Consulting Services

• Systems Development Project Management Services, including: PM Training and Mentoring; Project Planning, Auditing, Turnaround Efforts and Retrospectives
  
• Establishing  an Information Technology Project Management Office (PMO)
  
• Information Technology Quality and Process Improvement Initiatives
  
• Business Systems Analysis and System Requirements Definition
  
• Development of Formal Proposals and RFPs
  
• Information Systems Management and Organizational Consulting
  

James A. Ward - Events and Activities

• I am currently working with a firm in India to develop an e-learning Project Management course for the pharmaceutical industry.
  
• I have accepted an invitation to attend Consultants' Camp in Mount Crested Butte, Colorado September 4 - 10. 
  
• I'll be presenting two speeches at the Lavacon International Conference on Project Management in New Orleans, September 26--30, 2004.  Presentations are titled: "The Project Manager as Houdini--Escaping the Triple Constraint" and "Starting a PMO - Where's the WIIFM?" You will have to come to New Orleans to get any Gumbo.
  
• On March 21--23, 2005, in Orlando, Florida I'll be presenting two speeches at the 14th International Conference on Software Quality, "It's Still the Requirements: Getting Software Requirements Right - First Time and Every Time" and "Software Project Risk Management: Keep it Simple to Enhance Project Success."
  
• At the 13th International Conference on Software Quality (Dallas, Texas, October 2003) I presented a speech titled The Key Project Constraints - Relationships and Tradeoffs.
  
• I'm writing a book tentatively titled "Implementing An Information Technology Project Management Office."
  
• I continue to conduct Information Technology Project Management and Requirements Definition seminars and workshops.