This session provides participants with a constructive way to frame problems to gain greater insights and tools to facilitate generating greater quantity and quality of potential solutions.
Formalizing an approach to Blame Management allows project managers to demonstrate the value of more rigorous process in other knowledge areas. Effective Blame Management can also be a career boon to less effective project managers.
Building and implementing effective risk management practices is hard. Sustaining them is harder. Why? How can you stabilize risk management efforts without having them become calcified? This session will explore the challenges of sustaining risk management efforts so that they aren’t victims of their own success.
Have you ever had your budget cut, or headcount reduced in the middle of a project? What are your options to respond? Is there a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? Are there opportunities in an economic downturn?
Through a series of exercises and examples, participants in this session learn basic estimation techniques as well as thoughtful ways to record and present estimates, and most importantly, a process for estimate improvement.