Topic:Risk Management –
Texas Holdem Tactics for the Project Manager

Date: Wednesday,October 10, 2007

Registration:
Please note that all registrations must be pre-paid on-line and no walk-ins will be accepted the day of the event. The Registration deadline is Sunday evening, October 7th at midnight. Seating is limited. Registration may close earlier if seating capacity is filled. Contact the Director - Registration for further discussion.

Registration

Location:
Baxter International
One Baxter Parkway
Deerfield, IL 60015
See Map Below. Note that North is left.

Parking is in the East garage
Meeting is in the Center C building

Speaker:
James Brown, Ph.D., SEBA® Solutions, Inc.

Agenda:
6:00 Registration and Networking
6:30 Announcements
6:45 Dinner
7:45 Raffle
8:00 Presentation
9:00 Close

Abstract:
Texas Holdem has seen an explosion in popularity since the World Poker Championships have been featured on TV. Part of this popularity is the easiness of the game to learn, the rush of winning, and the luck factor that is involved. Playing the game is simple. Winning consistently is not simple.

The winning Texas Holdem player has two tactics that project managers must also have to be successful. Those tactics are the ability to make probabilistic assessments and the ability to read human behavior as it responds to risk. Just like the Texas Holdem player, project managers must deal with uncertainty and work with humans.

This presentation will provide the project manager with tips for probabilistic assessments and an understanding of human behavior as it specifically relates to risk. To quote Texas Holdem player Anthony Bee, from Important Concepts in Limit Holdem, “This means being able to recognize profitable situations and exploit them to the full. It also means avoiding unprofitable situations and therefore costly mistakes.” Could Anthony Bee have been talking about project management???

About the Speaker:
James T. Brown, Ph.D., President of SEBA® Solutions, Inc. provides project management training and consulting for dozens of Fortune 500 companies nationally and internationally. He is well-known for his quick wit and straightforward communication style. His experience includes sixteen years of “hands-on” executive level, project manager, and team member roles at NASA.

Dr. Brown has received numerous awards for his project management contributions, including the NASA Public Service Medal, “Teacher of the Year” for Industrial Engineering at Florida A&M/Florida State University College of Engineering and "Engineer of the Year" from the Cape Canaveral Technical Societies. He also has a patent for a project scheduling methodology. Dr. Brown's new book "The Handbook of Program Management” is scheduled to be published in October of 2007 by McGraw Hill.

A licensed Professional Engineer and a certified Project Management Professional, Dr. Brown earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida, a MS in Engineering Management from Florida Institute of Technology, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee State University.

Registration:
Register using the link above. Please note that all registrations must be pre-paid on-line and no walk-ins will be accepted the day of the event. The Registration deadline is Sunday evening, October 7th, at midnight. Seating is limited. Registration may close earlier if the seating capacity is filled. Contact the Director of Registration for further discussion.

Contact the Director of Programs at programs@pmi-chicagoland.org if you have any questions or concerns regarding the content of this event.