PM Insights Foster City presents
A Modest PMBOK® Guide Proposal:
Project Blame Management
Foster City
Payson Hall asserts that risk management omits one critical topic: assuring that project managers and sponsoring executives are not held accountable for failures resulting from risks. Avoiding blame is a topic conspicuously absent from the current PMBOK® Guide, and in this talk, Payson proposes expanding the existing ten PMBOK® knowledge areas with an eleventh — “Project Blame Management” (BM) — which he believes formalizes and improves upon something most organizations already do: allocate blame for project failures.
Attendees in this participatory session will learn the advantages of a more structured approach to Blame Management:
● Career enhancing benefits of avoiding blame for failure
● Organizational value of ingratiating yourself to senior executives
● Gaining improved team performance through motivation by fear
The presentation outlines Payson’s proposal for a Blame Management knowledge area by walking through significant aspects of his proposed “Blame Management Plan” addition to the traditional Project Management Plan.
About the Instructor:
Payson Hall, PMP
PAYSON HALL, PMP is a consulting project manager and founding member of Catalysis Group, Inc. Trained as a software engineer, Payson has performed and consulted on a variety of hardware and software systems integration projects in both the public and private sectors throughout North America and Europe during his 30-year professional career. He is a valued member of many project consulting and project review teams because of his combination of IT project management experience, problem solving skill, and communication ability. He has taught project management seminars attended by over 5000 people during the past 20 years. He is a popular conference speaker on topics of systems integration, project management, and risk management and has published over 60 articles on project management.
PDU Info: 1.5 - Category A
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6:00 PM - Sign In and Networking
6:30 PM - Featured Speaker
8:00 PM - Meeting Adjourn
Food: Complimentary snacks and non-alcoholic beverages
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $10
Non-Members: $20
Full-time Student: $5 (online only; Contact Meeting Leader for the discount code. Please bring Student ID card to the event)
At-the-Door Registration:
A limited number of registrations can be accepted at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Once this limit has been reached, the event will be closed to additional attendees.
PMI Silicon Valley Members: $20
Non-Members: $30
(Only Check or Cash accepted; Make checks payable to "PMI Silicon Valley")
Cancellation Policy
This event is a professional society meeting, held for the benefit of its members. The Plan Ahead registration fee paid is based on the registrant's ability to commit to attendance, ahead of time. The Plan Ahead registration fee will not be refunded for any reason, other than event cancellation, after normal business hours (5:00 PM, Pacific) on the registration deadline day. The PMI - Silicon Valley Chapter reserves the right to make last minute changes to program content and speakers, as circumstances dictate.
NOTE: This event is not sponsored by the Peninsula Jewish Community Center (PJCC)