PMI Houston

7 Trends That Could Impact Your Project Management Career

2010

James Del Monte CERS, CPC

JDA Professional Services, Inc.

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Famous Quote

“ . . . Almost 100% of a manager’s

success comes from hiring

and retaining good people.

Good people don’t make the

difference

- they are the difference“

» - James Del Monte, CPC, CERS

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What JDA Does. . .JDA Professional Services, Inc. is a Houston-based IT staffing firm specializing in the recruitment of strategic-technical to executive-level professionals. We provide staffing solutions through full-time, contract, and project-based placements. Since 1981, we have been helping companies build great IT departments while helping IT professionals find the right career opportunities.

Full-Time Staffing

Contract /Temporary Staffing

Special Projects Staffing

JDA

7 Trends That Could Impact Your Project Management Career

• Current hiring trends• What’s hot what’s not • Evolving P/M roles• Views of P/M’s from executives• Value of education and certification• Building effective teams Networking for success• Are you done yet??

Law of Supply and Demand

The demand for skilled professionals peaked 4Q07 and bottomed out 3Q 09. The current cycle indicates that we are in recovery.

In Houston good people are still hard to find.

Labor Surplus vs. Skill Shortage

1984 1995 2Q01

4Q04

4Q99

Demand Peaked

Supply

Demand

1989Demand Bottomed

3Q03Demand Bottomed

4Q07

Demand Peaked

12.21.2012

7.09

How Bad Is It?

Pearls of Wisdom

“We are all temporary – only some of you don’t know it.”

--Larry Carreker

Stats for 2006 & 2010 2006 - National unemployment rate is at a 6 year low of 4.6% - 1999 4.2% 2010 National unemployment rate is at a 30 year high of 10%, it’s highest since 1982 10.8% 2006 Houston’s unemployment rate averaged 5.1% for 2006, our lowest since 2001 when it was just 4.7% 2010 Houston’s unemployment rate peaked at 8.4% in 2009, the highest since 1986 at 10.2% when Houston lost 20% of its job base2007 19% of new job growth in the USA was in Houston2008-2009 Houston lost 90,000+ jobs

Candidate Population

A Players B Players C Players

25% 50% 25%

Down Turn

Skills Upgrade

External vs. Internal

Don’t beat yourself up.

“It’s not what happens to you, it’s what you do about it.”

– W. Mitchell

Inspiration

Market Shift

The job market has shifted from a Job Seeker’s Market to an Employers Market - to a Combination Market. – Good People are hard to find.

Candidate

Candidate

Candidate

Position

Position

Position

Position

Candidate

2008 - 2011 2004 - 2007

National Economy Rebound

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60.00%

1 Year 2 Years 3 Years 4+ Years

Houston Economy Rebound

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1 Year 2 Years 3 Years 4+ Years

2006 / 2010 Survey Results

QUESTIONS INCREASE DECREASESTAY THE

SAME

Company Growth in 2007 / 2010

77 /49 3 / 12 20 / 40

Dept. Budget in 2007 / 2010

74 / 25 9 / 25 17 / 50

Staffing Level in 2007 / 2010

44 / 37 0 / 22 56 / 41

Base Salaries in 2007 / 2010

89 / 68 11 / 32 0 / 0

Recovery Options??

Houston SWOT

S – Strengths

W – Weaknesses

O – Opportunities

T – Threats

29 Fortune 500 in HoustonCompany and Rank  • 4 ConocoPhillips  • 23 Marathon Oil • 62 Sysco  • 65 Enterprise GP Holdings • 79 Plains All American Pipeline• 41 Halliburton • 162 Andarko Petroleum • 167 Continental Airlines •  200 National Oilwell Varco  • 201 Waste Management  • 214 Reliant Energy  • 217 Apache  • 223 Knight  • 227 Baker Hughes

• 234 KBR  • 238 CenterPoint Energy • 250 Smith International• 268 Enbridge Energy Partners • 272 Calpine  • 323 Targa Resources • 350 EOG Resources • 383 Frontier Oil • 421 Cameron International • 428 Group 1 Automotive  • 438 BJ Services • 443 El Paso   • 459 Spectra Energy • 460 FMC Technologies• 472 CVR Energy 

Barriers to Growth

• There are roughly 23 million firms in the US

• 4% have revenue over 1M

• Of those 4%, 1 in 10 (.4% of all companies) have more than 10M in revenue

• 17,000 surpass 50M

• 2,500 firms in US are larger than 500M

• 500 firms worldwide are larger than 11B

• Will come from companies with less than 100 employees

• In Houston there are 87,000 companies and less than 4,000 of them have over 100 employees

• These companies need the same services as large companies - just not all the time

80% of Job Growth

Big VS Small

• Traditional business don’t create jobs or invent products they buy them

• Risk Aversive – more committee decisions made to limit career risk

• Job Growth vs Job Creation

PMO Penetration 2006 2010• Does your company have one? • 43 - 65%

• Do you use a project management methodology?

• 88%

• Is your PMO part of IT? • 56 - 78%

• Does your PMO manage projects outside of IT?

• 28 - 39%

• Is your PMO viewed as strategic? • 31 - 38%

• Is your PMO team involved in the business planning process? • 67 - 56%

• Do you have an effective measure of it’s value?

• 41 - 46%

Governance

Departmental

Functional

3 Types of PMO’s

When Hiring a Project Manager

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10.0%

20.0%

30.0%

40.0%

50.0%

60.0%

PMP Certification

Very Important Somwhat Important Not a Factor

Do your require your project managers to be PMP-certified?

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Required Preferred Not Required

Experience vs Degree vs PMP for Promotion Management

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100.0%

Experience Degree PMP

Are You Hiring Project Managers in 2010

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Yes No Unknown

How Work Gets DoneOff-shoring

Out-sourcing

Project TeamProject Team

Multi Cultural & Multi Cultural & GenerationGeneration

4 Generations

• > 46 Depression WWII

• 47 - 64 Baby Boomers

• 65 - 85 Generation X

• 86 - 05 Generation Y or millennial

Employed Workers Looking

11%

62%

27%

• Active – 11%• Passive – 62%• Not at all – 27%

The Money Question

$$ The market sets the price $$

Increase in 2010

25% - 2% or less

66% - 3 – 4 %

10% - 5%+

The Bonus Question

66% as part of compensation package

40% - 10% or less

54% - 10-20%

6% - 20%+

Pearls of Wisdom

1. Keep your job

2. Don’t complain about compensation

3. Home capital preservation

4. Think outside box about career

--Doug Leyendecker

7 Trends That Could Impact Your Project Management Career

Current hiring trendsWhat’s hot what’s not Evolving P/M rolesViews of P/M’s from executivesValue of education and certificationBuilding effective teamsNetworking for success Are you done yet??

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