Held during the Chapter Networking hour. We meet directly after the Educational Presentations at 5:35pm in one of the Education rooms – listen for the announcements at the beginning and end of each session for the room. Join us to learn about who we are and what we offer, and to meet other new members.
Educational Presentation
Topic:
How to create High Performance Teams (HPT) within an organization?
Abstract:
With Lean and Agile becoming the buzz and the norm for many businesses lately, the common denominator has still remained, and that is: How to create High Performance Teams within an organization?
The HPT concept means that all employees are working together and are directly involved in the design and continuous improvement of their work. The team concept engages employees’ talents, skills, and knowledge to make significant contributions to cost, quality, schedule, and ultimately to customer and employee satisfaction and shareholder value. The team charter principles do not amend or replace corporate policies and procedures, but provide a greater understanding of how the team concept operates.
The guiding principles behind the HPT concept lies within the core values of any organization, to provide for a safe work environment for its employees, to maintain an atmosphere that fosters mutual respect between all employees, to promote and support teamwork for the benefit of employees and customers, and to foster a culture where excellence is non-negotiable.
Speaker:
Greg Sievers Connectedness, positivity, learner, winning others over, futurist….is how Strengths Finder 2.0 describes Greg. Myers-Briggs would call him an ENFP (Extrovert iNtuitive Feeler Perceiver). Other people might describe him as: very funny or very spiritual. Other attributes include: married 36 years to Kathy, compassionate husband and father, helped raise four children, born & raised in Portland, Oregon. Yes, a true native Oregonian. Some other fun things to know about Greg is: loves blues music, wild & crazy dancer, loves to do drumming circles, enjoys deep dialogue, teaching, coaching & counseling people, helping people and organizations achieve their higher purpose!
Greg is an enthusiastic and innovative organizational consultant at his own company, GS Consulting LLC. Expertise includes organizational culture, high performance teams, leadership development, Lean/process improvement, conflict management, interpersonal communication and project management. Proficient in developing & delivery of training, facilitation, coaching and team building. Greg has his PMP, has been the primary Facilitator of the PMI Roundtable at Con-way for the last 6 years.
What can you expect from Greg? Why would I go hear him speak on High Performance Teams? Greg jams an energetic, highly interactive presentation into an extreme learning experience that you’ll be able to apply the very next day in your job. Greg helped create a High Performance Team culture and implement Lean Process Improvement most recently at Con-way Inc.
Keynote Presentation
Topic:
Bring it Back from Red
Abstract:
Estimates for the cost of IT project failure are as much as a few trillion dollars a year. The failure rates of projects are in the 60-70% range of projects that are at risk, and a quarter of all projects are simply canceled prior completion due to their problems. Preferably, all projects will run according to plan. However, moving from a 60% failure rate to 0% is unrealistic. First, organizations must understand what it is that makes their projects fail. Reasons range from methodology to human failure to poorly understood concepts to scope creep. Analyzing projects as systems uncovers all the factors that can contribute to failure. This analysis treats external and internal factors as equally important.
This presentation describes the key elements in recovering Red Projects from a system approach—looking at all the contributing factors. It is based on the process that Mr. Williams developed while recovering dozens of projects. It covers:
The prerequisites for a recovery: The Steering Committee’s responsibilities in realizing there is a problem to be solved;
The four-step process to recover a project:
Audit: The unbiased acquisition of data about the organization, customer, people and the project;
Analysis: Analyzing the data to determine root cases of problems and developing a recovery plan an corrective actions;
Negotiation: Arriving at an acceptable solution for both the supplier and the customer;
Execute: Implementing the plan and corrective actions.
The major ways to keep projects from failing.
The recovery process focuses upon the work one must do in dealing with the Red Project—the dynamics of the team, stakeholders and executives. Management style and technique are very important in the recovery, and tips will be provided on being a leader. It also discusses the role of Technology and the Methodology in the failure.
There are multiple case study examples drawn from a variety of projects to reinforce the concepts.
Speaker:
Todd Williams has thirty years’ experience as a Project Manager, architect, entrepreneur and businessperson. He has spent twenty of those years recovering red projects. From this experience, he has developed a process to make recoveries more efficient and prevent their reoccurrence. His experience provides a wealth of knowledge on avoiding project failure.
He has worked in manufacturing and service industries on products used internally and externally to the companies developing them. These projects include large-scale system integration of manufacturing systems, equipment integration, web-based collaboration tools, thick clients with automated update via the internet and large-scale business systems integration. The projects have been in Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, Israel and the United States with teams dispersed in as many as five countries, three continents and countless time zones. Some of these projects were captive in-house time-and-materials projects while others were outsourced fixed-priced projects.
Mr. Williams is the President of eCameron, Inc., located in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, and specializes in recovering red projects. He is a published author and regularly publishes a Project Management Technique eZine.
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Cost:
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PMIPortlandChapterMembers -Dinner Meeting: $25, Educational Presentation: $10, Both $35 PMI Portland Chapter Student Members - Dinner Meeting: $10 Non-Members -Dinner Meeting: $30, Educational Presentation: $10, Both $40 Dinner Presentation only (without meal): $12
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