Presentation: Busting Barriers to Risk Management!
Abstract: You know and understand risk management, but what are the barriers to implementing it in your organization? How do you overcome these barriers?
The focus of this session is effective and efficient implementation of risk management within organizations or project teams. The presenter will lead attendees in interactive discussion involving how to implement an effective risk management program. Attendees will share problems they have encountered and challenges they have encountered in their organizations. Successful strategies will be discussed to assist attendees in implementing risk management within their organization.
PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working
Biography: Susan Parente is a project engineer, consultant, speaker, author, and mentor who leads large complex IT software implementation projects, and the establishment of Enterprise PMOs. She has 27+ years of experience leading software and business development projects in the private and public sectors, including a decade of experience implementing IT projects for the DoD and other federal government agencies. Mrs. Parente has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester in NY and a MS in Engineering Management from George Washington University in DC. She has numerous project management, Agile, risk management, and IT Security certifications, including: PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, CSPO, PSM I, SFC, SDC, SMC, SPOC, SAMC, SCT, CISSP, RESILIA, CRISC, ITIL, CGLP, and she is a CMMI and ISO 9001 Practitioner.
Mrs. Parente is a Principal Consultant at S3 Technologies, LLC. Her company focuses on proactively managing risks, while being Agile and adaptive. S3 Technologies does this by teaming with clients, stakeholders and vendors and using Agile practices and risk management to deliver project successes. Mrs. Parente trains and mentors project managers in the areas of traditional and Agile project management, and risk management. Mrs. Parente has co-authored books on both risk management and agile project management: “Global Hot Spots: How Project and Enterprise Risk Management Practices Drive Business Results Around the World” and recently, “Hybrid Project Management: Using Agile with Traditional PM Methodologies to Succeed on Modern Projects”.
