Summary on September’s Forum on Decision-Making

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Joanne Greene-Blose

Another great session today! Great turnout and excellent speaker and discussion. We had Anthony (Tony) Ciero, PM at National Grid, walk us through a tool he created to enable data-driven decisions for the company. In particular the tool facilitated project selection through a prioritization scheme that takes key attributes into account. Total cost, expenditures to [...]

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August’s Forum Summary on Negotiating

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Joanne Greene-Blose

We had a really great event today with a wonderful speaker and over two dozen people in attendance! I walked away with a number of tips that I can use in the future for better negotiations. Michael Shacket, President of Corner Office Consulting provided us with Eight Tips for Successful Negotiations and he did so [...]

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July Summary: Purchasing & Contracts

Posted on July 9, 2011 by Joanne Greene-Blose

Al Gubiotti, our VP at The Project Solver’s, has a long and varied history (over 30 years) of employment with companies ranging from automotive to insurance to computer and IT, including 13 years as a business owner – all before joining us at PSA. Along the way he’s had to deal with a contract or [...]

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Critical Chain and the Theory of Constraints

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Joanne Greene-Blose

Our March AM on PM featured guests David Neale of Energy Wise Partners, LLC and Carla Kinder of Xerox. David, who is an expert on the Theory of Constraints (the underpinnings of Critical Chain) led the first half of our forum with an interactive and fun game that demonstrated why/how TOC works. The group was [...]

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Experiences with the Requirements Gathering Process

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Joanne Greene-Blose

This month (April 2011) we had the pleasure of hearing from three senior level PMs as they recounted their experiences, good and bad, with the requirements creation and management process. We heard from Warren Grosjean, an IT expert, and Linux enthusiast, who specializes in bringing IT tools to companies in order to enable them to [...]

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