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Speaker: Dr. E.M. Dunlap

Presentation Description: Every project manager knows about the triple constraints.  Research shows that over 70% of software projects fail.  If every PM knows about the triangle, how is it that failure rates are this high?    Are you aware that for software projects there are three “hidden” constraints?  A review of the literature shows these three hidden constraints are unaccounted for.  Learn more about them and exactly what they are during this presentation.

Expected Outcomes: 

• Identify 3 "hidden" constraints of software projects

Speaker Bio: 

Dr. Dunlap holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Engineering in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the University of South Carolina – Columbia. He received the Doctor of Executive Leadership from the University of Charleston -Charleston, West Virginia with a concentration in international business. His dissertation was titled “An Evaluation of the High Failure Rate of Software Projects”.

Dr. Dunlap started his career in manufacturing at NCR in Columbia (SC) and designed a computer chip while there. Dr. Dunlap worked in the financial services industry for 14 years, and most recently took a position at Ingersoll Rand, now Trane Technologies after the split of the company within the Finance section of Enterprise Applications, mentoring application managers and PMs regarding project management practices as well as running projects himself with recent projects in Italy, Colombia (South America), Argentina, Brazil, and of course, the United States.

Most recently Dr. Dunlap has begun to pay it back / pay it forward by teaching on line undergraduates and MBA students business courses, including writing courses at both levels, expanding into the arena of statistics this Fall.