Gary Craven

Vice President, Consulting Services at Paradigm Consulting Group
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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User Activity

Over 2 years ago

Answered a question: Is Jira a suitable solution for both agile and waterfall projects?

I’m glad you’re interested in using Jira for your project management needs. Jira is a powerful and flexible tool that can support any agile methodology, be it scrum, kanban, or your own unique flavor1. Jira also allows you to combine agile and waterfall approaches in a…

Over 2 years ago

Answered a question: What are the equivalent Microsoft tools to Atlassian Confluence and Jira?

Atlassian Confluence and Jira are popular tools for knowledge management, team collaboration, and project management. However, Microsoft also offers some alternatives that can provide similar or better functionality and integration One of the most comparable Microsoft tools…

Almost 3 years ago

Answered a question: What are the best practices for adding documentation to a planning process?

When it comes to uploading and displaying accompanying documents in the budget process with Planning Analytics, there are several best practices you can follow to streamline the process and ensure efficient documentation management. Here's how you can address this issue 1.…

Almost 4 years ago

Contributed a review of JIRA Portfolio: Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve

About 4 years ago

Answered a question: What advice do you have for others considering Microsoft Teams?

We don't resell or integrate Microsoft products but our experience with Microsoft Teams has been quite positive. MS is evolving the product quickly and the desktop client runs reasonably well (although a bit resource-heavy) on a number of platforms. I even run the Linux…

Projects

Almost 4 years ago

Multiple Application Development projects and AM services

Gary was assigned as a Senior Project Manager responsible for managing multiple application development (AD) projects for AAFC, in addition to managing the IBM team that is also responsible for concurrently providing ongoing application maintenance (AM) services to multiple…

Experience

Reviews

Almost 4 years ago

JIRA Portfolio

Powerful, flexible solution with a bit of a learning curve

Answers

Over 2 years ago

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites

Is Jira a suitable solution for both agile and waterfall projects?

Over 2 years ago

Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)

What are the equivalent Microsoft tools to Atlassian Confluence and Jira?

Almost 3 years ago

Production Planning

What are the best practices for adding documentation to a planning process?

About 4 years ago

Virtual Meetings

What advice do you have for others considering Microsoft Teams?

About me

At Paradigm Gary is responsible for identifying and delivering consulting engagements, helping clients innovate and implement new business and technology models, the delivery of successful projects as well as identification of professional personnel to create profitable business growth. He is also responsible for the development of intellectual capital for best practices in management consulting and business process management.

Certifications

Gary’s achievements include Professional Agrologist (P.Ag.)
Information Systems Professional of Canada (I.S.P.)
Certified Management Consultant
(CMC)
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Fellow Certified Management Consultant
(FCMC)
Information Technology Certified Professional (ITCP)
and he also holds PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Registered Practitioner
and Management of Risk (MoR) Foundation Certified from UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC) APMG International.

Employers

Paradigm Consulting Group
Hewlett-Packard
LGS Group
University of Manitoba
Craven Farms Ltd.

Education

B.Sc., B.S.A., M.Sc.

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Almost 4 years ago

Multiple Application Development projects and AM services