Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project’s Future
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Speaker : PAYSON HALL
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When : Thursday, October 10, 2024
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Time : 12 : 00 PM EST
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Payson Hall is a former U.S. Army Ranger and consulting project manager for Catalysis Group, Inc. in Sacramento. Formally trained as a software engineer, Payson’s early career included software development, hardware/software system integration, and Independent Verification & Validation. As his career progressed, his role shifted to include increasing project management responsibilities, with a focus on technology projects.
Today Payson coaches project managers, teaches project management skills, consults, and performs project reviews in a variety of fields, including transportation, communication, software development, education, financial services, and healthcare.
Payson has consulted on projects in both the public and private sectors throughout North America and Europe during his 40-year career. He has published over 250 project management articles, developed numerous project management and problem-solving classes, written a book on project sponsorship, and is a sought-after conference speaker who specializes in demystifying project management topics and communicating important ideas while entertaining audiences.
Is a project’s fate preordained? Does a project’s past suggest its likely future? Can anything be done to influence that future when the current signs aren’t promising?
Payson Hall has participated in and reviewed many projects during his 40-year career. In this session, without claiming mystical powers, Payson shares problem symptoms observed on projects in both the public and private sectors and discusses patterns of project problems and strategies for isolating and correcting them.
Payson will help you learn to identify “problem seeds” that can grow into larger issues over time, and gain insights into the next steps that can favorably influence your project’s future. For example, when a task exceeds its planned duration, questions that might help identify the cause include:
- Are the people assigned to the task working on something else?
- Has the schedule shifted the task into scheduled holidays, training, or vacations?
- Has resource consumption been consistent with earlier estimates?
- Are tasks blocked awaiting information, materials, or approvals?
- Was the work clearly defined to begin with?
During the talk, Payson will also introduce a diagnostic tool (distributed during the webinar) that helps identify next steps in an investigation to identify root causes of project issues being observed and identify possible remedies to common problems.
Areas Covered
- Does predicting a project’s future require mysticism or science?
- Learning to be a better predictor
- Tips for visualizing metrics to identify patterns
- Using metrics to support project controls
- How to be a project detective?
- Introduction to a diagnostic tool that will be distributed during the webinar
Who Should Attend
Project Managers, Project Team Members, Project Sponsors, Portfolio Managers, Project Management Office staff.
Why Should You Attend
Every project is unique, but when they start to go off the rails, many of their symptoms rhyme. Is your project encountering challenges? Do you know the root causes of the issues and possible remedies?
In the real project world, any project can fail to deliver on its original commitments, and many do.
Consulting project manager Payson Hall has conducted numerous project reviews and has noticed patterns that can help identify and address many issues before they become disasters. The goal of this session is to help you learn lessons hard won by others so that you don’t have to re-learn them yourselves on your projects.
Topic Background
Can a project’s past and present be used to predict its likely future? Payson Hall has participated in dozens of project reviews and project autopsies during his 40-year career and offers this session of observations and lessons learned as well as a tool created to help diagnose and possibly remedy common project issues.
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$160.00
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