Topics:
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Andrew Demetres - "How You Turned a Death March Around" Lessons learned from a SAP
implementation without project management fundamentals being applied. Undefined quality
metrics drove gold plating in areas where stakeholders weren’t interested while critical success
factors were left unattended.
Mark Heminway - "Successful implementation of new industry standards through excellent teaming and teamwork."
Jacob Caspi - "Information Control in Project Management" - From planning to execution to closing, the project manager is faced with the challenge of collecting, managing, and disseminating project information. This become particularly challenging when the development is done by teams located in disparate geographical areas. This presentation will explore applications used to manage, update, share and distribute project information from anywhere on the globe.
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Our chapter meeting for April was held at the location of our very first meetings, the Royal Palace Indian restaurant in White Plains. In addition to the benefits of our regular meetings, we all had the chance to enjoy a rather good Indian buffet. Also, the size and layout of the room, combined with the food, fostered more ad-hoc networking as people sat at the tables to eat, getting a chance to meet others of our Chapter.
Our meeting was kicked off by John Murphy who gave a quick overview of the meeting.
This meeting was slightly different than our normal meetings as opposed to having 1 main speaker, this meeting featured three of our own constituents, each giving a 15 minute presentation. (John was slightly worried at this point as only two of the speakers had shown up!)
John handed the meeting over to Ed Mahler, chapter president, who gave a quick, but informative "state of the Chapter" overview along with a information about the Chapter.
Next up, our Career Corner, Kelly Bloss of the Knowledge Transfer Group spoke about her firm and what it has to offer.
Then Edwin Gomez of BOT International spoke about BOT's solutions for Project Management and how it was developed. His booth had a number of informative sheets about BOT's Processed On Demand. Check out his web site www.botinternational.com for more information, including the "Tips of the Week" and the Product White Papers!
John then introduced our first member speaker, Mark Heminway. Mark's topic was " Successful implementation of new industry standards through excellent teaming and teamwork". He spoke about how his firm successfully implemented new industry standards through excellent teamwork. Mark worked for a major distributor of alcohol and that industry had no industry wide standards.
Our next speaker was Jacob Caspi. He spoke about "Information Control in Project Management". He gave some great insights into value of information control and how it helped his project become successful. He also discussed the value of document control systems as well as some of the product in the market now. <Insert picture p4140095 here>
Our third speaker, Andrew Demetres, was a little late, due to a meeting in New Jersey. But he arrived about half way through Jacob's talk, putting John at ease (as he was wondering what to do with out the third speaker). Andrew had just in time to boot up his lap top to get his presentation ready before he started his presentation called "How You Turned a Death March Around".
Remember, next month we are back at PACE in the Butcher Suite (upstairs in the Kessel Center). Our topic next month is "Construction and IT Project Management" . Hope to see you there!
Mark Heminway: Successful implementation of new industry standards through excellent teaming and teamwork (PDF)
Andrew Demetres - How You Turned a Death March Around (PPT)
Jacob Caspi - Information Control in Project Management
Andrew Demetres, PMP is a Management Consultant and Program Director of PrimeNet Professional Services, a New Jersey based staffing company with a regional office in midtown Manhattan. Mr. Demetres has over 17 years of program and project management experience on a wide variety of projects primarily in the Consumer Packaged Goods & Department of Defense industries including engagements at Colgate Palmolive, Nestle, Pearson and Raytheon. He has led both domestic and international projects in the role of PMO Architect and Program/Project manager. These have included various information technology, strategic implementations, new business development, and re-engineering projects. At the beginning of his career, Mr. Demetres focused on International Engineering positions with leading Telecommunications companies. These include Siemens, AG for wide area public networks and Ericsson, AG for paging systems. Mr. Demetres received formal PM training in Colgate Palmolive’s Management Training and Pearson’s Online University. He holds a MBA in Finance and a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science. Mr. Demetres attained Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is a chapter member of PMI Westchester and PMI New York City.
Mark Heminway, PMP: Although managing projects for many years, Mark is new to the PMP ranks having been certified in January. Mark has worked in a variety of companies and industries always striving to improve the way a company operates through innovative systems. Currently Mark is working with IACCM and BManagement on a computer based learning initiative, utilizing his project management knowledge to implement a contracting knowledge base for GM.
Jacob Caspi, PMP, is an independent consultant providing project management and system analysis services with focus on the implementation of enterprise systems and ecommerce websites. Jacob has over ten years of experience managing IT projects, many of which required the coordination of several development teams located numerous countries. In addition, he has been responsible for setting up project management systems and procedures for companies faced with multiple out-of-control projects. Jacob serves as a subject matter advisor for Azura Media, a project information management software development company.
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