PMIWDC

Location and Date

There is no charge for attending this event, but preregistration is required.

The Noblis cafeteria, on the same floor, will be open and available for you to purchase lunch and bring into the auditorium.

To expedite entry into the Noblis facility, please contact Michael Nelson (michael.nelson@noblis.org) with your intent to attend. Also contact Michael with any other questions regarding this event.

Any large complex project is a matrix of human commitments, only very few of which are described in the contracts we sign, disclosed in project documentation, or discussed in team meetings. Assuming the project team is comprised of competent individuals, the single most powerful determinate of success is the health and effectiveness of the professional relationships that develop in service of the project.

The problem is that project managers have never had access to an instrument that accurately illuminates the commitments, opinions, and attitudes that drive the performance of interdisciplinary project teams.

Now, utilizing the latest measures from the fields of industrial psychology, organizational behavior, and behavioral economics, it is possible to identify a series of early indicators, not typically visible to traditional project management, that accurately monitor team integration and reliably predict project stress.

Joe M. Powell
Executive Director, The Rice University Building Institute, Houston

Joe M. Powell is the Executive Director of the Rice University Building Institute, an interdisciplinary collaboration of industry, community, and academic leaders in architecture, engineering, and construction. A registered architect with a master's degree in architecture, he has spent his 36 year career researching the relationship between corporate strategy, human behavior, and the built environment.