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Online Lunch and Learn Session – Traveller’s Tales from a hybrid Project Manager

  • Event: Online Lunch and Learn Session – Traveller’s Tales from a hybrid Project Manager
  • Date: 21/10/2022
  • Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Venue: Online, Session, Via Zoom,
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Description

Traveller’s Tales from a hybrid Project Manager

In the old days, a lot of industrial and commercial work was “process” or “operations”, sometimes supported by a focussed effort to make a change (aka “project”). Gradually there has been a realisation that a better balance between “no planning” and “too much planning” can be achieved by applying experience, using “predictive project management”.

In the last couple of decades a different approach called “agile project management” has arisen from the software world, which brings many business benefits.

Studies show that the majority of businesses draw from both of these approaches to manage their projects, i.e. they use a hybrid approach.

The speaker will illustrate these approaches with real project experiences from his decades of globe-trotting project management, training and consulting. He will then initiate a discussion about why in a world with so many pressing problems and challenges it matters how we manage projects.

Session Overview

In this one-hour Lunch & Learn session, Scatterwork’s Principal and Founder, Dr DeasĂșn Ó ConchĂșir, will address the following points, illustrated from his experience:

1. How project management was seen from the sixties to the noughties:

  • Predictive Project Management
  • Strengths and limitation

2. The breath of fresh air in projects from the turn of the century:

  • Agile Project Management
  • Strengths and limitations

3. It depends
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  • Matching your ways of working to the project environment.

4. Guided Discussion: The challenges facing project managers and why it matters.

  • Climate action
  • Digitalisation
  • Circular Economy
  • Endangered species
  • Summary and Conclusion

5. Summary and Conclusion

Who is this for?

Everyone in industry and commerce who is responsible for implementing, supporting or interacting with Projects: once-off initiatives to deliver a result.

Also relevant if you know projects by another name such as Programs, Engagements, Initiatives, Schemes, Ventures, Assignments, Developments, Services etc.

Speaker Profile

 

DeasĂșn has more years of experience and more letters after his name than he cares to admit, having lived in six countries and worked in over forty. After a career start where the first job he was offered (but did not take!) was in Shannon, he was the first Head of School of Engineering at the (then) Waterford RTC, launched the first ever engineering course in the SE of Ireland and initiated one of the first 5-year teaching material collaboration programmes which was supported by the (now) EU, with partners in Belgium and Luxembourg.

He shares his Project Management experience with clients globally and supervises MBA students (“briseann an dĂșchas trĂ­ shĂșilibh an chait”) and enjoys travel (“siĂșlach scĂ©alach”).

Please note we have limited amount of spaces available for this ‘Lunch & Learn’ session. Please book online to secure your place.

This workshop is FREE of Charge, but online registration is required. 

Please see the Zoom link below to join the session.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81426250002?pwd=THA2V3hsSDEyQ3RzN3BFbjk1c3M4dz09

Meeting ID: 814 2625 0002

Passcode: 638656

For more information please contact Alan at akelly@shannonchamber.ie

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