Mike Marco is an experienced agile project management consultant seeking consulting opportunities, with over 10 years of experience managing over 150 projects across various industries. He has extensive experience applying agile frameworks like Scrum and SAFe, and is certified in PMP, SAFe, Scrum, and Six Sigma methodologies. Marco has provided consulting, training, and mentoring services to many Fortune 500 companies on project management, PMOs, and agile transformations.
Scope management and baseline development, Project management, Identify consi...Tonex
“The documentation of the scope of the project should explain the boundaries of the project”.
By default, work requires to be performed to deliver a product, service, or result with the specified features and functions.
“This documentation may be referred to as the scope statement, the statement of work”.
Generally, there are 3 main processes involved:
1) Planning : The planning process is when an endeavor is made to capture and define the work
2) Controlling : The controlling and monitoring processes highlight on documenting tracking, scope creep, tracking and Disapproving or approving
3) Closing: In the final steps, the closing includes an audit of the project deliverables.
“A baseline should be documented and controlled”.
A baseline in project management is a clearly defined starting point for your project plan.
It is a fixed reference point to measure and compare your project’s progress against.
This allows you to assess the performance of your project over time.
“you will learn the fundamentals of the project scope, work breakdown structure, and performance managing baseline”.
An effective and efficient project scope management has substantial benefits, such as:
It helps to identify risks and plans steps to mitigate
It helps in setting the right expectations to the stakeholders
It reduces the scope related stress on the project manager
It Assists to understand the deliverables of a project
Training Topics :
Fundamentals of Scope Management and Baseline Development
Project Scope Definition
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Handing over Scope Plan
Verifying The Work
Selecting The Scope
Organizational Breakdown Matrix (OBS)
More topics…
Learn more.
https://www.tonex.com/scope-management-and-baseline-development-leadership-training/
Rebuilding an Island - Lessons From Montserrat's PMO - Government of Montserr...Wellingtone
Presenter: Martin Parlett - Head of PMO, Government of Montserrat
Presentation: Winner of APM PMO of the Year 2020, Govt of Montserrat take us through the PMO journey from their award-winning team. Martin discusses their portfolio and their enabling transformational programmes and projects.
Martin also looks at their challenges and lessons learned.
To attend the next FuturePMO conference, please visit: www.FuturePMO.com
Enabling Step Change in your PPM Maturity - Vince Hines | Project Challenge, ...Wellingtone
The State of Project Management is the largest annual piece of research of its kind in the UK. Published by Wellingtone and involving hundreds of organisations it provides deep insight into the state of our industry.
Vince will combine this data with practical advice on how your organisation can use this knowledge to enable a step change in your project and portfolio management maturity. You will gain rich industry data and thought provoking practical advice from this entertaining presentation.
The Institute of Cancer Research - Our PMO Journey - FuturePMO 2018Wellingtone
Presented by Michelle Durkin, Head of Programme Management Office, The Institute of Cancer Research
Presentation Synopsis: Michelle shares with you her journey so far in establishing a PMO, the challenges faced and where she found support along the way in designing and implementing the new function.
Michelle attended the first UK PMO Practitioner course ran by Wellingtone which provided her with tools to design an approach in how to deliver a new PMO. The approach was validated at Project Management Day Of Service and the PMO is now well on its way to meeting the requirements originally identified.
This is a blog on how Earned Value Management can produce greater productivity and growth within an organization, and how Online Earned Value Management Training helps individuals be more creative and vibrant in executing a project on time and to budget. Get a clear overview of the most effective project management approaches used by various individuals and organizations to enhance their baseline and garner high output productivity. This technique is used by managers and can be incorporated in any kind of project to produce high performance and effective decision making. Problems faced by organizations include improper or unrealistic timelines, frequent project changes, & lack of goals, this could create poor bottom lines, improper time management, and a scope creep.
A guide to conducting Integrated Baseline Reviews,
APM Planning, Monitoring and Control Specific Interest Group
Webinar, 24 May 2016
Stephen Jones
Alan Bye
Ewan Glen
Breda Ryan
The PMO Value - Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton | Project Challenge March 2018Wellingtone
Wellingtone recently launched their brand new PMO Practitioner training course and are delighted that this has successfully been Accredited by the APM, the first of its type in the UK. Co-author of this course, Emma-Ruth Arnaz Pemberton, will present an important topic from the course; “The PMO Value”.
Emma is one of the UK leaders in the PMO, she gives practical insight into how you can ensure your PMO adds value to your organisation.
Innovative Methods and Technologies in Project Management: Project Management Methods and Process
presented by Serkan Ceylan, Southampton Solent University
APM Wessex branch
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Agile portugal 2016 Agile Gamification on www.scraim.com
The use of project management tools based on Agile methodologies of software development brings benefits to the project members, but for a correct use of these tools, the development team are often forced to interrupt their workflow.
The goal of this presentation is to present how we are encouraging a more frequent, intensive and FUN use by the users.
To do this there were several questions that were taken in account:
What’s the most suitable combination of game elements?
How to avoid the hazards associated to gamification?
How to ensure the proposed values of the manifesto to agile software development?
SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit for Microsoft Project ServerMichael Kaplan
The SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit is a web based project management solution for your entire company. It helps you execute and deliver projects successfully. It maps out the project step-by-step. It includes practical templates and examples. It’s easy to customize and share.
Scope management and baseline development, Project management, Identify consi...Tonex
“The documentation of the scope of the project should explain the boundaries of the project”.
By default, work requires to be performed to deliver a product, service, or result with the specified features and functions.
“This documentation may be referred to as the scope statement, the statement of work”.
Generally, there are 3 main processes involved:
1) Planning : The planning process is when an endeavor is made to capture and define the work
2) Controlling : The controlling and monitoring processes highlight on documenting tracking, scope creep, tracking and Disapproving or approving
3) Closing: In the final steps, the closing includes an audit of the project deliverables.
“A baseline should be documented and controlled”.
A baseline in project management is a clearly defined starting point for your project plan.
It is a fixed reference point to measure and compare your project’s progress against.
This allows you to assess the performance of your project over time.
“you will learn the fundamentals of the project scope, work breakdown structure, and performance managing baseline”.
An effective and efficient project scope management has substantial benefits, such as:
It helps to identify risks and plans steps to mitigate
It helps in setting the right expectations to the stakeholders
It reduces the scope related stress on the project manager
It Assists to understand the deliverables of a project
Training Topics :
Fundamentals of Scope Management and Baseline Development
Project Scope Definition
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Handing over Scope Plan
Verifying The Work
Selecting The Scope
Organizational Breakdown Matrix (OBS)
More topics…
Learn more.
https://www.tonex.com/scope-management-and-baseline-development-leadership-training/
Rebuilding an Island - Lessons From Montserrat's PMO - Government of Montserr...Wellingtone
Presenter: Martin Parlett - Head of PMO, Government of Montserrat
Presentation: Winner of APM PMO of the Year 2020, Govt of Montserrat take us through the PMO journey from their award-winning team. Martin discusses their portfolio and their enabling transformational programmes and projects.
Martin also looks at their challenges and lessons learned.
To attend the next FuturePMO conference, please visit: www.FuturePMO.com
Enabling Step Change in your PPM Maturity - Vince Hines | Project Challenge, ...Wellingtone
The State of Project Management is the largest annual piece of research of its kind in the UK. Published by Wellingtone and involving hundreds of organisations it provides deep insight into the state of our industry.
Vince will combine this data with practical advice on how your organisation can use this knowledge to enable a step change in your project and portfolio management maturity. You will gain rich industry data and thought provoking practical advice from this entertaining presentation.
The Institute of Cancer Research - Our PMO Journey - FuturePMO 2018Wellingtone
Presented by Michelle Durkin, Head of Programme Management Office, The Institute of Cancer Research
Presentation Synopsis: Michelle shares with you her journey so far in establishing a PMO, the challenges faced and where she found support along the way in designing and implementing the new function.
Michelle attended the first UK PMO Practitioner course ran by Wellingtone which provided her with tools to design an approach in how to deliver a new PMO. The approach was validated at Project Management Day Of Service and the PMO is now well on its way to meeting the requirements originally identified.
This is a blog on how Earned Value Management can produce greater productivity and growth within an organization, and how Online Earned Value Management Training helps individuals be more creative and vibrant in executing a project on time and to budget. Get a clear overview of the most effective project management approaches used by various individuals and organizations to enhance their baseline and garner high output productivity. This technique is used by managers and can be incorporated in any kind of project to produce high performance and effective decision making. Problems faced by organizations include improper or unrealistic timelines, frequent project changes, & lack of goals, this could create poor bottom lines, improper time management, and a scope creep.
A guide to conducting Integrated Baseline Reviews,
APM Planning, Monitoring and Control Specific Interest Group
Webinar, 24 May 2016
Stephen Jones
Alan Bye
Ewan Glen
Breda Ryan
The PMO Value - Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton | Project Challenge March 2018Wellingtone
Wellingtone recently launched their brand new PMO Practitioner training course and are delighted that this has successfully been Accredited by the APM, the first of its type in the UK. Co-author of this course, Emma-Ruth Arnaz Pemberton, will present an important topic from the course; “The PMO Value”.
Emma is one of the UK leaders in the PMO, she gives practical insight into how you can ensure your PMO adds value to your organisation.
Innovative Methods and Technologies in Project Management: Project Management Methods and Process
presented by Serkan Ceylan, Southampton Solent University
APM Wessex branch
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Agile portugal 2016 Agile Gamification on www.scraim.com
The use of project management tools based on Agile methodologies of software development brings benefits to the project members, but for a correct use of these tools, the development team are often forced to interrupt their workflow.
The goal of this presentation is to present how we are encouraging a more frequent, intensive and FUN use by the users.
To do this there were several questions that were taken in account:
What’s the most suitable combination of game elements?
How to avoid the hazards associated to gamification?
How to ensure the proposed values of the manifesto to agile software development?
SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit for Microsoft Project ServerMichael Kaplan
The SoftPMO Project Management Toolkit is a web based project management solution for your entire company. It helps you execute and deliver projects successfully. It maps out the project step-by-step. It includes practical templates and examples. It’s easy to customize and share.
• With 11 years’ experience as effective project Leader more than 5 years’ experience on handling AO and SI projects successfully as Project managing while leading all phase’s delivery with diverse technologies and almost 7 years closely working with Oracle technology level while driving with functional knowledge on Finance- risk and compliance, Resources & Utilities , CMT and Retail. Rigorous working knowledge and trained on PMP, ITIL process & Strategy Management process from IIM-B.
1. Mike Marco, MBA, SAFe-SPC4, AE, CSP, PMP, PME, PMI-ACP…
Phone: 312.804.9992 Email: mike@mikemarco.com
OBJECTIVES
I am an agile project management consultant looking for an opportunity to provide
my consulting service to a dynamic organization that is in need for project
management and recovery support, and development and deployment of the agile
project management frameworks and PMOs.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Over 10 years of Agile Project Management hands on work, delivering consulting
services on four different continents, including following industries: government,
health care, engineering, IT, telecommunication, construction, mining, micro
processing, manufacturing, supply chain, utility and waste management industry,
for Fortune 5 and Fortune 500, domestic and international corporations, including
the USA Government, Navy and Military.
• Managing over 150 projects, delivering over 90% of the projects on-time
and within budget with high level of the customer satisfaction.
• Over 10 years of Agile/Six Sigma/SCRUM/PMP®/Stage-Gate® consulting,
training and mentoring.
• Frequent speaker at the PMI” conferences and events.
• List of Clients: FEMA, IRS, Rwanda Development Board, ENTEGRIS, FEMA, GE,
KinRoss, ATT, ACES, Raytheon, Motorola, Allied Waste, HEWITT
ASSOCIATES, Children Memorial Hospital, Samsung, USDA, US Army, Air
Force, Navy, US Coast Guard, US Army Corps of Engineers, etc.
• Culturally diverse, experienced project manager on international projects, capable
of working in a diversified environment. Managed global projects teams in Africa,
Europe, North America, and Asia/Middle East.
• Development and deployment of the customized project management
methodology, including PMOs, for Fortune 500 companies.
• Developed and provided formal and informal training in the area of IT, renewable
energy, engineering and project management.
• Author of the project management manual and training program:
o Hands-On Project Management™, Principles and Concepts – ISBN:
0974590207
o Agile Guide - ISBN-10: 0974590231
EXPERIENCES
eConsulting Group, Inc, Chicago, IL (8/2001 - Present)
Project Manager: IT/Engineering Projects (applied PMI and Agile methodologies)
Managed and mentored engineering projects related to telecommunication, IT,
waste management, microprocessor, utilities, construction and renewable energy
industry.
Mentored individuals and coached teams (a SCRUM/AGILE training,) with focus
on empowering the team with self-organization, in order to increase the team
productivity and meet aggressive software and system development goals.
Facilitated team relationships, coached the teams/Scrum Masters on Scrum and
XP practices.
Managed the project budget (Agile EVM,) including Stage-Gate® method, buffer
management, identified and resolved impediments, tracked progress, worked with
2. product owner to prepare the release plan/product backlog, facilitated
release/iteration planning.
Assisted transition of the customers’ current project management practices into
self organizing , team distributed engineering organization.
Developed a project management team assessment tool to measure project
management maturity level within organization/team.
Assisted teams in project recovery efforts.
Developed complete curriculum for 60+ PDUs program, including Project
Management Expert™ and Agile Expert™ program.
Development and deployment of the project management office (PMO,) including
Agile, Stage-Gate® methodologies, tools and techniques with focus on projects
prioritization, financial, risk, resource and portfolio management.
Managed assessment of the project management maturity level within the
company. The assessment focus was on the improvement of the current project
management practices.
Recommended the best practices and provided assistance in the project recovery
efforts.
Project Recovery Services, including recovery of the project schedule, through
appropriate resource leveling and risk management. The effort was followed by
status meetings and reports to secure success.
Management of the project deliverables, making sure that they meet or exceed
statements of work, quality standards and customer expectations and that are
executed on time and within budget limitations.
EVM (Earned Value Management) program in support of PMO. Also contracted
as EVM expert to help establish and document their EVM systems.
Survey and Studies Services in support of the PMO and PM maturity assessment.
Strategic Planning and Communication: Establishment of the objectives,
milestones, and metrics as well as processes by which to achieve them.
Development of the key relationships to ensure client needs are understood and
adopted as our own and to ensure solutions are relevant and reflect best value for
the client.
Staff Integration: Overseeing individual efforts and how they relate in order to best
generate client-focused output through shared expertise.
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified SAFe SPC4 – Scaled Agile
PMP®/PMI-ACP℠ - Project Management Institute
Certified SCRUM Professional/Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance
Boston University Project Management Certified Instructor
Agile Expert™/Project Management Expert (PME™)/Six Sigma Expert™
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Chicago – Project Management
Boston University – Project Management
Keller Graduate School of Management – Project Management
EDUCATION
Andrews University, MI, MBA, Business Management
BS/BA, Technology Systems/International Commerce