IT and Project Management Consulting
Below is a link to the PMI Webinar presentation: Managing Risk on Public Sector IT Projects, presented on November 18, 2014.
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I am doing a webinar for PMI on Managing Risk on Public Sector IT Projects. It is on Tuesday, November 18 at 11am ET. In the webinar, I’ll review risks that are unique to public sector projects. I’ll go over common risks faced on IT projects and steps you can take to reduce project risk. Included are a couple of examples from my recent PMI Global Congress presentation but most of the examples are new and different.
The webinar is hosted by the IT and Telecom Community of Practice of PMI. The website is http://itt.vc.pmi.org. You must login (with your standard PMI.org credentials) to see and register for the webinar. It’s free. If you have any topics you want me to address just send them to me now or bring them up during the webinar. It will be fully interactive.
I’ll be presenting to the Department of State Project Management Community of Practice on Thursday, November 13. My presentation is called Harder Choices (get it? I’m at the State Department. I crack myself up.) After coming up with the hilarious inside joke, I actually built a presentation around the hard choices PMs need to make in order to be successful. Hard choices around project selection, project execution and, if necessary, around project termination.
Sound bites for the presentation are:
Another successful PMI Global Congress! The first keynote speaker was Magic Johnson. He knows nothing about project management or PMI but he is very charismatic. He stressed the importance of self-evaluation and said a leader’s responsibility is to make his teammates play better. Both are relevant to PMs.
The second keynote was Daniel Levitin, a PhD and best-selling author. He was fantastic. He talked about the fallacy of multi-tasking and why humans frequently make wrong decisions. I bought his book, The Organized Mind, and look forward to reading it.
I didn’t care for the third keynote speaker, who talked about (ugh) innovation. The fourth keynote speaker, Vince Poscente, was highly entertaining and motivational. A great way to end the conference.
The best presentations were:
On the disappointing side was the Access Health Connecticut presentation. Two (of the four) speakers needed a few more practice rounds. And the second speaker presented on cost containment while the fourth speaker said cost wasn’t an issue. The presentation was not strung together with consistent themes. And a lot of it was on the marketing of Obamacare – we’re there to learn about the project not the policy. (One speaker skipped over the risk management process – “you’re not interested in the details” – um, yes we are – risk management is exactly the details that PMs are interested in. Know your audience.)
My presentation went very well. Several people asked me to come to their organization to present it so I guess it’s time to get on the road.
Dominic Lepore at 2014 PMI Global Congress
I’m teaching Project Management Fundamentals as part of Georgetown University’s PM Certificate Program. This three-day class starts November 10 as part of the two-week intensive program.
I’ve been working overtime on the class material and I think this may be the best class ever. Sign up here: http://scs.georgetown.edu/programs/394/project-management-intensive/