Keynote Speech
"Project
Disasters: How to Predict Them, Prevent Them, or Pull the Plug on Them"
Despite significant
progress over the last decade, project success rates are still
dismally poor. Only about a quarter of projects are completed
successfully. The rest are canceled completely or are finished
substantially late, over-budget, or missing major funcationality.
When used well, traditional IT project management approaches provide
excellent information about what happened, but they're lousy at
predicting the future.
In this presentation, Paul Glen
will identify the five leading indicators of project success and
show you how to use them to predict the future, prevent problems and
emerge a hero in both camps with technologists and business
executives alike.
“Paul Glen’s insights and experience provide the keys to
unlocking the potential [of geeks].”
– Warren Bennis, co-author Geeks and Geezers
From This Entertaining, High-Content Keynote You Will Learn…
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Why projects fail
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The four key
strategies for reducing the probability of project failure
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Why traditional project
management approaches are not enough to prevent failure
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What are the leading indicators
of project success
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How to monitor
leading indicators to prevent project failures
“Paul Glen masterfully and humorously teaches us how to create
followership in this notoriously inscrutable but essential population. Ignore
his rock-solid advice at your own peril.”
- Andrew Sobel, author of “Clients for Life” and “Making Rain”
“Highly talented technical people are a separate breed and
managing them is a delicate art. Paul has done the improbable – he’s taken his
experience and knowledge of technical leadership and produced a ... treasure
trove of wisdom for technical managers.”
- Rick Freedman, author “The IT Consultant”
“The old phrase ‘knowledge is
power” is not quite correct.
Understanding
is power, and that’s what Glen provides.”
- David H. Maister, co-author First Among Equals
Also Available as a
1 Day Seminar
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