Dr. Janet Ply, Ph.D., PMP

Janet has spent 20 years as an IT professional helping organizations build effective project management and IT delivery capabilities.  Examples include:

• Leading several successful CMM initiatives for companies including Fidelity Systems Company, AT&T Solutions, Unisys Health Information Management, Cincinnati Bell Information Systems, and several smaller companies
• Building PMO’s for Acxiom Corporation, Trilogy Software,  several $50M+ programs
• Developing Project Management Certification programs for Management Concepts, Inc. as well as numerous tailored internal corporate project management training programs
• Developing an agile, business value driven delivery approach that was adopted by numerous clients
• Recovering several very large projects and building the needed project management infrastructure and organization to successfully complete the projects

Dr. Joyce Statz, Ph.D., PMP

Joyce focuses her consulting efforts on enabling software organizations to maximize their productivity and competitiveness.   With more than 30 years of experience as an IT  professional, her consulting activities of the last 15 years have met needs of people ranging from CIO to individual developer. Examples include:

• Developing  measures for the CIO of GM, to enable Third Generation Outsourcing of IT
• Providing guidance on best practices for process improvement for Gartner Research
• Analyzing PMO performance for the City of Los Angeles CIO
• Mentoring the work of process groups at Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Sony, General Motors, Intel, and many others
• Building and teaching a curriculum of 30 courses on project management, process improvement, and sw development practices, used for more than 2500 days of client-site training at TeraQuest
• Developing a project management certificate program for the Software Quality Institute at the University of Texas
• Leading the Process Improvement Working Group for Practical Software and Systems Measurement (PSM), the foremost software industry measurement organization

She recently served as a Vice President in the Worldwide Services organization at Borland, integrating process offerings into Borland’s software businesses.  That work followed on from the acquisition of TeraQuest, the software process improvement company that Joyce co-founded and co-led for 12 years.  Joyce managed various levels of software development over a period of 15 years at Texas Instruments, as well as being an early proponent of software process improvement.