Event Presentations

Find the presentations from our recent project management events.

INSTITUTE OF Civil ENGINEERS

Wednesday 3rd December 2008, South West Chapter

Earned Value Management by Paul Naybour, Director PMProfessional Learning

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a fundamental process in both the APM's and PMI bodies of knowledge and has its roots in the United States Department of Defence (DOC) Cost/Schedule Control Criteria System (C/SCSC), which has been specified for all DOD contracts for which the government carries the risk since 1967.

Earned Value Management is a simple practical concept with significant benefits for project managers including:

An integrated view of the three key elements of project status, planned cost, project progress and actual expenditure
The ability to rapidly determine the status of a project based on performance indexes
The ability to rapidly highlight work packages that are overspending and/or behind plan
An estimate of cost at completion and completion date based on current performance

Yet very few project managers use Earned Value Management. Those that do, tend to be mostly in defence, nuclear and some transport sectors. In this paper we argue that successful implementation of EVM is closely lined to a development of an organisations project management maturity.

Click here to view the Earned Value Management presentation slides.

APM project management CONFERENCE 2007

Wednesday 31ST October 2007, The Brewery, London

Sponsorship Behaviours by John Bolton, Principal Consultant PMProfessional Learning

Best practice and complex rail projects

Is current guidance too much, not enough or just right?

Friday 13 October 2006, RIBA, London

Introduction	Paul Naybour, Director of Rail, PMProfessional Learning
GRIP - Is it Flexible Enough and Does it Work?	Martin Powell, Head of Project Management Framework, Network Rail
What Makes a Project Complex	Harvey Maylor, Senior Lecturer, Cranfield University, School of Management
Why do some projects fail?	Michael Ocock, Chairman of BSI's Technical Committee for Project Management standards and an authority on the management of strategic project risk
Managing complex projects	Geri de Bijl, BSc (Civil), Advanced PM, Sr CSE Head of Project Management, Grant Rail
Summary	Paul Naybour, Director of Rail, PMProfessional Learning

ENSURING EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE

Aligning and Directing Projects and Portfolios

Friday 26 September 2006, RIBA, London

Opening Remarks	Adrian Tillin, MSc, CEng, MIMarEST, FAPM, PMP, Managing Consultant, PMProfessional Learning
Governance of Project Management	David Shannon, MA, MICE, FIMC, FAPM, Managing Director, Oxford Project Management Ltd and Chairman, APM GoPM SIG
Governance in Practice	Stephen Silvester, Commercial Director for Public Services, Oracle
An independent view of Governance	Geoff Lowe, BSc (Eng), C Eng, FICE, FAPM, ACGI, MD of Chartwells Consulting Ltd and Ex Head of Project
Financial Pogramme Governance	Eileen Roden, BA (Hons), MAPM, LicCIPD, Managing Consultant, PMProfessional Learning
Plenary Session and Close	Adrian Tillin, MSc, CEng, MIMarEST, FAPM, PMP, Managing Consultant, PMProfessional Learning

BEST PRACTICE SHOWCASE, LONDON - JUNE 2006

Pharmaceutical Project Management Development by Haydn Pike, Operations Programme Manager, Norgine and Adrian Tillin, Head of Business Develpment, PMProfessional Learning

Project challenge seminar, BIRMINGHAM - MARCH 2006

Pharmaceutical Project Management Development by Haydn Pike, Operations Programme Manager, Norgine and Adrian Tillin, Head of Business Development, PMProfessional Learning

the real risk of rail projects

Friday 20th January 2006, RIBA, London

Evidence from international studies reveals that cost over runs for rail projects of over 40% are common and even cost over runs of over 80% are not infrequent. Do we know the real risks we take in rail projects? Many projects have detailed risk processes and registers but do these capture the true risks. This seminar explored how team dynamics and group risk behaviours cause us to ignore the 'real risks'. Click here to look at the Real Risk of Rail Projects topics and speakers.

Earned value Management - june 2005

Is it worth the effort by Paul Naybour, Principal Consultant PMProfessional Learning

ADDING VALUE WITH ENTERPRISE PROGRAMME AND PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT - March 2005

Read more about Enterprise Programme and Portfolio Management encompasing presentations by:

Programme Management in TfL by David Howarth, Head of Major Projects in TfL
Achieving the Benefits from a Programme Management Approach by Ruth Murray-Webster of Lucidus Consulting Limited
Enterprise Portfolio Management by Geoff Reiss, Director of Strategy, The Program Management Group plc
Implementing Enterprise Project Management in Network Rail by James Couper, IMS Programme Manager, Network Rail

active risk Management - september 2004

This presentation by Paul Naybour, Principal Consultant PMProfessional Learning provides tips on Active Risk Management

building the lean mean project machine - september 2004

Read more about Lean Project Management in the Rail Industry encompasing these presentations:

Introductions by Alistair Kirk, Network Rail
Lean Project Management by Neil Butterill of magna Business Solutions Limited
Ten Tools to Eliminate Waste in Projects by Paul Naybour, Head of Rail, PMProfessional Learning
Conclusions by Paul Naybour, Head of Rail, PMProfessional Learning

earned value progress reporting in rail projects

Wednesday 3rd September 2003, RIBA, London

Read more about Progress Reporting Projects with Earned Value which discussed:

The Challenge of progress reporting in the Rail Industry by Simon Springate of Metronet Rail BCV Limited
The principles of earned value management by Paul Naybour, Director of Rail, PMProfessional Learning
Applying Earned Value to Rail case study by Paul Naybour, Director of Rail, PMProfessional Learning
Case Study 'Renewal Project Delivery' by John Pearson of First Engineering

managing uncertainty using effective risk management

BEST PRACTICE SHOWCASE, LONDON - JUNE 2003

Developing Project Management Capability to Gain Business Advantage by Doug Moreton, Commercial Director of Entec UK and Adrian Tillin, Business Development Director of PMProfessional Learning

managing uncertainty using effective risk management

Best Practice Showcase, London - 19 June 2003

Effective Risk Management co-presented by Gill Harpreet of Quintile Transnational, one of the largest Contract Research organisations in the world and Adrian Tillin, Business Development Director of PMProfessional Learning.

Gill presents a Case Study - Successful Application of Risk Management in a Phase III Clinical Trial

Microsoft seminar series - project management in practice

London - 6 March 2003

A general introduction to Project Management in Practice by Adrian Tillin, Business Development Director of PMProfessional Learning.

focus on project team development - february 2003

Adrian Tillin from PMProfessional Learning muses about Project Team Development and considers the following:

Why expend effort on team development
Barriers that may be encountered
Techniques to beat the barriers
Benefits of paying attention tyo the early stages of a project

Adrian concludes with the thought:

" You cannot meet eye to eye until you have met face to face" (Jerome Kurtz, 1979)

what is your biggest risk

QinetiQ Roadshow - May 2001

Carl Karshagen, Principal Consultant at PMProfessional Learning considers What is Your Biggest Risk.

turning project failure to success

QinetiQ Roadshow - May 2001

Carl Karshagen, Principal Consultant at PMProfessional Learning deals with Turning Project Failure to Success and discusses 'When is a Project successful and when is a Project unsuccessful?'