Keynotes and Seminars on Running Projects Properly

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eCameron provides a variety of keynotes and seminars for your company or organization. They are broken into two groups—the Back From Red^TM and the Business Advancement Series. The former, the Back From Red Series, focuses on topics that are directly associated with properly running projects in any organization. The latter, the Business Advancement Series, addresses topics that are broader in reach than a project. These topics can be combined or customized to meet your group's needs.

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Current keynote topics include:

The Back From Red Series
The Business Advancement Series

Below is a partial list of the organizations that have or will be presented to (Conferences in red, Keynotes in blue, others in Black):

Finding Gold in Red Projects

The ability to deliver initiatives that make breakthroughs in the business is the differentiator of a truly successful IT department. However, the project success rates are very poor. Failure rate estimates range from 40-75% of project are over budget, late, or fail to deliver the required functionality.

Failing projects are prevalent in all industries and, although the actual failure rates are very subjective, the incidence of troubled projects is easily more than half of all projects. Finding the Gold in Red Projects looks at the value in performing a formal recovery on a red projects. It uses current and historical data, case studies, and the presenters twenty-five years experience of recovering projects to illustrate the process.

Back from Red: Recovering Failing Projects

Estimates for the annual cost of project failure are as high as two trillion dollars a year. The rates for projects being at risk are in the 60-70% range, and a quarter of all project's problems are so bad they are simply canceled prior completion. Preferably, all projects will run according to plan. However, moving from a 60% failure rate to 0% is unrealistic. First, organizations must understand what it is that makes their projects fail. Reasons range from methodology to human failure to poorly understood concepts to scope creep. Analyzing projects as systems uncovers all the factors that can contribute to failure.

Back From Red: Recovering Failing Projects describes the key elements in recovering red projects. It is based on the process developed while recovering dozens of projects. It covers:

The Executive's Role in Project Success

Saturday, 20 August 2011 17:06 Todd C. Williams

The Executive's Role in Project Success

Project failure is rampant in nearly every industry. In the US alone, the cost are huge with estimates running as high as a trillion dollars a year. In most cases, the project manager and his or her team are blamed. The project, however, is only the symptom with the source of the failure imbedded in the organization. Project pressure stresses the weak links in the organization causing them to snap.

Last Updated on Thursday, 01 December 2011 15:22

People or Process: Which Has the Greater Effect on Project Success

People or Process, as the name implies, looks directly at the role of people versus process in a project’s success or failure. The focus on process is a needed component, but does not obviate the need to manage people. Unfortunately, the trend over the last fifteen years has been to focus on process and reduce the project to a checklist of tasks. This has created a culture that neglects the value of a manager with people skills.

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