6:00 | In Person: Sign-in, Networking & Dinner
6:15 | Remote: Sign-in, Networking
6:45 | Announcements
7:00 | Guest Speaker (1 PDU)
8:15 | Communities of Practice programs (1 PDU) or Networking
PM CoP: PMO roles - teacher, bureaucrat, handyman, firefighter, or policeman.
When to hold people accountable, when to be a helper, when to be hands off
Quality CoP: Group Discussion
Presentation file in PDF format: 20231010_ChMtg_Project_Prioritization.pdf
Do you ever feel like you are being pulled in too many different directions by the number of projects you are on? Are you constantly being let down by busy team members who don't seem to have enough time to work on your project's activities? This common scenario is not your fault but the fault of your management team who hears of a new project idea and authorizes it without thinking of the long-term effect of having too many simultaneous projects going on.
Determining and staffing the right number of important projects is the single biggest bang for the buck that companies can invest in.
How can we effectively manage projects when our company has authorized too many? And what can we do about the excess?
Learn:
- The symptoms of too many projects authorized in our company
- How many projects is too many to manage
- The three questions to ask management to get them to agree to prioritization
- Who should be involved in project prioritization
- A five-step approach to prioritize projects
- The five groups to categorize projects into for easy prioritization
- The way to answer the inevitable question of "Why not prioritize projects using Excel?"
- How to balance long-term and short-term projects
- How to reprioritize on a monthly basis
- How to gather the Supply side of the resource loading equation
- How to gather the Demand side of the resource loading equation
- How to staff the correct number of projects and draw the line
- How to refine the Demand side for the top projects
Bruce Fieggen is a certified Project Management Professional since 1999. In over thirty years within the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, he has managed projects from $100k validations to $10 million new product developments.
He conducts on-site Project Management Assessments and develops customized solutions to improve clients' Project Management maturity, conducting training, setting up PMOs and creating PM Guidebooks. He has trained and mentored thousands of project managers and helped hundreds achieve their certification within his PMP Boot Camps.
Bruce has planned hundreds of projects in the Life Sciences industry using an efficient rapid project start-up methodology. He has conducted numerous Project and Portfolio Prioritization sessions to ensure that the organizations are running the right number of high priority projects given the number of resources at their disposal.
Bruce is currently President of Round Table Project Management, a consulting firm servicing the Medical Device, Biopharma and Pharmaceutical industries.
This will be a hybrid meeting, both in person at The Royal Palace and virtual, via Zoom.
Pre-registration is required in both cases; there will be no admittance to "walk-ins" at the door or on-line.
In Person:
$30 for PMI Westchester Chapter Members
$45 for non-members
Remote (via Zoom):
$15 for PMI Westchester Chapter Members
$20 for non-members
Registration fee is non-refundable.
Registration closes Monday, 09 Oct 2023 at 11:59 p.m.
Payments must be made in advance by PayPal/credit card, or by check (payable to PMI Westchester).
Credit card payments can be made through PayPal without the need for a PayPal account.
The Royal Palace - or - Zoom
77 Knollwood Rd
White Plains, NY