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UC Irvine Extension

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.

 

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

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]

 

managing portfolios speakers

 

 

 


 

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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.

 

Seminar: Creating Project Excellence:  Lessons from the Experts

 

 

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

 


 

 

Instructors: Randall L. Englund, MBA, BSEE, NPDP, CBM; Alfonso Bucero, MSc, PMP

Level:   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?

  1. Identify most important components of successful organizational environments.
  2. Assess each participant’s project environment and compare it to others.
  3. Describe steps in a revitalization model.
  4. Develop a model and prioritization process for linking projects to strategy.
  5. Identify management behavior that supports successful projects.
  6. Apply tenets of a learning, organic organization to a project-based organization.

  7. Begin the transformational process(es) to more fully support a project-based organization.

  8. Apply leadership to achieve excellence through project management.

  9. Graph forces that drive or restrain progress.

  10. 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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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:

 

· Clarify authority, roles and responsibility of the project Sponsor

· Overcome confusion around roles and create more effective working relationships

· Obtain and sustain committed Sponsorship

· Understand and assess your organizational culture

· 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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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

 
THEME: "Project Management - the Tie that Binds"  
 
DATE: Saturday, May 22

 
LOCATION: Sonoma Technology, Inc.
1455 N. McDowell Blvd, Suite D
Petaluma, CA  94954-6503
 
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.

 

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

 

Registration:    Register Online!

 


Cadence WebinarsCadence Webinars

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
 
Date Start End Location    
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:
 
   
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.”

 
 

February 11, 2010 Dinner Meeting

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.”


 

Cadence WebinarsCadence Webinars

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.

 


 

0829 Project Management Office

X490.3 BUSAD
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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 Sess
ions: 5
  Method of Instruction: CLASSROOM
Campus:  CUPERTINO
 

Instructor:  

Randall L Englund

 

1493 Project Management Negotiation Principles and Techniques

X462.4 BUSAD
 

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
 
Required Text(s): None

Method of Instruction: CLASSROOM
 
Instructor(s):   RANDALL ENGLUND, M.B.A.

 

 

Considering the Human Factor for Project Success
 

 

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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.



 

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: