calling an audible: managing project direction and success when business priorities shift

CALLING AN AUDIBLE:

Dustin Werden | Shannon Glass11.18.2015

Managing Project Direction and Success When Business Priorities Shift

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Dustin Werden Director Project Management

ABOUTo BA in IS & Management & MBA 2016o 14 Years of Enterprise & large scale

IT Project Management Experience and technology deployment and integration.

o Gold Standard Certifications: MCITP, CISSP, PMP, and Security+

o Clients: Aerospace, Public Utilities, DoD, Manufacturing, Family Foundations.

o “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” - Ben Franklin

o ISTJ: integrity, standards, logic

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oBS in Organizational Communication & Management & MBA 2016

o15 Years of IT, Information Security and Compliance Experience

oSecurity, Compliance, Outsourcing/Right Sourcing, Acquisition Integration, Program Management

oClients: Healthcare & Financial o “You can’t build a reputation on what

you’re going to do.” - Henry FordoENTJ: integrity, strategy, logic,

analytics, concepts

Shannon GlassDirector Security & Compliance

ABOUT

What experience do you have with calling an audible?

CHANGECalling an Audible

• Plans are Approved• People are in Place• Timelines are Scheduled• Budgets are Set• And the Board Wants to Sell . . .

Time to Call an Audible ... What’s Next?

OVERVIEW

Agenda: Drivers of Change Reaction Strategies

o ListenoAssesso Pivot

Questions

Managing Project Direction and Success When Business Priorities Shift

LEADING THROUGH CHANGE

“Always plan for the fact that no plan ever goes according to plan.”

- Simon SinekMiracle on the HudsonSource: http://content.time.com/time/photogallery

DRIVERS OF CHANGEMergers & Acquisitions

DRIVERS OF CHANGEMergers Set All Time Records

2015 is on pace to have the highest volume of merger and acquisition activity on record.

Source: http://www.dealogic.com/media/market-insights/ma-statshot/

OTHERDrivers of Change

o Bankruptcyo Government Relationso Market Floorso Change in Leadershipo Outsourcingo Global Expansiono Security Breach

SECURITY

Managing Change: 

o Preparationo Detection & Analysiso Containment

Eradication & Recovery

o Post Incident Activity

L.A.P. FOR CHANGE

Listen Assess Pivot

Managing Project Direction and Success When Business Priorities Shift

LISTEN (L.A.P.)Understand the Message

Understand the

Message

What’s in Scope

When’s the Impact

How’s the Environme

nt Affected

Who’s Driving

The Change

ASSESS (L.A.P.)Take Inventory

Take Inventory

Contractual

Obligations

AssetsSunk Costs

PIVOT (L.A.P.)Communicate and Execute

Communicate with

Your

Team

Leadership

Stakeholders

Vendors

RALLY THE TEAM Clear, Concise Communication and Leadership

PIVOT (L.A.P.)Communicate and Execute

EXECUTE THE PLAN Just Do IT!

PIVOT (L.A.P.)Communicate and Execute

• Understand the drivers of change affecting the environment

• Use LAP as a tool to quickly assess the business shift, mobilize your team, and execute the project

• Identify reaction strategies to use (or not to use) when facing project change

MANAGING PROJECT DIRECTION AND SUCCESS WHEN BUSINESS PRIORITIES SHIFT

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