Managing Difficult Projects: Techniques to Sail Through (Or Around) The Perfect "Project" Storm (i.e. Limited Resources, Lack of Time, And/Or Changing Scope)

What: Managing Difficult Projects Seminar (7PDU's)

When: Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Location: Magnolia Manor, 8818 W. Market St., Colfax, NC, 27235, Phone: 336.665.0655

The "Early Bird" Special has been extended through February 17!!!!

Fee Schedule

Click On Your Attendee Type To Register	*Early Bird Special (Prior to February 18)**	Open Registration (Between February 18 and March 5)	Late Registration (After March 5)
PMI North Carolina Piedmont Triad Chapter Member	$249	$299	$349
PMI Member	$275	$325	$375
Non-PMI Member	$299	$349	$399

* Early Bird Special - The first ten people to register will receive a copy of Anthony Reed's book, Finding the I in TEAM: Better Team Building Through Individual Building at the seminar.

All major credit cards are accepted.

Bring your email registration receipt to class with your ID for PDU verification.

Seminar Description

When was the last time that you worked on a project under perfect conditions? That’s to say that there were no constraints, such as

Resources (Human, Material, and Money/Budget)
Time
Scope

All of the unlimited resources were available at your beckoned call. You had more monetary resources (budget) than you could spend. You had so many people (human resources) clambering to get on the project that you had to turn people away. And all of your materials, such as software and hardware, arrived on time, was installed without any problems, and was ready to run out of the box. There were no delivery dates or deadlines. And the project scope/requirements never changed because scope creep never occurred. Or you were able to change the deadline to correspond with scope changes.

Chances are great, that you worked on projects that went through the “perfect storm.” You faced resource problems. Too little money was allocated, the money evaporated too quickly, or the budget was cut for more important projects. Hardware was delivered late and there were problems with installing the software. And you either didn’t have enough people, the right people weren’t available, and/or you experienced turnover of key people during the project. Furthermore, you faced the quagmire of an unmovable deadline and a movable scope. For the most part, we must manage projects during the perfect storm.

This presentation is based on over twenty years of first-hand, project management experiences. This includes fifteen years of upgrading and implementing Oracle applications on high profile, multi-million dollar, and/or international projects. The projects were for small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, quasi-governmental, and governmental agencies.

Sometimes, our ship capsized during the storm (i.e. the project was abandoned). Other times, we sailed through the storm and survived (i.e. the project was in trouble, but we recovered and it was implemented on time). And we even sailed around the storm and had the perfect project (i.e. a $12 million project was completed for $2.6 million).

Each situation represented learning experiences. We examined what happened (both the good and the bad), why it happened, and how we could prevent it in the future.

You’ll learn how to

Educate the stakeholders (and team members) about project management
Address budget and schedule problems
Gain control over and stopping project creep
Manage problem resources (i.e. vendors, contractors, and employees)
Identify and cost justifying project risks and contingencies
Renegotiate the project constraints
Manage the stakeholder anxiety and expectations

Just a Few Comments...

"I worked with Anthony as VP of PMI Central Florida Chapter. Anthony has already been a guest of our chapter twice in the past year and he is coming back in July for the third time. This tells a lot in terms of how much our members and I personally enjoyed and learned from his extensive knowledge and diverse experiences."

“The Project Management North Alabama chapter recently had Mr. Reed speak to our group. Mr. Reed presented at an evening and lunch event for our chapter and we had great attendance at both events. The feedback from our members was tremendous. Members remarked on both the quality of the presentation and the depth of knowledge that Mr. Reed possesses. If you are looking for a high caliber speaker and a great presenter to your group/company, Mr. Reed meets the bill and is simply fantastic!”

“Mr. Reed spoke at our PMI chapter luncheon; and I took away more applicable knowledge from the two day meetings than a weekend of reading executive management books. Mr. Reed’s has collected his information from experience in the workforce as an IT lead, Accountant, and Project Manager. He has collected a toolset from these experiences that lead to his excelled success. It is good to learn this granularity of methodology from a person that has experienced the repercussions from what has worked. Procure Mr. Reeds tools of success and implement them for a compass to success.”

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Read about us in the August, 2010 issue of PMI Today.*

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Prior PMI Engagements

Latin American Congress (Brazil)

PMI North American Congress (2008, 2010)

PMI Washington DC Chapter

PMI Minnesota Symposium

PMI Columbia River Basin Symposium

PMI Central Iowa Symposium

PMI Ottawa Valley Outaouais Symposium

PMI Northern Alberta Symposium

PMI Rochester Symposium

PMI South Carolina Midlands Symposium

PMI New Jersey Symposium

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