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Date(s): NEW DATES!! Part 1: July 27, 2010 and Part 2: July 29, 2010
Time: 6:00 - 8:30 PM ET
Instructor: Rich Maltzman
PDUs: 5
Notes: Webcast: Instructions will be sent after registration
Price: $89.00

Course Description

Many contend that a project manager’s core work is as the risk manager of the project. Even if you don’t believe that, it’s clear that as a PM you constantly deal with risk. And, as if we need a reminder, think about the Deepwater Horizon oil well drilling project.  How well did that project identify, analyze, plan for, and respond to risk?  We’ll discuss this example.  Using the concept and theme of balance throughout, this course takes the participant through the processes of risk management – risk planning, risk identification, risk analysis, risk response, and monitoring and control of risk – never losing sight of the project context. Peppered with class discussions to get the most from the attendees’ varied backgrounds (and to provide more balance!), it is also enhanced with interactions that engage all participants. This journey through the world of uncertainty will reinforce basic risk courseware you may have had, tie it to some very public examples from which we can learn, and will leave you with some thought-provoking concepts but also with down-to-earth tools to use on real projects.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, class participants should be able to:

• Gain a deeper, more integrated understanding of how risk affects a project
• Translate this into how this affects the planning of their projects
• Collect, understand, and use advice and tools for risk identification
• Improve their capabilities in risk analysis
• Expand their capabilities of developing effective risk responses
• Reaffirm the importance of continuing, ongoing risk management
• Connect the concepts of risk with highly visible examples such as Boston’s Big Dig and the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil disaster

“Rich was excellent, he was entertaining and was very knowledgeable.” – Class Attendee

 

Instructor – Rich Maltzman, PMP

 

 

Rich Maltzman, PMP, has been an engineer since 1978 and a Project Management supervisor since 1988, including a recent 2-year assignment in The Netherlands in which he built a team of PMs overseeing deployments of telecom networks in Europe and the Middle East. His project work has been diverse, including projects such as the successful deployment of the entire video and telecom infrastructure for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, to the 2006 integration of the PMOs of two large merging corporations.  As a second, but intertwined career, Rich has also focused on consulting and teaching, having developed curricula and/or taught at Boston University’s Corporate Education Center, Merrimack College, Northern Essex Community College and University of Massachusetts – Lowell.  

Rich has also professionally developed PMP-exam prep courseware, including exams and books.  He even edited and was “the voice” for a set of 8 Audio CDs – a major part of a PMP prep course for an international company, for whom he has also facilitated PMP exam study groups.  Rich was selected for the Modeling Team for the 4th Edition PMBOK® Guide, and contributed to the chapters on Quality and Risk.

Currently, Rich is Senior Manager, Learning and Professional Advancement, at the Global Program Management Office of a major telecom concern, and was recently elected VP Professional Development at the MassBay chapter of PMI.  

Rich’s educational background includes a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MSIE from Purdue University.  In addition, Rich has a mini-MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Master’s Certificate in international business management granted jointly from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and INSEAD of France.  From a Project Management standpoint, Rich received his PMP in 2000 after earning the Stevens Institute’s Master’s Certificate in 1999.  He has presented papers on Project Management at conferences in Huizen, The Netherlands, Mexico City and Long Beach, California.  

Rich is the co-author, with David Shirley, PMP, of the CRC Press book Green Project Management to be released in September, 2010.  Rich posts regularly on the blog http://earthpm.com.

Rich is also currently co-authoring a book with Ranjit Biswas, PMP, entitled The Fiddler on the Project, a portion of which is being collaboratively written on the web via a wiki.