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Pierson, Cool Hand Luke, 1967
Project Executive
Group
Advisory & Execution
Services
"Welcome to those who are in pursuit of personal
'sustainable mastery' in the
disciplines!" - Paul
Projects as instruments of change
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand,
more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain
in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order
of things."
- The Prince, Nicolo Machiavelli,
1469-1527
| Project Sponsors, Project Managers, and Project Team Members
MUST be courageous!
"Courage comes from confidence. Confidence comes
from knowledge, |
A Note on Project Management Competence
Project Management
Project
Management and Project Finance
Start-up
Project Development
"Several years ago, the construction market began demanding a change
in the way its
projects were being managed. There was a shift toward contractors delivering
an entire
project - designing, building, financing, etc. - and companies began to change
their
cultures to meet the demands of the market." - Avraham Y. Goldratt Institute,
1997
For historical information you can drill down on the following
sites: |
"It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human,
and disorder is our worst enemy." - Hesiod, 8th century B.C.
For project management information in general you can drill down on
the following sites: |
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"In my opinion based on personal research, 95% (or more) of the
success (or failure) in projects come from
people. Projects are done by people! Therefore, it should be the goal of
every project manager to develop
and maintain a highly motivated, cohesive, and productive project team, demand
that senior management
support them in obtaining this goal , and have sincere and genuine commitment
to the project work force."
- Paul, 1997
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Project Management is NOT a
contest! |
Project Managers - What are they and what must they be?
"Project managers bear ultimate responsibility for making things
happen.
Traditionally, they have carried out this role as mere implementers.
To do their jobs they needed to have basic administrative and technical
competencies.
Today they play a far broader role. In addition to the traditional skills,
they need to have business skills, customer relations skills, and political
skills.
Psychologically, they must be results-oriented self-starters with a high
tolerance for
ambiguity, because little is clear-cut in today's tumultuous business
environment.
Shortcomings in any of these areas can lead to project failure." -
J. Davidson Frame
Papers Presented
An Intricacy of Project Financing for Offshore Projects
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Expanding a Tool for Better Project Management
Presenting author at the 2001 Offshore Technology
Conference
Project Management Institute (PMI) presentations, 30 Apr
2001
Conference held at Reliant Park in Houston, Texas - April-3 May
2001
Trends in Offshore Contracting Strategies -
Project Management in the Offshore Industry
Presenting co-author at the 10th Offshore Symposium -
Offshore Technology Evolution and Innovation
sponsored by the Texas Section of the
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)
Annual Meeting held in Houston, Texas - 20 Feb 2001
Project Management Requirements in a Changing
Market
Presenting author and panalist at the Workshop on International
Competitiveness
and Project Management in the Engineering & Construction Industry
Workshop held at Rice University in Houston, Texas - 28 Sep 1998
Presentations for Project Management Institute (PMI) members
Making Deals, presented at
the PMI Houston chapter - Feb 2001
Project Finance, presented
at the PMI Houston chapter - Jan 1999
Uncertainty Management,
presented at the PMI Houston chapter - Jan 1998
Presentations for Turnaround Management Association (TMA) members
Crisis PM in Turnarounds,
presented at the Glass & Associates Training Session - Feb
2002
Words of encouragement needed from time to time in the midst of a project.
Leading in Projects and Project Development
The Art
and Science of Leading
"The essence of leadership is vision. It's got to be a vision you
articulate clearly
and forcefully on every occasion.You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. "
- Father Theodore Hesburgh, President of the Univ. of Notre
Dame
National Management Association
(claims to be world's largest society for developing professional
leaders)
"No man is a leader until his appointment is ratified in the minds
and hearts of his men."
- Anonymous, The Infantry Journal, 1954
Leaders' Principles & Traits - the USMC
way
(substitute "project members" for "marines" in the reading)
"Lead, follow, or get out of the way." - Lee Iacocca, Chrysler Corporation
Unit Leaders
Program - Issues (free downloads)
"You've got to have integrity to be an effective leader. That's
what it all stems from."
- Don Shula, former coach of the Miami Dolphins
How to Lead When You're Not the
Boss
"Example is leadership." - Albert Schweitzer
The Leadership Architect
Suite
Integrated Develop & Train Products
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
Project Leadership
- Through Experimental Education
"Knowing how to handle pressure is necessary for survival." - Admiral James Stockade
Leadership Research
Center
'Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who
do the right thing.'
— Warren Bennis
Senior Management's Ability and/or Inability
to Lead in Project Turnarounds
"The price of leadership is criticism." - Albert J. Dunlap
Project Finance
A
Project Financing - Lessons Learned
Project
Develop/Manage Svcs
Project
Finance Perils - Navigating your way through a Project Finance
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Ralph
Waldo Emerson, 1844
For project finance information in general you can drill down on the following sites: |
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"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which
grain will grow and which will not."
- William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616, Macbeth, Act I, line
58
Uncertainty Management in Project Finance
"Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread,
and we want to know the whole cloth." - Gustave Flaubert
World
Bank View on "Mitigating Commercial Risks in Project
Finance"
An excellent paper by Jeff Ruster about developing countries
project finance uncertainties and how to mitigate
them.
Learn and use "project turnaround
techniques" for the 'hands-on' manager. These techniques, in
combination |
"Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised."
- Publilius Syrus, Circa 42 B.C.
Project Decision Support Packages (DSPs)
"The ability to define what may happen in the future and to choose among
alternatives
lies at the heart of contemporary societies. Risk management guides us over
a vast range
of decision-making, from allocating wealth to safeguarding public health,
from waging war
to planning a family, from paying insurance premiums to wearing a seatbelt,
from planting
corn to marketing cornflakes." - from Against the Gods - Peter
L. Bernstein, 1996
PMI Risk Management (RM) SIG
"I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through
my mistakes and pursuits of false
assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge." - Igor
Stravinsky, 1966
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For project analysis information and recommended tools you can drill
down on the following sites: "Is uncertainty management a key to getting project sponsors 'neutral' in their thinking?" - Paul
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Decision
Games
Fun website for self-training in strategic and tactical decision
making.
The Prudent Screening of Projects
Screening Capital Projects
"...we must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against
it,
but we sail, and not drift, nor live at anchor." - Oliver
Wendell Holmes
Screening Technology
Projects
"Thou shalt never assume. Realize that no two
people see the same situation the same way.
Remember that all strategies, yours and your competitors', contain hidden
or 'working' assumptions -
identify and examine them. Respect other team members' views, for they
may see hidden truths that
you have missed." - The 8th Commandment, Richard Marcinko,
Leadership Secrets of the Rogue Warrior
Some traditional lenders do not believe that a single rating can be
used to assess
all the risks associated with a project. According to one:
"You cannot rate a project with a group of numbers or letters.
There are too many risks.
A project is only as good as its weakest link. And that will be the ultimate
problem.
What will they do when the project goes wrong?" - This
is right, in my opinion.
- Paul
Standard & Poors
An excellent site with downloadable ratings criteria on
toll roads; mining; energy; and infrastructure project
finance.
Moody's
"Ride the horse in the direction that it is going." - Werner
Erhard
Automation Project Management
"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus of Greece, 513 B.C.
The
Project Executive and Project Teams in Automation Projects
"...being a good partner has become a key corporate asset. I call
it a company's
collaborative advantage. In the global economy, a well-developed ability
to create
and sustain fruitful collaborations gives companies a significant competitive
leg up."
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Sustaining
Collaborative Relationships & Why They Fail in Projects
"The practical measures that we take are always based on the assumption
that our enemies are not unintelligent." - Achidamus II, King of
Sparta
Managing
Change and Expectations
Learning
Curves in Implementing
"Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you
start thinking of pressure, it's
because you've started to think of failure." - Tommy Lasorda, of the
Los Angeles Dodgers
Managing Difficult
Clients/Customers/Contractors/Suppliers in Projects
"An important difference between a military operation and a surgical
operation is that the
patient is not tied down. But it is a common fault of generalship to assume
that he is."
- Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart
Can
You Overcome Resistance to Change
"Indeed, if thou hurteth in thy efforts and thou suffer painful
dings, then thou are Doing It Right."
- The Fifth Commandment in The Rogue Warrior's Ten Commandments of
SpecWar
Project
Planning & Feasibility
Studies
"I hope you have kept the enemy always in the picture. War books
so often leave them out."
- Colonel T.E.Lawrence
Pro-Sci's
Change Management Best Practices Study
"The difference in productivity between an average team and a
turned-on, high-performance team
is not 10 percent, 20 percent, or 30 percent, but 100 percent, 200 percent,
even 500 percent!"
- Tom Peters, management consultant and writer
The Basic Core Competencies
for PMs in IT - Do YOU
know?
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"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If
anything, competition in most
industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades." -
from Leading Change
- John P. Kotter, 1996
Special Project Management
for "hyper-track Web projects"
Enterprise (ERP) Automation Projects
"People persist in believing that what has happened
in the recent past will go on
happening into the indefinite future, even while the ground is shifting under
their feet."
ERP
Project Management Basics
Concerns
in R/3 Implementations
Enterprise
Integration - The Web Site
Plan
to Succeed in ERP Implementation
Who're
the Enterprise Systems Players?
The
ERP Missing Link? Int'l Trade Logistics
Successful ERP Implementation Through Work and
Master Planning
Sales
& Operations Integration in ERP with SFA and CRM
The
Pharmaceutical Industry and ERP-related Issues
Business
System Software - Selection, Implementation,
Maintenance
SEE
Enterprise Systems Planning & Execution
Session @ Rice University
BELOW
"What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science
of values." - George Santayana, 1900
For enterprise systems information in general you can drill down on
the following sites: |
"...to our worship of quantity and indifference to quality, to
our unthinking devotion
to organization, standardization..." - Daniel Gregory Mason, 1873 -
1960
Business Process Engineering (BPE/BPR) Modeling
"We trained hard...but it seemed that every time we
were beginning to form up into teams
we would be reorganized, [and] I was to learn later in life that we
tend to meet any
new situation by reorganizing: and what a wonderful method it can be for
creating
the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and
demoralization."
- Petronius, Arbiter, Greek Navy, 210 B.C.
For information on recommended BPE/BPR S/W tools you can drill down
on the following sites: |
"...everything is in constant motion
and every change seems an improvement."
- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805 - 1859
Automated Marine Terminals and Marine Systems
"O brave new world, that has such people in't." -
The Tempest, William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
"What is conceived well is expressed well." - Nicolas Boileau,
1674
Capital Sources for Maritime
Transportation Infrastructure Development
Mechanized Automation
"If you want things to stay as they are, things will
have to continuously change."
- The Leopard, Thomas Di Lampedusa Giuseppe
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"Nothing is impossible if you do not have to do it
yourself."
- Adapted from an A.H. Weiler New York Times memo
Critical Information and Business Assessments
"A culture is in its finest flower before it begins
to analyze itself."
Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947
Critical
Information You NEED to Know!
Practical
Questions in Business Assessment
Operations
Strategies Checklist
Strategic
Planning Buzzwords,
etc.
"Strategy is implemented through projects. Every project
should have a clear link to the organization's strategy."
Search
Engine Tips
Major
Search Engines
"A corporation's culture can be its major strength when it is consistent with its strategies."
Training in the Developing Projects Disciplines
"The troops should be exercised frequently, cavalry as well as
infantry, and the general should
often be present to praise some, to critcize others, and to see with his
own eyes that the orders
are observed exactly." - Frederick the Great
Overview
on Training for new instructors, learners, supervisors, etc.
"Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything
a unit does,
or can have happen to it." - Lieutenant General Arther S. Collins,
Jr.
Allen Communication
- services and tools for internet based e-learning
"It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come,
but rather to rely
on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but
rather
to make one's self invincible." - Sun Tzu, The Art
of War
Training Community
Center
"Whatever does not break my back makes me stronger." - Friedrich
Nietzsche
Big Dog's Human
Resource Page
"The man who spends more sleepless nights with his army, and who
works harder in drilling
his troops, runs the fewer risks in fighting the foe." - The Emporer
Maurice, The Strategikon
Individual Communication Discipline by Team
Members - Train Yourself in the "NEVERS"
Rice University
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
Department of Executive Education
"Mastering Project Development"
Certificate
(earned when the following
programs are successfully completed)
For application information, call 713-348-6060 or
e-mail.
Graduating Classes: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 (the program is going into its fifth year) Class of 2002 - Starts August 2002
Adding
'analyzing project
failures' to this highly successful program...
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"I have never known a battle plan to survive a first contact with
the enemy." - 19th century general
Graduating Classes: 1999, 2000, 2001 (the program is in its third year)
Changing from a day course to an evening course
to be offered in June 2003. There will
Class of 2003 - Starts June 2003
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"Plans are nothing; planning is everything" - Napoleon Bonaparte
Participants' Companies for Past Classes
Above
"How does a project get one year late? ... One day at a time."
- Frederick P. Brooks
The "Project Turnaround Management" Workshop Next Session - June 2003 *An integral part of the "Financing Projects Program" Taught by Paul , a member of the Turnaround Management Association (Houston) and Boris Hornjak, "The Project Surgeon's Manual" published by PMI, April 2001 |
"He who fails has no friends." - Turkish proverb
"Every advantage...is judged in the light of final issue." - Demosthenes, 384 - 322 B.C.
Rice
University MBA for Executives
Rice
University Executive Education Courses
"Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing
else can be managed." - Peter Drucker
"Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject
ourselves,
or we know where we can find information about it."
- Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management |
"In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage
is your organization's
ability to learn faster than its competition." - Peter Senge,
The Fifth Discipline
Project Management / Project Finance |
"The core of learning organization work is based upon five 'learning
disciplines' -
lifelong programs of study and practice: personal mastery, mental models,
shared vision,
team learning, and system thinking." - Peter Senge, et al
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
"Great minds discuss ideas, average
minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
- Admiral Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy
Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
MBA Program
"I couldn't wait to be the manager of my own project and run the
project the way I thought
it should be done. Boy, did I have a lot to learn!" - first-time project
manager
Graduating Classes: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, (this
course going into its fifth year) |
"Unhappiness is best described as the difference between our talents
and our expectations."
- Edward de Bono
Project
Management, Risk Analysis, Decision Analysis, Project Finance
Software
"Crafty men [despise] studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use
them."
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
MGMT 719 Business Recovery (for MBAs) Syllabus - Module VI Spring 2002 Class of 2002 - Module VI : Starts April 1st, 2002
An introduction to and appreciation of management skills required
to lead a company through a |
"Prepare the child for the path, not the
path for the child"
- Delaine Gately, Gig Harbor, Washington
"A man who buys what he does not need will
often need what he cannot buy."
- Collise Brown, Waterville, Vermont
"Take time, make time. There might not
be another time."
- Janet Powers, Pulaski, Wisconsin
"Every day may not be good, but there's
somthing good in every day."
- Maxine Bourgeois, Wyaconda, Missouri
Paul's Personal Stuff
"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that
events have controlled me."
- Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865
Background
- More Than You Want to Know
"Those people who learn rapidly and solve problems quickly need
a constant supply
of new challenges and new problems with which to exercise their abilities."
- Chuck Russell, Right Person - Right Job: Guess or Know
Paul's Skill
Sets and Work Experience (in 'excruciating' detail)
"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you." - Aldous Huxley
As the largest and oldest fraternity in the world, the Masons, or
Freemasons, date back to the Middle Ages.
Members are men who believe in certain binding, distinguishable values including
trust, honor, and integrity,
which one is expected to uphold as a member. The fraternity is rich in tradition
and as such continues to recognize
its history with decorative and ceremonial items such as those above.
Sport
Passions: Rugby - Lacrosse - Sailing -
Footy
"Life is what happens when you are making other plans." - John
Lennon
"And one man in his time plays many parts." - from As
You Like It - William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616
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