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Introducing New Forum Discussion Format
Please join us for our November LA Project Management Meetup in beautiful Marina del Rey!
For this month’s meetup, we will be conducting two forum discussions, lead by other Project Managers in our community.
The agenda is as follows:
* Ozlem Ulusoy-Chavez – Project Design
* Finney – Project Histories
By now we’re sure you all feel the change that’s in the air for our world, our nation and especially our industry. We are entering the next big evolution in Project Management, which makes this the perfect opportunity to solidify our community through this meetup.
Don’t be left behind – please come join us on Wednesday, November 12th in Marina del Rey!
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Not a member? Join the LA Project Management Meetup today!
November 5th, 2008
Join us for Knowledge Sharing and Networking
We had our first Meetup a while ago on July 30. It was good to meet everyone and from my point of view, it was a success!
This September 10th one will be our second. In this meeting, we’ll be finalizing our “charter,” intent, manifesto, our raison d’etre.
During our last meeting, we determined the top 2 goals for this Meetup are:
* Knowledge Sharing amongst the PM’s. This will take the form of discussions rather than presentations
* Networking
In this second meeting, in addition to finalizing our Charter, we’ll create a schedule of Knowledge Sharing discussions and if we have time left over, we’ll conduct one of those discussions.
The meeting will take place on Wednesday, September 10th at the same place as the first- Digital Onion’s offices.
There are now 39 members! Who’s coming?
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Not a member? Join the LA Project Management Meetup today!
September 3rd, 2008
LA Project Management Meetup
Please join Digital Onion for our inaugural meetup event. You can signup, RSVP and receive updates all at Meetup.com
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DATE: July 30, 2009
TIME: 7pm
PLACE: Marina del Rey
AGENDA
7:00 – Meet and Greet with Host, Tony Wong, and other attendees (food and beverage included)
7:15 – Introduction to the first Project Manager’s Meet-Up in Los Angeles!
7:30 – Presentation on a professional topic
8:00 – Round table discussion on state of profession
8:30 – Closing remarks
8:45 – Close the first Project Manager’s Meet-Up
July 15th, 2008
Please join us at NDCQ.com today!
What is NDCQ®? It’s an acronym for Not Dead, Can’t Quit® – a philosophy adapted by my close friend Richard ‘Mack’ Machowicz from his time as a Navy Seal and Naval Special Warfare Scout/Sniper. The philosophy is centered on the single idea that the only thing that can stop you from your goals is IF YOU DIE. If you’re Not Dead, then the only left to stop you from reaching your target is you. You’re Not Dead, you Can’t Quit.
When I heard about this idea, I began to see applications for it in other areas of life, outside of the Military Special Forces. After many years in Project Management, I realized I had approached things all wrong. Instead of leading, I was managing. For myself and my teams, we weren’t realizing our full potential, our ability to be extraordinary. So, I saw a problem, how was I gonna fix it?
Mack and I took the principles of Not Dead, Can’t Quit®, and combined them with my experience and best business practices to come up with something entirely new to business management, a cutting-edge system: The Point Man® Leadership System. Now I was getting somewhere. This was something I knew could make a difference for individuals and companies alike, this became my goal, my target.
Determined to show others the possibility of an Extraordinary Business, through Extraordinary leadership, I founded Digital Onion, Inc. Through my company I set about teaching, consulting and guiding businesses with the Point Man® Leadership System. I called it transformational management; transforming management into leadership.
All of this brings me back to that original phrase, Not Dead, Can’t Quit®. No matter what the risks, what the work, what was known and unknown, I didn’t quit. I won’t quit. NDCQ.com brings it all home for me. Visit the site, learn about Mack, and connect with others who have found that every goal is reachable, if you’re willing to work for it.
July 2nd, 2008
We’re happy to announce the Pilot launch of our project management training series. We’ve selected a few of our clients and industry contacts to receive a special offer to try the first in a series of training products, Point Man Project Design. In the coming months, you’ll see more and more training products from Point Man Project Design, The Foundation to Creating Profitable and Successful Projects to Point Man Wayfinding, How to Find Out How Your Project is Doing and How to Reach your Project Goals to Point Man Contract Creation, How to Write Project Contracts that Set You up for Success.
We chose to release Point Man Project Design first because in a recent study we conducted on successful projects, we found that 75% of critical project problems were attributed to poorly designed projects! The causes of the problems ranged from choosing the wrong team members for the project, under – or over – estimating the knowledge or capabilities of the Project Sponsor (the client) to poor goal setting – or not setting project goals at all.
What this told us is that 75% of these major project problems could have been avoided just by clearly considering the Project Success Criteria and then plainly adjusting the factors that impact those criteria.
If you’d like to know more, please email us at info@digitalonioninc.com and ask about our Point Man Project Design Pilot Program.
April 20th, 2008
Digital Onion is a Project Management consultancy committed to transforming Project Management in software development so that projects are Successful, Effortless and Fun. Our focus is on implementing systems that WORK, instead of those designed to create more overhead and more complexity. Our consulting works by looking at each client’s specific situation to SEE what’s really going on and then design a solution to quickly get their projects on the path to Success.
In so doing, we help our clients achieve the same for their projects and teams. We work with them to establish and maintain project management systems that produce EXTRAORDINARY TEAMS and EXTRAORDINARY PROJECTS. If this sounds at all like it’s too good to be true, it’s NOT! We encourage you to contact us and we’ll happily give you references from our clients that confirm what we’re saying.
In the coming days, you can expect to read practical and down to earth processes that will most definitely get your projects on the right track to success- without having that promise be dependent upon implementing a lot more procedure. This is our promise and we’ll deliver! You’ll see.
March 1st, 2008
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