Project Ethics – A Critical Path for Professional Project Management

In the presentation some core concepts of project ethics are defined and the basic idea behind the Project Ethics Tool (PET) is explained.

Also a brief overview of the creation of the IPMA Code of Ethics and Professional Ethics is given.

Biography – Helgi Thor Ingasson

Professor at School of Science and Engineering, Reykjavik University, Iceland.

Dr Helgi Thor Ingason holds a PhD in process metallurgy from the Norwegian Institute of Technology and an MSc in mechanical and industrial engineering from the University of Iceland.

He is an associate professor in industrial engineering at the University of Iceland and lectures in project management, quality management, facilities planning and process metallurgy.

He is the head of the Master in Project Management (MPM) program at the university and a main lecturer in the program. Helgi Thor is a co-founder and chairman of Alur, alvinnsla hf, a recycling company that works with the aluminium industry in Iceland.

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Case Study from Doha

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Projects don’t deliver benefits

Biography

Merron Simpson is founding director of New Realities Limited www.newrealities.co.uk. She is a thought leader, a national and local advisor on ‘people, places and housing’ including strategic planning.

Merron is the UK’s Lead on OpenStrategies and a Certified Facilitator/Practitioner. She uses OpenStrategies with organisations to improve their strategic planning, undertake service reviews and demonstrate their social impact.

She is Housing and Health Lead for the NHS Alliance and is a former Head of Policy at the Chartered Institute of Housing. She has been a member of the TCPA Policy Council and a Trustee of a small housing association.

Merron has worked with housing associations, local authorities and social enterprises as well as many national organisations and has researched and authored publications on a wide range of topics.

She has a Masters in Housing Studies, a Degree in Biochemistry, a Diploma in Applied Management, and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Doing the right thing: Clinical Trial Governance

From the WW2 Nuremberg Doctors Trials to the use of Thalidomide in the 1950’s, we take a brief look at some key events that have led to the clinical trial governance (Good Clinical Practice) that we see in place today, ensuring the protection of the rights, well-being and health of the patients involved.

Biography – Julia Forte

Julia Forte:  Associate Director, Project Management, Quintiles.

Over 19 years clinical research experience, gained within the pharmaceutical and CRO industries within clinical drug development.

Biography – Donna Anderson

Donna Anderson is the Director, Project Management, Quintiles.

20 + years of experience in Project and Programme Management within clinical drug development.

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Better Planning makes better projects

Paul will co-present with Simon Taylor on Day 2 of Putting down the roots for Good Governance [17th June]

Biography – Paul Kidston

Paul is the Head of Project Control for Taylor Woodrow, the Civil Engineering division of Vinci Construction, part of one of the largest construction and concessions groups in the world.

He has been involved in a wide range of complex projects under a variety of different contract situations, in a variety of sectors including high profile public buildings, office developments, railways and large civil construction projects.  Clients have included Crossrail, Network Rail, LUL, Goldman Sachs, BAA and the Corporation of London.

After a career in a variety of production roles, working up from an engineering role into project Management, Paul introduced the relatively unknown technique of Earned Value Analysis into, first the Project he was working on and then into the business.  At around this time he started attending the EVA in the UK events, and soon after started speaking regularly at these events!

Paul has presented on, and written many articles on matters relating to Project Controls. He has spoken at EVA in the UK events on half a dozen occasions.  He was one of the authors of the CIOBs book, “Guide to Good Practice in the Management of Time in Complex Projects” and is the lead author of the APM’s first comprehensive guide to project planning “Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control”

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Integrated Performance Measurement Baselines for Agile Programs

One of the mistakes project teams make is the assumption is that Agile is only utilized for software development.

Agile supports solutions to complex problems through cadence, synchronization, and rapid feedback loops. Successful Agile programs require an integrated performance measurement baseline to enable success which requires the entire team to understand and utilize Agile practices.

Robin Yeman will outline how to set-up an integrated Performance Measurement Baseline for Agile Programs.

Biography

Robin Yeman is the Agile / DevOps Transformation Lead for Lockheed Martin where she has spent 22 years. The last 13 of which she has worked on Agile Projects and Programmes. Her roles have included:

• Software Engineer
• Systems Engineer
• Test Engineer
• Capture Management
• Engineering Program Manager [EPM]
• Subcontracts Program Manager [SPM]
• Program Manager [PM]

Certifications: certified scrum master [CSM], certified scrum practitioner [CSP], professional scrum master [PSM, scaled agile program consultant [SPC], certified systems engineer [CSEP], program management professional [PMP], program management agile professional [PMI-ACP], ITIL foundations v3

Education:

• Syracuse university B.S. Management information systems
• Rensselaer polytechnic institute M.S. Software engineering

Lean and Agile Execution

How has the evolution of technology changed the way you work with others on projects? Have trends such as mobility, cloud computing, data analytics or alternative working spaces improved your productivity, as well as your team’s? Or have they created new challenges?

A recent pan-European project management study, the chaos theory, found that project managers waste 20 days a year due to inefficient ways of working.

Yet just 52% of PMs say their IT team empowers them with the latest project management and collaboration tools.

4 key technology trends for 2015

• True mobility
• Lean workspace
• Intelligence on demand
• Know your cloud

The findings of the chaos theory report, for example:

• Two-thirds of project managers can access sensitive data in their organization, but only half can see who has read, changed or downloaded a shared document
• How to make the most of the latest technology trends and survive project management chaos.

Biography

Mia Nordborg is Director of Customer Experience For Projectplace at Planview and has been working with the Projectplace product since April 2001.

Mia is managing the Customer Experience efforts for the Projectplace product and speaks frequently at different events and webinars about Lean, Agile, Kanban, Change Management and Management techniques.

Company

Projectplace creates collaborative tools that enable people and organizations to reach their goals. From the free ToDo collaboration tool to the complete project management platform, Projectplace brings secure and scalable collaboration to individuals, small businesses and large enterprises. Projectplace is now part of Planview …

Planview is a global leader in portfolio management and project collaboration. From small teams to large enterprises, leaders in every industry rely on the company’s cloud solutions to empower organizations to reach their goals and drive results by optimizing the capacity of their people and financial resources. Planview’s singular focus fuels a deep commitment to innovation and customer success. For more information, visitwww.planview.com

Say Yes to the Mess. Coping with change, complexity and conflict

Jack and the band and other stuff.

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Better planning makes better projects

Biography

Simon is the Head of Planning for the High Speed Two [HS2] programme. He is responsible for the effective planning capability and maturity across all areas of the business as well as a planning community that spans across multiple organisations all working together to deliver Europe’s largest infrastructure programme.

Prior to joining HS2 Simon was Head of Planning at Transport for London [TfL] where he was responsible for planning within capital projects across all transport modes, London Underground, Overground, Streets etc. across a varied portfolio of projects including; Rail, Heavy Engineering, Vehicles, Power & Communications, Signalling, Software, IT, People and Business Change. He was also heavily involved in planning and controls career development, including direct responsibility for the TfL planning apprenticeship.

Initially working in the steel industry doing mechanical design and visualisation, Simon moved his focus to project management and planning in the rail and infrastructure sector and has worked on projects including the Victoria Line Upgrade.

Simon is an active member of the APM and is Vice Chairman of the APM Specific Interest Group for Planning, Monitoring and Control SIG and co-author of the upcoming APM handbook on Planning Monitoring & Controls.

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GpmFirst teams up with eVaintheUK to take learning to a new level

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