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Educational Presentation: PMO Best Practices
Keynote Presentation: Dealing with Difficult People

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Month Keynote Presentation Topic
May 2008 Dealing with Difficult People
April 2008 Juggling Project Management
March 2008 The value of Project Management
February 2008 You Can't Manage Time!
January 2008 Creating Innovation-Friendly Projects which Still Meet Project Goals
December 2007 The Power of Project Leadership
November 2007 Troubled Projects - Identifying Early Warning Signs and Providing Project First Aid
October 2007 Quality in Project Management - Chapter 8 of the PMBOK
September 2007 Empowering Kids through Project Skills
June 2007 Third Annual Excellence in Project Management Awards Puzzle solution
May 2007 PMI Portland Chapter Business Meeting and Volunteer Recognitions
April 2007 "Retrospectives: 5 Years Beyond the Book," by Norman L. Kerth, author
March 2007 How Healthy is your Program?
February 2007 Positive Project Leadership
January 2007 Retrospectives: 5 years beyond the book (NOTE: meeting cancelled due to snow)
2006  
December 2006 Business Process Management: Scrooge or Santa?
November 2006 Readiness, Set, Change!
October 2006 Managing Projects & Programs in Organizations
September 2006 Curing your Ailing IT Relationships
June 2006 Second Annual Evening of Excellence - Project of the Year Awards
May 2006 Do the Right Projects at the Right Time: Aligning Projects to Strategy
April 2006 Managing the Portland Race for the Cure
March 2006 The Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Tunnel Project
February 2006 Defining Project Excellence Panel Discussion
January 2006 Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Tunnel Project (Rescheduled to March)
2005  
December 2005 An Evening of Excellence - Project Excellence 2005 Awards
November 2005 So Many Bridges, So Little Time
October 2005 Progress Post-Tsunami
September 2005 Improving Sourcing Outcomes
June 2005 New Board Announcement
May 2005 US Figure Skating Championship
April 2005 the Hood to Coast Race
March 2005

Successfully Implementing System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
February 2005 Career Entrepreneur: Using Project Management Strategies to Manage Your Career
January 2005 South Macadam Development Project - Putting Project Management to Work
2004  
December 2004 Creating Success with Virtual Project Teams
November 2004 The Portland Tram and South Waterfront District Development Project
October 2004 The Future of Project Management and the Leadership Difference
September 2004 Habitat 101 - Project Management in Our Community
May 2004 The Future of Project Mgmt: Embedding Project Mgmt. in the Enterprise Architecture
April 2004 Turning Mini Vans into Ferraris:  Boosting Your Project Team’s Performance
March 2004 Mars, Grandma, and Charioteers -- Program and Project Management:  Past Present and Future
February 2004 Getting the Most From Your Project Management Office
January 2004 Navigating the Fuzzy Front End of New Projects
2003  
December 2003 PLM: Product Lifecycle Management - is it your missing link?
November 2003 Project Management, Security and Disaster Recovery: Securing Electric Utilities
October 2003 Enterprise Program Management: Delivering in Your Multi-Project Environment
September 2003 Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3)
May 2003 The Good, the Bad and the Benefits of the PMO
April 2003 Business Process Improvement: Science or Business Fad?
March 2003 Closing the Strategic Vision / Implementation Gap for Competitive Advantage
February 2003 Influence Without Authority - or, how to make things happen!
January 2003 Project Recovery - When Bad Things Happen to Good Projects
2002  
December 2002 Best Practices in Standardizing Project Management Methodology
November 2002 The Gap between Strategic Planning and Project Execution
October 2002 Columbia River Channel Deepening Coalition Project
September 2002 I-5 / 217 Highway Interchange Given New Life
May 2002 Project That Solve Problems Without Creating Solutions
April 2002 Value of Division 17 Consulting & Project Management
March 2002 Management of Wicked Problem Projects
February 2002 Project management issues and Zoo Renovations
January 2002 10 Tips for Implementing a Successful  PM Culture
2001  
December 2001 The Rules have Changed:  Today's Project Management work, Careers, and Jobs
November 2001 Project Management Metrics:  Why, What, When and How
October 2001 The Balanced Scorecard - The Strategic and Tactical Origins of Projects
September 2001 Airport MAX - Structuring a Public-Private Project
May 2001 Managing Portland's Rose Festival 
April 2001 Value Loaded Schedule Management