June 13, 2007 PDM - How to Drive Business Strategy Through Project Planning

In today’s world, continued business success often hinges on adopting the right techniques and tools to manage a wide range of project priorities – among multiple initiatives and multiple teams of dispersed resources.

What’s more, it’s important to have a fast and flexible process in place that tracks project performance, and greatly simplifies project prioritization to the company’s strategic objectives.

Program Overview

You know how it is… everywhere you turn you see people in your organization busily working on different projects and initiatives. But, how do you know people are working on the most important activities? How do you know key issues are being resolved in a timely manner? How do you know which resources are getting stretched too thin? How do you know which project schedules are at risk?

Chances are the continued success of your business hinges on using effective techniques and tools to manage a wide range of project activities – among multiple initiatives and multiple teams. What’s more, it’s critical to have a process in place that keeps project prioritization closely aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives.

To stay-in-the-game in today’s business arena, organizations need flexible approaches that “match tools and techniques to the task” in managing projects. Thanks in large part to recent advances in web technologies, businesses can now use inexpensive and simple-to-deploy project management solutions – especially in dealing with dispersed workgroups and stakeholders that want easy-to-administer levels of project access.

Our June 13th event will present a framework to link project and strategies, along with tools and techniques to right-size project management solutions to your organization. The skill and know-how you’ll gain includes:

• Streamlining prioritization across multiple projects and initiatives
• Tracking project performance with quick and simple metrics
• Organizing online workplaces for dispersed team members
• Providing project visibility to key stakeholders with secure online tools

About Our Speakers

Steven Weidner, MBA, PMP, is President of Program Navigators, Inc., (http://www.programnavigators.com) a Bellevue, WA, based project management firm.

Steven is recognized as a leading practitioner of implementing program and project management. He is a long time member of ProjectWorld’s advisory council and was lead author and project manager for the book Accelerate Your Career as a Project Manager. He is a member of the Board of Governors for City University in Seattle, WA where he was a former member of the Teaching Faculty for the Master of Project Management program.

In the past, he has been a Vice President with CH2M HILL, one of the largest and most respected engineering firms in the USA. Steven also spent 9 years as a Project Manager at The Boeing Company. He has presented workshops on managing multiple projects at both ProjectWorld and PMI. He has been involved in many large-scale projects and has been directly accountable, as a Project Manager, for over $200 million worth of projects in his 20 plus year career.

His years of experience guides his practical approach in helping companies and governmental agencies improve business results by focusing on how project work is accomplished by executives, senior management, and project teams.

Dean Carlson, Founder and President of Viewpath.com, (http://www.viewpath.com ) a Bellevue, WA, based online project software company.

Dean has over 20 years experience in the design and delivery of time and project management systems. He has personally trained more than 20,000 individuals in both the private and public sectors. His clients have included many Fortune 1000 companies such as Microsoft, Boeing, Arco, Cigna, Chevron, IBM, US Bank, AT&T, Hewlett Packard, and Motorola.

Years of in-depth productivity consulting has given him extensive exposure to task planning/tracking software implementations in organizations of all sizes. As such, Dean has been very involved in the convergence of productivity tools and techniques on the web for more than a decade. This included several years as the President of Teamwork.com, a pioneering online workgroup collaboration application.

Dean founded Viewpath.com in 2004 with a passion for building an everyday productivity tool that is easy for people to use, both on and off the job. Viewpath’s new 2.0 application (still in beta) incorporates advance web technologies, along with input from a wide-spectrum of customers and seasoned project managers. Dean sees that a new generation of flexible online task management applications, such as Viewpath, will help reshape the way many people view the role of project-based tools.

Event Details

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