Chapter Is Part of Awards Program Honoring Project Manager of the Year

 

In connection with International Project Manager Day, Balázs Rákossy, undersecretary for the use of EU funds, presented Hungary’s Project Manager of the Year Award. The Project Manager of the Year Award is announced, evaluated and given jointly to the winner every year by several Hungarian project management organizations, including the PMI Budapest, Hungarian Chapter.

The Project Management Excellence Board is formed from representatives of these organizations in order to organize this award. Its purpose is to recognize Hungarian professionals and to increase the importance and visibility of project management knowledge, the profession and also its outstanding projects.

The board’s sponsor is Finance Minister Mihály Varga. In 2018, this recognition was given to Máté Kertész, JD, MBA, PMP, program manager of DXC Hungary Ltd. He was successful in leading the efficiency improvement program of the regional water utilities’ financial accounting. This project was one of the biggest among the last few years of SAP implementation programs in the public utility sector of the Hungarian market with regard to manpower, budget and complexity. To prepare the plan, Dr. Kertész had to collect inputs from five companies and project organizations consisting of 130 members, put them in order and turn them into concrete project steps.

This required extraordinary professional, business and manpower management skills. As proof of the strong competition and the high quality of participants this year, a special award was given to Zsombor Szabadkai, project manager, Tomlin Ltd. His project was to create an office building for Hungarian Telekom headquarters. The building had to show the work philosophy and work culture of the company. Project Management Thesis of the Year The PMI Budapest, Hungarian Chapter also had two leaders serving on a jury of five academics and project management practitioners evaluating candidates for Project Management Thesis of the Year. Fourteen students from different universities applied for the competition, the highest number of nominees since the award was established. András Pernyeszi, PMP, vice president of the PMI Budapest, Hungarian Chapter, was president of the jury. Chapter President László Kremmer, PMP, also served on the jury. All the received works were of a high quality, so the jury did not have an easy task. The high quality of the applicants was shown by the fact that the jury decided to give two awards for third place, and also a special award.

Award-winning topics included:

• Research on project manager competences in consultancy;
• Project risk management methodology with elements of knowledge management;
• Minimalization of the project transit time using agile approaches to management; and
• Follow up of the Vértes Power Plant Ltd. development project.

The winner of the Project Management Thesis of the Year received, among other prizes, a free entrance ticket for the Art of Projects Conference. The three best thesis writers each got a certificate of merit from the event organizing institutions, as well as a book on project management that they could choose from the PMI Store. The event presenting the winners of this competition was organized by the PMI Budapest, Hungarian Chapter in cooperation with the project management section of the Scientific Association for Infocommunications Hungary and the Hungarian Project Management Alliance.