Leading Edge Presentations
These presentations deal with subjects that are intended to stretch knowledge and
understanding, propose new approaches, or expand the mind. They are designed to be 60-90 minutes in duration.
A “State of the Union” Address on Project Management: An Examination of a Profession in Crisis
There
are indications that project management is a profession in crisis,
having suffered some loss of respect over the past 15-20 years. As a
result, many of today's project management practitioners lead an
extremely challenging existence. Gary Heerkens takes a
no-holds-barred look at the problems facing our profession through
the eyes of people who practice it under exceedingly difficult
circumstances. The expert opinions of Harold Kerzner, Neal
Whitten, Janice Thomas, Jack Duggal, and Paul Giammalvo suggest root
causes, revealing that the responsibility to improve is a shared one.
(Described by attendees as ‘the most important topic facing project management today’)
Make It Your Business To Be Business-Savvy...You Will Become Indispensable!
Describes how (and why) project management is slowly evolving from a technically-focused
discipline to a business-focused discipline. Includes a "Learning Map" (takeaway),
which identifies 100 targeted knowledge and skill items that
business-savvy project personnel of the future will need to know.
(Definitely
a "leading edge“, career expanding topic)
INTRODUCING…The Revolutionary Strategic Project Management
Maturity Model (SPM3)
This
is a very advanced topic, and was one of just four presentations (out
of 140!) selected at the 2007 PMI Global Congress for an encore
presentation. It offers a new and different perspective on the concept
of project management
maturity, and is intended to stretch the envelope of project
management. Essentially, it takes the fundamental concept of PM
maturity and bumps it up to the organizational or corporate level,
proposing an approach for evaluating how mature a company is with
respect to how it addresses project management from a strategic
perspective.
(A very high
level, leading-edge topic)
The Strategic Project Management Maturity Model: The Next Generation!
Typically offered to organizations where The Strategic Project Management Maturity has already been presented, this
presentation examines the prescriptive component of strategic project management maturity. In other words,
it answers a critical question: "Once an organization has diagnosed their deficiencies, what can it do to address those
deficiencies?" In
this session, each of the 10 "strategic dimensions" that comprised the
original model will be briefly reviewed. However, the main focus of the
presentation is to provide specific recommendations regarding the steps
that an organization can take to increase their level of strategic
project management maturity.
Attendees
will receive a valuable tool in the form of a takeaway that captures
these recommendations, thereby enabling organizations to develop a
solid organizational improvement plan, relative to the practice of
strategic project management.
(A very high level, leading-edge topic)
Calculating the Value of Project Management: How
Can You Do It? (Why Should You Need To?)
Provides
detail and insight on three of the more noteworthy (if not popular)
research-based approaches for calculating or describing the value of
project management which have surfaced over the past several years.
Then, in a thought-provoking and highly interactive conclusion, uses
the audience to explore a question that we probably should have started
asking ourselves some time ago -- after nearly 50 years of formalized
existence, why is there still a need to justify project management at
all?
(Enlightening, thought-provoking, and highly participative)
