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London Events Archive 2003
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Wednesday
26th Feb 2003
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How
Project Managers Can Tackle Stress
The Institute
of Management's "Taking the Strain" survey revealed that
70% of managers consider work-related stress to have
adverse effects on their enjoyment of home life, work
effectiveness and health.
by William
Wallace
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Tuesday
11th March 2003
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Project
Risk Management in Fast Moving Technology Projects: The
Concept of Flexibility
The current state of
project risk management shows, that despite well
established project risk management methods, information
technology projects have a high failure rate.
by Elmar
Kutsch
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Wednesday
9th April 2003
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Earned
Value in the UK
Interest in earned value has
grown steadily over the last nine years with major
bodies now taking a real interest. 2002 saw the arrival
of the first ever APM UK National guideline on Earned
Value.
by Steve
Wake
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Tuesday
6th May 2003
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Project
Managing Local Government Private Finance Initiatives
(PFIs)
The presentation examined a dozen key
Project Management skills and related them to Private
Finance Initiative (PFI) Projects.
by Steve
Pyman
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Wednesday
4th June 2003
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The
Project Management Institute's Organisational Project
Management Maturity Model: Building Capabilities For
Century21
The PMI’s Organizational Project
Management Maturity Model (OPM3) is designed to guide
organizations in the development of the Capabilities
necessary to achieve Best Practices in Organizational
Project Management or OPM. OPM is the conjunction of
portfolio, program, and project management to achieve
the strategies of an organization. Best Practices
comprise the heart of the OPM3.
by John
Schlichter
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Tuesday
8th July 2003
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Delay
and Disruption in Construction Contracts
This
presentation reviewed the current standard forms of
contract and their provisions for management of change,
extension of time and compensation for interference and
variations; methods of tracking the effects of change in
regard to time and money, float concurrency and the
recommendations of the SCL Protocol; and the five
essential stages of the management of change in the time
frame of the construction process.
by Keith
Pickavance
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Wednesday
6th Aug 2003
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Managing
Complex Projects
This presentation suggests that
the emerging field of ’Complexity Thinking’ can be used
to further advance the practice of Project Management.
Learnings from project experiences in a number of
industries are combined with academic thinking to
suggest practical ways in which complex projects might
be better managed.
by Hugh
Crail
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Wednesday
3rd Sept 2003
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Defining
Professionalism in Risk Management
This
presentation addresses the following topics; Is risk
management a "profession"?; Characteristics of risk
management professionalism; Using the Risk Management
Professionalism Manifesto and The benefits of risk
management professionalism.
by Dr
David Hillson
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Wednesday
1st Oct 2003
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Learning
from Projects and Organisational Development
This
presentation addresses the following three aspects of
learning; processes for learning from projects,
organisational development and personal competence and
learning.
by Ralph
Lavene
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Wednesday
5th Nov 2003
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Afternoon Seminar
Current
Best Practice in Programme and Benefits
Management
This half day event will include the
following three presentations:
Click here for
further details of the timetable
for this event.
Project
Management Comes to the Boardroom
This
presentation will cover the past, present and future of
the involvement of Project Management and Project
Managers in the strategic processes of our
organisations.
by Dr.
Harvey Maylor
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Wednesday
10th Dec 2003
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Annual General Meeting
The Annual General
Meeting of PMInst (UK) Limited will be held at The
Regency Hotel, to precede the December Chapter Meeting.
The purposes of the meeting are to present the Annual
Report and financial statements, to reappoint the
auditors and to authorise the directors to fix the
remuneration of the auditors. Chapter Members are
encouraged to attend and ask questions. Changes to the
UK Chapter Board of Directors for 2004 and 2004 chapter
objectives will also be announced.
How to
stop your project destroying value
This session
will help you understand how to stop your project from
destroying value. Based on Dr. Eddie Obeng’s popular
books, Perfect Projects and All Change! The Project
Leader’s Secret Handbook.
by Dr.
Eddie Obeng
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Current Best Practice in Programme
Management