Gabor George Burt - congress openning keynote
| Gabor's topic was about re-imagining boudaries and reshaping the future of our organizations. The overall speech is inspiring. I will keep in mind the following challenge. Let's take 1 minute to create a team of 3 to 4 people around you and formulate a strategy for winning a contest of correctly guessing the flip of a coin the most time in a row... The exercize is fun and easy to reproduce at your customer or at your PMI chapter event. Now imagine that each flip represents a critical milestone in your project. Suppose you have 50% of change to succeed at each milestone. This means that you have 50% of chance to be successful at the first one, then 50% to succeed at second one, etc.. Should the project have 12 milestones, you only have 0.025% to be successful the all project... - 1 flip (milestone in your project) => 50% to be successful - 2 flips => 25% - 3 flips => 12.5% - ... - 12 => 0.025%
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Sarah #PMIEMEA17
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PMIEMEA17
Categories: PMIEMEA17
| As with Yves, below is my schedule for Congress in Rome. Please connect with me, either here, or via twitter (@sarahtweeters) with your questions to speakers and I'll do my best to get you answers! #PMIEMEA17 MONDAY MAY 109:00 - 10:30 Keynote Speaker Gabor George Burt TUESDAY MAY 209:00 - 10:15 Lessons Learned: Creating a New Decision-Making Framework Speaker: Maria Hedwall WEDNESDAY MAY 308:30 - 09:45 Don't Let Biases Doom Your Project: Strategies for Identifying and Transforming Cognitive Biases Speaker: Luis Seabra Coelho |
My PMI EMEA Congress
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EMEA
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| Here are the sessions I plan to attend during the congress in Rome. If you have any question to presenters or about session content, just let me know here. I'll post at least one post at the end of each day and I'll do my best to include the answer to your question. Monday May 109:00 - 10:30 Keynote Speaker Gabor George Burt Tuesday May 209:00 - 10:15 Project Failure or Organisation Failure?: Common Causes and Solutions for Project Failure Speakers: Majeed Hosseiney and Mike Frenette Wednesday May 308:30 - 09:45 Enterprise Agile Transformation: Organisational Changes and the Role of the PMO Speaker: Burak, Uluocak |
PMI EMEA Congress 2017: I wish you an Optimistic future ...
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PMI,
Risk Management,
PM & the Economy,
Agile,
Generational PM,
Curiosity,
Innovation,
Change Management,
Leadership,
Complexity,
Ethics,
New Practitioners
Categories: PMI, Risk Management, PM & the Economy, Agile, Generational PM, Curiosity, Innovation, Change Management, Leadership, Complexity, Ethics, New Practitioners
| This is how Mark Stevenson, author of the book “An Optimist's Tour of the Future“ and key note speaker last year signed his book during the EMEA Congress in Barcelona– I found it so antagonistic ... so good ...
Have you ever thought about the future and how humanity will need to adapt to the changes that are coming ...? How we will need to innovate or how local initiatives can really impact at a global scale? There is an old man near me in the cafe .. he looks nostalgic, a face can tell you lot of things, experience, dreams, failures, successes ... Are you curious? I look at him and thousands of things come to my mind. Thoughts about how things have changed since I was ten years old, What is he thinking about all these changes? Is he really aware of them? Does he care about them? How people moved from small villages to big cities, big data and business intelligence, how work is changing - knowmads new species... and many more to come ... Are we prepared? Do we want/need to change?
Innovation, what’s the real meaning?
Again ... Why it is so difficult?
The world is changing, technological advances are already impacting our labor processes, society is facing and will face more and more complex changes.
So, where is the future of project/program management? Adapt and overcome would somebody say ... PMI EMEA Congress sessions will show you different points of view and real implementations, how companies and people adapted, changed and became agile. Events evolve together with society and offer different experiences to the user. This is what PMI is offering you at the Congress, not only the opportunity to network and attend really thrilling conferences, but to have an experience, a great one, personally and professionally; and to anticipate to the future. So, do you stay curious? If so please join us in few days in Rome!!! The PMI Community Team will be looking for you and your experience! ;) |
Too Much Engagement?
| Engagement. One of the primary keys to determining all of your project requirements. A way to bring people together to collaboratively solve the challenges your project may be tasked with. A way to energize your workforce, to motivate and increase productivity, workplace satisfaction and more. Can there ever be too much of it? I read a recent article in the Harvard Business Review which indicated that too much collaboration was one of the causes of burnout. But when you dive into the details of the article to discover what they meant by this statement, it becomes clear that their interpretation of collaboration is more aligned with micro-management and consensus. That, in order to progress with any work you are doing, everyone needs to approve. Collaboration does not need to mean consensus, nor does it need to be embedded in every step of every task you are responsible for. But it is great for figuring out what the best solutions are, ensuring schedules and budgets are aligned and compatible, minimizing risks, and to keep everything on track. In my opinion, getting a high level of engagement on your project or within your organization can never be a bad thing. Bringing minds together, when they are open, honest and free to voice their opinions, can result in some very positive outcomes. Some of the best ideas and solutions can be discovered, plans can be developed in a much smoother sequence, where potential issues can otherwise be avoided efficiently and effectively. You do, of course, need to ensure that everyone comes to an agreement, and is aligned on the final scope of work to be accomplished. You also need to be sure that scope isn't creeping once a project has commenced - approved changes aside. And of course, you need to balance the right amount of collaboration with folks taking responsibility for completing their assigned tasks within the overall plan. But this is a regular part of projects, isn't it? I find asking questions, and then listening, to be one of the quickest ways to engage people. Everyone likes to be heard, their opinions appreciated. And different perspectives contribute new knowledge for all of us - we become a little bit smarter with each share. In my latest webinar, I spoke about the necessities to achieve soaring performance, an obviously popular topic since we reached near full capacity for the live session, and I've since been interviewed on the topic! It was about how collaboration, and using particular methods and tools, can facilitate bringing people together in an open dialogue. How collaborating, and engaging your team members to use their knowledge, strengths and capabilities, triggers their intrinsic motivators - satisfying their basic human needs. I engaged my audience from the start, and at various points throughout my talk, and perhaps this should be cause to pause - since there were so many people engaged and responsive, we bogged the webinar system down! Slides were not progressing with my audio, and sometimes the chat would freeze. So perhaps just one instance where too much engagement can be a bad thing!? At any rate, I loved this last webinar. With so much engagement, I gained positive feedback on the presentation, I found out some things I could improve upon, and also learned where more support could be provided. And I'll be able to follow up, now, with more value-add support for my followers - all of you! Thanks for being such a great and responsive community, and as always, keep asking questions! P.S. You will not find the evidence of the bogged system now - the recording which clearly indicated a problem - your projectmanagement.com hosts have now resolved the problem - a BIG THANKS! |
