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Networking and
Workshop Meeting
Managing Project Risks
- A Practical Approach
Husam Sha'ath
BSc, MBA, CMC, PMP, CEng, MIMechE, MRAeS
Hosted by
Margarida Almeida
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location:
89 Chestnut Street
(Formerly Colony Hotel)
St. David room (3rd floor), University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Timetable:
6:00 PM Doors open for
registrations and dinner will be served
6:50 PM Announcements & Introductions
7:00 PM Presentation starts
8:25 PM Thank you note
8:30 PM Event closes
Speaker profile:
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Husam Sha'ath
BSc, MBA, CMC, PMP, CEng, MIMechE, MRAeS
Husam Sha’ath is the President of
FORTE Management Consulting,
a Strategic Management and Project Management
Consulting firm.
He was a Principal Consultant in the Corporate and
Operations Strategy Group with PwC Consulting in
Toronto, the management consulting arm of
Pricewaterhouse Coopers which became IBM Business
Consulting. Prior joining PwC Consulting, Mr.
Sha’ath worked as the Business Development Manager,
for a multinational business conglomerate and was
the Marketing Manager for a distributor of consumer
goods. |
He
has an MBA from City University, London (UK), and a BSc
in Engineering from Leeds University (UK). He is a
Certified Management Consultant (CMC), a Project
Management Professional (PMP), a Chartered Engineer
(UK), a Member of the Institution of Mechanical
Engineers (UK), and a Member of the Royal Aeronautical
Society (UK).
Throughout his career, Mr. Sha’ath managed projects of
various types in a number of industries across
engineering and business functional areas. He has
initiated and managed to completion projects in, systems
implementation, organizational restructuring,
maintenance best practices and benchmarking, mergers and
acquisitions, organizational design, product launches,
quality management, aircraft heavy maintenance, and
power generation equipment overhauls. He has
facilitated courses on Project Management methodologies,
Total Quality Management (TQM) and ISO 9000. He was
also involved in investment appraisals and valuations
for mergers and strategic alliances.
Mr. Sha’ath has a solid engineering background. He
worked in utilities, where he was actively involved in
power generation and the electricity market operations;
and in the aerospace industry where worked in aircraft
Engineering & Maintenance. He has recently successfully
completed an 18-month Project Management Implementation
engagement at a Public Sector organization in the Middle
East.
He enjoys swimming and mountain biking. The next
challenge is go off the beaten track on some off-road
adventures.
Presentation synopsis:
Managing
Project Risks - A Practical Approach:
Risks are a fact of
life. We deal with them on a daily basis, and we
instinctively employ strategies to manage them
appropriately. Uncertainties are inherent in every
project, and we need to apply a structured approach to
effectively manage risks to ensure projects success.
A Project Manager
manages each of the Project Management 9 knowledge
areas, but project risks stand out. In addition to
being one of the knowledge areas, risks are a component
of each of the other areas as well.
What risks to manage …
how do we rank risks … who do we get involved in the
process … how do we transition form qualitative Risk
Management into quantitative Risk Management … are some
of the questions that will be addressed in tonight’s
speech.
Registration Fee: (Includes 6% GST)
PMI Members - $40 (provide number)
Non PMI Members or Guests - $50
This meeting earns 1.5 PDU point for
participating.
REGISTRATION: click
here to access the SOC online registration page.
Deadline to register is 12:00 noon on Friday,
December 7th, 2007.
A buffet dinner will be served, meals are not guaranteed
for late comers.
Only firm registrations will be accepted.
GT ISLIG reserves the right to substitute speakers
and topics or change venue due to unforeseen
circumstances.
EMAIL:
info@gtislig.org
Link
to presentation in Power Point format:
This presentation is
proprietary in nature, and is intended only for personal
viewing by GT ISLIG members. Other use is strictly
prohibited without written permission from the author.
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Networking and
Workshop Meeting
Agile Inspired Risk
Mitigation Techniques for Software Development Projects
Michael Bica,
M.S.c., Ph.D
Hosted by
John Thomsen and Neeta Sharma
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2007
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location:
89 Chestnut Street
(Formerly Colony Hotel) 2nd floor Conference Centre,
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Timetable:
6:00 PM Doors open for
registrations and dinner will be served
6:50 PM Announcements & Introductions
7:00 PM Presentation starts
8:25 PM Thank you note
8:30 PM Event closes
Speaker profile:
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Michael Bica,
M.S.c., Ph.D.
Michael Bica has obtained his Master of Science and
Ph. D. from University of South Carolina in Columbia
in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Michael has
20 years of experience in the IT sector, in areas
spanning from engineering computing, to financial
and insurance enterprise systems.
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For the past five years Michael has worked as a
consultant for financial and insurance companies
managing software development projects, managing
development of Software Development Life Cycle
methodologies, as well as projects aimed at establishing
and evolving Enterprise Architectures. During this
period Michael has also been involved with the Canadian
Agile Network, being interested in leveraging agile
techniques into rigorously structured and managed
software development projects
Michael has been certified as a PMP since 2004. He has
held Sun's Software Enterprise Architect Certification
since 2002.
Presentation synopsis:
Agile Inspired
Risk Mitigation Techniques for Software Development
Projects
According to the Chaos Report, causes for failure of
software development projects relate to rapid technology
changes, in-flux business requirements, or failure to
attack risks. To mitigate the risk of failure, project
managers have always been looking for ways to control
complexity, agility and high pace of software
development projects.
Various parametric estimation tools (COCOMO II),
Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management
methodologies have been created to assist project
managers in their quest to plan, execute, control and
succeed. The most widely known methodologies are
Waterfall, RUP, and agile (SCRUM, XP, Feature-Driven
Development).
This workshop discusses software development project
risks, offers overview of methodologies, details agile
techniques, and concludes by suggesting effective risks
responses.
Registration Fee: (Includes 6% GST)
PMI Members - $40 (provide number)
Non PMI Members or Guests - $50
This meeting earns 1.5 PDU point for
participating.
REGISTRATION: click
here to access the SOC online registration page.
Deadline to register is 12:00 noon of Tuesday,
November 13th, 2007.
A buffet dinner will be served, meals are not guaranteed
for late comers.
Only firm registrations will be accepted.
GT ISLIG reserves the right to substitute speakers
and topics or change venue due to unforeseen
circumstances.
EMAIL:
info@gtislig.org
Link
to presentation in Power Point format:
This presentation is
proprietary in nature, and is intended only for personal
viewing by GT ISLIG members. Other use is strictly
prohibited without written permission from the author.
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Networking and Workshop Meeting
Use PMCDF …Become a
Better Project Manager
George Jucan, PMP
Core Team Member for PMI-PMCDF 2nd Edition
Chapter 10 Lead for PMBOK®
Guide 4th Edition
Hosted by
Reena
Castelino and
Margarida Almeida
Date: Thursday, October 18, 2007
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location:
89 Chestnut Street (Formerly Colony Hotel) 2nd floor
Conference Centre, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
Timetable:
6:00 PM Doors open for
registrations and dinner will be served
6:50 PM Announcements & Introductions
7:00 PM Presentation starts
8:25 PM Thank you note
8:30 PM Event closes
Speaker profile:
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George Jucan, PMP
Core Team Member for PMCDF 2nd Edition,
Chapter 10 Lead for PMBOK Guide 4th Edition
George Jucan is an experienced Project Manager
Professional (PMP), member of Project Management
Institute (PMI), with over 17 years of technical and
management experience. As an independent consultant
for the last 9 years, George successfully has
defined corporate IT vision and strategic
objectives, performed tactical planning and has
managed IT/IS projects to achieve the corporate
business objectives. |
His expertise is also recognized at PMI
level, being part of the Core Team of PMI’s Standards
Committee for the Project Management Competency
Development Framework (PMCDF) – Second Edition,
personally leading Chapter 3 – Personal Competencies.
Currently, George leads Chapter 10 – Communications
Management of A Guide to Project Management Body of
Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Fourth Edition, and he
also led Scope Management and Communication Management
chapters of the Government Extension to PMBOK® Guide
Third Edition.
George is a regular author of articles, published by
specialized venues such as Gantthead, Oracle Magazine,
Oracle Technology Network, IT ToolBox, The Data
Administration Newsletter and The Journal of Conceptual
Modelling. He also speaks at public events and teaches
courses in Project Management at colleges and
universities in Canada and US.
Presentation synopsis:
Use PMCDF
…Become a Better Project Manager
Project Management Institute (PMI) uses
three dimensions to define what is considered a
“competent project manager”: knowledge, performance and
personal competencies. While a project manager’s
knowledge can be demonstrated by obtaining the PMP or
equivalent certification, assessing the performance and
personal competencies is much more difficult.
PMI addresses this gap with the Project Manager
Competency Development Framework (PMCDF), the Second
Edition being released in October 2007. It now includes
not only a clear definition of competencies required of
project managers, but also examples of evidence to
demonstrate them as well as a process to assess and
improve individual competency level.
This presentation will demonstrate how PMCDF can be used
by any Project Manager to improve their own
capabilities, and apply them within an organizational
context to increase the likelihood for project success.
The goal is to assist the participants in:
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Understanding required competencies and
how to assess them.
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Learning how to improve their own
competencies in project management.
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Adjusting project management competence
to organization particularities.
Registration Fee: (Includes 6% GST)
PMI Members - $40 (provide number)
Non PMI Members or Guests - $50
This meeting earns 1.5 PDU point for
participating.
REGISTRATION: click
here to access the SOC online registration page.
Registration is limited to 120 participants.
Cut-off date is 12:00 noon of Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
or earlier if the registrations are full.
A buffet dinner will be served, meals are not guaranteed
for late comers.
Only firm registrations will be accepted.
GT ISLIG reserves the right to substitute speakers
and topics or change venue due to unforeseen
circumstances.
EMAIL:
info@gtislig.org
Link
to presentation in Power Point format:
This presentation is
proprietary in nature, and is intended only for personal
viewing by GT ISLIG members. Other use is strictly
prohibited without written permission from the author.
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