Workshops

Project Sponsorship is a two day workshop that offers participants the opportunity to create an environment that achieves greater project prosperity as a result of excellence in project sponsorship.

The primary audience for this workshop is upper managers and executives. This workshop provides you with the knowledge, tools and practices to be an effective sponsor. Get clear understanding about your roles and responsibilities to ensure that all projects achieve successful outcomes. Another audience is project managers who work with sponsors on a regular basis and seek a better outcome from this interaction. The ideal audience is project manager and sponsor attending the workshop together. Learn together and prepare joint action plans.

All projects need an executive sponsor. Upper management support for projects consistently surfaces as a critical success factor. However, organizations often do not spend the time and money to understand what sponsorship is, why doing it better is important, and how to improve. Please join us in this workshop to experience the possibilities for excellence in sponsorship within your organization.

This is a great opportunity to interact with two international experts in the organizational, behavioral, business, and technical aspects of project management. Randall Englund is the co-author of Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: Second Edition and Creating the Project Office: a Manager’s Guide to Leading Organization Change. Alfonso Bucero is the author of A New Vision of Project Management. Together, Englund and Bucero authored Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success (2006). You also have the opportunity to network and share experiences with other executives and senior project managers.

All upper managers and executives involved in sponsoring projects, either currently or in the near future, PMO managers, senior project managers, and other stakeholders interested in learning the importance of effective sponsorship, in order to get a better return of investment.

Workshop Content

The Instructors

Alfonso Bucero, PMP (Project Management professional). He is an independent consultant and a frequent speaker at multinational Project Management Congresses. He is the founder, partner and director of BUCERO PM Consulting in Spain. Alfonso authored the book Project Management – A New Vision, and he was a contributor to the book Creating the Project Office, published by Jossey Bass (2003, San Francisco, CA) and authored by Randall L. Englund, Robert J. Graham and Paul C. Dinsmore. Drawing from many years as an HP project manager, he has presented and written numerous papers in the project management field. He is a Contributing Editor of PM Network (Project Management Institute). He has co-authored with Randall L. Englund the book Project Sponsorship, published in April 2006. You can reach Alfonso at: alfonso.bucero@abucero.com and at www.abucero.com.

Randall L. Englund, NPDP, CBM. He was a senior project manager at the Project Management Initiative at HP, a Project Office leading the continuous improvement of project management across the company He co-authored with Dr. Robert J. Graham the book Creating an Environment for Successful Projects: Second Edition (Jossey-Bass, 2004). As the Englund Project Management Consultancy, he is an independent consultant who trains and prepares executives and teams on project culture. He is a frequent speaker and facilitator of professional events. He is co author with Dr. Robert J. Graham and Paul Dinsmore of the book Creating the Project Office. He just co-authored with Alfonso Bucero the book Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success (Jossey-Bass, 2006). You can reach Randy at: englundr@pacbell.net and on the web at www.englundpmc.com.

Individuals attending this session are involved in one or more of the areas below:

Facilitator Randy Englund draws upon many years of experience as a practicing project manager at Hewlett-Packard and General Electric Companies and as an author and educator. He guides participants through proven or new approaches to project work. Participants gain data, insights, concepts, and tools using whole brain, culturally rich approaches to action learning. This multimedia, informative, action-oriented, entertaining seminar covers essential components—the pieces of a large puzzle—drawn from experience, that are necessary to create an environment for successful projects.