master of Science Degree in Management from Faulkner University as well
as a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication from the University of Colorado.
Updated: 01Jun09 |
