Monthly Series

Get Your “But” Out of the Way

In addition to the Monday talk, this month we're holding two other events:

• Tue, Sep 9, 2008: Getting Predictable Results in “Impossible” Situations—All-day Workshop
• Wed, Sep 10, 2008: Say "Hi" to Ciudad Obregon—TechForum, HersmosilloDevHouse, GlassFish

Leading and Managing Project Success

Perhaps you are an expert in leading people and managing projects, or maybe you are a novice learning like most people do: the hard way!  Either way, even experts can fall into traps and pitfalls on a project:

• not delivering what the customer really wanted
• taking twice as long to deliver it as expected
• getting stuck waiting for approvals from the wrong person

These and most other project failures are predictable and avoidable.  Prevention is easy, BUT,

• "There's not enough time to plan"
• "I'm too busy to communicate with all of the people involved, so I just use email"
• "It wasn't my fault"

There are always "reasons" for the obvious and avoidable failures, BUT, there are practical and sensible approaches that can help you get your "BUT" out of the way!

Why is leading and managing a project so difficult? Is Project Management more than making a Microsoft Project Gantt Chart? Are there secrets to success or quick tips that can help anyone increase their success in projects? It is about Management or Leadership?

Join us to learn things that you can apply the next day to help you improve the results that you are getting on your projects.

Speaker

Kimberly Wiefling
Founder of Wiefling Consulting, LLC

Kimberly is the author of “Scrappy Project Management: the 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces.”

Agenda

When?

Monday September 8, 2008.

Where?

Universidad Tec Milenio
Blvd. Juan Bautista Escalante #46
casi equina con Blvd. Morelos,
Colonia Alto Valle,
Hermosillo Sonora CP 83106

Goodies

• Our co-sponsor for this event, Sun Microsystems' GlassFish team, will give out t-shirts. They have also given us an Apple iPod TOUCH to raffle.
• Nearsoft will give out t-shirts as well (but no iPod :-).
• Kimberly will raffle three of her books.

Other Information

• This a free event.
• The presentation will be in English.
• Dress code is casual.

Workshop

For more information on Tuesday's all-day workshop, please follow this link.

About the TechForum

For more information about these events, please see the TechForum home page.

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