PMI Houston Galleria: "The Need for Transformation: Business-Integrated Project Management & Unstick Your Product Management Career"
Pre-Dinner Presentation: Unstick Your Product Management Career
Teresa Jurgens is a writer, speaker, and executive coach helping leaders tap into creativity for successful innovation. She helps organizations improve time-to-market for new products through building collaborative teams and delivering enhancements across the innovation ecosystem. Teresa has worked with product teams around the world in a variety of industries, including food and beverage, home appliances, medical devices, publishing, petrochemicals, non-profits, and more. She is the author of The Innovation Book series (available at Amazon) and is currently writing another book on leadership (coming in 2025). A certified PMP with degrees in chemical engineering, Teresa lives in Tucson and enjoys hiking among the majestic saguaro cactus.
Topic Synopsis:
Product management is a relative newcomer on the scene within the realm of successful project execution. Whether you work on IT projects or with tangible new products, business objectives for product management are similar. Corporate strategy, portfolio balance, project execution, and team development are necessary skills for a product manager to master.
In this interactive session, we will identify key business objectives for successful project management. Using a set of creativity tools, you will begin to align your own experiences as a product manager with traditional business deliverables for product development. Finally, you will design a simple, three-step action plan to achieve your personal development goals to launch and accelerate a purpose-driven career as a product manager.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify core business objectives in project management.
- Align your product manager (PM) skills with core business deliverables.
- Design a simple , 3-step action plan to achieve your PM career goals.
PDU Triangle:
1.0 Business Acumen PDU
Dinner Presentation: The Need for Transformation: Business-Integrated Project Management & Unstick Your Product Management Career
Mounir has decades of experience working on projects worth billions of US dollars. He has global experience in the US, UK, Southeast Asia, West Asia, and the GCC, including industrial and capital projects, and years of experience in consultancy and training. Mounir has worked with global leaders such as Exxon, BASF, and Saudi Aramco and delivered services to companies including SABIC, Ericson, Etihad Airways, Emirates Global Aluminum, and many ministries and government agencies across West Asia and beyond.
Topic Synopsis:
Project management has (an image) a problem. Despite decades of professionalization of project management practice, PMOs, guides, books, software, and certifications, we still see a high rate of project management challenges and failures. Being behind schedule or overbudget is often expected, tolerated, and accepted.
What are the root causes of failures, and what are the critical success factors. Why do we need to change and transform our practice? Why is it essential to shift our paradigms and seek the abilities and competence to predetermine success?
We will share the envisioned future as we propose the establishment of formal recognized project management function and division, going beyond the PMO-Box! A function led by a chief project officer with mandate to help with formulating the organizational strategy, execution the strategy through the 4PMs, and realizing visions!
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the current state of practice and challenges and fragmentation
- Learn about the five levels of the project management practice
- Recognize the need for transformation
- What do we mean by the project management function and division
- A suggested mandate of the project management division and CPO role
PDU Triangle:
0.65 Ways of Working & 0.35 Business Acumen PDUs
Event Information
| Event Date | 06-11-2025 5:00 pm |
| Event End Date | 06-11-2025 8:00 pm |
| Cut Off Date | 06-11-2025 8:00 pm |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Registered | 5 |
| Available Place | 25 |
| Individual Price | $30 Members / $40 Guests |
| Location | Home2 Suites by Hilton at the Galleria |