January 2025 PMI La Crosse Rochester Chapter Monthly Learning Event

 

January 21, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Virtual Event

Dr. Shawn D. Belling, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSP, RS@SP

Title: Tools and Techniques for Recovering Troubled Projects 

PDUs: Earn 1 Ways of Working PDU

Agenda: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CST Presentation  ** Meeting link will be in your thank you for registering email.

Description:
In this one-hour presentation, attendees will learn essential tools and techniques to identify, assess, and recover troubled projects. The session begins with methods for recognizing signs of project trouble, understanding root causes, and categorizing types of project distress. We will explore various stages where projects can falter—conception, planning, execution, and delivery—and examine practical recovery strategies tailored for each phase. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with actionable tactics to recommend and implement recovery options, enabling the successful turnaround of struggling projects.

Course Objectives

At the end of this seminar on Tools and Techniques for Recovering Troubled Projects, you will be able to:

  • Identify troubled projects
  • Identify root causes of troubled projects
  • Assess various types of troubled or failing projects at different stages of development and evolution
  • Develop and recommend options for recovery of troubled projects
  • Develop and execute recovery of troubled projects

Meet the Speaker: Shawn Belling is a globally experienced technology executive, speaker, instructor, and author based in Madison, WI. Shawn has over thirty years of professional experience including executive and management roles in health tech, higher education, software, consulting, bio-pharma, manufacturing, and regulatory compliance sectors. Shawn is the Director of IT for Thermo Fisher Scientific’s GMP labs within their Clinical Research Division. Shawn also holds teaching roles at UW–Madison and UW–Platteville and the University of Southern California. Areas of professional and academic practice include project and program management, agile practices, organizational change management, software and IT strategy and delivery, new product development and remote work. In addition to his technology and project leadership experience, Shawn teaches, speaks and consults for businesses, universities and professional organizations on various leadership and management topics and practices. Shawn released his books Succeeding with Agile Hybrids in November of 2020 and Remotely Possible in June of 2021.

Shawn is certified by PMI as a Project Management Professional and Agile Certified Practitioner and is also a Certified Scrum Professional and Registered Scrum at Scale Practitioner. Shawn earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of WisconsinWhitewater and Master of Science in Project Management from UW–Platteville. Shawn earned a certificate in Organizational Change Leadership from UW–Platteville and Doctor of Education in Leadership at the University of the Cumberlands.

Connect with Dr. Shawn D. Belling, on LinkedIn

Tickets

$10.00 Virtual - Chapter Member

$15.00 Virtual Non-Chapter Member

$5.00 Virtual - Student