Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control
Barbara A. Schrage
Barbara A. Schrage, PMP®, has over 20 years of experience in various aspects of project management, ranging from managing large, cross-functional product development projects to heading a centralized PMO in a Fortune 500 financial services organization. As leader of the PMO, she was accountable for project portfolio management, project prioritization, project approvals, methodology and project metrics. She has also mentored and developed leadership skills in project and program managers. Barbara currently provides consulting on the implementation of project portfolio management and teaches corporate project management courses.
Rob Stone
Rob is a PMP® and a Six Sigma Black Belt. Rob has taught workshops and seminars on project management throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Australia, China and Africa. He has over eight years of experience with process improvement and Six Sigma projects and over five years as a program faculty member teaching the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s project management framework to business professionals around the world. Rob worked as part of a team that implemented formalized process improvement projects in Wisconsin state government agencies and has brought systematic process improvement to the technical school system (TAFE). In addition, he has worked globally on process improvement initiatives for much of the gold and nickel mining fields of western Australia. Through his years of experience, Rob has branched from his technical background in mathematics and engineering to include the people skills necessary to effectively work with a varied group of team members throughout a project to achieve projected outcomes and results.