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Public appearances by
Randall L. Englund
UC Irvine Extension
unex-services@uci.edu
(949) 824-5414
Management, Leadership and Team Building in the Project and Program Environment
MGMT X474.9
A required course in the
Certificate Program in Project Management. An elective in the Certificate
Programs in Business Analyst and Web Intelligence.
This course is for those involved in projects, including project managers,
project team members, and functional managers who interface with project teams.
The success of projects is dependent not only upon the project management
process itself, but also upon the people in the process and how effectively they
work together and communicate with and influence clients, stakeholders, and each
other. This course focuses on the project manager's role as both manager and
leader, with particular emphasis on the competencies and skills associated with
effective project leadership and what is required to develop and maintain a
high-performance project team. Participants will address six principal topics
(modules) as they relate to project teams: (1) project management fundamentals,
including the role of the project team and the project team manager-leader, (2)
human behavior, (3) project stakeholders, (4) communications, (5) management and
leadership, including conflict resolution, and (6) developing project teams The
course is highly participative and uses a variety of learning methods, including
lesson presentations, case studies, readings, essays, and discussions.
Randall L.
Englund, MBA, BSEE, NPDP, CPM, worked at Hewlett-Packard Company for 22 years,
as a senior project manager in high tech new product development and in the
corporate Project Management Initiative. He co-authored Creating an
Environment for Successful Projects, Creating the Project Office,
and
Project Sponsorship. As an executive consultant, trainer, speaker, and
professional facilitator, Randy helps people discover and create organic systems
to achieve more than project-based work, using assessments, multimedia
experiences, and systemic inquiry.
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When: |
Winter Jan 11 to Mar 14, 2010
Spring Apr 5 to Jun 6
Summer Jul 5 to Sep 5
Fall Oct 4 to Dec 5, 2010
Winter Jan 20 to Mar 13, 2011 |
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Where: |
Online |
DATES HAVE CHANGED
TO NOVEMBER 15-16, 2010
The “Managing Portfolios in Turbulent
Times” is a two day event that offers participants the opportunity to interact
with international experts on this subject. This unique event provides you with
the knowledge, tools and practices to help make better project business
decisions and achieve a balanced and optimal project portfolio within your
organization. Experience how other experts lead and manage their organizations
through turbulent times.
Project Portfolio Management is about prioritizing technology-related demands
and plans and then allocating financial and human resources to investment
initiatives. Through Project Portfolio Management, the organization integrates
governance-oriented collaboration with business stakeholders, delivers expected
results from investments, and provides reports to stakeholders for
decision-making and for communicating investment status. Last year our focus was
more generic; this year we will focus on Project Portfolio Selection and
Analysis methods and Case Studies.
This event is a great opportunity to
interact with international practitioners, authors, and experts in Project
Portfolio Management. Please do not miss this special occasion that offers food
for thought and action oriented practices, all aimed at transforming portfolio
management in your organization. The event features the following international
speakers:
* Simona Bonghez (Romania)
* Randall L. Englund (US)
* Jim De Piante (US)
* Michel Thiry (UK)
* Jack Duggal (US)
* Alfonso Bucero (Spain)
Meet the speakers:
[click on picture to view video]
SeminarsWorld
Committed to bringing stellar learning opportunities to individuals in the
project management field, PMI holds SeminarsWorld® events throughout
the year, all over the world, for beginning, mid-level and experienced project
management practitioners, PMI members and nonmembers.
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Wednesday-Thursday
23-24
June
2010
at SeminarsWorld
Orlando
Wednesday-Thursday
28-29 July 2010
at
SeminarsWorld
Vancouver
Wednesday-Thursday
10-11
November 2010
at SeminarsWorld
Scottsdale
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Instructors:
Randall L. Englund, MBA, BSEE, NPDP, CBM;
Alfonso Bucero,
MSc, PMP
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Intermediate to Advanced |
Discover viewpoints, insights, and practices
about why, what, and how to achieve more from
project based work—a search for excellence. Reflect
and gather lessons learned from experienced
practitioners.
First, understand and learn practices that
optimize the working environment; second, traverse
the path to transform an organization using change
management principles and a project office; and
third, develop leadership in how to increase upper
management support and sponsorship for projects.
Assess your current environment; compare that with
an ideal environment; then share examples, actions,
and improved practices about how to bridge the gap.
Identify concepts that support rather than undermine
project management as an organizational competency.
Create a “green,” rather than “toxic,” environment
that appreciates the value of project management.
Get expert feedback about how to adopt, adapt, and
apply leading practices that transform your approach
and effectiveness, no matter where you work.
Learn how to: • Identify management roles and
approaches to leadership in a PBO • Boost project
support by upper managers • Engage people and teams
to achieve more from project based work • Reward
desired behaviors • Clarify expectations about
control or results • Revitalize an organization and
its information systems • Select and develop project
managers • Create a learning organization • Craft an
action oriented plan for creating project excellence
Participants receive a copy of the book,
Creating an Environment for Successful Projects.
A Guide to the Project Management
Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)
areas covered: Integration Management,
Quality Management, Human Resource Management, and
Communications Management.
Who should attend?
Advanced project managers, managers of project
managers, and executives who want to breakthrough a
current plateau or “toxic” environment and achieve
greater results from project-based work. Those
who ask “What can I do differently?” or “What am I
missing?” PMs and
sponsors ideally attend together.
What will my seminar experience cover?
- Identify most important components of successful organizational environments.
- Assess each participant’s project
environment and compare it to others.
- Describe steps in a revitalization model.
- Develop a model and prioritization process
for linking projects to strategy.
- Identify management behavior that
supports successful projects.
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Apply
tenets of a learning, organic organization to a
project-based organization.
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Begin the transformational process(es) to more
fully support a project-based organization.
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Apply
leadership to achieve excellence through project
management.
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Graph
forces that drive or restrain progress.
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Create tailored action plans.
Reference Book:
Seminar includes the book, Creating an
Environment for Successful Projects by Robert J.
Graham and Randall L. Englund.
How will I benefit?
Develop and enhance the contributions you make to
your organization by learning to:
- How to support best practices in project
management to consistently achieve desired
outcomes
- Create a high-performing, organic
organization that stresses accountability for
the success of the whole, authenticity and
integrity in action, and management teams that
model desired behaviors.
What instructional materials will be
used?
Lecture, discussion, assessment, group work,
multimedia audiovisuals (animation, video and sound
clips) to demonstrate concepts and models, case
studies from personal experiences, breakout
discussion groups and continuous question-answer.
Education Credits:
Continuing Education Unit: 1.4
Professional Development Unit: 14
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SeminarsWorld®
course and receive 20%
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renglund to receive the discounted rates.
PMI Global Congress
EMEA 2010, May 13-14 Milan, Italy
PMI Global Congress
NA 2010, Oct 13-14
Washington, DC
Seminar:
Tips and Techniques for Achieving Management
Support
Category: Core
Competencies
Instructor: Alfonso Bucero, PMP, MSc
and Randall L. Englund, MBA, NPDP, CBM
Level: Intermediate
Description:
Executive support is essential for project
success. This seminar provides steps, advice, and tips about effective and
efficient practices that enable participants to obtain and sustain executive
support for your projects to achieve organizational success and business
prosperity.
A Guide to the Project Management Body of
Knowledge (PMBOK®
Guide) areas covered:
Project Integration Management, Project Quality
Management.
Who should attend?
Advanced project managers, managers of project
managers, project sponsors, and executives who want to
breakthrough a current performance plateau and achieve greater results.
Those who ask “What can I do differently?” or “What am I missing?”
How will I benefit?
Develop and enhance the contributions you make
to your organization by being able to:
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Clarify authority, roles and responsibility of the project Sponsor
· Overcome confusion around roles and create
more effective working relationships
· Obtain and sustain committed
Sponsorship
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Understand
and assess your organizational culture
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Help
implement more effective project Sponsorship in your organization
What will my seminar experience
cover?
What instructional materials
will be used?
Lecture, Facilitated Group
Discussion, Case Studies, Surveys, Individual and Group Exercises.
Participants receive a copy of
the Englund and Bucero book,
Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success
(Jossey-Bass, 2006).
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SeminarsWorld®
course and receive 20%
off the member and non member registration fees. Use promotional code
renglund to receive the discounted rates.
Past Events:
2010 KPM
Symposium - Aug.
4 & 5
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AND
FLYER AVAILABLE
KIPA
is very pleased to announce that the 2010
edition of the Knowledge and Project
Management Symposium will be held on August
4th and 5th on the University of Tulsa campus.
Unlike past years, KPM 2010 will feature a
single track filled with nationally recognized
speakers. A conference schedule is now
available.
Randy
Englund
Project Management consultant and author
Former Senior Proj.Mgr. at HP’s PMO
Englund PM Consulting, California
presents
“The Complete Project Manager: Building the
Right Set of Skills for Greater Project Success
“
The Knowledge & Information Professional
Association (KIPA) is an evolving umbrella group
of diverse knowledge and information
professionals who share a common goal of
advancing the intelligent sharing of personal
and organizational knowledge. Professionals
represented in KIPA include knowledge managers,
content managers, IT specialists, information
analysts, librarians, archivists, records
managers, document managers, web developers, and
information architects. The group vision is to
develop a network of knowledge specialists who
will help each other understand how each
specialty works together to build a total
structure of knowledge and information
management within an organization.
2010 Professional Development Day
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THEME: |
"Project
Management - the Tie that Binds"
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DATE: |
Saturday, May
22
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LOCATION: |
Sonoma Technology, Inc.
1455 N. McDowell Blvd, Suite D
Petaluma, CA 94954-6503
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: |
Charlie Tsegaletos, wine maker from Cline
and Jacuzzi Wineries in Sonoma. He will speak about winery
management including how he manages the whole life cycle process of
making wine from vines to bottle!
The day will have workshops, dynamic speakers and includes
continental breakfast and lunch.
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| MORE SPEAKERS: |
Speakers currently scheduled include:
- Tom Looy (Tacit Knowledge, San Francisco) - Agile -
Lean Theory and Constraints
- Joan Knutson (Univeristy of San Francisco) - Doing
More with Less - 4 Productivity Life Savers
- Yan Cardineau (Program Director, Medtronic CardioVascular)
- Measuring PM and PMO Value
- Randy Englund
(Englund Project Management Consultancy) -
The Complete Project Manager
- Christine Bachman and Sukey Robb-Wilder - PM
Challenges, A Client-Vendor Partnership
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| Registration: |
Register Online! |
Negotiating
for Project Success
by Randall L. Englund
The results delivered by projects usually depend upon what you negotiate.
Successful project leaders explore a perspective, principles, tools, and
recommendations to achieve better results through the power of negotiations.
They avoid being set up for failure by recognizing and developing skills that
lead to greater success. Negotiating is fun…and is productive. Everything is
negotiable, both at work and in everyday lives. It is in our best interests, and
for your team and organization, that you embrace negotiating as a requisite
skill…and implement it dutifully.
Every day involves negotiations: what to buy, how much to pay, where to go,
what to do, how to solve problems, agree on requirements, get the right
resources,…. Are you fully equipped to get the best outcomes possible? What if
you could improve your negotiating abilities by at least ten percent? Take the
time now to learn ten basic “rules,” develop negotiating skills, and reap the
benefits. Imagine how much better off you’ll be over the course of your lifetime
when you negotiate clear success criteria and set yourself up for success
instead of failure. This effort will change your life.
DATE:
May
17, 2010
(rescheduled)
TIME: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon PDT
REGISTRATION: http://cadencemc.webex.com/
Tools and Techniques:
Negotiating for Project Success
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07 Apr 2010 |
5:30 PM |
7:30 PM |
Sunnyvale Community Center -
Ballroom
550 E. Remington Dr
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
USA
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Tools and Techniques
Topic: Negotiating for Project Success
Event Sponsor
PMI Silicon Valley Chapter
Last date for On-line Registration:
04/05/2010 10:00pm Pacfic Time
Description:
The results delivered by projects depend upon what you negotiate.
Successful project leaders explore a perspective, principles, tools, and
recommendations to achieve better results through the power of
negotiations. They avoid being set up for failure by recognizing and
developing skills that lead to greater success. Negotiating is fun, and
it is productive. Everything is negotiable, both at work and in everyday
lives. It is in our best interests, and for your team and organization,
that you embrace negotiating as a requisite skill…and implement it
dutifully.
Every day involves negotiations: what to buy, how much to pay, where to
go, what to do, how to solve problems, agree on requirements, get the
right resources,…. Are you fully equipped to get the best outcomes
possible? What if you could improve your negotiating abilities by at
least ten percent? Take the time now to learn ten basic “rules,”
develop negotiating skills, and reap the benefits. Imagine how much
better off you’ll be over the course of your lifetime when you negotiate
clear success criteria and set yourself up for success instead of
failure. This effort will change your life.
About the speaker:
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Randall L. Englund, is
an executive consultant for the Englund Project Management
Consultancy (www.englundpmc.com),
and has spent most of his career in Silicon Valley. He’s co-author
of three best selling business books, including the latest on
Project Sponsorship, and teaches project management at California
universities and PMI seminars. While Randy has an MBA in management
and a BS in electrical engineering, his real education came from 22
years at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he was a senior project
manager, new product developer, and internal consultant at the
corporate Project Management Initiative. Previously he conducted
projects in the field for General Electric Medical Systems. Randy
now delights in sharing his passion for project management, and the
environment in which people do project-based work, with clients
around the world. He is a member of the PMI Silicon Valley Chapter
and relishes the opportunity to share his insights and experiences,
using multimedia and interactive discussions, about a challenge we
all face, “Negotiating for Project Success.” |
Time: 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Location:
Rickey's Restaurant
Novato, CA 94949
Negotiating for Project Success: Are You Prepared?
The
results delivered by projects depend upon what you negotiate. A
“secret” employed by successful project leaders is that they explore a
perspective, principles, tools, and recommendations to achieve better
results through the power of negotiations. They avoid being set up for
failure by recognizing and developing skills that lead to greater
success. Negotiating is fun, and it is productive. Everything is
negotiable, both at work and in everyday lives. It is in our best
interests, and for your team and organization, that you embrace
negotiating as a requisite skill…and implement it dutifully.
Every day involves negotiations: what to buy, how much to pay, where to
go, what to do, how to solve problems, agree on requirements, get the
right resources, …. Are you fully equipped to get the best outcomes
possible? What if you could improve your negotiating abilities by at
least ten percent? Take the time now to learn ten basic “rules,”
develop negotiating skills, and reap the benefits. Imagine how much
better off you’ll be over the course of your lifetime when you negotiate
clear success criteria and set yourself up for success instead of
failure. This effort will change your life.
Our
presenter, Randall L. Englund, is an executive consultant for the
Englund Project Management Consultancy (www.englundpmc.com),
coming to us from Silicon Valley where he resides and worked. He’s
co-author of three best selling business books, including the latest on
Project Sponsorship, and
teaches project management at California universities and PMI seminars.
While Randy has an MBA in management and a BS in electrical engineering,
his real education came from 22 years at Hewlett-Packard Company, where
he was a senior project manager, new product developer, and internal
consultant for a corporate project office. Previously he conducted
projects in the field for General Electric Medical Systems. Randy now
delights in sharing his passion for project management, and the
environment in which people do project-based work, with clients around
the world. He is a member of the PMI Silicon Valley Chapter and
relishes the opportunity to come to the Wine Country and share his
insights and experiences, using multimedia and interactive discussions,
about a challenge we all face, “Negotiating for Project Success.”
Creating Excellence in/through Project
Management
by Randall L. Englund
Have you, your project, and/or your
organization hit a plateau where performance stagnates? Are you wondering how
not only to survive but also prosper during challenging times? Does the
question ‘What else can I do?’ come to mind? Then participate in a webinar that
addresses a systemic approach to project management in your organization. Come
prepared to discover practical ideas that optimize the results to be achieved by
creating an environment for successful projects.
Creating Excellence in/through Project
Management means…working through
others to optimize and achieve greater results from project-based work…realizing
a competitive advantage by executing strategy through projects…significant
advancements in maturity of people, processes, and the environment of a
project-based organization. Achieving excellence involves forming a picture of
an ideal project environment…and requires an honest assessment of current
reality. Implementing change requires management attention focused on
strengths, development opportunities, benchmark comparisons, best practices, and
action plans.
This session highlights viewpoints, insights,
and practices about why, what, and how to create excellence
IN project management. A first question to resolve is who—are you “in
the game” with intention to make a difference? With this foundation, the
organization is positioned to achieve excellent results THROUGH project
management. People who do this understand and optimize the working environment,
traverse the path where a project office leads a change management process, and
develop leadership in project sponsorship. They identify concepts that support
rather than undermine project, program, and portfolio management as
organizational competencies. Create a “green,” rather than “toxic,” environment
that values project-based work.
DATE: July 15, 2009
TIME: 11:00 am - 12:00 noon PDT
REGISTRATION: http://cadencemc.webex.com/
{If you missed the live online
webinar, it is
available as an archive.}
...how to talk less and accomplish
more in half the time
Friday,
June 19, 2009, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM in downtown San Francisco. Sponsored by
PMI San
Francisco Bay Area Chapter.
Course Description:
This course addresses how organizations can use enterprise
project management concepts to achieve optimal results from project-based
work. Participants learn to implement a Project Management Office (PMO) that
best suits the purposes and circumstances of their organization. Designed
for project managers and senior managers accountable for overall project
management performance, the course addresses key issues in PMO formation and
management:
- Alignment of the PMO with organizational goals and strategies
- Selection of a PMO format, structure, and method for optimizing
reporting relationships
- Recognizing and coping with barriers to PMO acceptance and
effectiveness
- Use of the PMO as an integrating mechanism for achieving powerful
collaborative forces across organizational boundaries
- Determining a pragmatic approach, ranging from a project office of
one to a strategic project office, consistent with goals and existing
project culture
- Creating an appropriate PMO plan that includes preparing vision and
mission statements and a charter, determining staff size as well as a
composition estimate, budget estimate, and the desired range of
functions and services
For Credit 2.0 Units
Tue, Thu 6:00PM to 10:00PM
December 1, 3, 8, 10
Sat 12:00PM to 5:00PM
December
5, 2009
Number of Sessions:
5
Method of Instruction: CLASSROOM
Campus:
CUPERTINO
Course Description:
This course is designed to benefit individuals involved in acquiring project
support from within a company and from other companies. Participants
experience each stage of a business negotiation, from the initial planning
to the final "handshake" and the memorandum of agreement. Ten negotiation
principles are presented, including how to use the four basic forces in
every business negotiation: power, information, timing and approach.
Participants are shown how to understand and use the Negotiation Mode Matrix
technique as a means for moving people from ineffective negotiating
strategies and tactics to more cooperative and mutually beneficial
approaches.
Case studies and negotiation simulations help students
translate new knowledge into job-related skills. Students taking this course
address how to:
- Prepare for a negotiation in a project management environment
- Recognize the four forces present in every negotiation
- Develop acceptable concessions
- Deal with negotiation deadlines
- Ensure that all last-minute steps have been taken
- Get a negotiation session off to a good start
- Recognize and counter the typical strategies and tactics
- Close a successful negotiation
Applies Towards the Following Certificate(s) & Award(s):
Accrediting Associations:
Project Management Institute--PMP Professional Development Units 15.0 Hours
or Credit 1.5 Units
Sat 8:30AM to 5:00PM
Apr 04, 2009 to Apr 11, 2009
Number of Sessions: 2
Method of Instruction: CLASSROOM
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PMI Panama Project Management Symposium
March 18-19, 2009 Panama City, Panama
The Land
Divided - The Project World United
Creating Excellence in/through Project
Management
Full day
workshop by Randall L. Englund,
March 18, 2009
By creating excellence IN
project, program, and portfolio management, you are positioned to create
excellence THROUGH project
management, and GET
DESIRED…SUSTAINABLE…RESULTS!
In this seminar, discover viewpoints, insights, and practices about
why,
what, and
how to achieve more from project
based work—a search for excellence. Reflect upon and gather lessons learned
from an experienced practitioner and other participants. You will come to:
C
Understand and optimize your working environment
C
Assess your current environment; compare that with an ideal environment;
then share examples, actions, and improved practices about how to bridge the
gap
C
Traverse the path where a project office leads a change management process
C
Develop effectiveness in project sponsorship
C
Identify concepts that support rather than undermine project management as
an organizational competency
C
Create a “green,” rather than “toxic,” environment that appreciates the
value of project management
C
Get
expert feedback
C
Experience how to adopt, adapt, and apply leading practices
Randall L.
Englund provides inspiration and tools to develop an action plan. As
an executive consultant, trainer, speaker, and professional facilitator for
the Englund Project Management Consultancy (www.englundpmc.com), Randy helps
people discover the means to achieve more from project-based work, using
assessments, multimedia experiences, and systemic inquiry. His organic
approach includes the behavioral, technical, business, and change management
aspects that create an environment for project success. A frequent
presenter at professional development events, Randy’s been described as one
whose “insights and style bring the concepts from way up there, to right
down here, equip you with the tools, and empower you to act.” The question
remaining will be how motivated you are to transform your approach and
achieve excellence in your organization.
Dignitaries Jean Claude Dravet, Dr. J. Davidson Frame, Alfonso Bucero, and
Randall L. Englund relax the day after their presentations at The Project
Portfolio Day in Madrid, Spain.
To get more information and to view outcomes from the event, go to
www.projectportfolioday.com.
Seminars
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Project Management
Improving Your
Project Management Skills: The Basics for Success
Seminar # 6503
April 29 - May 1, 2009 AMA Houston
June 10-12, 2009
AMA San Francisco
Instructor: Randall L. Englund
Cope with the complex
demands of today’s project management practice!
More than 60,000
nontechnical professionals have turned to this best-selling seminar
to help them deliver basic project management solutions with higher
quality, greater value and better accountability. You’ll cover
everything, from defining scope and gathering requirements, to
planning and budgeting, to utilizing scheduling and control tools.
Plus, you’ll get hands-on practice, exercises and real-world
examples.
You’ll return to work with all the basic project management help you
need to get your projects—and your career—off the ground and
running.
How You
Will Benefit
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Set practical goals
for your projects—goals you can achieve regardless of “hitches”
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Set realistic
schedules that you can meet
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Develop a project
plan—and get that plan implemented
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Stay on top of
schedules, workloads and “people problems”
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Save time and energy
by “building in flexibility” rather than “putting out fires”
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Cope with budget and
time constraints
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Delegate in a fair
and practical way within the project team
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Build your
credibility with top management
Seminar #
6515
08/25/2008 -
08/27/2008 AMA San
Francisco Center San Francisco
Marriott
10/8/2008
- 10/10/2008 AMA San
Francisco Center San Francisco
Marriott
Master the skills needed for top-notch information
technology project management!
From planning, scheduling and controlling IS/IT
projects…to managing critical interfaces with users and
vendors…to balancing development needs with system
maintenance…you’ll find your information technology
project management solutions here!
In this course, discover how to optimize IT development
and delivery processes so that you can bring every
information technology project online more effectively,
more quickly and on budget.
December
12-14, 2007 San Francisco Wells
Fargo Conference
Center
Instructor: Randall L.
Englund
How You Will Benefit
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Maintain
control of your projects with proven scheduling
techniques
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Deliver
quality systems on time
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Plan for
the unexpected
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Budget
more effectively
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Keep
conflict at a minimum
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Expertly
use PM software tools
Randy Englund made a return presentation on
March 19, 2008 at Cisco on
"The Importance of Project Sponsorship" at a lunchtime skill building workshop.
He previously presented to Cisco October 3, 2007 (shown in picture above) on
"Effective Project Checkpoint Meetings." He also was scheduled
to appear in the June 18, 2008 program on
"Managing Virtual Teams", together with Jeff Richardson and Jim Sloane.
presents
Project Sponsorship Workshop
Download Project Sponsorship brochure
Cadence President John Patton, Alfonso
Bucero, Cadence COO Connie Plowman, and Randy Englund at the
PMI Global Congress 2007 in Atlanta Georgia USA
Alfonso Bucero & Randy
Englund, enjoying Southern hospitality after the PMI Global Congress 2007 in
Atlanta:
