Beyond Risk Analysis, Holistic Treatment of Uncertainties

Beyond Scope, Schedule, and Cost: Rethinking Performance

Agile teams are asked to be agile, flexible, and adaptive, but then are told to conform to planned scope, schedule, and cost goals. They are asked to adapt, but inside a very small box. If we are to scale agility to large projects and bring agile values to organizations, then we must change performance measures. To mirror the Agile Manifesto, it's not that scope, schedule, and cost are unimportant, but that value and quality are more important. This talk explores the necessity for and the rationale behind moving to this new set of agile performance measures

Beyond the Certification

What is beyond the certification? This taboo subject and its associated paths to success will be visited during this informative and fun webinar. If you’re a seasoned practitioner or new to the profession, you’ll hear nuggets of gold that your manager may not have had the time to share with you during your last one-on-one coaching session.

Beyond the Triangle: Delivering Value in an Agile World

In this seminar, Dr. Reich will first discuss two practices which can position a project to deliver value: Design Thinking and Benefits Mapping. Then she will review findings from a large scale study done to compare predictive and agile methodologies. An unexpected and interesting finding is that combining predictive and agile practices into a hybrid approach can produce good outcomes.

Beyond your grandfathers’ idea of leadership

Often the difference between chaos and a smoothly running organization is leadership; this webinar will explore the source of that difference. The webinar places considerable emphasis on experience as a key factor in leadership development. By reflecting on and analyzing past experiences to help solve larger future problems leaders learn and grow from their earlier experiences.

Big Data and project management, there is a point

Big Data is a game changer. From employees’ generated data to machine generated data, organizations have to deal with new streams of data that come their way. Interested in leading the change? Join this presentation to understand the role of big data program/project managers, the required skills, what the team structure looks like, how to define the program direction, and milestones.

Big Data is here...Are you Ready?

During this presentation we will define and discuss the fundamentals of leading a big data project. We will discuss what Big Data is, how it helps organizations, and how you as project or program manager recognize the need for Big Data to solve complex business needs.

BIM & Agile: Towards The Change

"BIM & Agile: Towards The Change" is a presentation that drafts the similarities between BIM (Building Information Modeling) and AGILE management in terms of values, processes and workflows. It concludes with thoughts on the Change Management needed in order to implement them in organizations.

Black Swans in Your Project: Understanding, Identification and Management of Extreme Unknown Unknowns

Following in the footsteps of a seminal book The Black Swan by Nicholas Nassim Taleb, I will demonstrate key failures of traditional risk management and stakeholder management practices in projects where extreme unknown unknowns are concerned. A special attention would be given to explaining how identification of Black Swans and planning the response for them is different from the traditional techniques we apply with tractable risks (known unknowns). More importantly, I will address the Project Management Principle of „Embrace Adaptability and Resiliency“ in the 7th edition of Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) as the fundamental, if not perfect, remedy to negative impacts of Black Swans that we need to apply for the benefit of the project and its stakeholders.

Blockchain Overview - Opportunities and Challenges for Project Managers

An explanation of blockchain both on the technical level and the business level. This technology will be described and explore the business use cases where blockchain technology is seen to be of great value. Blockchain projects will grow exponentially in the future; as such, project managers will benefit from better understanding the technical and business sides of blockchain.