Speaker: Mr Lee Lambert

In the profession of Project Management, Lee R. Lambert, PMP has established the standard against which others in the field are measured.   

Throughout a fast-paced 18 year corporate career with Chicago Bridge & Iron, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, General Electric (Nuclear Reactor Division) and Battelle Memorial Institute--where he worked almost exclusively with engineers and scientists--he quickly ascended to senior management positions and was responsible for the development and implementation of ground-breaking, sophisticated Enterprise project management processes for Engineering, Medical Diagnostics and Research & Development.  In 1981, as a result of his pragmatic application of the PM methodologies, he was invited to be an integral part of the creation of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification Program. 

He is a recipient of the PMI’s Distinguished Contribution Award and was a member of the PMNetwork/PM Journal Editorial Review team for over a decade.  He also contributed as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the PMI’s Earned Value Management System (EVMS) Practice Standard.  Educated as a Mechanical Engineer, he is a holder of a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.  He most recently has been nominated for one of the PMI’s highest honors for his ground breaking applied learning programs:  The Professional Development Provider of the Year.   As an author of two books and 32 professional papers, no other project management educator/speaker can contend with his uncanny technical knowledge, material content and refreshing and entertaining delivery—his hard-hitting, but humorous style, has mesmerized more than 40,000 students in 22 countries.  In May, Wiley Publishing retained Lee as author of PMP Prep A-All-In-One Desk Reference Guide.  Lee takes the saying; “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt” to a new level.

DELIVERING PROJECT TRUTH TO ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION MAKERS—CAN THEY HANDLE THE TRUTH?

Assessing Status—Predicting the Future

All too often the decision makers for a project are NOT the same people who are charged with the responsibility for satisfying the project’s triple constraint.  This condition creates a challenge and an opportunity: How to create timely decision support information AND how to use this information to influence timely decisions that will have dramatic impact on the outcome of the project and the achievement of organizational objectives.  This presentation will highlight how the challenge can be met and the opportunity capitalized upon to create a win-win combination.

This hard-hitting, humorous but real-world presentation will thoroughly examine the myriad approaches to obtaining and validating project status for the most current reporting period as well as from inception (cumulative-to-date).  These data, when combined with the equivalent of project management sodium pentothal forecasting and trending methods, will deliver an undisputable view into the future of the project

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