After working for key companies, like Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), Boeing and Baan, within different industries in both Europe and the USA, Nathalie Udo co-founded Projectway, LLC, a boutique project management consulting company, in 2001. She has built a proven record of accomplishments in leading complex international software development and implementation projects. She is a seasoned professional with extensive project management, cross-cultural communication, and leadership skills. Clients compliment her for taking strong ownership and accountability for deliverables and driving positive results.
Nathalie furthermore shares her extensive experience as a project management instructor. Her trainings are full of real life examples and high energy. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and certified Scrum Master. She has a Masters Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. As author of several papers on the subject of project management and team interactions, Nathalie has been a guest speaker at several global conferences.
Driven by her desire to contribute to the industry, she has been active in the San Francisco chapters of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) and Toastmasters International. Outside her professional life, Nathalie is active Scuba Divemaster and loves to help people discover the exciting world of underwater exploration. You can reach her at nudo@projectway.com Nathalie Udo
After working for key companies, like Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), Boeing and Baan, within different industries in both Europe and the USA, Nathalie Udo co-founded Projectway, LLC, a boutique project management consulting company, in 2001. She has built a proven record of accomplishments in leading complex international software development and implementation projects. She is a seasoned professional with extensive project management, cross-cultural communication, and leadership skills. Clients compliment her for taking strong ownership and accountability for deliverables and driving positive results.
Nathalie furthermore shares her extensive experience as a project management instructor. Her trainings are full of real life examples and high energy. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and certified Scrum Master. She has a Masters Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. As author of several papers on the subject of project management and team interactions, Nathalie has been a guest speaker at several global conferences.
Driven by her desire to contribute to the industry, she has been active in the San Francisco chapters of the Project Management Institute (PMI), Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) and Toastmasters International. Outside her professional life, Nathalie is active Scuba Divemaster and loves to help people discover the exciting world of underwater exploration. You can reach her at nudo@projectway.com Investing in yourself
I truly believe in continuous improvement. In today’s world standing still really translates into regression. I apply that continuous improvement to different areas of my life: I keep pursuing knowledge on scuba diving in general and its physiology in specific, I am planning to improve my technical skills of motorcycling this year, I learn new [...]
The Disfavor of Doing Favors
We all have been in the situation where a customer or team member asks to add a feature or upgrade the quality of a certain item. We often agree to do these favors because we find ourselves unable to say “no”—driven by our desire to please or a preconceived notion that we do not have [...]
The Tower of Babel in a global world
We are living in a world that gets more and more global. You don’t need to travel to get exposed to it. Most likely you have colleagues, neighbors or friends who have been born in a different country or whose parents are from a different country. Being born and raised in the Netherlands, it always [...]
The Importance of Planning
The very first day of 2010 and of a new decade!! Wishing you an amazing, loving, successful and unforgettable year!!
During the past holidays I was staying with a friend of mine who has a six year old. Of course, we ended up watching a lot of children’s movies. One of them was Nemo which, as [...]
Taking Risks
I am in the Netherlands while writing this. We just had another airline scare which immediate created a Dutch ‘hero’, Jasper S., who together with other passengers avoided disaster by jumping on top of the terrorist. The same but more tragic happened during the PA flight September 11th flight. These are people who decided to [...]
A New Decade
This is the very last week of 2009. Can you believe it? This year has gone by faster than any others. It was a year of extremes: extreme lows and extreme highs. Too many people lost their jobs, their houses, their loved ones or their spirit this year. Every great project manager knows the value [...]
Setting a Baseline
October 8 through 12 I attended the PMI Leadership meeting and after that the PMI Congress. I have actively volunteered for PMI on and off for the last 8 years and currently serve as the immediate past President of the San Francisco Chapter. Starting January I will be a member of the Leadership Institute Advisory [...]
Have fun while you’re at it!
I thought this would be a great topic for a Friday! It gives you the weekend to ponder it.
Last Friday I attended my first World Café. World Café Conversations are a way to create a network of conversations around important questions. Based on a set of design principles, Café Conversations link and build on each [...]
What is a Project Manager?
If you ask 10 project managers to give a definition of their role, you most likely will end up with 10 different descriptions ranging from project admin and task master to program manager. In marketing terms, our profession has an image problem: there is no standard job description and most people have no clue what [...]
Essentials of Decision Making
I am very avid diver here in the cold California waters. If at all possible I dive every weekend. Diving is not an extremely dangerous sport, however, decisions I make before, during and after the dive form the foundation of mine and my buddies safety and survival every dive. Making a good decision relies heavily [...]
Dealing with Change
Image by Åukasz Strachanowski via FlickrOur theme of this week was “living life smarter”. We started with defining SMART goals and reflecting on where we are now. Then we looked at setting priorities so we use our limited time and finances wisely. Focusing on the highest priority items that give us the most value for [...]
Setting priorities
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We discussed how to set SMART goals and define where we are today. Now we can focus on how we get from where we are now to where we want to be. I don’t know about you, but I have way more interests than time available to pursue them. My biggest [...]
Gap Analysis – Where are you now?
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To take Wikipedia’s definition, a gap analysis is a business assessment tool enabling a company to compare its actual performance with its potential performance. At its core are two questions:
Where are we?
Where do we want to be?
As we know from our projects, the gap analysis process involves determining, documenting and approving the [...]
Knowing what you want – setting goals
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Life is all about balance. Life and projects characteristics are not very different. Both life and projects deal with continuous change so the idea is to have a loose framework with enough structure that it provides a path to follow. If the structure is too tight or detailed you are doomed to fail [...]
Time to reflect and look forward
Image via WikipediaThere are only three days left in 2008. December is a month of looking back as well as forward. Though we are just moving from one month, December, to the next, January (as we do the whole year), it always seems a giant stride. In these tough economic times, it seems we cannot [...]
Personal Leadership
What comes to your mind if you hear the word “leadership”? When talking about leadership, people think of Jack Welch, Martin Luther King, or Nelson Mandela, individuals who have led large corporations, movements or countries. Individual leadership, however, starts with the person. Who would want to follow you, if you would not [...]
