In today’s dynamic project environments, success requires more than timely delivery. It requires clarity at inception, alignment across functions, and adapting without losing direction.
Join Jacky Hood for a focused session on PMW’s 7 Steps to Project Success, a practical, adaptable framework designed to help teams align, plan, and execute with confidence.
This method equips project managers and coordinators and program managers with a clear structure that ensures critical elements are defined early and understood by all stakeholders.
What You’ll Take Away
- Strategic peer engagement
Join intimate breakout groups with other professionals for high-level discussion and shared insights.
- A repeatable kickoff approach
Gain a concise, proven technique for launching projects that builds credibility with sponsors and clarity with teams.
- A results-driven framework
Learn how to establish a master plan that anchors your project from start to successful close.
- Complimentary course access
Receive no-cost registration for a self-paced portion of our 7 Steps to Project Success online training (retail value: $20).
Schedule
- 6:45 pm Introduction about Project Management World
- 7:00 pm Presentation about the 7 Step Process by Jacky Hood whose bio is at the end of this page
- 7:30 pm Breakouts - Teams of about six participants
- First more detailed introductions of each other
- Perhaps choose roles: leader, scribe, presenter
- Then choose an interesting name for the team
- Discuss your team assigned Step in the 7 Step planning process
- Include experiences of each team member in projects for career, school, or other
- Plan the team report
- 8:00 pm Each team reports its results to the larger group
- 8:30 pm Wrap-up
About the Presenter
Jacky Hood – PMW Advisor | CEO, FieldDay Solutions | Account Manager, RightWave
Jacky Hood brings decades of leadership in program and project management across sectors including aerospace, education, telecom, and digital marketing. She is the CEO of FieldDay Solutions, and an Account Manager at RightWave, an India/California-based digital marketing firm. She combines strategic oversight with hands-on execution in complex, fast-moving environments.
Jacky’s career began in technical writing and evolved through roles in electronic design, technical support leadership, management consulting, and college-level instruction. A constant throughout her journey has been her passion for leading programs and projects that deliver measurable results.
Her portfolio includes high-impact initiatives such as stock exchange automation, air traffic control systems, flight data recorders, crash position indicators, large-scale telecom switching platforms, enterprise data centers, and open educational resources.
A seasoned speaker and published author, Jacky holds a Master’s degree in Engineering (Computer Architecture) and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, specializing in electromagnetic field theory.
