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Session Overview

Popular thinking tends to believe that the most critical phase in determining the success of a project is Project Planning. This presentation will challenge this belief and provide real life examples of costly product failures which will demonstrate how Project Managers can make their most critical contributions even before the project begins. The best managed project in the world will not provide value to an organization that has selected the wrong project to undertake. Project Managers will be advised to forget the Alamo and remember the Arch Deluxe!

The session will explain how we can improve the success of our projects during Project Origination by understanding:

• Recent product failures;
• The Egg Theory;
• How Wal-Mart drives prices lower;
• How one organization improved the performance of students in Kenya.

Learning Objectives

• Understand why Project Managers need to play a critical role during the selection of projects.
• Learn the critical components of a business case and how to develop them.
• Learn how you can help insure that your organization is selecting the right projects.

About  

Jon is employed at Garnet River, and has sixteen years of experience as an Information Systems consultant in the Albany area working for a variety of public and private client organizations. His recent roles include Project Management Mentor, PMO Manager, and Project Manager. Jon has assisted multiple New York State Agencies with the implementation of the New York State Project Management Guidebook. These assignments have including implementing formal governance processes which have provided him with extensive experience in developing Business Cases as part of the Project Origination phase of the Project Management Lifecycle.

He is a current member and past Board Member of the Upstate New York PMI Chapter. In addition Jon is the current Garnet River representative on the New York State Forum’s Project Management Workgroup and is a past co-chair of this workgroup.

He has been a member of PMI since 2000 and earned his Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2001.

Please join us on   at The Desmond Hotel off of Albany Shaker Road, in Colonie (see directions).

Attitude adjustment will begin at 5:30pm with dinner at 6:00pm, followed by the program starting promptly at 7:00pm and adjourning by 8:00pm.

Dinner is $25.00 for PMI members, $35.00 for non-members, and $15 for students: includes salad, rolls, entrée, coffee, & dessert.

The deadline for online registration is 4:00 pm on   (cancellations after 4:00 pm on   will be charged the full meeting registration fee - $25 for members, $35 for non-members, and $15 for students). Please note that the registrations after the cancellation deadline of 4:00 pm on   and Walk-ins on the day of the event will be charged an extra late fee of $10.