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| Consistent
Delivery of Successful Projects -- Through the PMO |
| Although
many successful project management practitioners are "accidental
project managers," successful projects should not be
"accidental." Research studies have identified reasons
for project failure, as well as top ten reasons for project
success. By capitalizing on the major contributors to project
success and avoiding the leading causes of project failure,
project success should be a predictable and repeatable event,
instead of a hit-and-miss occurrence.
This
presentation will focus on three major contributors to project
success: requirements management processes, a formal project
management methodology and a standardized tools and infrastructure
to implement project management and executive management
support -- as the key ingredients to CONSISTENT delivery
of successful projects, AND executed through proper governance
with a PMO.
In
both the public and the private sectors, the Program Management
Office (PMO) has become the standard infrastructure for
organizations to deliver projects and programs successfully.
It is in a strategic position to drive predictable project
execution by embedding project management best practices
at an enterprise-level, resulting in consistent delivery
of successful projects and leading to operational excellence
throughout the organization.
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 Victoria
S. Kumar, PMP, has over 20 years of information technology
(IT) project management experience, including 10 years with
IBM and 7 years in IT consulting. She is a project manager
for the state of North Carolina, USA, Office of the State
Controller. She holds two master's degrees: one in Pure Mathematics,
and another in Computer Science. She also has PhD credits
in management science from the University of Waterloo (Canada)
and has earned a master's certificate in IT Project Management
from George Washington University (USA).
She is a Past President of the PMI-North Carolina Chapter.
She has served with the chapter's board of directors for the
last seven years. She is a certified project management instructor
with the chapter and co-founded the chapter's PMO Local Interest
Group. She has been active in the PMO community, serving as
a PMO program manager and as a PMO consultant in both the
private and public sectors for the last eight years. She is
a graduate of the PMI Leadership Institute (Master's Class
of 2004) and is a certified Project Management Professional
(PMP®).
She is a frequent speaker at PMI global congresses and at
PMI Chapter Symposia. As a seminar leader for Project Management
Leaders Training (http://www.pmleaderstraining.com),
a PMI Registered Education Provider, she delivers Project
Management seminars and online courses to PMI SeminarsWorld®,
to PMI Components, and to project management communities globally.
Her seminars on Requirements Management and on Program Management
Offices are well received by project management communities
globally.
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Project
Management Institute Atlanta Chapter
Professional Development
Days • 2008 ©
2008 PMI® Atlanta Chapter