Volunteer work
Instructor and courseware developer for the Austin PMI Chapter PMP Exam Review Course, 3 years
   
Performance Excellence Examiner for Greater Austin Quality Award (city-level Malcolm Baldrige Award for Performance Excellence), 2 years
   
Performance Excellence Examiner for Texas Quality Award (state-level Malcolm Baldrige Award for Performance Excellence), 2 years
   

Performance Excellence Examiner Coach for Motorola SPS Performance Excellence Assessment (internal assessments)

   
   
  Bob Futrell’s Latest Publication - Quality Software Project Management

Publications and Presentations


 
“Basic Accounting for Software Project Managers: How to get from SLOC to MIRR in Five easy steps”, presented at the SQI Short Course Series, April, 1996
   
Moderated the panel on “High-Speed Specialties” at the First Annual Telecommunications Conference in Austin. Speakers discussed the T-Bone high-speed ATM backbone for the Texas government, and the IEEE 1394 FireWire Serial Bus for consumer connectivity, among others; October, 1996
   
“Managing Complex Projects Through People and Process”, presentation for Business Control Systems, April, 1998
   

"Jekyll or Hyde: Understanding the Personalities of Projects," Motorola, Proceedings of the 1999 Software Systems Symposium. With Linda Shafer, Software Process and Quality Department, Quality Systems, Semiconductor Products Sector.

 

 

 
Austin Software Process Improvement Network, April 17, 2001, “Critical Chain Scheduling for Project Management”
   
Austin Software Process Improvement Network, November 20, 2001, “Dispersed Project Teams: Ready or Not, Here They Come!”
   
“The Art of Scheduling”, presented at the Exchange on Project Management conference sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin Center for Lifelong Engineering Education, and the IEEE Central Texas Section, August, 2002
   
Austin Technology Council/PMI-Austin Joint Meeting, November 13, 2003, "Managing Unrealistic Deadlines"
   
“The Art of Scheduling”, presented at the Exchange on Project Management conference sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin Center for Lifelong Engineering Education, and the IEEE Central Texas Section, August, 2002
   
American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference, November 8, 2004, New Developments in Information Technology & Cyber Infrastructure, “Virtual IT Project Teams”
   
Twenty-Third Annual Election Law Seminar for Voter Registrars/Election Administrators, August 24, 2005, “Introducing TEAM (Texas Election Administration Management)”
   
Twenty-Fourth Annual Election Law Seminar for Voter Registrars/Elections Administrators, August 16, 2006, “TEAM (Texas Election Administration Management) and HAVA (Help America Vote Act) Implementation Project Update”
   
Project Management Year-End Seminar (YES), University of Dallas, December 7, 2007, “Why Do Projects Fail?” and “Virtual Teams”.
   
Project Management Year-End Seminar (YES), University of Dallas, December 5, 2008, “Raising the Bar: How to Increase Your Organization’s Project Management Maturity”
   
Bullet Texas DIR Technology Today Series, November 5 and 18, 2009, and June 18, 2010, “Creating a Good Statement of Work (SOW) for RFP's and RFQ's”
   
Bullet Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications, February 4, 2010, “Portfolio Management”
   
Bullet Texas DIR Technology Today Series, June 21, 2010, “Software Requirements Management”
   
Bullet Austin PMI Chapter, PMO LIG, July 14, 2010, “Project Portfolio Management”
   
Bullet Lower Colorado River Authority Annual Project Management Conference, November 5, 2010, “Project Portfolio Management”
   
Bullet Texas DIR Technology Today Series, November 30, 2010, “Stakeholder Management”
   
Bullet Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, Austin, TX, December 9, 2010, “Project Portfolio Management”
   
Bullet Austin Chapter, PMI, September 24, 2013, “Raising the Bar: How to Increase Your Organization’s Project Management Maturity