— Setbacks, Backup plan, Management best practices

Speaker: Tim Bombosch
Meeting Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010
Time: 6.00 pm Networking; 6:30 pm Management Forum/Guided Networking; 7:00 pm sandwich dinner; 7:30 pm Presentation
Location: Ramada Sunnyvale

Summary:
Management Forum / Guided Networking: Bring Your Management Challenge; Arrive by 6:30 PM to join this exciting Management Forum. Following informal networking is a guided discussion typically related to the topic of the evening’s after dinner talk, or of general Technology Management interest.
Light Dinner: This month we’re continuing with our light dinner format — typically sandwiches, salad, drinks, and cookie or similar light dinner.

Presentation: Kick Your Skills Up a Notch—Project Risk Management

We have all experienced the painful feeling in our gut when something has gone wrong, something we should and could have anticipated, something that might have been avoided if only we had adequately planned for it. Project Risk management is a systematic approach to identifying, planning for, and responding to risks.  Properly done, risk management can help us sail past the inevitable setbacks every project has. Improperly done, we either get blindsided or overburden ourselves with too many backup plans.
This presentation will explore how to develop and implement risk management best practices in your projects—”including calculating the possible impact of risks, and the cost of managing them.

Bio:
Tim Bombosch is the Director of Professional Services for Astoria Software. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with 10+ years of experience managing projects for Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Becton-Dickinson, Beckman Coulter, Genentech, Iridex, Kaiser Permanente, and Mindjet. Tim speaks frequently about content management, project management, Web 2.0, and content globalization. He teaches at the University of California Extension and received his PhD from Stanford University.