Resources: Archives — Past Meetings — 2003

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March 19, 2003

Are Your Projects Suffering from Resource Management Issues?

Venue: Cadence Design Systems
Pebble Beach Auditorium, Building 5, 1st floor
2655 Seely Avenue, San Jose 95134
Time: 6PM to 8 PM. Full spread of appetizers will be provided
Costs: Pre-registration: $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers
Walk-in registration: $25 for members and $35 for nonmember

Companies are struggling to execute to projects with the resources they have. In these times, no one can afford to solve resource problems simply by having "enough" people available regardless of how effectively they are being utilized. Even during good times, a pipeline of projects matched against an unmanaged resourcing approach can lead to frustration and projects that miss expectations. Poor resource management will unwind even the best strategy or portfolio of development projects. In our workshop, we will have an interactive group exercise to experience the portfolio impact of managed and unmanaged resources. We will discuss the takeaways from the exercise and exchange our experience with each other. Finally, we will provide a self-assessment tool that will help you begin to diagnose resource management issues at your company. The self-assessment results will be presented at the forthcoming Northern California PDMA conference in May of 2003.

What you will learn:

Gain hands-on intuition of why resource management practices and processes lead to better project, pipeline and portfolio performance.
Understand how we can judge whether we have a workable or weak resource management approach for our businesses.

About the Speaker

Aritomo Shinozaki is a Principal consultant from the Mountain View office of Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM). He has worked over the last 4 years in the areas of product development, technology management, and general strategy practices. His industry experience at PRTM has spanned networking, computer systems, data storage, and life science companies. Ari has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

About PRTM

Founded in 1976, PRTM (www.prtm.com) is one of the leading management consultancies, ranked in the largest 50 in the world by Consultants News and as the "No. 1 Consulting Firm to Work For" by Consulting magazine. Valued highly for our orientation to results, we help companies develop and execute their strategies through improvements in best practices, IT-enablement, and core business processes. PRTM is noted for its leadership in product development and supply chain management, having developed many of the methodologies and frameworks used by leading companies today, including Product And Cycle-time Excellence®, the Supply Chain Operations Reference-model (adopted by the Supply-Chain Council), and Channel Opportunity Analysis®. PRTM has 14 offices in the US, Europe, and Asia, and 400 employees worldwide.