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How did project management software come about? It’s actually a pretty interesting and remarkable story. Most people don’t realize that project management software is actually 55 years old this year! And it and was one of the very first “software applications” ever developed.
This presentation will explain the history of the tools you use every day. The project management industry owes it origins to one enlightened US company and 4 absolutely brilliant men who are the true pioneers of today’s multi-billion dollar PM software industry.
You will be surprised to learn how many of today’s tools owe their existence to the techniques create by these gentlemen in the late 1950s. And how connected these individuals were to the early days of computer technology, and even “where did the term software bugs come from”?
Rich Murphy
Founding Partner EPK Group
Rich has more than 40 years’ experience in the project management, commercial software development, and engineering fields. His project management experience began as a project controls engineer for the engineering and construction effort of a $4 billion nuclear power plant. Since the mid-1970s, he and his long-time partners have led the development of many leading commercial project management software systems.
Microsoft’s acquired their Enterprise Project system in August 2000 when Rich joined Microsoft as a Program Manager, and participated in the development of Project Professional and Project Server. He was the original Solution CEO for Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management (EPM) system. In December 2002, Rich and his team formed EPK Group, to build a comprehensive portfolio and resource management system based on Microsoft’s platforms. In 2010 he merged EPK Group with EPMLive to establish a world-class SharePoint-based Project, Portfolio, and Resource management system.
Rich has been an author and speaker for PMI, the Microsoft Project Users Group, and the Enterprise Architecture Conferences on the subjects of Project Portfolio Management and establishing PMOs.
Rich holds a bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y, was a founder of the Nuclear Records management Association, and currently lives in beautiful Jupiter, FL.
RAMP UP your Project’s Performance
Employ the intrinsic Motivation of your People to deliver Outstanding Results
Conventional Wisdom Doesn’t Work!
In this engaging and motivating presentation, you will learn how to vastly improve the likelihood of success in delivering your project on time, under budget and with more fun! You will learn what science tells us about engagement and motivation, and how it is likely different from what you have been taught is good leadership and management.
You will learn how to use your emotional intelligence to touch on the powerful internal drivers:
Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose.
Watch this video as a starter to the session
And this one to get even more inspired!
Stephen Garber, President of ThirdLEVEL, is a strategic advisor and coach to CEOs executive teams, and large scale transformation projects across the U.S. and across many countries. Driven by a relentless passion to help business leaders both get what they really want in business and life – and to help their teams be fully engaged, passionate and successful, Stephen has coached clients across a wide range of industries, including IT transformation projects, financial services, real estate, construction, and health care. Most recently, he helped the Lloyds Banking Group’s Mortgage Integration Project team align and perform. They successfully completed the largest project of its type in Europe, taking 15 mortgage brands down to 5, and 5 legacy IT platforms down to one, all with no interruption of service, on time, and under budget – through superior teamwork.
A 1975 Tufts University cum laude graduate and Boston native, Stephen Garber is the author of numerous motivational articles in the USA and UK. He has also been a featured expert on national and local television talk shows. His status as a qualified mediator and memberships in the ASTD and International Coach Federation underlines his intense commitment to motivating people to become the their best.
Stephen Garber has worked with many world-renowned organizations, including Accenture, PwC, Lloyds Banking Group, Rolls Royce and British Nuclear Group. Locally he has worked with the management teams at The South Florida Business Journal, Oppenheimer, and HomeSafe.
Stephen will offer to the attendees a Free 60 Minutes Coaching Session to two individuals
