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Phil Messina, a project manager at HP, volunteered to document the PMI Norcal Symposium 2008. Here is his report.
Randy Englund, Content and Program Director, www.englundpmc.com

On September 3rd and 4th, nearly 300 project management professionals settled into the Stanford University Faculty Club meeting room in Palo Alto, California, for the NorCal 2008 PMI Symposium. [...]

Two current or former colleagues will join me at the  PMI NorCal Symposium 2008 on September 3-4 at Stanford University.
My co-author of Project Sponsorship and close friend is Alfonso Bucero.  All projects need an executive sponsor.  Upper management support for projects consistently surfaces as a critical success factor and sets the pace for [...]

What can we learn from case studies?  Plenty!
While Genentech sponsored a risk management initiative a couple years ago to improve risk identification, analysis, and planning, the results still appeared spotty in terms of widespread application by its project teams,.  But that didn’t stop senior project manager Melanie Ebojo.  With her experience in managing [...]

Creating excellence IN project management is about viewpoints, insights, and practices on why, what, how, and who to optimize project-based work.  This goal is necessary because projects are the means to achieve almost anything in every organization.  Without good project, program, and portfolio management, achieving results is tenuous.  Traditional efforts are not sufficient [...]