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Payson Hall is a former U.S. Army Ranger and consulting project manager for Catalysis Group, Inc. in Sacramento. Formally trained as a software engineer, Payson’s early career included software development, hardware/software system integration, and Independent Verification & Validation. As his career progressed, his role shifted to include increasing project management responsibilities, with a focus on technology projects.
Today Payson coaches project managers, teaches project management skills, consults, and performs project reviews in a variety of fields, including transportation, communication, software development, education, financial services, and healthcare.
Payson has consulted on projects in both the public and private sectors throughout North America and Europe during his 40-year career. He has published over 250 project management articles, developed numerous project management and problem-solving classes, written a book on project sponsorship, and is a sought-after conference speaker who specializes in demystifying project management topics and communicating important ideas while entertaining audiences.
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?
There are no “facts” about the future.
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.
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?