Visible Project and Team Management
Tyson's Corner Luncheons
Visible Project and Team Management
featuring
Paul Schmitz, PhD, PMP
CEO
Leaders Forum LLC
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- 11:30 am: Networking begins
- 12:00 – 1:00 pm: Program
- Keynote Speaker: Paul Schmitz, PhD, PMP
This Session is free of charge. Pre-registration is required.
The business landscape is littered with well intentioned business strategies and project plans that have yielded disappointing results or end up in the failed projects landfill. Why?
Too often executives and project leaders do what they always do. They fail to identify and invest in tools that communicate information that is neither understandable nor actionable to in stakeholder’s context.
This session will demonstrate a heat map tool for project and team performance reporting data. The data source is in tabular format. The output is a visual heat map that communicates with executives, program managers and project teams. The tool enables them to pose hypothesis and immediately validate the hypothesis with data and then develop adaptive solutions. This tool meets an important “viral marketing” requirement. The value is readily apparent, fits into everybody’s workflow and anyone can use it.
In this session you will learn how:
- To organize your data so that you can use heat maps
- To use heat maps for the project work or assess project manager or team member performance
- To use readily available data to create a heat map for assessment, monitoring, adapting and communicating project performance, and
- To develop work packages or reports that can be prepared throughout the project lifecycle that enable clear and informed management actions.
Don’t miss this session. You will understand the tool, hear a case study example, challenge the presenter, and change how you do projects.
About the Speaker
Paul Schmitz, PhD, PMP
Paul is the Founder and CEO of Leaders Forum LLC. Leaders Forum makes visible business and team performance enabling everyone in the organization to understand the current situation and to pursue solutions that achieve business goals.
Prior to Leaders Forum he coached and facilitated monthly CEO meetings for nearly 8 years. He has worked in many corporate environments from the trenches to the board room. As a Regional VP for an international IT advisory company, he coached, consulted and facilitated Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in OSD, the Executive Departments and Congress. He is an adjunct professor of management and a project management instructor.
He has consulted on troubled projects as they move through the project cycle. He has worked on project winners, losers, and “projects” with no beginning or end. He brings his best practice experiences on project leadership, tools and techniques to his clients.
About the Tyson's Corner Luncheons
PMIWDC holds free monthly luncheon meetings in Tyson's Corner, hosted by SAIC Corporation.
Bring your lunch, or visit the onsite cafeteria. PDU credits are be available for Project Management Professionals (PMPs).
Membership in PMI is not required, but all guests must pre-register to attend. Due to security requirements at the facility, guests who are not U.S. citizens are asked to request an escort by checking the appropriate field in the registration form.
