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When was the last time that you worked on a project under perfect conditions? That’s to say that there were no constraints, such as

· Resources (Human, Material, and Money/Budget)

· Time

· Scope

All of the unlimited resources were available at your beckoned call. You had more monetary resources (budget) than you could spend. You had so many people (human resources) clambering to get on the project that you had to turn people away. And all of your materials, such as software and hardware, arrived on time, was installed without any problems, and was ready to run out of the box. There were no delivery dates or deadlines. And the project scope/requirements never changed because scope creep never occurred. Or you were able to change the deadline to correspond with scope changes.

Chances are great, that you worked on projects that went through the “perfect storm.” You faced resource problems. Too little money was allocated, the money evaporated too quickly, or the budget was cut for more important projects. Hardware was delivered late and there were problems with installing the software. And you either didn’t have enough people, the right people weren’t available, and/or you experienced turnover of key people during the project. Furthermore, you faced the quagmire of an unmovable deadline and a movable scope. For the most part, we must manage projects during the perfect storm.

This presentation is based on over twenty years of first-hand, project management experiences. This includes fifteen years of upgrading and implementing Oracle applications on high profile, multi-million dollar, and/or international projects. The projects were for small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, quasi-governmental, and governmental agencies.

Sometimes, our ship capsized during the storm (i.e. the project was abandoned). Other times, we sailed through the storm and survived (i.e. the project was in trouble, but we recovered and it was implemented on time). And we even sailed around the storm and had the perfect project (i.e. a $12 million project was completed for $2.6 million).

You’ll learn how to

· Historical overview of projects (and project managers).

· Manage narcissists.

· Manage the negative, victim mentality.

· Use stakeholder flanking maneuvers.

· Incorporate “transfer of learning” and boiled eggs into selling concepts to stakeholders

 

 

Anthony Reed, CPA, PMP is a business professional and hall of fame marathoner with over thirty years in project management and executive positions. His area of expertise has been analyzing and implementing business applications. He’s led multi-million dollar, international projects and departments for Fortune 500 and international companies.

His professional and athletic exploits have been featured on TV and radio programs and in major newspapers and publications around the world. This includes the PMI Today, the Journal of Accountancy, ESPN, Runner’s World, Southern Living, Go, Ebony, and Runner-Triathlete News.

His two graduate degrees are in management and accounting. His undergraduate degrees are in management and mathematics. He’s certified in accounting (CPA), project management (PMP), and supply chain management and taught collegiate project management, systems analysis, database design, accounting, and management courses.

He served on the Board of Directors for Running USA, the Dallas Marathon, software firms, and various local and national nonprofit organizations.

He has spoken at national and international project management, accounting, and technology conferences. He has six books and over fifty articles published in magazines, such as ComputerWorld, Datamation, and Runner’s World. His latest book, an autobiography, is From the Road Race to the Rat Race. The third edition of his best seller, Running to Leadership: What Finishing 100+ Marathons On All Seven Continents Teaches Us About Success, will be available this fall.

As a Certified Distance Running Coach, history making marathoner, and National Distance Running Hall of Fame inductee, he’s one of about fifty people in the world, who completed the marathon hat trick, which consists of completing (1) over 100 marathons and marathons on (2) all seven continents and (3) in fifty States. His journeys were chronicled in his book, Running Shoes Are Cheaper Than Insulin: Marathon Adventures On All Seven Continents. This book, along with his running clothes and other artifacts from his world history making marathon, are with Washington DC’s Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.

Anthony combined his love of distance running, history, and travel to write, produce, and direct the ninety-minute documentary entitled Breaking Three Hours: Trailblazing African-American Women Marathoners. He’s also the CEO of Caribbean Endurance Sports Corp. where he worked with nations of Bermuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, and Jamacia to coordinate the Five-Island Challenge – Marathons, Half Marathons, and Combothon.