Hosted By: Vince Sorrenti
In December we were privileged to be addressed by one of Australia’s leading project managers – Mr Vincent Sorrenti. In Mr Sorrenti’s own words, there are three types of people in this world.

"Project Manager: Custodian of the Business Case"
by: Barbara Hawes - Productivity Profits
Three areas were explored:
1) What is a business case; 2) The value of the business case to the project manager 3) A process for producing and submitting a business case

"Earned Value Management"
by: David Read, Director - Earned Value Systems
In his presentation, David related facts, fables and war stories followed by an exchange of ideas on the past and future utility of Earned Value. The presentation included some history of ...

"Project Recovery"
by: Kym Henderson – Program Manager, Compaq Computer Australia
Project recovery is a vexed and often ignored topic within the IT industry in spite of the long history of large numbers of IT projects which could be classified as troubled projects.

"Testing Times"
by: Michael Graf – Principal, Testing Services - IBM Global Services Australia and IBM A/NZ Testing Competency Leader.
With the passing of Year 2000 and the emergence of e-business and webcommerce, Information Technology has evolved and emerged as a critical ...

"Assessing Your Organisation’s Project Management Capability – From Theory to Practice"
by: Harold Ainsworth - Principal, Project Managers’ Network Pty Ltd and Mike Krasny, - IT Audit Manager, Group Audit, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
The presentation considered the current state of...

"Critical Chain Project Management Methodologies"
by:David Hodes from Prochain Australia
David began his innovative talk by dragging 15 "volunteers" from the capacity audience and putting them to work in three "chain gangs".

"Presentation to John and Margaret Williams"
This meeting witnessed a presentation to founding members John and Margaret Williams, for their outstanding contributions to the Sydney Chapter through:
Instigation of, and long-term dedication to, the PMI Examination Tutorials...