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From South to North America - José & Tatiana Machicao present new ideas at 3rd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in Texas
Reported by Ann R. Miller and David Pells in Dallas
Demonstrating that project management leaders in South America have ideas and concepts to share with those in the North, José Machicao and Tatiana Machicao came from Lima, Peru to make a presentation on 13 August at the 3rd Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in Texas. The regional project management conference was held in the School of Management on The UT Dallas campus in Richardson, Texas during 13-14 August 2009. The event was organized by the Graduate Program in Project Management (PM) in the School of Management's Executive Education Center at UT Dallas, in partnership with the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and PMForum. The theme for the 3rd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium was "Managing in a Changing World".
José and Tatiana Machicao (pictured right) presented a paper entitled "Proposal of an Actions and Achievements Organizational Management Methodology (A2OM2) in order to face Cultural Management Improvement Goals"on 13 August 2009 at 15:05 p.m.
According to the authors, "this paper explores the need for some methodological aspects that are not rigorously covered by existing tools. Specifically, it explores the difference between some methodologies focused on the management contents, and the ones focused on the improvement of the management culture in order to identify and use the links between both contexts."
José Carlos Machicao Valencia, PMP® is an organizational project management consultant, with 12+ years of experience managing projects and programs, and creating and implementing methodologies for project management in public and private organizations in Peru. He is a researcher and teacher at the Continental University in Lima, also lecturing at several other universities in Peru on project management. José has an MSc in Energy Management.
Tatiana Machicao Valencia is an industrial engineer, with 8 years experience in production planning in the textile industry and two years of project management experience with software projects. A member of PMI in Peru, Tatiana has just completed her Masters Degree in Project Management at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
Photos: Left - José Machicao lecturing; Right - Tatiana Machicao at 3rd UT Dallas PM Symposium in Richardson, Texas, USA on 13 August 2009.
The 3rd UT Dallas PM Symposium was launched on Thursday, August 13, with welcoming addresses by James Joiner, Director of the Graduate Program in Project Management at The UT Dallas and Mr. Hasan Pirkul, PhD, Dean of The UT Dallas School of Management. They were followed by two keynote speakers, retired US astronaut James Reilly, PhD, and Tom Leppert, the popular mayor of the City of Dallas. Other events on 13 August included 24 professional presentations in five streams by project management experts and professional practitioners. The day ended with a networking reception for participants in the atrium in the School of Management. Official attendance was around 225. To see the full program, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/graduate/execed/projectMgmtProg/projSymposium/.
The Project Management Program at UT Dallas provides application-oriented education for professionals with significant project, program or general management responsibilities. Established in the Executive Education Center in The UT Dallas' School of Management, students have the option of earning a Certificate in Project Management, a Master of Science degree with an emphasis in project management, or a Master of Business Administration degree with project management emphasis.
The UT Dallas PM program, originally developed in 1997, is accredited by the Global Accreditation Center for Project Management (GAC) of Project Management Institute (PMI®) and is a PMI Registered Education Provider Program (PMI R.E.P.). The program is taught by world-class faculty with a blend of industrial project management, consulting and teaching experience. The UT Dallas PM Program is delivered both on campus and online, and attracts students from across the USA and worldwide. For more information, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/project/.
The PMI Dallas Chapter is a volunteer-based professional association dedicated to supporting the growth and development of project management practitioners, as well as building awareness of the project management discipline and its critical role in business and organization success. With more than half a million members and credential holders in over 170 countries, the Project Management Institute (PMI®) is the leading membership association for the project management profession. Founded in 1984 and with over 4,000 members, the PMI Dallas Chapter is one of the world's largest PMI components. To learn more about the PMI Dallas Chapter and its service offerings, visit www.pmidallas.org
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Demonstrating that project management leaders in South America have ideas and concepts to share with those in the North, José Machicao and Tatiana Machicao came from Lima, Peru to make a presentation on 13 August at the 3rd Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium in Texas. The regional project management conference was held in the School of Management on The UT Dallas campus in Richardson, Texas during 13-14 August 2009. The event was organized by the Graduate Program in Project Management (PM) in the School of Management's Executive Education Center at UT Dallas, in partnership with the Dallas Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI®) and PMForum. The theme for the 3rd UT Dallas Project Management Symposium was "Managing in a Changing World".
According to the authors, "this paper explores the need for some methodological aspects that are not rigorously covered by existing tools. Specifically, it explores the difference between some methodologies focused on the management contents, and the ones focused on the improvement of the management culture in order to identify and use the links between both contexts."
José Carlos Machicao Valencia, PMP® is an organizational project management consultant, with 12+ years of experience managing projects and programs, and creating and implementing methodologies for project management in public and private organizations in Peru. He is a researcher and teacher at the Continental University in Lima, also lecturing at several other universities in Peru on project management. José has an MSc in Energy Management.
Tatiana Machicao Valencia is an industrial engineer, with 8 years experience in production planning in the textile industry and two years of project management experience with software projects. A member of PMI in Peru, Tatiana has just completed her Masters Degree in Project Management at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
Photos: Left - José Machicao lecturing; Right - Tatiana Machicao at 3rd UT Dallas PM Symposium in Richardson, Texas, USA on 13 August 2009.
The 3rd UT Dallas PM Symposium was launched on Thursday, August 13, with welcoming addresses by James Joiner, Director of the Graduate Program in Project Management at The UT Dallas and Mr. Hasan Pirkul, PhD, Dean of The UT Dallas School of Management. They were followed by two keynote speakers, retired US astronaut James Reilly, PhD, and Tom Leppert, the popular mayor of the City of Dallas. Other events on 13 August included 24 professional presentations in five streams by project management experts and professional practitioners. The day ended with a networking reception for participants in the atrium in the School of Management. Official attendance was around 225. To see the full program, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/graduate/execed/projectMgmtProg/projSymposium/.
The Project Management Program at UT Dallas provides application-oriented education for professionals with significant project, program or general management responsibilities. Established in the Executive Education Center in The UT Dallas' School of Management, students have the option of earning a Certificate in Project Management, a Master of Science degree with an emphasis in project management, or a Master of Business Administration degree with project management emphasis.
The UT Dallas PM program, originally developed in 1997, is accredited by the Global Accreditation Center for Project Management (GAC) of Project Management Institute (PMI®) and is a PMI Registered Education Provider Program (PMI R.E.P.). The program is taught by world-class faculty with a blend of industrial project management, consulting and teaching experience. The UT Dallas PM Program is delivered both on campus and online, and attracts students from across the USA and worldwide. For more information, visit http://som.utdallas.edu/project/.