Lisa DiTullio
Lisa DiTullio & Associates
How can an organization get better at delivering on its goals and objectives? By establishing a strategic, Enterprise-wide Project Management Office (EPMO) model. Simply put, strategic EPMO’s allows organizations to manage its entire collection of projects as one interrelated portfolio. This offers senior business leaders a landscape view of all project activity across the enterprise from a central source, allowing transparency of organizational project priorities that can be judged according to a standard set of criteria, and projects can fulfill their promise as agents of enterprise strategy.
Lisa DiTullio & Associates provides expertise in the set up, management, and continuous improvement of Enterprise Project Management Offices (EPMOs), using simple and effective methodologies and practical, results-proven experience.
Our group consists of highly-seasoned business and project management professionals dedicated to help our clients establish tools and techniques required to establish an enterprise project management office to successfully manage a broad-based change agenda and project portfolio.
DiTullio & Associates provides services and solutions such as
v Project/Program Management Office design and implementation
v Project and program governance structure design and implementation
v Portfolio Development, directly aligned to corporate strategy
v PMO process development and documentation
v Customized PMO templates and tools
v Project Management Training
For more information, please contact Lisa DiTullio & Associates at 617-842-8037 or contact Lisa at info@lisaditullio.com.
Training Programs and Workshops
“Vanilla” Project Management
Overview: Project management does not need to be complex or complicated to support an organization’s business needs. In fact, keeping it simple actually allows companies to develop project management competency that becomes part of the organizational culture over time. In this workshop, participants learn “vanilla” project management through the introduction of a simple project management methodology, including its life cycle, processes, workshops and templates. Helpful tips, techniques, tools and “best practices” are discussed. Attendees participate in a detailed case study with hands-on exercises.
Length of Seminar: This is a two-day course.
Who Should Attend: This program is ideal for organizations looking to introduce project management practice, entry-level project managers, and anyone who is highly involved in project work.
Prerequisite: All participants must have an interest in project management and a desire to become more effective and efficient in delivering project work.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn industry-recognized project management theory
- Become competent in applying basic project management practice
- Acquire skill in project management tool use
- Recognize “best practices” in basic project management practice
Expected Behaviors for Team Performance: Road Rules, Not Road Rage Overview
No project can succeed without a project team. More likely than not, your project will also require a number of participants from different areas within your organization. It’s also highly likely you will need to involve parties from external agencies, whether they are consultants or vendors. Regardless of whom and how many you have on your team, you cannot succeed in meeting deliverables and deadlines unless you act as a high-functioning team. Focusing on simple techniques to enhance team behavior and group dynamics, this seminar reveals easy-to-adopt practices to enhance team members’ awareness and accountability resulting in improved decisions, efficiency, and business results. Seminar materials include an expected behaviors toolkit and Lisa’s book, Simple Solutions: How “Enterprise Project Management” Supported Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s Journey from Near Collapse to #1.
Length of Seminar: Half-day and one-day versions are available. This workshop is especially popular for public organizations such as PMI Chapters and Professional Development Days. Full-day sessions also include meeting management and meeting facilitation segments. The program can also be custom-designed to meet private company needs.Who Should Attend: This seminar is for project managers/leaders, program managers, functional managers, committees and anyone who participates on teams of any kind.
Prerequisite: All participants must have the willingness and desire to become more productive and effective in team settings.
Learning Objectives- Understand the value of teamwork and the link to business outcomes
- Recognize how the “right” set of behaviors can support productive teamwork
- Appreciate how simple investments in team dynamics hold big returns
- Identify personal attributes and understand how those attributes contribute to, or conflict with, team performance
- Learn how to introduce easy methods to improve team interaction and reduce conflict among team members
Executive Workshop
Project Management: What Separates Great Organizations from Mediocre Ones
Overview: Over time, corporate success is driven by two things – your ability to compete day-to-day in serving your customers, and your ability to change with the market, to meet new needs and expectations of your customers. Strong project management is critical to delivering on both of the objectives, and it’s especially important to the second one. Executive sponsorship has been identified as one of the greatest contributors to project success when managing change, while the lack of that sponsorship is probably one of the greatest reasons for failure. Hear how senior leaders play a critical role in the introduction and acceptance of project management in any organization. Senior leaders will also learn how to be visible and active, through ongoing actions in support of project management as an organizational practice and while sponsoring specific projects.
Length of Seminar: This is a two-hour workshop.
Who Should Attend: This program is ideal for senior executives, project sponsors and other business leaders looking to introduce project management as a core competency.
Prerequisite: All participants must have an interest in project management and a desire to support project management as effective and efficient means in delivering priority work.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn industry-recognized project management basics
- Recognize how project management practice enables successful business plan execution
- Become familiar with the roles and responsibilities of a project sponsor
- Acquire knowledge and skills to analyze and interpret project information
A New Program for College Students
Lisa Introduces Want Success? Serve Vanilla to College Students
Projects are everywhere. New college graduates receive their first assignment immediately out of school. Their challenge: Find a job. This effort requires research, networking, communication, and a keen eye to deadline. Donald Trump, host of The Apprentice, showcases the power of project management in each new episode. Contestants are judged on their ability to execute project assignments; those who plan well, are creative, deliver on time and within budget are deemed successful business leaders, worthy of winning the Grand Prize. New products require new projects-- from video games to toothpaste to disease-curing medicine -- they all demand endless hours of detailed planning, precise execution and terrific teamwork.
Yet, in spite of growing project management presence, most students about to embark on their professional careers are ill-equipped at handling project assignments.
How do I know this? As past director of the Project Management Office at Boston-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC), I supported an organization from near collapse to national acclaim through the set-up and evolution of project management practice. In my book, Simple Solutions: How “Enterprise Project Management” Supported Harvard Pilgrim Health Care’s Journey from Near Collapse to #1, I share simple techniques for others to realize similar successes. As a consultant, I advise organizations and individuals how they, too, can be prepared when projects strike --regardless of industry or company size--all through simple, results-proven practices. And, as a mother of a college student, I am keenly aware of what is important to students as they contemplate their future.
I am pleased to announce Want Success? Seve Vanilla. Specifically designed with college students in mind, my one-hour presentation educates, entertains and advises students how to avert professional mishap by recognizing and developing simple core competencies to promote project and business success.
"One of the practical business lessons that Lisa DiTullio shares with audiences is "serve vanilla". To be clear, there is nothing "vanilla" about Lisa-not her style and not her message. She has a style of connecting with students that is simultaneously energetic and easy. She keeps them engaged and makes it look effortless."
Catherine L. Morgan, PhD
Dean, School of Business
Bridgewater State College
Lisa is available, schedule permitting, to speak at campus events, leadership conferences and other specially designed student programs. Contact her today!
Simple Solutions
In Simple Solutions: How “Enterprise” Project Management Supported Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's Journey from Near Collapse to #1, author Lisa DiTullio, a renowned speaker and successful business leader, shares the simple project management practices which supported the Boston-based health insurance company on its path from crisis in 1999 to national acclaim today.
In a straightforward style, Lisa shows you how you can successfully introduce project management in any organization. Learn how to “fight for the CAUSE,” using five simple strategies: Communicate, Advocate, Understand, Systemize, and Effect. Lisa highlights easy ways to implement each strategy. She also presents simple practices and shares real-life perspectives from key business stakeholders within Harvard Pilgrim Health Care – all of whom have participated in the company’s amazing success.
Lisa’s personal approach to project management is simple yet vital to business success: Serve vanilla. In spite of all the flavors offered, it is still the most popular. Project management does not need to be complex or complicated to support an organization's business needs. Keeping it simple actually allows companies to develop project management competency that becomes part of the organizational culture over time. Lisa believes project management tools should support project delivery processes in their simplest form and should be enhanced only when needed. Because team dynamics are a key influence on project success, finding a way to better manage group challenges from a management and communications perspective improves the team’s internal dynamics as well as group performance. Simple Solutions is a must for anyone who strives to transform their organization for success.