Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 10.30 am

Content: Everyone agrees managing risk is a good thing, but it has traditionally been very hard to justify proactive expenditure on risk management activities. It is difficult to convince an organisation to expend valuable resources on mitigating the impact of perceived future events that may, or may not occur. Additionally, after taking proactive action, how does the risk practitioner quantify the benefits realised?

However, there are ways to convince your senior managers that you can measure the value of risk management. And more importantly, you can show that if you don’t take proactive risk treatment action, the organisation is probably going to be in for some rather unpleasant surprises.

This presentation provides a practical view on how to measure the value of risk management using Return On Investment (ROI), building up an example in a series of steps: performance based contracting, the effect of late delivery on ROI, the effect of risk events on ROI and measuring the value of risk management using a series of what-Ifs.

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Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 11.30 am

Content: Private sector organisations that have an agile approach to strategy are more likely to survive the downturn. Public sector organisations also need an agile strategy to manage cost reductions whilst maintaining the quality of services.

Andrew will explain how best practice approaches to portfolio, performance and benefits management can be implemented through a central portfolio or strategy office. Examples of best practice will be presented including Etihad Airways and the Medical Research Council.

Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 12.30 pm

Content: Mind mapping is a powerful brainstorming, visualization and facilitation tool for project managers and the process can save an organisation time and money in its project planning and management process.

With a mind map you can easily define the scope of a project in a way that all parties can follow. Apply task info within the mind map and transfer the data into a standardised Gantt chart or show the project plan as a timeline – whatever it takes to get the message across!

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Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 13.30 pm

Content: Whatever role you play in your organisations project management, the benefits of an integrated project portfolio and resource management solution go beyond just delivering on time and to budget. Prioritising tasks, recording effort, publishing live project status updates, managing resource demand, tracking risks and issues, producing financial reports quickly and monitoring the organisations performance are just some of the other common business needs.

By going back to basics and tackling some of the everyday issues faced by all project stakeholders, we will demonstrate how an integrated project portfolio and resource management solution delivers real benefits across the organisation.

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Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 14.30 pm

Content: Historically programmes/projects have rarely delivered the business benefits of which they are capable.  Organisations invest in change often without knowing the extremely poor return they are getting.  In the current economic climate this must stop. 

Gerald Bradley will introduce a practical and proven approach to achieve full value from your portfolio of investments. 

His presentation will consider:

• Portfolio challenges of integration and maximising value
• Benefit-led decision making
• Engaging management at all levels
• Tools to ensure success for individual programmes and the whole portfolio

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Thursday 29 April 2010 - 10.30 am

Content: Project Managers who are contracting today will be trading in one of three ways: self-employed, running their own Limited Company (Personal Servicing Company),
or join an umbrella company as a contractor.

Marcus Bonomini, a UK Tax Consultant will look in depth at the three options for contracting Project Managers. An informative piece for all who attend and will give time to the benefits of all three options in use. Newquay Professional can help manage tax for contractors and help them achieve the maximum amount on their contract.

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Thursday 29 April 2010 - 11.30 am

Content: Ian Wallace, from Palisade, talks about his experience as a project manager and how to add a risk register into your project plan, run a Monte Carlo simulation and
see the probability distribution for the outturn cost and finish date. This will be help you to answer difficult questions such as:

Is this a good project plan?
What are the chances of success?
Have we reserved enough cost and schedule contingency?
What are the most important risks?
What is the cost/benefit of risk mitigation?

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Thursday 29 April 2010 - 12.30 pm

Content: Many organisations use PRINCE2 or PRINCE2-like project management methodology but there is often a disconnect between these methodologies and the use of Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project 2007 and Project Server 2007.

The aim of this session is to show how PRINCE2 methodology for activities such as planning, tracking and reporting can be supported using MS Project and Project Server functionality. Attendees will learn how to develop product based plans and, using standard functionality, translate them into Microsoft Project plans which will form the basis of tracking project progress and reporting to stakeholders.

Thursday 29 April 2010 - 13.30 pm

Content: Projects are all about people. People deliver them and people are impacted by them. To deliver efficiently, all parties need to collaborate and communicate effectively. But with so many documents, change requests, orders, contacts etc... it can be a nightmare. Are they in a file share? Can everyone see the file share? Is the latest version on e-mail?

Well, with Microsoft’s Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 help is at hand and it’s virtually free! Allen Ruddock takes you through a step by step demonstration of how to build a Project collaboration site SharePoint.

Thursday 29 April 2010 - 14.30 pm

Content: Project management is undergoing a great reassessment. Traditional project management practices are seen as becoming increasingly ineffective in environments where projects are having to deal with instability, rapid change, and heightened complexity. The diamond approach attempts to help executives with a simple model, which is based on empirical research of over 600 project examined over a period of 15 years,  to classify the project they work on. Once executives are able to classify a project they can then develop a good sense about how it should be managed. Come and learn how you can reinvent your organisations project management approach.

Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 10.30 am

Content: Keeping track of the various documents, change requests, orders and contacts can be a nightmare on any project. Are they in a file share? Can everyone see the file share? Are they lost in an e-mail box somewhere? Wouldn't that nice Enterprise Project Management solution be useful if only we could afford it? Well, with Microsoft's Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 you can get a lot of the functionality virtually free!

Allen takes you through a step by step demonstration of how to build a basic Project Management Portal using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. You can collect a copy of the finished template from TCL's stand. All you have to do is sign up for our newsletter.

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Wednesday 30 September 2009- 11.30 am

Content: Central Portfolio Offices have become critical to the execution of strategy. They provide a vital link between organisational objectives and the delivery of project portfolios including the governance of programmes, projects, costs and resources.

Andrew will present a framework with examples from organisations that have successfully implemented these practices using the ChangeDirector software for both PPM and Benefits Management. Examples from both private and public sector organisations include Etihad Airways & Friends Provident and BIS - the Department for Business, Innovations and Skills.

Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 12.30 pm

Content: A carefully shaped framework is vital to deliver effective risk management from project to programme to enterprise level. The risk management process, practice, tools and techniques form the key elements of this framework.

This presentation gives practical help on how to implement an effective structure to implement your organisation's risk management framework, including authorisation responsibilities, scoring systems, risk escalation, enterprise reporting and budget management.

The results? An organisation that can be proud of its risk culture and behaviours and reap the rewards of a high performing and efficient workforce.

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Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 13.30 pm

Content: Historically programmes and projects have rarely delivered the business benefits of which they are capable. Organisations invest in change often without knowing the extremely poor return they are getting. In the current economic climate this has to stop. The survivors and winners will be those organisations which can adapt, ensuring that their investment in change pays a handsome return.

Gerald Bradley will introduce you to a practical and proven approach to riding the economic downturn and achieving full value from your portfolio of investments. His presentation will briefly consider the following:

• Focusing investment in this new economic world
• Maximising the return from the resulting investment portfolio

Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 14.30

Content: Tired of sticky notes and whiteboard sessions? Mind mapping software is an effective way to capture the project scope during a brainstorm session and convert such information into a digital format without having to re-enter data.

We'll demonstrate how advanced mind mapping tools can be utilised to create work breakdown structures and how some software will allow you to transfer the project scope directly from a mind map to a Gantt chart. With strong integration with MS office, meeting minutes and presentations are generated instantly based on your mind map.

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Wednesday 30 September 2009 - 15.30

Content: Projects not running smoothly? Oracle's Primavera team invite you to join this presentation to learn how your projects can run seamlessly.  Oracle's Primavera suite of project management tools are designed to support the project life cycle. Join this presentation to learn how you can capture the business case, plan and execute your project right down to benefits realisation whilst planning for unexpected risks and change which can arise during projects.

Thursday 1 October 2009 - 10.30 am

Content: Project Managers who are contracting today will be trading in one of three ways: self-employed, running their own Limited Company (Personal Servicing Company), or join an umbrella company as a contractor.

Marcus Bonomini, a UK Tax Consultant will look in depth at the three options for contracting Project Managers. An informative piece for all who attend and will give time to the benefits of all three options in use. Newquay Professional can help manage tax for contractors and help them achieve the maximum amount on their contract.

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Thursday 1 October 2009 - 11.30 am

Content: Managing the projects portfolio is increasingly important for many organisations. To do this correctly requires:

• Knowledge of the organisation's strategy and priorities
• Collating the ideas and initiatives which may be become projects
• Capturing stakeholder views and information as part of a two-way exchange
• Detailing the financial, human and technical resources available
• Developing a communication strategy to drive awareness around the ongoing performance of the project portfolio

Hear how a methodical portfolio management process, involving stakeholders throughout the organisation, through the use of collaborative software can improve efficiency in the portfolio and project delivery.

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Thursday 1 October 2009 - 12.30 pm

Content: Use of SharePoint with Microsoft Project can greatly increase productivity, collaboration and efficiency in an organisation. Whether you are in a small team or a very large organisation, the benefits are substantial and achievable almost immediately.

We'll explore the collaboration features of using Microsoft Project and SharePoint, look at the automated features in the Microsoft Office EPM Solution, as well as looking at an award-winning solution that bridges the gap between standalone Microsoft Project and the full EPM Solution. Not to be missed!

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Thursday 1 October 2009 - 13.30 pm

Content: We accept that a Project Management tool could be very useful for controlling large programmes and project portfolios. The professional demonstrations convince us that implementing these should not be difficult. However, this is rarely the case! It is not the tool but various issues within the organisations that hinder our progress and sadly the tools and the implementers pick up the blame.

Jay believes we should not worry if a particular tool is right for our organisation, but, what we should really worry about is whether "our organisation is ready for a PPM tool?" Jay highlights basic issues encountered during implementations of such tools in different organisations and how she eventually resolved them.

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Thursday 1 October 2009 - 14.30 pm

Content: EPM (Enterprise Project Management) is the way forward for many organisations looking to improve project consistency, manage resources and costs, improve team collaboration, and establish real time dashboard reporting.

Vince (a leading UK based Microsoft Partner for EPM) explains the benefits of implementing Project & Portfolio Server, approaching the subject from a business perspective with real world examples. For those looking to "move to the cloud" and minimise Infrastructure complexity and investment, Vince will also discuss HOSTING options. An invaluable talk if you haven't seen the Microsoft EPM solution or are considering deployment. Attendees will receive a copy of the Wellingtone EPM Executive Summary.

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Wednesday 25 March 2009 - 10.30 am

Content: In the current economic climate, faced with limited or shrinking resources, delivering the right projects in the right way is a critical requirement for every organisation.  How can we best support this key objective?

• Evaluate and implement packaged portfolio and project management software, or develop a tailored solution?
• Choose best of breed applications or implement a fully integrated PPM solution?
• Install an in-house solution or buy software as a service (SaaS)?
• Use a standard methodology for every project or apply appropriate methods and processes to specific projects?
• Establish an enterprise-wide system or implement departmental level solutions?

At this presentation you will hear the answers to these questions and also learn how Ninth Wave’s SmartCore solution can support improvements in business efficiency and performance. 

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Wednesday 25 March 2009 – 11.30 am

Content: Whether you are on the receiving end of a project or acting as the main contractor, good project management boils down to having confidence in what is going on. 

Ian Wallace, from Palisade, talks about his experience as a project manager and how you can use Monte Carlo simulation and probability distributions in your project plans, risk registers and business cases to answer difficult questions such as:

• Is this a good project plan?
• What are the chances of success?
• Have we got enough contingency?
• What are the most important risks?

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Wednesday 25 March 2009 - 12.30 pm

Content: David Dunning will explain in simple terms the value of working with organisational change strategy through portfolio management, and explain the benefit of a Portfolio, Programme and Project Office over and above typical Project Support offices He will give an indication of the benefits and talk about how through people, process organisation strategy and technology, step change can be achieved.

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Wednesday 25 March 2009 - 13.30 pm

Content: The presentation will consider the challenges of transformational (or very large) change and then show how sigma’s proven approach to change and benefit realisation addresses these challenges. 

It will explore an effective change process from articulating a vision and end goal and identifying the related end benefits and then mapping the route from the ‘as is’ to the ‘to be’ including the determination of the required business and behavioural changes, and finally categorising, valuing and tracking the benefits to demonstrate success.

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Wednesday 25 March 2009 - 14.30

Content: Project risk analysis is becoming essential for project stages ranging from feasibility and bidding through completion. By helping you realistically assess the impact of risk on your project, it offers a powerful indicator of how likely it is that your schedule and budget will be met, how much contingency should be added to increase confidence, and which project areas are placing you at the greatest risk. Risk analysis deepens your project team’s understanding of the schedule, and helps you focus mitigation efforts where they will do the most good. This presentation introduces project risk analysis using Primavera Risk Analysis. It will also provide pointers designed to help you start benefiting quickly from this powerful, increasingly important technique.

Thursday 26 March 2009 – 10.30 am

Content: Agile techniques are increasingly popular in Project Management delivery. In today’s climate the need to tangibly demonstrate the business benefits and ROI involved in delivering ‘Agile’ Projects is stronger than ever.

Thursday 26 March 2009 - 11.30 am

Content: A major challenge in any organisation is to achieve coherence between bottom-up delivery and top-down strategic objectives.  Projects focus on deliverables; programmes combine these deliverables to achieve benefits - which deliver the organisation’s strategic objectives.  Organisations struggle to achieve communication between project and programme level, let alone keeping control of the bigger picture.  Additionally, we live in a competitive global environment, with challenges that require agile responses.  When decision making is critical, there’s no time to waste - get to grips with portfolio risk management!

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Thursday 26 March 2009 - 12.30 pm

Content: Discover why Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is an essential tool for survival in the current economic climate and vital if you are to achieve the same output from a reduced resource pool.

Understand how PPM can enable organisations to optimise employees’ time to concentrate on more business critical tasks that generate revenue for the business and enable individuals to better manage their time in an ever more demanding world.

Thursday 26 March 2009 - 13.30 pm

Content: Using the latest suite of software tools from Microsoft and Technology Associates International, this session demonstrates how to be really effective in managing, presenting and taking control of projects. You will discover how putting the “WOW” factor into project management can dramatically improve delivery and execution of projects whilst reducing costs.

Thursday 26 March 2009 - 14.30 pm

Content: Does your organisation have 4 or more Project Managers, each using Microsoft Project? Do you know about the cost effective benefits of using Microsoft Project Server 2007? Reduce project costs through improved resource usage, project reporting and team collaberation. Vince Hines will guide you through the true benefits from a non-jargon business perspective using real implementation case studies. Understand how to develop your business case and benefit from Microsoft Financing.

Each attendee will receive a copy of the Wellingtone EPM Executive Summary and have the chance to win a copy of Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 (worth +£800) provided by our partners at Microsoft.

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Wednesday 24 September 2008 - 10.30 am

Title: Agile Delivery Management

Speaker: Jon Lewis, Director, Ninth Wave

Content: In today’s increasingly competitive and regulated world, delivering applications to manage the flow of business information is a critical requirement for every organisation.  Which way to go -  evaluate and implement packaged applications software, or produce a customised solution? Is there another alternative?  Ninth Wave’s clients have chosen to take another route.. and reap the benefits. We call the concept Agile Delivery Management.  At this presentation you will learn:

• the reasons why traditional systems can hold a business back
• how to embed and utilize organisational best practices and processes within your systems
• how to deliver to your users the functionality they need – Rapidly

Join us at Project Challenge Expo as Jon Lewis reviews how to use Agile Delivery Management to improve your business performance.

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Wednesday 24 September 2008 – 11.30 am

Title: Successful planners take risks

Speaker: Val Jonas, CEO, Risk Decisions Group

Content: Successful project planners are a scarce resource. Their expertise in bridging the gap from operational detail to strategic planning is key to project success.

This practical presentation uses a case study to demonstrate how risk analysis and management techniques help project planners improve their schedules, from both detailed and top down perspectives. The results: engagement and buy in from the senior project management team and successful risk taking through properly planned projects.

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Wednesday 24 September 2008 - 12.30 pm

Title: Enabling PRINCE2® with the Microsoft® EPM solution

Speaker: David Dunning, Projects Director, Corporate Project Solutions

Content: Controlled project management means programmes get delivered better, faster and more cost-efficiently. Often, project management happens within rudimentary frameworks that are not necessarily effective, standardised and are not supported by the appropriate enabling technology causing project delivery and benefit realisation to suffer.

David Dunning of Corporate Project Solutions will present P2EPM, CPS PRINCE2® based customisation of the Microsoft® EPM solution. David will demonstrate the solution from capturing the initial Project Mandate, through project initiation, detailed project control and monitoring to project closure. David will highlight how implementing the appropriate technology to support the appropriate project management methodology will directly affect bottom line performance.

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Wednesday 24 September 2008 - 13.30 pm

Title: Creating the perfect business case to justify a new PPM system – an art or a science?

Speaker: Paul Bamforth, Sales Director, Asta Development plc

Content: Deciding to review or replace a Project Portfolio Management system is easy; writing your business case and justifying it to senior management can be the most difficult part. Knowing what rules to apply when compiling a business case may seem obvious, but securing that all important budget can be an art in itself.

This session explores the main benefits to replacing your current PPM system and sets out proven responses to support the request for a new solution. Replacing disparate tools, creating visibility of projects and better time management are just some of the areas that will be discussed.

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Wednesday 24 September 2008 - 14.30

Title: Linking people to projects - An original case study at SPE, Belgium

Speaker: Dorothy Seguy, Account Manager, Sciforma

Content: When SPE,  the second largest player in the Belgian energy market, merged with Luminus, it enhanced various changes in its work organisation to synchronise efforts, provide sustainable indicators and offer better services.

Methodological and cultural divisions between the North and South led to major strikes in the country. Thanks to human effort and a strong project management methodology, SPE is now on the road to success. This presentation will describe how SPE re organised its work methodology to be fully efficient in a new and global environment.

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Thursday 25 September 2008 – 10.30 am

Title: Pro-active, cooperative risk management in projects and programmes

Speaker: Tony Gore & Mark Swabey, Directors, Risk Reasoning Ltd

Content: The purpose of risk management is to improve the chance of meeting objectives to time, budget and quality.  Cooperation in risk management between the stakeholders, teams and suppliers can dramatically improve the chance of meeting the objectives, but participants need to be able to see the benefits, without information overload.

At the same time, information needs to be controlled – who can see what and when, who can do what and when.  The authors show how this can be achieved in a controlled, cooperative environment.  Benefits include instant reporting, shorter risk reviews, less paperwork and more pro-active risk management.#

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Thursday 25 September 2008 - 11.30 am

Title: Using Time, Resource and Performance Management to help drive
£70m of savings for a pioneering joint venture

Speaker: Matthew Scherba – Director, Tx3 Solutions and Andy Donne – Consultant – Serco

Content: Access is a pioneering LLP between Serco and Glasgow City Council, established to radically reshape facilities and ICT management. Pioneering ventures must overcome immeasurable obstacles, and even more so when the requirement includes merging public and private sector processes, reducing staff numbers and reducing costs by 20% in order to improve service delivery.

This presentation explores the challenges that were faced in planning diverse resources for successful project execution, and how software is integral to measuring the performance and validation of an innovative service delivery model.

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Thursday 25 September 2008 - 12.30 pm

Title: Estimating the cost and schedule of systems in an Enterprise environment

Speaker: Grahame Jones, UK Manager, PRICE Systems

Content: This paper explores the issues regarding estimating all the costs and schedules of acquiring, operating and supporting systems. We will explore the complexities of modern systems, how they are organised, and the consequential activities that need to be performed and estimated.

Roles within an organisation determine information needs.  This presentation will show that timely estimates, generated within a unified framework, can be shared with the relevant parts of an organisation, facilitating timely decisions and improved profitability.

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Thursday 25 September 2008 - 13.30 pm

Title: Putting the WOW factor into Project Management with Microsoft Project 2007 and the 2007 Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution.

Speaker: Kelvin Kirby, Director EPM Consulting Group, Technology Associates International

Content: Using the latest suite of software tools from Microsoft and Technology Associates International, this session demonstrates how to be really effective in managing, presenting and taking control of projects. You will discover how  putting the “WOW” factor into project management can dramatically improve delivery and execution of projects whilst reducing costs.

Technology Associates International is a Microsoft Enterprise Project Premier Solution Provider, a Microsoft Gold Partner and an award winning company currently working on a number of Microsoft Project implementations including the UK's largest deployment of EPM 2007.

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Thursday 25 September 2008 - 14.30 pm

Title: PPM Software as a Service – Truly productive!

Speaker: Dan Brazil – @Task EMEA Client Services Consultant

Content: The way businesses are buying software is changing - fact. Software as a Service (SaaS) provides the competitive edge and efficiency gains in the mission critical areas of Project and Portfolio Management. With SaaS you can rapidly deploy and configure a sophisticated system that might have previously sent your overburdened IT department running for the hills! Wherever you are in the world, and whatever operating system you are running, you can quickly and seamlessly benefit from being able to collaboratively access, distribute and update project information direct from your web browser.

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Wednesday 12 March 2008 - 10.30 am

Title: The Fundamentals of Business Analysis

Speaker: Wendy Walker Business Analysis Consultant, Business Analyst Solutions Limited

Content: There is only one scientific method. Each science has its own tools and techniques to implement it but they all make use of the ‘scientific method’ whose objective is discovering new facts.

Business Analysis is not about discovering new facts - it is about defining requirements for change. Is there a 'scientific method' for Business Analysis that all the business analysis methods and approaches use? This talk gives an answer to that question, it aims to debunk the subject area and expose what is – in essence the simple (if hard) process of business analysis. It will conclude with practical advice on how to apply it in the real world of business. www.BusinessAnalystSolutions.com

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Wednesday 12 March 2008 – 11.30 am

Title: Enabling PRINCE2® with the Microsoft® EPM solution’

Speaker: David Dunning, Projects Director, Corporate Project Solutions

Content: Controlled project management means programmes get delivered better, faster and more cost-efficiently. Often, project management happens within rudimentary frameworks that are not necessarily effective, standardised and are not supported by the appropriate enabling technology causing project delivery and benefit realisation to suffer.

David Dunning of Corporate Project Solutions will present P2EPM, CPS PRINCE2® based customisation of the Microsoft® EPM solution. David will demonstrate the solution from capturing the initial Project Mandate, through project initiation, detailed project control and monitoring to project closure. David will highlight how implementing the appropriate technology to support the appropriate project management methodology will directly affect bottom line performance.

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Wednesday 12 March 2008 - 12.30 pm

Title: The emerging use of Mobile and Wireless Technologies within Project Management

Speaker: Malcolm Graham, CEO SensoryNet Ltd

Content: Solve problems instantly and communicate efficiently anywhere, anytime using mobile and wireless technologies to improve project management. Potential solutions reviewed include Real Time Progress Tracking, Time Sheets, Fleet Management Solutions and Dispatch Tools.

Who is using these solutions and what are the benefits? Why are these solutions being deployed: The presentation will also cover implementation, support and health and safety issues of these solutions within the project management arena.

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Wednesday 12 March 2008 - 13.30 pm

Title: The BRM Adventure

Speaker: Gerald Bradley, Chairman, Sigma

Content: This session will explore the challenge of applying Benefit Realisation Management (BRM) to a project or programme.  It will briefly examine the whole change journey from a recognised start through to the achievement of the ultimate reward – financial and non-financial benefits aligned to business strategy.

It will consider some critical success factors and hazards to be avoided and describe tools to make the journey secure, reliable and effective, utilising recognised guidance such as MSP.

Wednesday 12 March 2008 - 14.30

Title: Agile Project Management – running PRINCE2 projects with DSDM Atern

Speaker: Keith Richards, Director, Keith Richards Consulting

Content: Last year the interest in Agile Project Management reached a tipping point and most organisations are now embracing ‘agile’ in one form or another. In this session you will learn to identify the critical components of ‘being agile’. You will be guided on how to adapt PRINCE2 by integrating it with DSDM Atern, a proven agile framework.

The aim of the session is to provide you with an approach to agile project delivery that delivers the right product at the right time without compromising strong project governance.

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Thursday 13 March 2008 – 10.30 am

Title: Do you feel confident? Using Risk Analyses in Projects

Speaker: Ian Wallace, Trainer and Consultant , Palisade

Content: Often good project management boils down to having confidence in what you are doing; not only in meeting targets and deadlines but also in achieving the desired outcomes, some of which may take years to accrue.

When everyone is confident or at least aware of the risks, resources are easily available, morale is high, clients are happy and generally a project manager's life is a lot easier.  However, this precious commodity called 'confidence' is fickle and easily lost, so it pays to have a robust method of measuring and demonstrating your confidence. Ian Wallace from Palisade, talks about his experience as a project manager and how he builds ‘Monte Carlo’ probability analysis into project plans so that his clients can answer difficult questions such as 'what are our current chances?

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Thursday 13 March 2008 - 11.30 am

Title: Putting the WOW factor back into Project Management with Microsoft Project 2007 and the 2007 Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution

Speaker: Kelvin Kirby, Director, EPM Consulting Group, Technology Associates International

Content: Using the latest suite of software tools from Microsoft and Technology Associates, this session will demonstrate how to be really effective in managing, presenting and taking control of projects. You will discover how putting the “WOW” factor back into project management can dramatically improve delivery and execution of projects whilst reducing costs.

Technology Associates International is a Microsoft Enterprise Project Premier Solution Provider, a Microsoft Gold Partner and an award winning company currently working on a number of Microsoft Project implementation including the UK's largest deployment of EPM 2007.

Thursday 13 March 2008 - 12.30 pm

Title: The Power of Portfolio Management

Speaker: Jonathan Ward, Managing Director, Severn - Tefen

Content: This paper provides a practical insight into the application of Portfolio Management. Since the turn of the century there has been a growing trend for organisations to see more in terms of strategic gain from their investments.

Portfolio Management techniques are designed to address shortfalls in investment funds and critical resources. The paper will illustrate how in practice PPM is often inhibited by organisational culture and inefficiencies.

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Thursday 13 March 2008 - 13.30 pm

Title: Are you looking for an alternative to Microsoft Project?

Speaker: Andy Woodward, Asta Teamplan Customer Consultant, Asta Development

Content: If you are looking to improve the performance of your organisation you needn’t look any further than Asta Teamplan.

Asta Teamplan, Project Portfolio and Resource Management Software is comparable to Microsoft Project but also offers an integral resource management tool, a richer view of what is happening, top quality presentation of the project plan and is significantly easier to use. Find out more www.teamplan.co.uk

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Thursday 13 March 2008 - 14.30 pm

Title: The Importance of Earned Value for Project Control

Speaker: Dr John Henry Looney, Managing Director, PSMJ Resources (UK)

Content: With respect to project management this is probably the most important topic you need to know. Leading the project team and controlling the project rests solidly on the shoulders of the project manager. Others may market the work and negotiate contracts, or even create the initial project budget and schedule for a project. But, when it comes to managing and controlling the project—the project manager has full responsibility, no one else.

Therefore it is critical that each project manager develops the project control skills required to complete each project successfully, and you cannot do this without understanding Earned Value. This seminar sets out the background briefly but focuses on a real work practical method for controlling your project and meeting your scope, schedule and profitability.

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Wednesday 19 September 2007 - 10.30 am

Title: Business Analysis methods, fads and fashions

Speaker: Guy Beauchamp, Business Analysis Consultant, Business Analyst Solutions Limited

Content: Business Analysis methods fads and fashions - they come and they go. Why? Analysis of business changes MUST all cover the same subject matter to analyse business requirements for a new business solution, so why are there so many methods for doing it? Could it be that analysis is hard and every method claims to miraculously make it easy? Could it be that some methods are designed to help developers develop code and not the business develop the business solutions? Could it be that there is money to be made in 'new' methods?

This talk aims to debunk the subject area and expose what is - in essence - the simple (if hard) process of business analysis. We will uncover the framework that is behind every method and make the case for a pragmatic and practical use of that framework in the analysis of business changes.

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Wednesday 19 September 2007 - 11.30 am

Title: Getting timesheets to work

Speaker: Paul Bamforth, Sales Director, Asta Development

Content: Timesheets have an important part to play in effective project and programme management, however often the prospective timesheet users are reluctant to adopt them because of their “Big Brother” connotation.

This session explores the reasons behind these negative attitudes and the benefits timesheets offer both organisations and individuals, especially when they are linked directly into project plans. The session then looks at practical ways of removing the stigma and getting timesheets accepted culturally, including a number of real life examples.

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Wednesday 19 September 2007 - 12.30 pm

Title: Simplify Project Planning with Mind Mapping®

Speaker: Brandon Conrad, Commercial Account Manager, MatchWare, Inc

Content: Mind Mapping allows you to brainstorm and plan, schedule and manage and finally present your projects to a wide range of audiences. All of this can be accomplished without recreating the data through the life cycle of a project. Use Mind Mapping to help every member of your team fully understand the project, contribute to planning, follow the project timeline and clearly visualise all tasks in an organised manner. Some Mind Mapping tools allow you to transform the mind map into a Gantt chart without having to re-enter data. To allow further collaboration many Mind Mapping tools have strong integration with MS Office and free viewers available.

This presentation will focus on how to simplify the project plan by demonstrating concrete tactics and techniques in Mind Mapping.

Wednesday 19 September 2007 - 13.30

Title: Using EPM in a Collaborative Environment

Speaker: Kelvin Kirby, Director, EPM Consulting Group - Technology Associates International

Content: The 2007 Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management solution provides organisations with excellent programme and project management capabilities and provides powerful collaborative functionality to assist in managing and communicating with teams and resources, as well as stakeholders. Executives, Programme, Project and Resource managers can review projects and resources to stay on track with budgets, deadlines and schedules through a collaborative approach.

Technology Associates International is a Microsoft Enterprise Project Premier Solution Provider, a Microsoft Gold Partner and a finalist in the 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year award (EPM Category). The company specialises in deploying Microsoft Office EPM solutions and is currently working on the UK's largest deployment of EPM.

Wednesday 19 September 2007 - 14.30

Title: Resources Management with PSNext

Speaker: Ken Cooper, Sales and Marketing, Le Bihan Consulting

Content: With multiple strategic projects in motion, and many more on the horizon, how do you control the capacity of your departments? And the overload of a critical job, or competency? How does a member of your team keep track of his or her time and how do you update your projects with his or her actuals?

PSNext is a standard toolset for projects, resources and portfolio management enabling you to use the appropriate solution to the above questions.

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Thursday 20 September 2007 - 10.30 am

Title: Benefit Realisation Management - pathway to project success

Speaker: Gerald Bradley, Chairman, Sigma Consulting

Content: Gerald will introduce some of the hindrances to effective benefit realisation and then outline a proven approach for addressing these challenges and for ensuring that projects and programmes deliver appropriate business value. He will show how stakeholders can be engaged and motivated and how a high percentage of the benefits (financial and non-financial) realisable from change, can actually and demonstrably be delivered.

He will also show how this approach fully supports the new version of MSP.

Thursday 20 September 2007 - 11.30 am

Title: Cradle to Grave Project Management using the Microsoft Project Server and Portfolio Server 2007 solutions

Speaker: Christopher Pond, Senior Consultant, Corporate Project Solutions

Content: Christopher Pond of Corporate Project Solutions will present the Microsoft EPM solution comprising Microsoft project Server and Microsoft portfolio Server.

Christopher will demonstrate the solution from capturing initial structured business case information, alignment to strategy and prioritisation of projects through to project initiation and detailed project control and monitoring.

Christopher is a Senior consultant with CPS and has Nine years experience in implementing and training on project management solutions. Corporate Project Solutions is the UK’s leading Microsoft EPM implementation partner and are exhibiting on stands 101 and 103.

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Thursday 20 September 2007 - 12.30 pm

Title: Introducing the ITIL Service Lifecycle

Speaker: Jane Clark, Consultant, ConnectSphere

Content: The presentation will introduce ITIL Service Management Best Practice, its history and relationship with ISO/IEC 20000.

Initially introducing ITIL Service Management V2: Service Support and Service Delivery Processes. Service Support focuses on the more operational aspects of Service provision, with Service Delivery on the other hand concentrating on the less obvious processes.

ITIL has also moved on with the recent release of ITIL V3. Jane will overview the need for change and will introduce the structure of the ITIL Service Lifecycle. Finally, we will take a look at a few of the new concepts introduced in ITIL V3. You will also gain an understanding of the qualifications systems associated to both versions and the supporting publications available to bring it all to life.

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Thursday 20 September 2007 - 13.30 pm

Title: Enterprise Project Management and Customer Relationship Management - An Integrated Approach

Speaker: Michael Wignall - Chief Technology Officer - Tubedale Communications Ltd

Content: Enterprise Project Management (EPM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM); two very different solutions, one integrated approach.

This presentation will demonstrate a fully integrated approach that combines Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management Solution with Microsoft’s Customer Relationship Management solution. Developed jointly by Tubedale and Microsoft, the solution allows users to combine the capabilities of both CRM and EPM to create through life, integrated, business processes. By supporting information flows back and forward between the EPM and CRM systems, users are better able to manage all activities related to customer contact, project fulfilment and service management.

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Thursday 20 September 2007 - 14.30 pm

Title: Project & Programme Risk Management - the psychology in practice

Speaker: Mark Swabey, Managing Director, Risk Reasoning Ltd

Organisation: Risk Reasoning Ltd

Content: Risk management should be an integral part of project and programme management - but do we understand the way people behave when involved in risk management? This talk explores our attitudes to identifying, assessing, responding and managing risks. Some of the common psychological pitfalls of each step are exposed. Suggestions on how they can be avoided are provided with practical examples.

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Wednesday 14 March 2007 - 10.30 am

Title: Benefit Realisation Management – pathway to project success

Speaker: Gerald Bradley, Chairman, Sigma Consulting

Content: Gerald will introduce some of the hindrances to effective benefit realisation and then outline a proven approach for addressing these challenges and for ensuring that projects and programmes deliver appropriate business value.

He will show how stakeholders can be engaged and motivated and how a high percentage of the benefits (financial and non-financial) realisable from change, can actually and demonstrably be delivered.

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Wednesday 14 March 2007 - 11.15 am

Title: Do you feel confident? – Risk Analyses within projects

Speaker: Ian Wallace, Project Risk Consultant, Palisade Europe Ltd

Content: Whether you are a client or a supplier, at the end of the day, project management boils down to confidence; not only in meeting deadlines but also in achieving the desired outcomes, some of which take years to accrue.

When people are confident, resources are easily available, morale is high and generally a project manager's life is a lot easier. However, when confidence is lost, life gets very tough as, suddenly, everyone 'deserts the ship'.

This precious commodity called 'confidence' needs to be closely guarded. Ian Wallace, an independent consultant, talks about his experience as a project manager and how he incorporates Risk Analyses into his project management. Using Monte Carlo simulation and probabilistic analysis within his project plans so difficult questions such as 'what are our chances?' can be answered.

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Wednesday 14 March 2007 - 12.30 pm

Title: Best Practice; ‘How to create and maintain your plan using Microsoft Project’ sponsored by Microsoft

Speaker: Ivan Lloyd, Managing Consultant, Corporate Project Solutions

Content: Microsoft Project is the standard toolset for millions of people creating and maintaining project plans; and yet many users have had little or no training and are unaware of key functionality and best practice for effectively using the product.

Ivan Lloyd of Corporate Project Solutions will present the do’s and don’ts of how to easily build and update your project plan using Microsoft Project. Ivan is a Managing consultant with CPS and has fifteen years experience in implementing and training on project management solutions. Ivan also represents the UK on Microsoft’s advisory council in the US advising on future developments of the Microsoft Project platform.

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Wednesday 14 March 2007 - 13.45 pm

Title: The 10 Step Software Estimation Process for Successful Software Planning, Measurement and Control

Speaker: Andy Robinson, Consultant, Galorath International

Content: An effective software estimate provides vital information for making project decisions, projecting performance, and defining objectives and plans, as well as providing an objective way of addressing expanding business requirements that most project managers are faced with.

This presentation details a 10-step estimation process that describes project metrics, building a viable project estimate, sizing the software, generating the estimate, and performing risk/uncertainty analysis.

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Wednesday 14 March 2007 - 15.00 pm

Title: Making the right PPM decisions

Speaker: David Smith, Solutions Strategist

Content: With multiple strategic projects in motion, and many more on the table, consistently selecting the right projects is no easy task.

This presentation will investigate which initiatives an organisation should invest in, and having chosen those important investments, how an organisation should manage the delivery of those activities effectively. We will discuss how a PPM tool can assist an organisation to prioritise its strategic investments, evaluate budgetary and resource constraints and then execute the delivery process.

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Thursday 15 March 2007 - 10.00 am

Title: Know your process: an introduction to dynamic process models for keeping projects on track

Speaker: Andy Carmichael, VP International Operations, Ivis Technologies

Content: An understanding of process, and how processes vary between the projects in your programme or portfolio, is fundamental to effective Enterprise Project Management. The models of the process behind projects can provide teams with immediate access to the standard and best practices within an organization. However static or inappropriate process models can lock teams into outmoded or inefficient practices that reduce their effectiveness and inhibit collaboration within and between teams.

This session looks at how the process behind projects can be modelled using task patterns, artifact patterns and process types. It shows how projects can benefit from process improvements that occur during project execution, and how these changes, as well as those to estimates, priorities and resources, can be tracked and continually assist management decision making. The session will draw on a case study from a software development project for a financial services product, and show how the agile process adopted by this team was enhanced, and more effectively controlled, by their dynamic process model.

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Thursday 15 March 2007 - 11.15 am

Title: Effective resource management: the key to project success

Speaker: Paul Bamforth, Managing Director, Asta Development plc

Content: People, your most valuable resource, are the most important element of all projects. It’s therefore vital to ensure they are used as effectively as possible.

This session looks at the resource management benefits of project portfolio management and the results of independent research into key issues in the management of staff time. It then focuses on key resource issues in three different scenarios: teams who deliver projects for external clients, internal teams and teams delivering billable work such as consultants or trainers.

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Thursday 15 March 2007 - 12.30 pm

Title: A day in the life of a project manager through rose glasses

Speaker: Kevin Gould, Product Manager, Strategic Thought Group

Content: Projects always run to plan don’t they? OK, so they don’t, but how can we learn from what the leaders in delivering some of the largest programmes ever undertaken are doing to address this using risk management and advanced levels of integration and collaboration with their customers, senior executive, colleagues and suppliers to understand and manage expectation, deploy it, deliver against it and at the earliest opportunity identify when something needs to be escalated because something has changed or failed.

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Thursday 15 March 2007 - 13.45 pm

Title: Realising the benefits of Microsoft's 2007 EPM Solution

Speaker: Kelvin Kirby, Director EPM Consulting Group, Technology Associates International

Content: The 2007 Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution helps effectively manage and prioritise projects and resources across your organization. Microsoft designed the EPM Solution for organisations needing strong team coordination, standardisation across projects and programs, centralised resource management, as well as high-level reporting about projects and resources. We will demonstrate the new features of this solution as well as showing the advantages of a fully hosted version of the EPM solution.

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Thursday 15 March 2007 - 15.00 pm

Title: Project Risk Assessment – Why and How?

Speaker: Simon White, UK Professional Services Manager, Pertmaster International

Content: A talk presenting the arguments in favour of adopting a risk assessment strategy:

What are the benefits to the business? What do the project team get out of it? How do the stakeholders benefit? How is it driven by the needs of the business?

Also presenting some example risk assessment strategies, including some best-practice risk assessment techniques.

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Tuesday 19 September - 10.30 am

Title: Benefit Realisation Management – pathway to project success

Speaker: Gerald Bradley, Chairman, Sigma Consulting

Content: Gerald will introduce some of the hindrances to effective benefit realisation and then outline a proven approach for addressing these challenges and for ensuring that projects and programmes deliver appropriate business value. He will show how stakeholders can be engaged and motivated and how a high percentage of the benefits (financial and non-financial) realisable from change, can actually and demonstrably be delivered.

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Tuesday 19 September - 11.30 am

Title: The REAL benefits of Project Portfolio Management

Speaker: Michael McCullen, MD, Asta Development Plc

Content: What do you think are the business benefits of Project Portfolio Management? We recently conducted an industry-wide survey to find out what really matters to the people managing multiple projects, costs and resources on a daily basis.

The session will focus on the results of the study, providing a true insight into what people in business and industry think are the benefits of PPM. This industry-wide perspective can then be used to promote PPM and improved work practices within departments and organisations.

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Tuesday 19 September - 12.30 pm

Title: Confessions of a Head of Projects

Speaker: Eddie Borup and John Earwood, ILX Group plc

Content: Eddie Borup and John Earwood were part of the senior management team leading the programme and project management group for a large global organization with 106 project staff before becoming one of the first registered consultants in programme and project management.

Eddie, John and his team are now leading the way on helping organizations improve their programme and project management capability using the Office of Government Commerce(OGC) Maturity Models.

Eddie and John will bring alive through examples and practical hints and tips how the forward think organizations are getting better at delivering their business goals by switching their focus from outputs to outcomes.

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Tuesday 19 September - 13.30 pm

Title: Introducing the Microsoft Office Project 2007 Timesheet Solution

Speaker: Ivan Lloyd, Managing Consultant, Corporate Project Solutions

Content: With the 2007 release of the Microsoft EPM solution, Microsoft has invested significantly evolving the time collection functionality into an Enterprise level timesheet solution. This session will provide an insight into how the solution can support organisations of all sizes with both project and non-project related time collection requirements.

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Tuesday 19 September - 14.30 pm

Title: "If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here" – Getting Enterprise Risk Management into your Organisation

Speaker: Mark Swabey & Stuart Gruszka, Risk Reasoning Ltd

Content: Risk management is all too often a set of disparate activities carried out by individuals. The results are fragmentary and impossible to correlate across an organisation.

The authors illustrate the problems that this can cause, demonstrate the ways to overcome them with a collaborative Enterprise Risk Management approach and yet show a positive return on investment.

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Wednesday 20 September - 10.30 am

Title: Enterprise Project Management and Portfolio Project Management - Introducing Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007

Speaker: Christopher Pond, Senior Consultant, Corporate Project Solutions

Content: Add value to your strategic development programme with Project Portfolio Server, recognised by industry analysts as a leading PPM solution that helps organisations to gain visibility, insight and control. This new technology is causing a high level of interest in all business sectors and complements the Microsoft EPM solution implemented globally by CPS.

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Wednesday 20 September - 11.30 am

Title: Are Tools the Total Project Solution?

Speaker: Steve Wickham, WPM Group

Content: Consistently good project management relies upon a combination of a sound method and appropriate tools for the job, but how often are these integrated?

When busy managing your project and wanting to refer to your organisation’s method document, is it convenient? This presentation describes a solution having a multi-project data repository for documentation, project logs and plans alongside contextual PRINCE2-compliant method help that can be tailored to the organisation.

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Wednesday 20 September - 12.30 pm

Title: The Emerging Influence of Project Intelligence

Speaker: Sarim Khan, CEO Pertmaster Ltd

Content: The importance of managing risk and uncertainties on large projects has never been greater for many project-led organizations. In some cases initial poor portfolio selection and subsequently weak project planning, delivery and closeout has led project-led organizations into difficulties on many levels; financial, competitive and legislative. The project and portfolio challenges facing these companies spread across the entire project lifecycle and portfolio selection, this is also the case for large capitol investment and asset management projects. In this presentation Sarim will focus on 5 key areas:

1. Assessing Candidate Selection for the Portfolio
2. Realistic Assignment and Forecasting of Project Funds
3. Modelling & Reporting “Real World” Events
4. Intelligent Risk Mitigation Scenarios
5. Accurate Portfolio Analysis & Intelligence Reporting

Positive management of these difficulties in their changing business environment is crucial for the future success of many of these companies. Today companies are seeking out project intelligence solutions to enable their staff to improve confidence on reporting, managing and forecasting project and portfolios.

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Wednesday 20 September - 13.30 pm

Title: Managing an Effective IT Governance Solution

Speaker: Kerry Litten, Senior Principal, INS

Content: In an era of stringent cost management and strict legislative requirements, IT governance has never been more critical. An effective IT governance solution can provide organisations with a resilient platform driving greater efficiencies in management and promoting business innovation and growth. IT becomes empowered and aligned with the overall business strategy and decision making structures.

INS will provide a demonstration of how the Microsoft Office System can enable a strong foundation for an IT governance solution. This solution has three major components to it. The first is an IT scorecard that reflects the IT strategy and alignment with the business. The second is collaboration, document management and workflow to support governance. The third is project & portfolio management. This comprehensive solution utilises multiple Microsoft technologies, including Business Scorecard Manager, Project Server, SQL Server with Analysis and Reporting Services, UMT Portfolio Manager, SharePoint, and many others.

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Wednesday 20 September - 14.30 pm

Title: PRINCE2: Torbay or not to be - that is the question...

Speaker: Paul Bradley of SPOCE Project Management Ltd

Content: ...Here is the answer. Over the last 18 months Torbay Council has conducted a training programme for PRINCE2 consisting of boardroom briefings, introduction events, and foundation level distance learning using P2 Passport from SPOCE.To ensure the training was effective and culturally embedded through the Council, a project management system has been developed to provide guidance on how to manage projects within Torbay Council. The guidance includes step-by-step process information, project templates and guidance on techniques.

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Wednesday 15 September - 10.30 am

Title: Benefit Realisation Management - pathway to project success

Speaker: Gerald Bradley, Chairman, Sigma Consulting

Content: Gerald will introduce some of the hurdles and hindrances to effective benefit realisation and then outline a proven approach for addressing these challenges and for ensuring that projects and programmes deliver appropriate business value. He will show how a high percentage of the benefits (financial and non-financial) realisable from change, can actually and demonstrably be delivered.

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Wednesday 15 September - 11.30 am

Title: Earned Value – is it really all its cracked up to be?

Speaker: David Dunning, Director, Corporate Project Solutions Ltd

Content: Earned value – there are books, papers, conferences and tools on the topic. David Dunning suggests that there is nothing special about a technique which he believes is simply a natural consequence of good project management in organisations with the maturity to handle it. As director of Corporate Project Solutions, David's job is to develop and implement enterprise project management solutions for organisations in a variety of sectors – and yes, that can and does include configuring EV systems, particularly in industries such as defence

David believes that there are three basic requirements if EV is going to be worth doing and really add value:

• People and their skills
• Clear, well defined processes
• Technology to support the people and the processes to function more effectively

David will present the basic principles of EVM, and make a case for a maturity based implementation process.

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Wednesday 15 September - 12.30 pm

Title: Artemis Public Sector Solution

Speaker: Brian Harrington - Public Sector Business Manager, Artemis

Content: Artemis International Solutions is a leading supplier of programme and project management solutions and is celebrating 30 years in the industry. Artemis provides industry based solutions that help organisations address their specific business requirements.

The Artemis Public Sector solution enables improved programme and project delivery, funding management and the effective monitoring of performance against key Public Sector targets.  The solution features include:

• Multi-dimensional views of links between objectives and programme characteristics
• Key performance indicators to ensure consistency between schedules, budget, funding and actuals at all levels
• Full collaborative environment for sharing programme data with all stakeholders
• Full lifecycle benefits and target tracking including non-fiscal and non-fiscal efficiency gains targets

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Wednesday 15 September - 13.30 pm

Title: Project Risk Assessment – Why and How?

Speaker: Simon White, UK Client Services Manager, Pertmaster Ltd

Content: A talk presenting the arguments in favour of adopting a risk assessment strategy:

• What are the benefits to the business?
• What do the project team get out of it?
• How do the stakeholders benefit?
• How is it driven by the needs of the business?

Also presenting some example risk assessment strategies, including some best-practice risk assessment techniques.

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Wednesday 15 September - 14.30 pm

Title: Delivering Best Practice Project Management in your organisation

Speaker: Olivia Reynolds, Senior Pre-Sales Solution Consultant, EMEA, Clarity Division, BSO (formerly Niku)

Content: Many organisations recognise that they need to improve their efficiency in the management and delivery of projects, making the best use of their people and financial resources. How can a unified (and simplified) solution help organisations execute their projects with control and predictability by ensuring their best practices are leveraged across their entire project portfolio.

If you would like to receive a copy of Olivia Reynolds presentation Delivering Best Practice Project Management in your organisation please contact laura.sirs@ca.com.

Thursday 16 September - 10.30 am

Title: PRINCE2 the solution?

Speaker: Cyril Caulkin ILX Group

Content: Cyril will explore how to assess the business needs and focus on the outcomes and business benefits.

How do we do this?

By introducing PRINCE2 on a pragmatic basis to show how organisations can produce the right products which leads to these end results.

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Thursday 16 September - 11.30 am

Title: Governance in Programmes- command and control or value creation?

Speaker: Kevin Parry - Director, Consultancy Services - Program Management Group Plc

Content: Kevin will talk about managing programme portfolios through effective governance. What do we mean by governance? What is the right level and what does best practice look like? He will look at some common mis-conceptions, how to select the right information and what a governance body needs to include – and exclude! Today, governance is critical to all companies and this needs to connect the business governance with the governance of key projects and programmes. There is no single formula to do this but Kevin will cover what to look for and how to get started.

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Thursday 16 September - 12.30 pm

Title: Pitfalls in Risk Management – A Bakers Dozen!

Speaker: Mark Swabey, Managing Director, Risk Reasoning Ltd

Content: Risk Management it should be straightforward – shouldn’t it?  Too often, simple pitfalls defeat the best intentions, leading to serious risk mismanagement. The author identifies the most common pitfalls, from his own experiences in providing consultancy and tools to support risk management. Simple, straightforward solutions are proposed to remedy the pitfalls and make risk management easier.

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Thursday 16 September - 13.30 pm

Title: Microsoft – Project & Portfolio Management Solution

Speaker: Graham Shakespeare, Solution Specialist - EPM, Microsoft Ltd and Yorai Linenberg, Founding Partner, UMT

Content: Following on from the recent acquisition of UMT’s technology and portfolio framework, Microsoft can extend the Office EPM Solution to offer an end-to-end enterprise project & portfolio management solution. This will enable Microsoft to quickly deliver on our vision of bringing project portfolio management, prioritisation and selection capabilities to all levels of an organization.  This session will showcase this solution, its capabilities and integration with the Microsoft Office EPM Solution.

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Thursday 16 September - 14.30 pm

Title: Enterprise Project Management and Accountancy – I.Q. for Enterprise Projects

Speaker: Kevin Finn, Executive Technical Director – Queue Associates UK Limited and Chris Marriott, Managing Director – Intellient Limited,

Content: Single-point of entry, integrated systems from Microsoft, financial control to the heart of your projects. Kevin and Chris will show how a fully integrated solution will help your organisation take control of your project resources and finances. If you are interested in the financial control of your projects linked to your resource management then you must not miss this presentation.

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