Practical Programme

and Project Management

Conference
- ensuring your projects deliver benefit in difficult times

London 22 April 2009

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
! Programme Management Fundamentals: 20 April 2009
! Leadership of Projects & Programmes : 21 April 2009

POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
! Agile for Project Managers: 23 April 2009
! Maximising the Potential of Your Project Team: 23 April 2009

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Today's tough economy is
forcing all organizations to
revisit their Programme and
Project Management
strategies and take a long
hard look at how best to
ensure that projects produce
measurable improvements
to your business or your
bottom line.
This mini-conference
provides the perfect
opportunity to get right up to
date with fresh, practical
ideas and the latest
solutions, planning methods
and best practices.
Benefits of Attending
Through networking with your peers to share experiences,
you can discover how to overcome problems and achieve
greater efficiencies and benefits from all your projects and
programmes.
The presenters are all practitioners who illustrate their talks
through real life case studies and experiences, and there
will be plenty of opportunity for questions and interaction.
Topics covered include
! Managing Projects and Programmes in a complex world
! “Agile” Methods for Project Management
! Realising Benefits from Project and Programmes
! Dealing with Organisational Change
! Managing Multiple Stakeholders
! New Strategies for Outsourced Projects
! Soft people skills in project management
Target Audience
The event brings together project management
professionals and key decision makers across the public
and private sector.
! Project and Programme Managers
! Business Managers
! Executives
! IT decision makers
CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, CTOs, Project Managers, Advisors,
Consultants, Educators, and all members of professional
services organizations involved with project management.
 Practical Programme and Project Management
- ensuring your projects deliver benefit in difficult times
09.00 : Registration and Coffee
09.30 : Chairman's Introduction and Welcome
Case Study: Earthquakes in the Project
Portfolio: lessons of an itinerant project
reviewer
- Graham Oakes, Graham Oakes Ltd
Managing projects well is not enough. In tough times,
organisations need to ensure that their portfolio of projects
is well shaped, and that executive decisions are based on
an accurate understanding of the state of the portfolio.
Project reviews and assurance play a critical part in
building such understanding.
Project reviews are also an excellent way to gather and
disseminate organisational learning. Reviewers are able to
build relationships across several projects, and to transfer
lessons learned and best practices via these relationships
a far more effective mechanism than documents or other
artefacts.
This talk will discuss lessons learned while running
assurance teams across a large portfolio of games
development projects. These lessons range from insights
into the psychology of project managers to models for the
effective execution and governance of reviews.
Case Study: Using 'Agile methods' to drive
successful programs, at scale and with
adequate governance
- Manav Mehan, ex Yahoo!
! How 'Agile methods' have forced a change to the
Project Management
! How 'Agile' can be implemented with traditional/ plan
driven approaches
! How to ensure standardisation, transparency and
governance in agile projects
! How to create an 'Agile organization' culture PMO,
reports, roadmaps etc.
! Yahoo! Europe Product development framework using
agile and plan driven approaches
! Benefits and learnings implementing agile in Yahoo!
Europe
The Agile Project Manager
- Colin Weaver, DB Consulting
! Key Agile values and principles
! What type of project is Agile well suited to
! The role of the project manager on an Agile projects
! Governance on an Agile project
! Common issues and risks
Establishing a Robust and Sustainable
Programme for Change
- Joanne Spencer, Infinite You Ltd
Whether you are designing a transformation programme or
preparing to launch a new system, the need to engage the
teams and individuals across the organisation in the
delivery and sustainability of the change is crucial.
This interactive session will focus on the key 'people
factors' which need to be considered when creating a
comprehensive and sustainable agenda for change- from
the set up of a programme team who can hit the ground
running, through to the engagement of key stakeholder
groups.
Case Study: Realising Benefits from
Programmes and Projects
- Speaker TBA, Bracknell-Forest (BFC) & Keith
Jackson, TBL
Bracknell-Forest (BFC) is a Unitary Council with a strong
commitment to achieving better value-for-money from its
investments in improvement and change programmes.
Using Benefits Realisation, they are on course to raise the
value delivered from a major investment programme from
the usual 0% -20% to a more acceptable 60% - 80% of
stakeholder benefits realised. This case study tells the
story so far.
Soft People Skills in Project Management
- Paul Hookham, Interim Programme Manager
Paul passionately believes
! Formal qualifications in Project Management are not
enough to consistently deliver successful outcomes
! Command and Control approaches are no longer
applicable
! Outstanding teams deliver outstanding results
So what soft skills are essential to complement the more
formal planning, tracking and risk management disciplines?
This presentation encapsulates the CINEMA acronym [C =
Communicating; I = Influencing; N = Negotiating; E =
Empowering; M = Motivating; A = Advising] and gives
practical examples of what works and what doesn't, drawn
from considerable experience in both internal and
outsourced commercial organisations.
16.50 : Chairman's summary; close; networking;
exhibition viewing
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