Rich is Senior Manager at the Global Program Management Office of a major telecom concern, where he is responsible for the Development Framework for over 2,000 customer-facing project managers. The Framework is an integrated program including the curricula, career path, skills management, and professional certification, and is being adapted by the company for all of its 18,000 Services personnel. In this role, he helped merge the PMOs the American and French components of this company, and was featured in the Project Management Institute’s Leadership in Project Management 2008 annual issue.
In addition to this work, Rich has also been developing and delivering PM courseware for Boston University’s Corporate Education Center, mScholar, and their clients in industries as diverse as construction, medical devices, defense, insurance, pharmaceutical research, and professional sports organizations. Certified since 2000 as a PMP, Rich has helped hundreds attain their PMP credential through direct instruction and coaching as well as his editing and voicing of a 12-CD set of audio PMP lessons for mScholar. He was also an editor for the 4th edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).
Rich’s background includes 10 years as an electrical engineer, designing and programming test equipment for the manufacture and repair of electronic and fiber optic transmission equipment. He also led a technical solutions team, during which time he was the lead author for the Bell Labs Technical Journal article “Design for Networks – the Ultimate Design For X”.
His 10 years of engineering and engineering management is supplemented by a 20 year career as a manager of project managers, deploying telecom networks and services. This period includes a 2-year international assignment in The Netherlands (2000-2002), where he built a team of PMs focused on deploying telecom networks in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Rich’s educational background includes a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, and certificates in business management from Indiana University/INSEAD and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Rich also has a Master’s certificate in Project Management from the Stevens Institute. EarthPM (Rich Maltzman & Dave Shirley) - UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley
Rich is Senior Manager at the Global Program Management Office of a major telecom concern, where he is responsible for the Development Framework for over 2,000 customer-facing project managers. The Framework is an integrated program including the curricula, career path, skills management, and professional certification, and is being adapted by the company for all of its 18,000 Services personnel. In this role, he helped merge the PMOs the American and French components of this company, and was featured in the Project Management Institute’s Leadership in Project Management 2008 annual issue.
In addition to this work, Rich has also been developing and delivering PM courseware for Boston University’s Corporate Education Center, mScholar, and their clients in industries as diverse as construction, medical devices, defense, insurance, pharmaceutical research, and professional sports organizations. Certified since 2000 as a PMP, Rich has helped hundreds attain their PMP credential through direct instruction and coaching as well as his editing and voicing of a 12-CD set of audio PMP lessons for mScholar. He was also an editor for the 4th edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).
Rich’s background includes 10 years as an electrical engineer, designing and programming test equipment for the manufacture and repair of electronic and fiber optic transmission equipment. He also led a technical solutions team, during which time he was the lead author for the Bell Labs Technical Journal article “Design for Networks – the Ultimate Design For X”.
His 10 years of engineering and engineering management is supplemented by a 20 year career as a manager of project managers, deploying telecom networks and services. This period includes a 2-year international assignment in The Netherlands (2000-2002), where he built a team of PMs focused on deploying telecom networks in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Rich’s educational background includes a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, and certificates in business management from Indiana University/INSEAD and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Rich also has a Master’s certificate in Project Management from the Stevens Institute. Green Project Management and the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill(3/3)
A joint post from EarthPM and TenStep: Last time we introduced this series and outlined the focus for the topic of green project management using the Deepwater Horizon disaster as motivation. In this post, we’ll cover how we’d work ‘green’ project considerations into the Project Charter, Project Scope Management, Project Integration Management, Project Management Plan, [...]
Green Project Management and the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill(2/3)
A joint post from EarthPM and TenStep: Last time we introduced this series and outlined the focus for the topic of green project management using the Deepwater Horizon disaster as motivation. In this post, we’ll cover how we’d work ‘green’ project considerations into the Project Charter, Project Scope Management, Project Integration Management, Project Management Plan, [...]
Green Project Management and the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill(1/3)
A joint post from EarthPM and TenStep: There are many examples of projects undertaken to produce some deliverable with environmental implications. In fact, one may assert that in fact, any project, since it uses resources, has environmental implications. This varies tremendously, based on scale and the direct impact on the environment. One project that clearly [...]
Conflict Resolution – Climate Change Style
In this entry we look at a project conflict resolution tool and relate it to a recent interesting but little-publicized news event which is funny in a way, but very, very sad in a much deeper way (excuse the pun). The tool is the Thomas-Kilmann model, which sounds very fancy and hard to understand but [...]
Earth-worthy projects
Have you thought about the environment in your projects? Yes, even if you have NO wind turbines, solar cells, or cars that run on used french-fry oil in your project. Have you? Well, consider this posting as a start.
So one muffin says to the other…
I’d like to start things off in this posting with a joke I heard on the US Television show, Two and a Half Men. Now keep in mind that the show is full of gratuitous innuendo and juvenile comedy, much of it not easily translatable in (nor suitable for) the context of project management. In [...]
LinkedIn (yawn) to the new PMBOK?
Taking advantage of the social networks that we PMs have started to form on LinkedIn, I did some polling in early 2009 to gauge the interest level (see post below) in the brand-spanking-new PMBOK(R) Guide. Using a completely non-scientific scale that I made up in 17.4 seconds, and asking the question on the larger LinkedIn [...]
Identify your Stakeholders: by Heineken
The new PMBOK(R) Guide has a new process called Identify Stakeholders. As a person invloved with creating PMP(R) Exam study materials as well as developing and delivering PM courseware, I always want to keep my material up-to-date with the latest PMBOK(R) Guide. Of course, this means searching for practical examples from organizations and real applications. [...]
Knotty, knotty project!
By Rich Maltzman Living near Boston (and Cambridge) Massachusetts in the USA, I’m right nearby Harvard University (perhaps you’ve heard of this institution). Recently the Ig Noble awards were given out there. The Ig Nobel Prizes are a parody of the Nobel Prizes and are given each year in early October : around the time [...]
