Please join us on Thursday evening, July 28, 2005, as Charles W. Talley, PMP, speaks on “Metropolitan-Wide Program Management - Taking Enterprise PM to the Next Level.” Charles is Program Manager for Agency Liaison Services of the Office of the Chief Technology Officer of the Government of the District of Columbia. He will be addressing questions such as the following:

• How do you ensure consistent project success when you are monitoring as many as 75 concurrent projects?
• How do you manage expectations among senior-level executives who have all levels of IT knowledge and who have experienced a wide range of successes and failures on previous IT projects?
• How do you standardize performance measures when your projects have totally different goals and, in many cases, different views of the world?

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Event details:

Event: July 2005 PMI-SSC Meeting
Date: Thursday, July 28, 2005
Time: 6:30 pm: Networking; 7:00 pm: Dinner; 8:00 pm: Presentation
Location: MeiWah Restaurant, Chevy Chase, MD
Cost: $30 (online or by check in the mail), $35 at the door
Speaker: Charles W. Talley, PMP
Topic: "Metropolitan-Wide Program Management - Taking Enterprise PM to the Next Level"

Charles W. Talley, PMP
Program Manager for Agency Liaison Services
Office of the Chief Technology Officer
Government of the District of Columbia

As a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with over 29 years experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry, Charles Talley has had leadership roles in many complex, large-scale programs for a variety of commercial, Federal, State and Local Government organizations. He has had the privilege to manage successful IT programs involving as many as 14 concurrent projects and technical teams in excess of 230 people, and the pleasure of being Program Manager for part of the team that won the Center for Digital Government’s 2003 “Best of the Web” Award for the best metropolitan website in the United States.

As a Business Process Management (BPM) practitioner, Charles has led such programs as the total redesign and business improvement of operations processes for a 4,700-person company with 107 office locations. He has implemented the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) at five organizations, bringing three organizations from CMM Level 1 to CMM Level 3, and two to CMM Level 4. In addition, he has achieved ISO 9001 certification for two organizations by redesigning and improving their quality management systems.

Mr. Talley is an active member of the IT community, where he has provided testimony before the United States House of Representatives, Technology Subcommittee on the Computer Security Enhancement Act; served as President of the Maryland Software Consortium; served as Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Maryland World Class Consortium; served on the Technical Committee of the Fraunhofer Software Engineering Laboratory at the University of Maryland; and been Program Chairman for the IT Committee of the High Technology Council of Maryland. However, it should be noted that not all of his duties have been hard work, because he has also traveled to Europe as part of a delegation for the Maryland State Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED) to brief German business executives on the benefits of establishing operations in Maryland.

In addition, he has presented technical briefings and chaired workshops at numerous regional and national-level IT conferences, including the E-Gov (National Electronic Government Conference and Exposition), GBET (Government, Business and Education Technology) and NASIRE (National Association of Information Resource Executives).

Mr. Talley holds two Bachelor of Science degrees (Business Management and Computer Studies), and a Master’s degree in Computer Resource and Information Management.