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Payson Hall
Payson Hall
Consulting Project Manager,

Payson Hall is a former U.S. Army Ranger and consulting project manager for Catalysis Group, Inc. in Sacramento. Formally trained as a software engineer, Payson’s early career included software development, hardware/software system integration, and Independent Verification & Validation. As his career progressed, his role shifted to include increasing project management responsibilities, with a focus on technology projects.

Today Payson coaches project managers, teaches project management skills, consults, and performs project reviews in a variety of fields, including transportation, communication, software development, education, financial services, and healthcare.

Payson has consulted on projects in both the public and private sectors throughout North America and Europe during his 40-year career. He has published over 250 project management articles, developed numerous project management and problem-solving classes, written a book on project sponsorship, and is a sought-after conference speaker who specializes in demystifying project management topics and communicating important ideas while entertaining audiences.

Upcoming Webinars Recorded Webinars
  • 25
  • June
  • 2025
  • Wednesday
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

The Risk Paradox: How Effective Risk Management Undermines Risk Management

Building and implementing effective risk management practices is hard. Sustaining them is harder. Why?

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
  • 23
  • July
  • 2025
  • Wednesday
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

How to Estimate ANYTHING

Through a series of exercises and examples, participants in this session learn basic estimation techniques as well as thoughtful ways to record and present estimates, and most importantly, a process for estimate improvement.

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
  • 12
  • August
  • 2025
  • Tuesday
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

The Magic of Assumptions

There are no "facts" about the future. Everything we think we know about tomorrow is based upon what we think we know about the world today and our assumptions of where that will lead. Successful people develop a heightened sense of assumption recognition through a process of trial and error, but often don't think consciously about the assumptions they are making.

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
  • 19
  • August
  • 2025
  • Tuesday
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project's Future

Every project is unique, but when they start to go off the rails, many of their symptoms rhyme. Is your project encountering challenges? Do you know the root causes of the issues and possible remedies?

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
  • 9
  • September
  • 2025
  • Tuesday
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

12 Risks for Enterprise Software Projects

Every large IT project is unique. Each faces a complex array of challenges. When projects get into trouble, they often exhibit similar patterns - succumbing to risks that could have been anticipated, prevented, detected sooner, or managed better. Common early responses to problems - blaming, deferring action, or outright denial - usually make things worse.

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
  • 16
  • September
  • 2025
  • Tuesday
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

Better Problem Solving in One Hour

This session provides participants with a constructive way to frame problems to gain greater insights and tools to facilitate generating greater quantity and quality of potential solutions.

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
  • 7
  • October
  • 2025
  • Tuesday
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

A Modest PMBOK® Guide Proposal: Project Blame Management (Satire)

Formalizing an approach to Blame Management allows project managers to demonstrate the value of more rigorous process in other knowledge areas. Effective Blame Management can also be a career boon to less effective project managers.

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
  • 14
  • October
  • 2025
  • Tuesday
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

Weathering the Storm: Navigating Resource Constrained Waters

Have you ever had your budget cut, or headcount reduced in the middle of a project? What are your options to respond? Is there a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? Are there opportunities in an economic downturn?

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
  • 11
  • November
  • 2025
  • Tuesday
10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST

The Risk Paradox: How Effective Risk Management Undermines Risk Management

Building and implementing effective risk management practices is hard. Sustaining them is harder. Why? How can you stabilize risk management efforts without having them become calcified? This session will explore the challenges of sustaining risk management efforts so that they aren't victims of their own success.

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
  • 18
  • November
  • 2025
  • Tuesday
10:00 AM PST | 01:00 PM EST

How to Estimate ANYTHING

Through a series of exercises and examples, participants in this session learn basic estimation techniques as well as thoughtful ways to record and present estimates, and most importantly, a process for estimate improvement.

Payson Hall Payson Hall | Duration:60 Minutes | Price: ¤150.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

The Risk Paradox: How Effective Risk Management Undermines Risk Management

Building and implementing effective risk management practices is hard. Sustaining them is harder. Why?

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

How to Estimate ANYTHING

Through a series of exercises and examples, participants in this session learn basic estimation techniques as well as thoughtful ways to record and present estimates, and most importantly, a process for estimate improvement.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

The Magic of Assumptions

There are no "facts" about the future. Everything we think we know about tomorrow is based upon what we think we know about the world today and our assumptions of where that will lead. Successful people develop a heightened sense of assumption recognition through a process of trial and error, but often don't think consciously about the assumptions they are making.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project's Future

Every project is unique, but when they start to go off the rails, many of their symptoms rhyme. Is your project encountering challenges? Do you know the root causes of the issues and possible remedies?

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

Better Problem Solving in One Hour

This session provides participants with a constructive way to frame problems to gain greater insights and tools to facilitate generating greater quantity and quality of potential solutions.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

12 Risks for Enterprise Software Projects

Every large IT project is unique. Each faces a complex array of challenges. When projects get into trouble, they often exhibit similar patterns - succumbing to risks that could have been anticipated, prevented, detected sooner, or managed better. Common early responses to problems - blaming, deferring action, or outright denial - usually make things worse.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

Weathering the Storm: Navigating Resource Constrained Waters

Have you ever had your budget cut, or headcount reduced in the middle of a project? What are your options to respond? Is there a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? Are there opportunities in an economic downturn?

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

A Modest PMBOK® Guide Proposal: Project Blame Management (Satire)

Formalizing an approach to Blame Management allows project managers to demonstrate the value of more rigorous process in other knowledge areas. Effective Blame Management can also be a career boon to less effective project managers.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

The Risk Paradox: How Effective Risk Management Undermines Risk Management

Building and implementing effective risk management practices is hard. Sustaining them is harder. Why? How can you stabilize risk management efforts without having them become calcified? This session will explore the challenges of sustaining risk management efforts so that they aren't victims of their own success.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

How to Estimate ANYTHING

Through a series of exercises and examples, participants in this session learn basic estimation techniques as well as thoughtful ways to record and present estimates, and most importantly, a process for estimate improvement.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤190.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

The Risk Paradox: How Effective Risk Management Undermines Risk Management

Building and implementing effective risk management practices is hard. Sustaining them is harder. Why?

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

How to Estimate ANYTHING

Through a series of exercises and examples, participants in this session learn basic estimation techniques as well as thoughtful ways to record and present estimates, and most importantly, a process for estimate improvement.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

The Magic of Assumptions

There are no "facts" about the future. Everything we think we know about tomorrow is based upon what we think we know about the world today and our assumptions of where that will lead. Successful people develop a heightened sense of assumption recognition through a process of trial and error, but often don't think consciously about the assumptions they are making.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

Reading the Tea Leaves: Predicting a Project's Future

Every project is unique, but when they start to go off the rails, many of their symptoms rhyme. Is your project encountering challenges? Do you know the root causes of the issues and possible remedies?

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

Better Problem Solving in One Hour

This session provides participants with a constructive way to frame problems to gain greater insights and tools to facilitate generating greater quantity and quality of potential solutions.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

12 Risks for Enterprise Software Projects

Every large IT project is unique. Each faces a complex array of challenges. When projects get into trouble, they often exhibit similar patterns - succumbing to risks that could have been anticipated, prevented, detected sooner, or managed better. Common early responses to problems - blaming, deferring action, or outright denial - usually make things worse.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

Weathering the Storm: Navigating Resource Constrained Waters

Have you ever had your budget cut, or headcount reduced in the middle of a project? What are your options to respond? Is there a way to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? Are there opportunities in an economic downturn?

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

A Modest PMBOK® Guide Proposal: Project Blame Management (Satire)

Formalizing an approach to Blame Management allows project managers to demonstrate the value of more rigorous process in other knowledge areas. Effective Blame Management can also be a career boon to less effective project managers.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

The Risk Paradox: How Effective Risk Management Undermines Risk Management

Building and implementing effective risk management practices is hard. Sustaining them is harder. Why? How can you stabilize risk management efforts without having them become calcified? This session will explore the challenges of sustaining risk management efforts so that they aren't victims of their own success.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details
Payson Hall

How to Estimate ANYTHING

Through a series of exercises and examples, participants in this session learn basic estimation techniques as well as thoughtful ways to record and present estimates, and most importantly, a process for estimate improvement.

Speaker: Payson Hall | View Anytime | Duration: 60 Minutes | Price: ¤390.00 | View Details