PMI-OC in Action

August 14th, 2005 by Hal

My hat's off to an amazing group of organizers and volunteers of the Orange County PMI Chapter. Saturday's PMI in Action event brought out about 150 people on a sunny day. The agenda was packed. The speakers did a great job from Mark Mullaly's keynote "What Makes a Great Project Manager" to David Anderson's back-to-back sessions on Agile, Deming, and the the use of cumulative flow diagrams (CFD) for managing project work. (More on CFD in another post.)

I did my two presentations on Let's Play Catch! and Why Do Projects on a Lean Basis? They were well-received. I've uploaded them for you.

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Catch Hal in Orange County

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Context is Everything for Managing Projects Successfully

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