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Monday, August 13, 2007
PM World Today Authors Make Key Presentations at Project Management Symposium in Texas
Two well known authors of project management books who have also recently been featured authors in the PM World Today eJournal were featured speakers at the 1st UTD Project Management Symposium in Plano, Texas, USA on Monday, August 6.
Russell Martinelli, co-author of the recently published book entitled Program Management for Improved Business Results, was a featured speaker in Track 1, Program and Portfolio Management. His presentation on the subject of “Program Management: A Framework for Collaboration”, was one of the leadoff presentations on Monday morning. According to Mr. Martinelli’s presentation, “In The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman describes new realities in product, service and infrastructure development where complex systems are disaggregated, distributed to specialists to be developed, then reassembled into a total solution. However, many of the companies that have adopted this form of distributed collaboration are struggling to manage the work that takes place around the global and around the clock. Some companies that are succeeding in the management of highly distributed development efforts are doing three fundamental things:…” (to see his paper, click here.)
Based in Portland, Oregon, Russell Martinelli is manager of program management methodologies at Intel Corporation and a recognized expert in the field of program management. He is also chairman of Intel’s Global Program Management Community of Practice, an adjunct professor at the University of Phoenix, and the co-founder of the Program Management Academy (www.programmanagementacademy.com).
Mark Kozak-Holland, well-known author of the project management books in the Lessons-from-History series, made a featured presentation on the subject of Titanic Lessons for IT Projects. According to Mark’s presentation, “In modern IT projects, we often have situations where we believe that we have designed, built or launched a “perfect” solution. The story of the Titanic disaster shows how: non-functional requirements can get overshadowed by functional requirement; the executive sponsor can unwittingly compromise the project; and project over confidence can invalidate some project stages.” (to see Mark Kozak-Holland’s presentation, click here.).
Mark Kozak-Holland is a frequent contributor to the online eJournal PM World Today; his most recent series has been on the subject of Churchill the Agile Project Manager (see at http://www.pmworldtoday.net/featured_papers/2007/aug.htm). Mark Kozak-Holland is a Senior Business Architect with HP Services in Toronto. He regularly writes and speaks on the subject of emerging technologies and lessons that can be learned from historical projects. Additional information about Mr. Kozak-Holland and his publications and activities can be found at www.lessons-from-history.com.
Copies of their presentations and papers can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/library/presentations/index.htm, http://www.pmforum.org/library/papers/index.htm and at http://som.utdallas.edu/project/project-symp-papers.htm.
The 1st UTD Project Management Symposium was held in Plano, Texas, USA on 6 August 2007. The 1 day symposium, attended by approximately 200 people, featured speeches, professional presentations and discussions in the following tracks: (1) Program & Portfolio Management; (2) Project Management: Critical Organization Success Factor; (3) Software Development & Agile Project Management; (4) PM for Product Development, including small projects; (5) The Role of Project Management in Corporate Governance; and (6) Project Management in the Global Economy. A vendor exhibition was also featured.
The conference was sponsored by the Graduate Program in Project Management in the School of Management’s Executive Education Center at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), (http://som.utdallas.edu/project/); along with the PMI Dallas Chapter (http://www.pmidallas.org/index.phtml); and PMForum, Inc. (www.pmforum.org). A 2nd UTD Project Management Symposium has now been announced for August 2008 and is expected to be twice as large as this first year’s event.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Russell Martinelli is manager of program management methodologies at Intel Corporation and a recognized expert in the field of program management. He is also chairman of Intel’s Global Program Management Community of Practice, an adjunct professor at the University of Phoenix, and the co-founder of the Program Management Academy (www.programmanagementacademy.com).
Mark Kozak-Holland is a frequent contributor to the online eJournal PM World Today; his most recent series has been on the subject of Churchill the Agile Project Manager (see at http://www.pmworldtoday.net/featured_papers/2007/aug.htm). Mark Kozak-Holland is a Senior Business Architect with HP Services in Toronto. He regularly writes and speaks on the subject of emerging technologies and lessons that can be learned from historical projects. Additional information about Mr. Kozak-Holland and his publications and activities can be found at www.lessons-from-history.com.
Copies of their presentations and papers can be found at http://www.pmforum.org/library/presentations/index.htm, http://www.pmforum.org/library/papers/index.htm and at http://som.utdallas.edu/project/project-symp-papers.htm.
The 1st UTD Project Management Symposium was held in Plano, Texas, USA on 6 August 2007. The 1 day symposium, attended by approximately 200 people, featured speeches, professional presentations and discussions in the following tracks: (1) Program & Portfolio Management; (2) Project Management: Critical Organization Success Factor; (3) Software Development & Agile Project Management; (4) PM for Product Development, including small projects; (5) The Role of Project Management in Corporate Governance; and (6) Project Management in the Global Economy. A vendor exhibition was also featured.
The conference was sponsored by the Graduate Program in Project Management in the School of Management’s Executive Education Center at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), (http://som.utdallas.edu/project/); along with the PMI Dallas Chapter (http://www.pmidallas.org/index.phtml); and PMForum, Inc. (www.pmforum.org). A 2nd UTD Project Management Symposium has now been announced for August 2008 and is expected to be twice as large as this first year’s event.
