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Title:	This highly interactive presentation will challenge our beliefs and provide concrete advice for enlivening and improving our project management practices
Begin:	6/24/2003 12:00 AM
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Program:	Project managers have been labeled as the bureaucrats, the paper-pushers, the boring people, the drones of the status reports. How do project managers change the perception and the reality of their contributions? How do we facilitate creativity and collaboration and become dynamic leaders? How do we encourage our organizations to embrace sound project management practices without having peoples eyes glaze over? How do we balance the science and the art of project management? This highly interactive presentation will challenge our beliefs and provide concrete advice for enlivening and improving our project management practices.<p> <b>Benefits of This Presentation:</b><br> <ol> <li>Integrate creativity and collaboration in our common project management practices. <li>Practice fast-track project facilitation. <li>Review most effective project management practices and outcomesdo more with less. <li>Consider ways to change the perception of project management within our organizations. </ol></br> <b>Speaker's Bio:</b> Marianne Clauw founded System Partners, Inc. in 1993 to provide project management education, consulting, and mentoring to customers in Virginia and Washington D.C. She moved to Ann Arbor in 2001. Marianne has an outstanding record of systems organization leadership and timely completion of complex projects, including the implementation of Express Mail tracking within the US Postal Service, the construction of systems for the United States Secret Service, the development of object-oriented customer management and billing systems for Worldcom, the redesign of blood banking processes for the American Red Cross, and the management of information quality programs for Freddie Mac. Marianne designed and taught project management programs for The Washington Post, American Management Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Capital One. Prior to founding System Partners, she was the Director of Systems for the Mid-Atlantic region of Systemhouse, and directed 150 professional staff in commercial and government projects. Marianne earned her Master of Business Administration degree from The University of Michigan, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute.
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Meeting Location:	Holiday Inn - North Campus<br> 3600 Plymouth Road<br> Ann Arbor<br> Phone: (734)769-9800<br>
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