What is the Resource Planning Summit?

A thought leadership event that reveals fresh capacity planning achievements for firms where time to market and competitive edge are crucial, and where managing resources across portfolios are not a day on the beach.

La Jolla Hyatt Regency

September 19-21

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David Maxfield

Dead Projects Walking

Reluctant to speak up at project reviews? Then hear the 5 situations where a conspiracy of Silence causes project ruin!

Paul Glen

How to Motivate Geeks

Why traditional approaches don't work, and why geeks are different from other employees

Christine Cashen

Difficult People are not Difficult - They are just Different!!

She understands your pain---she's married to a Project Manager

Terry Schmidt

Emotional Intelligence (EI) returns to 2010 Summit!

Teaches EI at MIT. Will present practical EI experiences in Project Management and Product Development

Peter Heinrich

Portfolio management, without a robust resource planning process, is an empty shell

Jeff Thomas, VP Mfg IDEXX

Ten Projects Half Done is Zero!
Learn the Four Principles of Getting Products Done!

Paul Glen

Project Disasters: How to Predict them, Prevent them or Pull the Plug on them!

Be a Hero by learning the 5 leading indicators of project success!

John Clemens

The Leadership Kaleidoscope: Highly interactive program using snippets from famous films to transform leadership behavior

Why Should You Attend?

  • Companies that manage product portfolios can significantly improve delivery results by optimizing their resource planning
  • Resource planning is the key to successful portfolio management; most companies self-identify as being poor at resource planning
  • Credibility of project management planning is improved by enterprise resource planning
  • Over the next 10 years, companies that optimize capacity and skills inventory are going to be the winners.

What Will You Learn?

  • How to motivate Geeks, and why traditional approaches to Leadership don't work with geeks
  • In "Dead Projects Walking," you will learn from the findings of a survey of 2,200 projects how your silence at crucial project milestones damages flawless execution. It's called Silence Fails. Attendees will have a survey to map the research findings against their project.
  • Learn how to bring products to market on time from VP of IDEXX, a $1B Medical instruments company
  • Why project success rates are still dismally poor. A noted speaker will identify the 5 leading indicators of project success and describe why project disasters occur and how to predict them, prevent them and when to pull the plug on them.
  • Hear why Resource Planning is HOT! Learn how your executives can finally be assured that their products/projects can be completed.
  • Why difficult people are not really difficult----they are just different. This speaker will deal out solutions to you for dealing with your team and organization's issues-----she understands your pain, she's married to a Project Manager!
  • Learn Leadership Lessons from Great Films! In a highly interactive, no-lecturing-allowed presentation, attendees are guided through a series of 2-6 minute film clips resulting in fresh leadership insights and behavior patterns. You just taught yourself!!
  • Emotional Intelligence (EI) was the hit of the 2009 Summit. This year it returns with practical applications demonstrating why outstanding Product Developers and PMs are characterized by their EI mastery.
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Who Should Attend?
12-15 PMI PDU Credits Awarded

  • VP, Director and Manager, Product Development
  • Resource Manager
  • Resource Planners
  • IT Portfolio Managers
  • PMO/EPMO Directors
  • Product Portfolio Managers
  • VP and Director IS Finance
  • VPs and Executives with P/L Responsibity
  • Sr. Manager Operations
  • VP and Director R&D
  • VP and Director Technology Development
  • Project, Program and Product Managers
  • Process Designers/Life Cycle Managers
  • Business School Professors
  • VP, Director and Manager, NPD