Overview
Course duration: 1 day.
Taking the pain out of projects
This one day conference looks at the practical issues, realities and obstacles involved with day to day project management. The conference will also examine some of today’s hottest topics, including soft people skills in project management and the increasing role that ‘agile’ methods are playing. Also including the very latest on the PRINCE2 09 updates, the conference provides an excellent opportunity to share experiences, overcome problems and improve efficiency of your projects.
Description
Programme
0900 - 1000 Registration and Coffee
1000 – 1030 Welcome and opening address : Overcoming the Pain in Projects
1030 – 1130 Workshop 1: People Skills and the Emotionally Intelligent Project Manager
1130- 1145 Coffee and networking
1145 – 1245 Workshop 2: Managing Risk in Turbulent Times
1245 – 1330 Lunch and networking
1330 – 1430 Workshop 3: 10 Golden Rules for Agile Project Management
1430 – 1440 Break
1440 – 1540 Workshop 4: Bringing Theory to Life – Project Simulation to Project Success
1540 – 1640 Workshop 5: PRINCE09 Update
What will it cover?
Session 1 : People Skills and the Emotionally Intelligent Project Manager
One of the hot topics of the moment - especially with the drive for the profession to gain Chartered status - is the debate around the importance of the so-called ‘Soft’ people skills required of a project manager.
This one hour session will take the form of a debate around the audience’s thoughts, concerns and general comments about the importance of the 'softer edge' of project management.
- The importance of soft skills - people management, negotiation,assertiveness & communication.
- Putting people first to leverage commitment, motivation & performance
- Introducing Emotional Intelligence and the benefits of EI for you
- Developing and Assessing your own EI
- Questions
Session 2: Managing Risk in Turbulent Times
In the current economic environment the need to identify and manage project risk has never been more important.
This one hour seminar/workshop/briefing will use the APMG Management of Risk as the basis for its content. The seminar will cover theoretical and practical applications of proactive risk management.
- Introduction to management of risk
- Risk principles
- Understanding the organisations´ appetite for risk
- Internal management risk strategies
- Integrating risk management and the project environment
- Management of risk techniques
Session 3: The Ten Golden Rules for Successful Agile Projects
Using agile approaches on projects has become very popular of late. There are many success stories from organisations who have embraced the new ethos. However, some projects have been more successful than others. This presentation will describe the ten golden rules you need to adopt in order to increase your chances of success. These rules will help you turn your projects from being “ok” into projects that are “excellent”!
This session will identify:
- How to get a project off to a good start
- How to identify the important characteristics of the people involved on the project
- What you need to look for so that you can read the vital signals coming from the project team
- The importance of time and how it is being used in order to control the rest of the project
- How to embrace the inevitability of change (but also making sure it is the right kind of change!)
- If you are communicating in the right way most of the time or some of the time
Session 4: Bringing Theory to Life – Project Simulation to Project Success
Guest speaker Roland Sauter examines how project simulation tools can play an invaluable role in ensuring a cost effective and risk free environment to implement new skills and processes.
- Project management skills in 2009
- Transferring knowledge to the workplace
- Lessons learned from the use of simulation
- Practice makes perfect – demonstration
Session 5: PRINCE 09 Update APMG
Receive the very latest news and updates on PRINCE 09 from the APMG and the impact it will have on your organisation.
- The proposed approach
- Core principles
- Summary of key changes
- Timings update
- Publications
- Q&A