Chuck Morton, PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM started as a software developer and eventually moved into a management role, where he quickly learned that he enjoyed leading, but preferred delivering software to worrying about administrivia. Transitioning to Project Management and concentrating on contract opportunities has allowed him to focus on successfully delivering your projects without the distraction of office politics, empire building or job security. A long history of satisfied clients confirms the value of this approach.
Program and Project Management
Morton Project Management provides services through long-term contract engagements for Program and Project Management on traditional (waterfall or predictable) project assignments. Typical responsibilities are for large ($10MM+, multi-year) project portfolios, strategic projects, and for recovery and challenged projects. Whether the need is for the discipline of formal best practices or for applying creative solutions to seemingly intractable obstacles, we have been there and can effectively drive your project to successful completion.
As an adjunct service to these long-running assignments, we frequently provide mentoring and coaching to client PMs with emphasis on utilizing best practices, improving PM maturity and delivering successfully despite adversity.
Chuck has over 15 years of experience as Program Manager and Senior Project Manager.
Agile Scrum Master and Coach
Morton Project Management provides services through long-term contract engagements for Agile Scrum and XP environments. We are experienced at transitioning teams from traditional environments to Agile practices and rapidly guiding adoption of practices to achieve the benefits of being agile. Typical responsibilities are facilitating large, enterprise Agile product teams, transitions from waterfall to Agile or hybrid environments, and coaching product teams for enterprise applications that scan multiple locations, have dozens of team members and varied combinations of skills, while still adhering to the simplicity of Agile principles.
Central to the responsibilities for Agile growth is use and application of metrics to reinforce areas of strength and improve areas of opportunity.
Services for Blended Environments
Many environments operate in blended or hybrid combinations of traditional and Agile software delivery. As an experienced veteran of both camps, Morton Project Management is uniquely positioned to provide these teams with the right combination of motivation, guidance, facilitation and support for them to succeed.
Lessons Learned Consulting and Training
As an expert in the nascent discipline of improving Lessons Learned benefits realization, Morton Project Management provides evaluations, assessments and training on Lessons Learned practices, including:
• Why your organization has poor adoption of Lessons Learned practices
• What is missing from your Lessons Learned process
• How to know what fix to implement
• How to institutionalize your Lessons Learned process
• How to go from a “Continuous Change” model and get to “Continuous Improvement”
Morton Project Management is available for speaking engagements on Lessons Learned practices.
PMO Consulting
Morton Project Management provides consulting to Project Management Offices to assess and evaluate maturity and practices.
Transition Assessments
Has your IT organization recently experienced a merger, acquisition, leadership change or re-charter? With experience in the specific dynamics of these situations, Morton Project Management can conduct a confidential assessment of the existing organizational structure. The assessment will deliver appropriate recommendations, based on best practices, for institutionalizing strengths, resolving weaknesses, realizing opportunities and avoiding threats.
