Complex technical projects not only involve project team members with diverse technical skills, but also end users with different backgrounds. The talk will cover the most common challenges to managing and delivering complex technical projects for the Test and Measurements industry. We will explore how such projects can easily push Project Managers into the traps of poor communication with stakeholders, errors of omission on requirements elicitation, unbalanced business and technical risk identification and the Project Manager's halo effect on organizations. Though the talk will favor complex technical projects, their challenges are common to other types of projects where project team members with different skills and project stakeholders with multiple backgrounds is a reality.
The speaker will present a methodology that combines concepts of Systems Engineering, Agile and PMI's PMBOK that has been successfully applied on dozens of complex technical projects to help Project Managers better avoid these traps.
Filipe Altoe
Filipe Altoe was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he obtained his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and his M.Sc. in Control Systems in 1997 from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Filipe moved to the United States in 2000 where he changed his career from building control systems into designing, managing and implementing complex multi-disciplinary engineering systems as a Systems Engineer, Project Manager and Engineering Manager. His field work experience in addition to his MBA from St. Thomas University allowed Filipe to migrate to the business side of building complex engineering systems, working as an engineering executive for multiple engineering firms and helping profitably grow their business. Throughout his career, Filipe collected and compiled data from hundreds of different complex engineering projects in the search for the root causes of complex technical project failure, which allowed him to develop a methodology that reduces the alarming statistics showing that over two-thirds of all complex projects fail. Filipe currently lives in the California Bay Area where he runs his own engineering firm focused in helping clients to successfully build complex Test and Measurements systems.
Project Management Education Hours: 1.5 - Category A
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