September 28th, 2007: Personal Planning in Real Time - Marlborough MA

Another public session of this popular workshop. [click for more information] from the Strategies In Play website.

September 20, 2007: Personal Planning in Real time - The MLK Center in Worcester MA.

September 14, 2007: Personal planning in Real Time - Hartford CT

This half day workshop provides a hands-on experience with our top best practices that insure that you are working on what is best for you and your company. This was set up by the request of several attendees at the May 4th conference.

May 4, 2007: Project Manager - Manage Yourself - SNEC Hartford CT

Project managers are trained to manage all sorts of projects. But in today's age of global virtual teams, multiple time zones, and 24/7 access via email, BlackBerrys, cell phones, and all other modern conveniences, the life of a project manager is often overloaded and chaotic. This one hour presentation presents a proven approach to take charge of that daily chaos and work more efficiently and calmly to meet the needs of the project. [click for more info]

April 3, 2007: Business and Project Management for Small Businesses - Worcester MA

this two hour workshop on simple processes for small business takes a hands-on approach and offers simple and pragmatic processes for small business. [click for more info]

October 10th, 2006: Team Transitions - Westborough, MA

We have again updated and expanded our materials on Internetworked teams. In addition to the May updates, the presentation now includes 3rd party research results that support the core premise on the superior performance of Internetworked teams. If you have not seen this presentation since last year, come see the updates. [click for more information]

May 23rd, 2006: Team Transitions - Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford, CT

We will be presenting our expanded and updated ideas for how to improve team performance by looking at how teams actually operate rather than the historical artifacts that organizations use to define organizations. We will also be introducing our new book at this conference. To register visit [click for more information]

December 7, 2005: Transitions for Project Team Performance - Manchester, NH

We will be presenting our "Transitions for Project Team Performance" to the PMI New Hampshire Chapter. Additional details will be available on their web. [click for more information]

November 9, 2005: Transitions for Project Team Performance - Portland, ME

We will be presenting our "Transitions for Project Team Performance" to the PMI Maine Chapter. Additional details will be available on their web. [click for more information]

October 26, 2005: Transitions for Project Team Performance - Burlington, MA

We will be presenting at the Project Summit & Business Analyst World at the Boston Marriott Burlington. [click for more information]

October 19, 2005: Integrating Teamwork Across Teams and Project Plans - Newton Corner, MA

We will be presenting to The MedDev Group our newest ideas about examining project plans for teamwork requirements, measuring teamwork in active project teams and combining those two for the benefit of project results and predictability. [click for more information]

September 29, 2005: Transitions for Project Team Performance - Poughkeepsie, NY

We will be presenting our "Transitions for Project Team Performance" to the PMI Hudson Valley Chapter. Additional details will be available on their web. [click for more information]

September 14, 2005: Playing Well with Others - CoF Boston, MA

If you push aside, for a moment, the standard things one thinks about to gain wallet-share from the customer and look “within” – where are there opportunities for advantage? One area that is extremely hard to copy or reproduce is a set of highly customer-focused individuals delivering the product or service to the customer. The evening will be part panel session and part break-out groups giving the audience an opportunity to dialogue in smaller groups with individual panelists.

July 29, 2005: Best Supporting Roles

Virtual workspaces, blogs, wikis and archives can become the lifeblood of larger self-organized project teams, for which all-inclusive, continuous information sharing is a founding principle. Meanwhile, the author recommends that email take a backseat on project communication.[

This is the sixth article in the series on project teams published by Projects@Work. To read this, a free registration is required at the Projects@Work website. [click to read]

June 9 - 10, 2005: Project Management Benchmarking Forum - Philadelphia, PA

The Center for Business Practices is sponsoring another of their popular Project Management Benchmarking forums at the Doubletree Hotel Philadelphia. We will be presenting on "Change Management, Transitions for Project Team Performance". Focus is on participants benchmarking their own performance and that of their peers.

This conference differs from traditional conferences in that brief presentations by experts are used to direct discussions and knowledge-sharing among the attendees. The conference is attended by senior managers who bring their experience as well as their issues for discussion by the group.

May 14, 2005: Transitions for Project Team Performance - Boston, MA

The PMI Mass Bay Chapter is sponsoring a seminar for Advancing Project Management Professions at the Boston University Corporate Education Center in Tyngsboro, MA. Our presentation covers the transitions from the Heroic organizations of old to contemporary high-performance teams as they move through Post-Heroic and Hub-and-Spoke models into Self-Organized and Networked teams. The presentation includes ideas on how to make the transition, pitfalls to avoid, and a model of how the ultimate high-performing team organization should look and feel. This is specifically aimed at career development for project leaders.

March 2005: Organize Thyself

This installment of our series in Projects at Work magazine looks at how the Hub-and-Spoke model that has been previously discussed evolves into Self-Organizing teams. While self organizing may sound chaotic, it is actually the basis of most successful teams - as members of those teams both collectively and individually take on project responsibility. Yes, there is still a strong (perhaps stronger) need for Project Management and Project Leadership, but the roles are not the Command-and-Control project dictators of the 20th century. Self-Organizing Team is the force of today.

This is the fifth article in the series on project teams published by Projects@Work. To read this, a free registration is required at the Projects@Work website. [click to read]

January 2005: Here's the Hub

As we continue our series in Projects at Work magazine, we next look at the Hub-and-Spoke model of project organizational design. This model is often the transition from the Hierarchical team model to the most productive forms. This article includes ideas on how to make it work well, and what traps might cause problems.

This is the fourth article in the series on project teams published by Projects@Work. To read this, a free registration is required at the Projects@Work website. [click to read]

December 2004: Bygone Heroes

'Heroic' leaders thrive on power and hierarchy. Their need to control can throttle communication and innovation on projects, frustrating teams and slowing progress. What drives heroic leaders, and what can be done about them?

This is the third article in the series on project teams published by Projects@Work. To read this, a free registration is required at the Projects@Work website. [click to read]

October 2004: The Death of Charts

Successful project teams are built on communication. Unfortunately, many companies value the org chart over real-time access to information and resources. But there is a better way--a networked model--to accomplish the mission.

 

This is the second article in the series on project team organization published by Projects@Work. To access this article, a free registration is required at the Projects@Work website.  [click to read]

September 2004: Automation World

Dennis Smith was quoted extensively in the article "Help for the Incidental Project Manager" starting on page 24 of this issue. Comments included the importance of completing the “notoriously unglamorous” requirements and how projects slip an hour at a time, not by weeks or months. [click to read]

August 17, 2004: Projects@Work

Team/Project Acculitics received a great write-up by Aaron Smith of the Projects@Work editorial staff. Take a look at this outside view of this new and impactive project team technology. [click to read]

August 12, 2004: Toward Networked Project Organizations

Projects@Work has started a new 7-part series of articles on making the transition from heroic or authoritarian project organizations to the networked organizations of the future. The first installment talks about the power of leaders and how it affects today's hierarchical organizations. [click to read]

July 22, 2004: Machine Design

The Design Management Supplement for this issue of Machine Design contains an article by Dennis Smith titled "Project Network Links - The Second Biggest Project Lie" [click to read]

June 28, 2004: Announcing Team/Project Acculitics_sm

CompanySmith has announced the availability of Team/Project Acculitics To read the press releases [click to read]

June 1, 2004: Mass High Tech Magazine

Building team for the long haul is the theme of this article In the May 31, 2004 issue of Mass High Tech. Co-authored with Stefanie Heiter, it talks about new ways to build technology project teams for the offshore and nearshore environments.

April 15, 2004: Best Practices e-Advisor for Superior Projects

Our article in the March/April edition of People on Projects entitled Big Ideas/Big Trouble was quoted extensively in this e-zine. [click to read]

March 2004: Product Development Best Practices Report

This article talks about what happens in teams when the manager leaves the room. It looks at managing working relationships, teamwork, and the alignment of the informal organization to the formal organization. This newsletter is published by The Management Roundtable Inc.

Spring 2004: Productivity Reports

This page 4 article provides a brief introduction to using Social Network Analysis to measure teamwork. [click to read]

March 2004: PM Network Magazine

Quoted extensively in The Virtual Handshake An article looking at the impacts of and methods of using and living with distributed teams and virtual organizations. To read this article, [click to read]

October 2003: PM Network Magazine

Quoted in "Q&A Sage Advise" Feature on Page 52. PM Network Magazine is "the Professional magazine of the Project Management Institute." [click to read]

October 2, 2003:  ProjectWorld - Chicago

Presenting a 75 minute overview of our 'Executive Project Leadership' workshop. [click for more info on this workshop]

June 4, 2003: Project Leadership Conference - Boston

Presenting our update on "ROI - The Really Obsolete Index"

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