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Online Webinar Recorded – December 14th 2011
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Todd C Williams (LinkedIn profile)
NOTE: This session may qualify as a Category B PDU from Todd Williams Company – Contact ECameron Inc for further information.

Todd C. Williams, PMP is a terrific audit and turn-around specialist in IT and manufacturing and author of the bestseller Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure. Todd is a speaker, blogger, helping mature companies & start-ups alike. Project failure is prevalent all projects. Todd’s Back From Red TM blog addresses the reasons for project failure along with methods to avert and correct the problems that cause the failure. Follow him on Twitter @backFromRed and read his blog. I highly recommend following his work – EdmontonPM

Doing it right the first time

A question that plagues executives and project managers alike is “What do we do about problem projects?”

What if you could avoid them almost entirely?

In this webcast, you’ll learn the two crucial steps that ensure successful projects.

Todd C. Williams details the concept of a guidance team, a team that stays with the project from customer’s first inception through deployment. The advantages of a guidance team are numerous. They provide continuity and guidance to the project, maintain alignment of expectations on the deliverables, and guide the conversation back when the project starts to get off track or lose focus.

The second step is to include project staff with the customer during the initial planning process. This provides clarity to the roadmap, makes sure what is promised is delivered, and assists the customer in identifying the “what” and “when” and the “what after that.”

Following these two steps – having a guidance team and involving project staff during inception – you can eliminate many problems before they have a chance to derail your project.

What You Will Learn

  1. How to provide more accurate information when a project starts
  2. Creating a team of people that can work with your customer to set expectations and align stakeholders.

To Read Reviews of Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure go to http://ecaminc.com/index.php/articles/rrprvw

Martin Chernenkoff, Senior Editor at PDU Of The Day (pduOTD.com) has written a companion book to Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure, the #1 book on Project Recovery. “A Learning Guide For Rescue The Problem Project” is available from Amazon and is part of the pduOTD Primer series for Project Management.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 7 – Cost

  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
  • 5.5 Control Scope
  • 6.6 Control Schedule
  • 7.3 Control Costs

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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