Bill Stewart
The Resource Management Bootcamp
Booted into the 21st Century of Product Development
Bill Stewart, a former Army Ranger and now CEO of the Project Management Leadership Group (PMLG), invented eight years ago the Certified Project Management Boot Camp. Capitalizing on the Army Ranger Boot Camp themes of “hands-on”, practical tools and in depth training, PMLG developed a unique and challenge based immersion format with a special emphasis on leadership. Using a set of proven project and product management decision support tools and templates, Stewart built a Boot Camp model for a type of team building and collaborative training that competitors have rushed to imitate. Now, with the emergence of a new era, accurate resource planning is a major component in successfully running the business of firms who have a time-to-market urgency. While still maintaining the traditional Boot Camp style, this new product offering will contain instruction in demand management, capacity planning and effort tracking in a project portfolio environment where resources are shared across many projects. Highlights will include the integration of resource planning with portfolio finance operations, the additional of function managers to the portfolio constituency model, and the addition of “resource planning managers” to the traditional PMO. Sample deliverables include management reports that are useful in portfolio negotiations with stakeholders, including demand profile reports, skill based capacity reviews and resource utilization maps that forecast supply and demand many quarters out. Truly, this is what it takes to be “booted” into the 21st century of managing products.
PMO and portfolio management thought leader, Bill Stewart has over 30 years of successful project and program management experience across a wide range of initiatives. A former Infantry Officer, Ranger and Aviator, Bill developed dynamic leadership training programs that are still in use by the military today. He was a program manager for President Reagan on the Grace Commission, identifying and developing business processes and systems for the federal government. As an internal management consultant for Phillips Petroleum and Ernst & Young he was responsible for implementing a wide range of business solutions for Fortune 500 corporations. During the 1980's and 90's, Bill was instrumental in the inception and development of the program office concept and led successful implementations of portfolio and program management across major corporations and organizations. He regularly coaches executives on how to rapidly move to a discipline of planning and execution excellence. He is active in PMI and served for 7 years on the board of the Information Systems Specific Interest Group. He created the International Program Office Summit, a think tank for program and portfolio professionals and now in its 7th year. Bill is considered by many as the father of project management immersion training, having developed experiential based programs that rapidly mature the leadership and project management skills of organizational leaders.
An exciting motivational speaker, he is regularly asked to conduct presentations and workshops for major corporations and organizations internationally. Bill's extensive knowledge and experience in project, program and portfolio management coupled with his passion to share his knowledge and experiences, make his presentations exciting, informative and highly motivating. Interviews with Bill have appeared in such periodicals as CEO and CIO magazines, PM Networks Career Tracks and this year's PMI Leadership issue of PM Network. He appeared on CNBC as a project management expert and has been asked to return to CNBC this year for another session focusing on project management and leadership development. Bill will soon be releasing two books: PMO Survival Guide" and "Leadership is Not a Job Title."
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