Debbie Hein currently holds a position as a New Product Introduction Program Manager with Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco, Debbie held various senior leadership roles at Extreme Networks in Engineering Program Management, Business Process Development, Document Control and various other functional groups. During her time with Extreme she led a Product Lifecycle Management and several other critical business process initiatives within the company. Additionally she has been involved with company-wide quote to cash business process, infrastructure and ERP migrations. She has also dabbled in Business Consulting providing services to several firms.
Debbie began her career with National Semiconductor where she held postions as an ASIC designer, hardware designer, applications engineer, marketing engineering and project manager. During her tenure with National Semiconductor she was awarded thirteen patents, published many articles, and was a speaker at various symposiums and conferences.
Debbie holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pacific and completed a M.S.E.E. with a concentration in networking and communications theory from Santa Clara University. She has completed training in TL9000, ISO9000/9001, DMAIC, PMI and Design For Manufacturability. Debbie Hein
Debbie Hein currently holds a position as a New Product Introduction Program Manager with Cisco Systems. Prior to Cisco, Debbie held various senior leadership roles at Extreme Networks in Engineering Program Management, Business Process Development, Document Control and various other functional groups. During her time with Extreme she led a Product Lifecycle Management and several other critical business process initiatives within the company. Additionally she has been involved with company-wide quote to cash business process, infrastructure and ERP migrations. She has also dabbled in Business Consulting providing services to several firms.
Debbie began her career with National Semiconductor where she held postions as an ASIC designer, hardware designer, applications engineer, marketing engineering and project manager. During her tenure with National Semiconductor she was awarded thirteen patents, published many articles, and was a speaker at various symposiums and conferences.
Debbie holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pacific and completed a M.S.E.E. with a concentration in networking and communications theory from Santa Clara University. She has completed training in TL9000, ISO9000/9001, DMAIC, PMI and Design For Manufacturability. Now Apply Five Whys to Global Project Management
My last blog talked about applying Five Whys to elements within project management and specifically to human and team dynamics. The more challenging aspect is in attempting to apply the Five Whys on global projects where activities are performed in multiple countries and the team is typically comprised of members from more than one country. [...]
Five Whys for Managing Project Dynamics
Five Whys provides a structured yet simple approach to solving problems as they occur during a project and can provide a framework for a team to work through complex problems. It is a simple process at its core.
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The Power of Memory in Project Management
In a recent project team meeting we were reviewing an Ishikawa diagram and root cause analysis as a means to determine the next appropriate steps on an issue we were addressing as a project team when a forgotten data point was brought forward be me of all people, the project manager.
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