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13 Do or Die Project Management Practices
Description Speaker(s)

Learn the 13 key behaviors that either support a successful project, or ensure that it dies an unhappy death. The presentation will touch on: Project self defence - Judo PM; Dangerous PMs, dangerous stakeholders; Firing your sponsor!; The irresponsibility.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Aligning the expectations of your stakeholders
  • The right and the wrong project sponsor
  • Establishing baselines for cost, duration, and performance before you get started
  • Recognizing, prioritizing, managing and mitigating risk and uncertainty
    Clarity in C

Skill Level: For Everyone

 

Ken Hanley, BA,
M. Eng Project Management

KTH Project and Program Management Inc.

Ken Hanley specializes in program and project management. He has worked for a number of major corporations, including KPMG Consulting, Eastman Kodak, Gulf Canada Resources, and PanCanadian Petroleum, and currently has an international roster of clients. He has extensive experience in information systems strategy and deployment, business process re-engineering, and in the effective planning and execution of major projects in a number of industry areas, with government, and with educational institutions. Ken’s specialties are project planning, alignment, and risk reduction. He has also had considerable success in project intervention for troubled projects, and working with and mentoring project managers on difficult projects in a number of industries. He has a Bachelors degree in English with a minor in Management, and a Masters degree in Engineering, specializing in project management, both from the University of Calgary. Ken lectures on program and project at the Schulich Graduate School of Business, the Queens MBA in Science and Technology, the University of Alberta, and the University of Calgary, and writes and speaks frequently on the subjects of information technology, management, and project management. Ken was nominated for the PMI Southern Alberta Chapter Distinguished Contribution award in 2005.