The
APM Project Management Conference 2008 is an interactive
forum bringing together project management professionals
and key decision makers across the public and private
sector. It aims to set out and debate key subjects
on the national project management agenda.
Topics
for 2008 are:
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Success
through projects
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Right
projects, right people
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Stakeholders
and sponsors
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Managing
in a complex world
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Local
projects, global consequence
Dr
Terry Cooke-Davies returns to his key role as conference
chair, facilitating discussions between the 5 topic
champions.
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Session:
Managing programme complexity
Complexity
equates to risk, which is the single thing most likely
to keep project and programme managers awake at night.
But understanding sources of complexity - both the full
set of possible sources, and the actual ones that apply
in a particular case - is the first step to managing
programme complexity, and therefore programme risk.
Geoff
Vincent, CITI Principal Consultant, has more than two
decades of experience of project management and consultancy.
Recent work has included helping a major government
department to diagnose process problems, and to implement
process improvement through the use of appropriate project
management techniques.
This session will take a case-based approach to analysing
sources of complexity, and will examine the management
approaches that can be taken to bring risk within acceptable
limits. This is particularly important within a programme,
where a number of individual projects need to be set
up, each with a carefully judged level of risk to ensure
that overall programme risk remains within bounds. A
recent case example involved multiple sources of complexity,
which if left unmanaged would have led almost inevitably
to failure of the whole programme.
The
session will examine the specific steps that were taken
to manage individual sources of complexity, and therefore
risk.
If you are interested in attending this event, or would
like further information please contact conference@apm.org.uk
or visit http://www.apm.org.uk/conference.asp.
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