Value Management - What it is and how does it work? - an interactive day

A hands-on day explaining what Value Management (VM) is and how it works through a number of interactive case studies. Delegates will be taken through the principles of VM, the way in which a typical VM study is carried out and finish by applying it to a case study. This presentation will suit project professionals of novice and intermediate level.

Achieving the best value for money from your projects and programmes should be the aim of all organisations. In today’s world of funding cuts and rising inflation, it has surely never been more important. Value Management (VM) and Value Engineering (VE) as related techniques offer much insight into what is important in improving the value of projects, and yet appear to be still shrouded in mystery and uncertainty.

Despite the Management of Value (MoV) being published by the (then) OGC in 2010, the take up of VM as a set of principles and techniques still appears to be patchy, even amongst government and local authority departments. This event will examine the definitions and processes used in VM and VE through the use of interactive case studies. It will assist both the novice and those who know something about it to understand what the techniques are used for, the principles behind them, how they might be employed and when to use them.

Peter Langley
Chair of Value and Benefits SIG

Peter is an expert in the application of integrated risk and value management at corporate and capital investment levels and within contract partnering arrangements.

Peter's experience comes from working for over 30 years in a major water and wastewater utility company in a variety of technical, managerial and investment roles. In the last 10 years Peter has managed a £400m portfolio of projects, a £700m regulatory submission for investment funding and managed the development of risk and value techniques at corporate, portfolio and project level.

Peter is currently the chair of APM Value Management SIG and is a senior lecturer in project management at Leeds Metropolitan University.

John Heathcote
Senior lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University

John is course leader for the BSc(Hons) in project management at the Centre for Project Management, Leeds Metropolitan University.

With over twenty years project experience in industry working on a variety of projects from plant refurbishment, IT systems, community projects, environmental schemes and framework partnership establishment he has a special interest in partnering in the supply chain, programme management, facilitation skills and negotiation.

Feedback on John's previous presentations includes:

'Excellent example of value management in action'
'Illustrated why Value Management needs its own thought leadership SIG, by taking us through the story '

Elwyn Jarrett
Programme Manager, Vodafone

Programme Director with 13+ years experience of delivering multi-million pound, multi-national IT & Telecommunications projects and programmes.

A PRINCE2 (2009) Practitioner, Managing Successful Programmes (MSP 3rd Edition) Practitioner and ITIL V3 accredited Transition Manager I have over 30 years experience of the Telecoms and IT industry.

Former Council Member (Director) of the Association for Project Management (APM) and current member of the Risk Management & Value Management Specific Interest Groups.

Annmarie Sanderson
Principal Lecturer and Head of Construction and Project Management in the School of the Built Environment and Engineering at Leeds Metropolitan University. 

Author of research papers on team decision making and project support office implementation. Prior to becoming a lecturer Annmarie was a construction company Director. 

Annmarie is also a member of the APM's Value Management SIG.  

Attached Files: 

Agenda.docx