I can’t think of a better way to begin the PMI season than attending the September meeting, reconnecting with project management peers, and listening to Johanna Rothman share her thoughts on 15 Tips for Speeding Up Your Project. All of us have faced the challenges of trying to expedite a project through to completion.  Would you like to try something—anything—to make your project speed up?

Every organization has a "sweet spot," a period of time in which they know how to start projects and how to end them. Johanna will share tips on how to start your project faster, including how to make decisions about whether or not to start a project so it’s not behind before it gets going.  She will offer insight on how to measure and steer your projects, and how to know what “done” means, so you can help the team get to “done” faster, and not go past it.

If you or your management wants you to finish your projects faster, these tips will help you change your sweet spot for starting and finishing projects. The more of them you are able to implement, the faster your project will proceed.
 
Johanna Rothman helps leaders define and solve problems. She assists managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management. She’s helped engineering organizations, IT organizations, and startups hire technical people, manage projects, and release successful products faster.

Johanna is the author of Manage It! Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management and Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People, and coauthor (with Esther Derby) of Behind Closed Doors, Secrets of Great Management. Her upcoming book about agile and lean project portfolio management is due in 2009. Johanna is a host and session leader at the Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) conference.  http://www.jrothman.com/
 

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