Kathy Donavan, PMP, LSSBB, FLMI/M, DTM, Change Guides
Sr Consultant, Heitmeyer Consulting
Session Details
Success Requires Success
Around 68% of projects met all their goals according to current industry data, which is an improvement from the last several years. About 70% of the time is a business case is utilized. We need to understand how this correlation, and what we can do about it, can bring about further positive change in the project management industry.
In this keynote presentation I address how to set things up so that the whole team is on board - let's huddle!
This is fresh data, and based on recent experience. I can adjust it to add in your desired takeaways based on the conference theme, just let me know.
Learning Objectives
* How to identify critical success factors for projects
* How to present them
* How to ensure they are in place
* How to monitor program / project success
About the Speaker
Kathy Donavan is senior consultant who has worked with several fortune 500 companies to successfully implement challenging programs and projects in a myriad of situations, including complete system replacements and mergers. In doing so she has collected insights into calming the institutional chaos that occurs frequently in cross-functional implementations.
By introducing common sense practices from the get-go, she has been able to do so efficiently and economically, garnering both short-term and long-term results.
Bringing years of experience from several roles, including business / IT liaison, programmer, DBA, Asset Manager, and several IT leadership roles, she has weathered large mergers and program efforts with an eye for ‘the whole’.
Her training amongst others includes PMP, LSSBB, FLMI/M, and Change Management certifications. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University in Business Administration with a specialty in Management Information Systems.
She currently lives in London, Ohio on Choctaw Lake where she enjoys making music with the musicians living there.