July 2026 Monthly Luncheon - Project Management Pain Points and a Path Forward
Power Skills
As project professionals, we often run into pain points making it difficult to gain the true strategic value of projects. Reversing the course of the project management pain points has begun. The undivided attention of company executives to the value promise of project management is now a must-have ingredient for extracting the future gains of project management.
Here is what you'll learn:
- Understand how the journey of project management led to the set of pain points that are facing the project community today
- Identify the categories of pain points and the outcomes associated with encountering them
- Learn how the complexities of projects in the 21st century contributed to scale of the pain points and to the acceptance of new flexible delivery methodologies
- Describe the new types of metrics, such as value-based and strategic, that enable integrating project management practices with an organization’s business processes
- Explain what companies need to do to build the collaborative and transparent cultures to better tackle these pain points and use digitalization to support strategic thinking
- Create a roadmap to look ahead and dismantle critical pain points in order for business value of projects to be consistently realized
Speakers
Ed Lively
Senior Consultant & Trainer, IIL | PMP | MCT
Ed Lively is a seasoned project management consultant and trainer with decades of experience helping organizations bring order to complex, multi-project environments. He has seen firsthand how competing priorities, unclear ownership, and poor visibility quietly derail even the most capable teams. Through IIL, Ed equips project managers with the practical frameworks they need to stay in control — and ahead of the problems.
