The grand Finale - Day 3 of PMIEMEA19
| Today was another packed day and you could see that everyone was getting tired but was still energised to take part in the sessions and contribute. Session 1: Cutting Edge Project Management: the future of Technology in Project Management - Dan Lefsky My first session was with Dan Lefsky. I have a great admiration and respect for Dan as not only does he provide a lot of practical advice but he really goes all-out in a session including some wonderful live demos to see how things could be done in reality. During his session on: Cutting Edge Project Management: the future of Technology in Project Management, he showed possible technical solution to build out your solutions within your company. He really challenged us with how we work today and what the limitations could be in the future with regards to the reliability of data/ questioning the data that we have. This really resonated with me during the TedTalks Closing keynote as one of the presenters was talking about how we can critically look at the data and studies that we see in every day life.
Dan gave me a few minutes of his time to record a short video about his session. You can find it here. Networking lunch: During today's lunch session, I sat with some of my peers and discussed 'conflict resolution'. This came about as one of the table was working during lunch on an escalation and asked the table: How would you handle this sort of situation? Where a vendor is more focused on the contract than delivering the project? It really gave a lot of valuable insight into how other Project Managers would handle the situation and we had quite a lively debate! I also managed to catch up with Laurel and got her insight into the conference, you can view the video here Ted Talks - Closing Keynote: I will first admit that I am a massive fan of TED Talks and regularly use them to learn about new topics/interesting topics. During this closing keynote, PMI and TED partnered together to cover a series of talks that covered every aspect of Life, Career and the possibilities of the future. This end to the PMIEMEA Conference was not just an inspiring end to a fantastic conference but also an amazing opportunity to be inspired to what is really possible. In the final closing, we found out that the goal that PMI had set itself at the start of the year to record 50,000 hours of volunteering had been met ALREADY! So they announced that it was going to be increased to 100,000 hours. I really hope that you'll get involved in the Year of the Volunteer to be able to contribute to the UN Goals. This is my video of volunteering for PMI when I was in Philadelphia earlier this year.
Over the next few days, I'll be writing a summary post of my time at PMIEMEA19, so if you have any questions, please feel free to write them below and I'll answer them in the summary post. Do you want to know what the food was like? What was it like to network with so many people? How were the breaks? There's nothing off limits! |
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What a start to PMIEMEA19!
| Today was the first day of #PMIEMEA19 and what a great start to this year's conference. I'm not sure if it was the fantastic Irish hospitality and friendliness or it was just how welcoming the PMI is, but this year's conference is really turning into something special! What makes this conference unique is that there are few other conferences in the world where you will get over 800 Project Professionals, from 70 countries and over 500 different organisations. This gives you a great opportunity to network with your peers and learn so much in such a short period of time. The Keynote session started off with a PMI introduction regarding the aims and celebration that PMI will be doing for their 50th birthday year and including the activities behind the "Year of the volunteer". The keynote speaker this year was: Jamil Qureshi who was giving us his three principles for being a success and more importantly what we think, has an impact on how we feel and subsequently act. Everyone that I've spoken to today, has really taken a lot from his talk and more importantly what they can apply to their daily lives.
The next session that I attended was "Influencing without authority. An essential skill for Project Managers". This was run by Pat Lucey and Norma Lynch who gave their presentation to a packed room. One of the most interesting things for me from this talk was "assuming everyone is a potential ally". I had never really considered this in my stakeholder management but it really did make me think about how I could improve my management skills. Based upon the feedback from this community, I managed to interview Pat and Norma after their session to hear what they thought as first time speakers at a PMIEMEA conference. Next was lunch which is always a great affair during a PMI Conference. It's really nice to see that they have such a great variety of food available which definitely set us up for a great afternoon session.
For me, my next session was Agata Czopek who was giving us advice on how to future proof our career. I really found it interesting to hear how the career path and careers are changing. The main bit of advice that I took from this talk was to: Never stop learning and always be prepared to learn and learn again. The rest of the afternoon for me were about agile planning and learning from agile mistakes which were of great interest to me. One thing that really stood out to me was just how collaborative everyone is about sharing their knowledge and ideas. It really made each session invaluable.
Another feedback from the community was people wanting to know what happens outside of the sessions and I decided to capture two videos today showing you the Networking event and also interviewing a first timer. Here are some more pictures from today's networking event:
This was one of the offerings for food:
This is dessert:
I'd love to know what you'd like to see tomorrow? More interviews with people? or videoing the event sessions? Please comment below! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter at: ProjectMgtcom as well our community correspondents: During the conference (I - Em_The_PM) will be taking over the Twitter feed of Projectmanagement.com to share with you my views on the conference so I'd love to hear what you'd like to see more of! Until tomorrow, have a great evening! |
#PMIEMEA18 - #DifferenceMakers : We are making dreams a reality !
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This was my 3rd PMI Congress and first EMEA Congress. My experience is every year the Congress is different. This year I particularly loved the “offsite” learning sessions – the BER airport and the Hauftbanhof excursions. An opportunity to experience the projects under the skin right at the site. So what did I learn this time ? As I write this post, midair on my way home to Mumbai, I retrospect on my learnings at the #PMIEMEA18 – Berlin. Being a project manager of the IT industry, I focused on “Projects of the future” and sessions which provided insights on artificial intelligence, machine learning and digital transformation. What do we need to do different in the era of digital disruption? What I learned was the solution lies in us, the humans. We humans need to start being “more” human. Starting from Thommas Wallenta’s opening note: “We are making dreams a reality. We are the #DifferenceMakers !”, “Our volunteers make it all happen!” Rowan Gibson’s opening key note: “Build a great team, the right people in the right roles at the right time” Read more about the opening note and Rowan Gibson’s opening key note here
The BER – airport project manager Thomas’s presentation: “I spend most of my time in stakeholder management” More on my Day 2 experience is here
Inma Martinez’s closing key note: “It is okay to be imperfect, machines are perfect, so we can afford to be imperfect, be more human” Read more about Inma’s closing note and Day 3 highlights here It was all about people, teams and being human.
I have had an extraordinary time with everyone at #PMIEMEA18. It is much more than the PDUs. It is about the networking, learning and being inspired by world renowned experts to become a #DifferenceMaker If you were in-person at the event or have been following our team online, we would love to know How was your experience? What did you learn from the conference? What is it that you are going to do different tomorrow, next week and in the coming months?
Till next time I leave you with this twitter moment on my experiences of #PMIEMEA18- Berlin. Auf Wiedersehen – Good bye in German |
#PMIEMEA18 – Day 3 : #FutureDefiners :Trust your team, lead with agility, befriend the machine and be human
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Trust your team, lead with agility, befriend the machine and be human sums up my day 3 in one sentence. My first session was on Delivering value in consulting projects – The Agile Way: Maciej Kaniewski took us through the journey of a life cycle of consulting projects. His take on delivering value in consulting project – the agile way?
Maciej Kaniewski presented the Agile manifesto for Consulting projects as follows So how do we measure value from consulting projects? Through outcomes, feedback, observations, measurements and decisions. And what about the value to the consultant? It is the experience and the learnings. He ends with a quote from Janis Joplin Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. Now that I was all armed with tips for success in consulting projects I wonder “Wouldn’t it be nice if we could predict our cost overruns for our projects ?” Werner Meyer session on Beyond Humans: Using Machine Learning to Calculate Contingency for Systemic Risks introduced us to machine learning and how it can help us to improve our chances of success. An amazing story of Man Vs Machine, where machines learns from historical data and predict the systemic risk overrun. So does this mean our jobs would be at risk? Per Werner Meyer there is a low probability for construction managers and IT managers like me. What a relief! Later that afternoon I attended a panel discussion on Leading effective virtual teams: Fiona Charonnat, Hagit Landman, Sunday Faronbi and Ibrahim Dani. Some tips for successfully leading virtual teams :
The grand finale was the closing key note on Developing Creative Approaches to Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace in the Times of Accelerated Digitalisation Inma Martinez . Ms. Martinez took us through the journey of HPC to Exascale - Tianhe-3, a supercomputer which is capable of at least one exaFLOPS, or a billions and billions of calculations per second, from AR augmented reality to VR virtual reality to SR sensorial reality. So what does this mean for us human beings ? Will we be replaced by machines ? Ms Martinez says “ Machines will always be machines, they can never outperform the human brain. Tacit knowledge cannot be put into words. That is why humans will remain relevant: ” She adds on to say
That wraps up #PMIEMEA18 in Berlin, the next edition of #PMIEMEA19 would be in Dublin, Ireland. Maybe we will we have some robot participants next year ? What do you think? |
It is time for DifferenceMakers at #PMIEMEA18
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“Every industry and every organization will have to transform itself in the next few years. What is coming at us is bigger than the original internet and you need to understand it, get on board with it and figure out how to transform your business” — Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media The world is transforming with light speed, it is getting better and progress is coming faster than ever, which means the quest for perfection is our projects is at it’s limit and beyond? So how would the projects of the future look like ? What would the role of a project in this uncertain future ? These are the questions that keep coming back to me, as I notice an evolution of a revolution around me. Keeping the above in mind, I planned my schedule for #PMIEMEA18 congress as follows: Key Note: Rowan Gibson - Winning in the Innovation Economy Key Note: Inma Martinez - Developing Creative Approaches to Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace in the Times of Accelerated Digitalisation Augmented Project Management? Why ‘Less Is More’ When Facing Complexity in Projects Transformers: Navigating Complexity in Projects of the Future Off-site Learning Session: Airport Berlin Brandenburg BER Digital Transformation: Leading Organizations to the Promise Land Reforming Transfer of Knowledge on Projects of the Future Open Forum : Leading Effective virtual teams Want to know more on the projects of the future? Have any questions which I can ask on your behalf in these sessions? Please shoot out here or direct message me. I will be there at #PMIEMEA18 Congress to share insights into the “Projects and Project management of the Future” Follow me here, facebook, twiter and linkedin as I take you through the #PMIEMEA18 experience from May 7 – May 9 Berlin
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