PMBOK, Project Leadership, and the Art of Custom Pen Making Speaker: Victor Richardson

Company: Bluware

Website: www.Bluware.com

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Welcome to the PMI Houston Conference & Expo and Annual Job Fair 2015

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Expectations – What am I Covering Today?

• Custom Pen Making • Small Project • PMBOK Processes

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Why Custom Pen Making? • Attractive • Personal Gift • Not a Huge Time Commitment

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Project Management Simplicity

Who, does What, by When

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PMBOK Process Groups • Initiating • Planning • Executing • Monitoring and Controlling • Closing

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Enter Phase / Start project

Initiating Processes

Closing Processes

Exit Phase / End project

Planning Processes

Executing Processes

Monitoring and Controlling Processes

Initiating: Preparation • Read Books • Talk to People • Watch Videos

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Initiating: Understand your Costs • Lathe • Drill Press • Bushings • Calipers • and More

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Planning: Capabilities • Put ink on paper • Simple statement does not imply

a simple project: “…this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”

President John F. Kennedy, May 25th, 1961

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Planning: People • Expert • Something even Better • Succeed or Fail • People on Your Project

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Executing: Make a Pen

• Preparing • Sanding • Finishing

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Executing: DiSC

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D I

S C

Assertive

Reserved

Task Focused People Focused

Executing: DiSC

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I want it done and I want it

done right now!

Let me tell you what happened

to me!

Can you provide documentation for

your claims?

We’re all in this together, so

let’s work as a team.

Executing: Checklists • Pen Turning • Project Kickoff • Itinerary • Travel Packing List

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Executing: Is There a Right Way?

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Monitor and Control: Risk Management

• My Very First Pen • Fountain Pen • Associated Costs

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Monitor and Control: Reporting • What does it mean when

someone says “Fine”? • Part of the Deliverable

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Closing: Pen Assembly

• Retrospective • Adjacent Possible

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Wrap Up: Continuous Improvement • Books, Magazines, Blogs • Podcasts • Audio Books

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Wrap Up: Other Considerations • Estimation • Rigor • Priorities • “Catching Up”

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Wrap Up: What’s Important?

• Results – Budget and Schedule – Return on Investment – Business Value

• Relationships – People

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About Me

• 25 years of experience

• Project Management Professional

• Experience with diverse companies

• Victor.Richardson@Bluware.com

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ABOUT BLUWARE

Founded in 1987 in Houston, TX, Bluware works with leading companies in the oil and gas industry to deploy custom software solutions and increase asset value. Our consultants, architects, engineers and developers work across all leading interpretation platforms to accelerate our clients’ workflows and help leverage their existing technology to reduce F&D costs, increase production, and manage risk. Bluware’s sprint-based approach offers customers project visibility and full-lifecycle support while delivering measurable value and concrete improvements at every iteration.

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