PMIGLC Dinner Meeting

Location: Management Educational Center, Troy, MI NEW LOCATION!!!

Title: Alpha Project Managers: What the Top 2% Know that Everyone Else Does Not

By: Andy Crowe, Velociteach CEO

Time:

Check-in ~ 6:00pm

Dinner ~ 6:30pm

Presentation ~ 7:30pm

	PDU Code C011-040907
	Presentation materials

PMIGLC Forum

Title: New reporting features and how to crash the critical path

By: Jeff Spencer

Forum Time: 5:30-6:20 - Before the Dinner Meeting

Fees: $20 (Member), $25 (Non-member)

PDUs: Earn 2.5 PDUs by attending the dinner meeting and the forum; forum only…1 PDU.

PDU Code C011-040907F

Dinner Meeting Presentation Abstract

The majority of professional project managers generally share a common set of misconceptions about the knowledge and tactics that make the Alpha project managers highly successful. The Alphas work approximately the same number of hours as everyone else, face the same challenges, and deal with the same difficulties; yet they manage their projects, teams, and stakeholders in a way that takes them far ahead of the pack. Building on a landmark survey of over 800 project managers from around the world, Andy Crowe identifies the traits that make the Alphas stand out in the minds of the teams, senior managers, customers, and stakeholders who ranked them at the top. Through in-depth interviews, Crowe draws out common knowledge, attitudes, and practices of the Alpha project managers that contribute to their success. By interviewing not only the Alpha group, but also other sub-groups of project managers, Crowe uncovers and explains the underlying factors related to attitudes and beliefs, communication, project alignment, approach and organization, management of priorities, issue management, relationships and conflict, and leadership. In this fast-paced and information-packed presentation, acclaimed project management author and speaker Andy Crowe explains myths and realities surrounding the world’s top project managers, as well as the underlying traits that make the Alphas stand out amount their peers. The presentation is built around the fact that all project managers can incorporate these same characteristics, skills, and successes into their management style.

Speaker Biography

Andy Crowe is the author of "The PMP Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try", "The CAPM Exam: How to Pass on Your First Try", and "The Alpha Project Managers: What the Top 2% Know that Everyone Else Does Not." As an expert on project management, he recently served on the Project Management Institute's team for the 3 rd edition of the PMBOK Guide and the Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OMP3). He has served as project manager for several high-profile international information technology projects, including the creation of Europe 's largest e-commerce site. He was appointed to serve on Microsoft's DNA and .NET Advisory Committees as one of 21 individuals worldwide.

Andy is a Project Management Professional and a Six Sigma Black Belt, specializing in methodology and information technology and holds a degree in Business Management from Kennesaw State University.

FORUM INFORMATION

Presentation Abstract:

•  Participant Objectives

•  Learn what the new reporting features are in Microsoft Project Server/Professional 2007

•  Learn about, as a project planner, how to use Project 2007 to crash the critical path

•  Presentation Description

•  New features in Microsoft Project Server/Professional 2007 that provide enhanced capabilities in reporting your projects status and some new methods for planners to optimize their projects to meet tight scheduling needs (how to crash the critical path.)

Presenter: Jeff Spencer, Microsoft Corporation

Mr. Spencer is the Director of EPM Services for Microsoft Consulting for the United States .  In this capacity, he leads a team that works with Microsoft's key enterprise customers to deploy the Microsoft EPM / Collaboration Solutions. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Spencer has worked as a Project Manager, PMO director and Owner of a Project Management Consulting Firm.