April Chapter Meeting (Virtual)
Join us for this month’s chapter meeting, “Project Management Pain Points and a Path Forward” with Ed Lively from the International Institute for Learning.
Historically, pain points have been used most frequently by business analysts or marketers to identify recurring problems, annoyances, or other obstructions that may be inconveniencing their customers. In project management, many pain points have persisted over the years, making it difficult to gain the true strategic value of projects. Reversing the course of the project management pain points has begun. The undivided attention of company executives to the value promise of project management is now a must-have ingredient for extracting the future gains of project management.
What one person perceives as a pain point, another individual may not see it in the same light or see it as an issue that needs to be addressed. This webinar will also show how to chart the path forward on the multitude of pains highlighted. This is going to take a flavorful sauce to encompass key ingredients such as diversity of transparent inputs, autonomy of working, a human form of digital solutions, and an appreciation of the principles necessary to make the implementation of project management tightly aligned to value.
Speaker Bio:
Ed Lively is a highly skilled trainer and consultant with extensive project management experience and interpersonal skills across several industries. His broad level of experience includes operations, information technology, corporate finance, and process improvement. He excels in team building, budgeting, scheduling, and training team members. Ed is enthusiastic with exceptional organizational and communication skills.
What You Will Learn:
- Understand how the journey of project management led to the set of pain points that are facing the project community today
- Identify the categories of pain points and the outcomes associated with encountering them
- Learn how the complexities of projects in the 21st century contributed to scale of the pain points and to the acceptance of new flexible delivery methodologies
- Describe the new types of metrics, such as value-based and strategic, that enable integrating project management practices with an organization’s business processes
- Explain what companies need to do to build the collaborative and transparent cultures to better tackle these pain points and use digitalization to support strategic thinking
- Create a roadmap to look ahead and dismantle critical pain points in order for business value of projects to be consistently realized
