Paul Glen
Speaker Bio
Paul Glen, Founder of C2 Consulting, is an award winning author, management columnist and professional speaker. He is author of Leading Geeks: How to Lead and Manage People Who Deliver Technology, which won the Financial Times Germany International Book Prize, naming it the best book published worldwide on the subject of leadership. He also writes a monthly for Computerworld USA, which is frequently syndicated around the globe. In 2007, his column was awarded a National Silver Medal for Editorial Excellence by the American Society of Business Publications Editors. Glen had taught as a part time faculty member in MBA programs at the University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University. He is one of three people worldwide, outside of Microsoft, to be certified as master trainer for delivering MS's project management curriculum, the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF). Mr. Glen holds an MBA degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA degree from Cornell.
Leading Geeks:
How to Manage and Lead People Who Deliver Technology!
Today every manager must learn to lead geeks. Geeks deliver and support the technology that drives efficiency, effectiveness, and competitiveness of real businesses. Yet, most managers and executives find that geeks are difficult to fathom and even harder to lead. Paul Glen, Founder of C2 Consulting, is one of us. He has been a programmer, a product manager, a project manager, a resource manager, and has been involved in dozens of software development and deployment projects. In his presentation, Glen will explain why geeks are different from other employees, and why different strategies are required to lead them. Mr. Glen is the author of Leading Geeks: How to Lead and Manage People Who Deliver Technology.
Project Disasters
How To Predict Them, Prevent Them Or Pull The Plug On Them!
Despite significant progress over the last decade, project success rates are still dismally poor. Only about a quarter of projects are completed successfully. The rest are cancelled completely or are finished substantially late, over budget or missing major functionality. When used well, traditional IT project management approaches provide excellent information about what happened, but they’re lousy at predicting the future. In this presentation, Glen will describe why projects fail, and identify the five leading indicators of project success, and show you how to use them to predict the future, prevent problems and emerge a hero.
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