Dates: 25 March 2009 to 26 March 2009
Venue: NEC Birmingham

With around 80 exhibiting organisations, and more than 40 FREE high quality presentations to choose from this un-missable event, as always, provided an unparalleled opportunity to learn from leading industry experts.

Culling projects

On day one of the event Dr Christopher Worsley, CITI’s CEO, discussed the difference between stopping a project for good – or just stopping a project. Trimming expenditure on project portfolios makes sense in the current economic climate – but often the end result leaves executives frustrated, with wrong choices made, or subversive, with project activities continuing in ‘secret’.

For a major oil company, we analysed their portfolio and defined three scenarios for each candidate project: continue, de-scope or stop.

These were used to develop close out documents which also assessed how and if a project could realistically be re-started at a later date. It was quick, it was pain-free, and proved to be far better than approaches used before or elsewhere. In this seminar the techniques and the results will be shared.

To find out more visit CITI’s stand 156 at Project Challenge or view Christopher Worsley’s presentation.

Project categorisation

Best Practice User Group hosted some short workshop sessions. Steve Jones, Principal Consultant at CITI, presented on the topic project categorisation. In this session he explored the value of categorising projects, the method recommended by CITI to categorise projects, and gave a number of examples of how this approach has been applied to help clients prioritise the projects in their portfolio.

To talk to us today call 01908 283 600.