Thomas Cutting

PM Mentor, Cutting's Edge

Thomas Cutting is a Project Management Mentor with Cutting’s Edge. His experience spans the entertainment, retail, insurance, banking, healthcare and automotive verticals. Managing and mentoring in this diverse background enables him to bring that learning to you through his training, writing and conference appearances. From Programmer to Program Management Office, Business Analyst to Quality Assurance Analyst, he has experienced first hand the problems that teams face. As a consultant he led the Project Office / Quality Assurance team for a large outsourcing engagement, experience that has helped him train and mentor Project Managers. He knows that the key to an effective Program Management Office is to listen to the issues and work with the team to find practical resolutions, not impose strictly theory-based processes. His contributions to the Project Management world include articles for Computerworld and InformIT as well as presenting at conferences for the Project Management Institute, International Institute for Software Process and the Southern California Quality Assurance Association. He is a regular contributor to several Project Management web sites and various forums.

About Thomas Cutting

Cutting's Edge Consulting can give you the advantage through training, mentoring and project reviews. Current training sessions include: The End of Fairy Tale Beginnings – Stakeholder Management Among the many challenges for a project manager there arise 5 stakeholders that can chain your project to the dungeon of disaster… Avoiding Shock Therapy – Managing Directional Changes Dealing with change is a pain. In the realm of quality, variation from the norm is considered a bad thing. But what if the definition of normal is not a constant? Piñata Management – Effective Project Definition Do you feel like the Piñata, the kid with the stick or the guy holding the rope? Who ends up more bruised? Invisible Fence Management – Project Resource Management Do your team members feel like they have electric shock collars on? Are you inadvertently zapping them instead of leading them? To learn more about these presentations visit www.CuttingsEdge.com.