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Materials from Past Corvallis Branch Meetings
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February 17, 2012 (View Presentation)

Topic: Understanding What Good Communication Means

Presented by: Vicki James, PMP, CBAP

About the Presenter:

Vicki James, PMP, CBAP began her career in project development in 1999 for the state of Washington. Vicki received her Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts from the Evergreen State College in 2002 and went on to achieve her PMP in 2005. She has been successful in delivering varied projects, from infrastructure to web applications in both the business analyst and project management roles. Vicki earned her Certified Business Analysis Professional in 2010 from the International Association of Business Analysis (IIBA).

Presentation

Information is power! Do you realize that more power is found in sharing information that in holding it back? This is especially true for your project, and especially project challenges. Learn to use information that can affect your project to enhance stakeholder support and project results. The key is providing the right information, to the right people, at the best time, and in the best way. The Stakeholder Analysis is the key to good communication. Working to better understand how to leverage the Stakeholder Analysis and communicate to others will yield better project results. Workshop objectives include:

Identifying how to share information and to whom
Specific benefits of sharing information, especially in regards to project challenges
Understanding what good communication means

January 20, 2012 (View Presentation)

Topic: Delivering Great User Experience: Connecting Strategies and Stories

Presented by: Debra Lavell

About the Presenter:

With over 15 years experience in various disciplines such as Requirements Engineering, Organizational Learning, Retrospectives, Lifecycle management and User Experience, Debra Lavell will share best practices to improve business results for any project. Prior to her work in quality, Debra spent over 5 years managing an IT department responsible for a 500+ node network for ADC Telecommunications.
Debra is a member of the Rose City Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Steering Committee & past President of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC) in Portland, Oregon. She holds a bachelor's of Arts degree in Management with an emphasis in Industrial relations.

Presentation

Yes, your team CAN exceed expectations and deliver truly great experiences to your users! Join Debra Lavell and your peers to learn and practice ways to connect business strategies with user stories and to develop a clear and compelling product vision that starts your team on the path to a great product. Debra shares how Intel is implementing user-centered design practices to get beyond the technology needs of its users to address their critical human needs-emotions and senses. User-centered design has helped them reduce expensive rework, eliminate unnecessary features, and avoid embarrassing mistakes. Debra discusses how to establish a killer product (hint: a vision synchronized with the users' goals and motivations) and shows how to keep the vision alive during the long product development process. She shares tricks, tips, and techniques that you can take back to your organization and begin using right away!

September 16, 2011 (View Presentation)

Topic: Project Risk Management: The What and the How

Presented by: Brad Hermanson, P.E., PMP

About the Presenter:

Brad Hermanson, P.E., PMP is Director of Project Delivery and Quality for Parametrix, a 450-person engineering, planning, and environmental sciences firm centered in the Pacific Northwest. Brad is a registered engineer in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and is also a PMP®. In addition to degrees in chemical and environmental engineering, Brad has an MBA from the Oregon Executive MBA program. Brad’s consulting specialties includes program management of complex and controversial environmental projects, and he also specializes in the application of decision analysis and risk management on projects. He has taught graduate courses on environmental law and regulations, and has been a workshop and conference speaker on a wide range of topics. He is a trainer and technical practitioner in decision analysis, risk management, and project management; he has taught the project risk management section of the Portland Chapter PMP® certification course for eight years.

Presentation This course will demystify what project risk is and why it is a fundamental part of every project. The course will show how the PMBOK risk management approach works generally. It will then strip things down and show how parts of that approach can be applied very specifically to every project from the very first steps of planning through day-to-day delivery. After attending the education program a project management should immediately be able to apply risk management methods on their projects to improve their delivery success.

May 20, 2011

Topic: Project Success and Other Stories

Presented by: Eric Larson, Professor of Project Managment, OSU

About the Presenter:

Erik Larson is a professor of Project Management at the College of Business, Oregon State University. He teaches executive, graduate, and undergraduate courses on project management and leadership. He is the co-author (with Clifford Gray) of the best selling text, Project Management: The Managerial Process. He is a PMP and has been a member of the Portland, Oregon Chapter of the Project Management Institute since 1984. The Presentation will focus on the dynamic nature of project success and how people's attitudes towards projects change over time. Implications will be explored and other stories will be told to illustrate key project concepts.

April 15, 2011 (View Presentation)

Topic: Case Study: Implementing Project Management in a Low Maturity Organization

Presented by: Jeff Oltmann, Synergy Preofessional Services, LLC

About the Presenter:

Jeff Oltmann is a seasoned leader with over 25 years of experience developing new products and managing successful programs. His specialties include strategy deployment, operational and project excellence, and project portfolio management. He is principal consultant at Synergy Professional Services (www.spspro.com) and previously ran the Program Management Office (PMO) and a $60M project portfolio for IBM’s xSeries development facility in Oregon.

Jeff’s background is a unique combination of engineering management, program management, and executive staff. This breadth enables him to move easily from the boardroom to the lab, bridging gaps in perspective while remaining firmly focused on practical business results.

His hands-on program management experience ranges from start-ups to programs with budgets over $100M and worldwide cross-functional teams of over 100 members. His teams have delivered many successful products to the marketplace, including multiple generations of mainframe-class computer software and hardware.

Jeff is an experienced consultant, teacher, and speaker. He is on the graduate faculty of the Division of Management at Oregon Health and Science University. In addition to consulting with clients in a wide range of industries, Jeff teaches project management and portfolio management. He holds an M.Eng degree and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).

Case Study: Implementing Project Management in a Low Maturity Organization

FabCo is a worldwide leader in the brutally competitive global marketplace for semiconductor fabrication. FabCo US operations invest heavily to stay competitive, annually funding a large portfolio of technology improvement projects. Many of these projects failed. They missed schedule and budget, did not deliver what was originally intended, and caused major last minute surprises to the senior management team.

In this session, you’ll learn how FabCo-US how analyzed the situation, then adapted project management “best practices” to make them appropriate for an organization with low project management maturity and a non-project culture. You will learn how FabCo-US designed its project management system, what they learned from the implementation process, and current results on how much project success has improved.

January 21, 2011 (View Presentation)

Topic: Improving Project Inception

Presented by: Todd Williams

About the Presenter:

Todd C. Williams

For twenty-five years Presidents, Vice Presidents and C-Level executives of manufacturing and service companies have asked Mr. Todd Williams to help them build leading-edge systems, improve organizational efficiency, and turn-around troubled projects. From this experience, he has developed methods to streamline organizations, recover red projects and help prevent recurring failures. He has worked in the Pacific Rim, the Middle East and North America coordinating teams dispersed in as many as five countries, three continents and countless time zones.

In early 2011, AMACOM Books will publish his first book, Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Recovering, and Preventing Project Failure. This book defines a project audit and recovery process to turnaround projects while focusing on root cause correction and prevention.