Strategic project management: international post graduate event

Date	Sunday 4th and Monday 5th July 2010
Time	10.00 - 16.00
Venue	The Rose Bowl Leeds Metropolitan University Portland Crescent Civic Quarter Campus Leeds LS1 3HB
Keynote speakers	APM Fellow Mark Robinson, Head of Programme & Projects BoK at Airbus    Markus Bleier, Biodegma. MSc Baumanagement.  Würzburg University
Cost	Free

Please note that booking will reserve you a place on both days, although we appreciate that not everyone will be able to attend on the Monday as well as the Sunday.

The Centre for Project Management at Leeds Metropolitan University hosts the 2010 international post graduate conference on strategic project management.

This conference presents the research work of students of the MSc Strategic Project Management academics and associates of the Centre for Project Management at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Invited are: APM Members, students of project management and guests. 

We are particularly hopeful that APM members and practitioners will assist in commenting and influencing the research in this area.

Sunday 4th July will include:
9:30 for a 10:00 am start:
Key note speakers:

• APM Fellow Mark Robinson, Head of Programme & Projects BoK at Airbus. 
  TOPIC: When I grow up I want to be a project manager!
     
• Markus Bleier, Biodegma. MSc Baumanagement.  Würzburg University. 
  TOPIC: Early Project Phases. 

Presenting 2009 – 2010 post graduate research from MSc Strategic Project Management students including.....

• The delusion of contract protection
• Planning co-ordination, the missing planning link!
• Examining the application of value management
• Interest based negotiation: Critical skills for PMs
• Patronage vs Business Case!
• First good idea error: Critical thinking for PMs
• The Problem Universe
• Time Management: Critical skills for PMs
• How Programme management might enhance the delivery of value in projects
• The criticality of a strategic perspective for projects
• Using Supply Chain management to better understand the management of projects
• Bad Governance: The impact on project development & delivery
• Modelling the Business for Value Analysis. Poster.
• Sustainable development: A contested paradigm
• A comparison and strategic intent with conventional strategic planning
• NEC3 Core clause application in practice
• The Little Book of Project Management
• A proposal for NEC3 ‘dirty clause’ research
• Contemporary issues in Project Management.
• A proposal for a programme of research investigating innovation and entrepreneurship as topics of direct interest for project management.
• Summary: Internal Conference on Project Futures, Centre for Project Management Post graduate students.
• Communications & Emotional Intelligence.
• Prioritising projects in a portfolio.

Papers are still coming in and this list will be refined.
Paper copies of the Abstracts will be provided for all attendees. 
Authors will briefly present their findings in the morning, after the key notes.
During and after lunch opportunities to talk to the authors exist and there will be poster presentations of their works.  Delegates will be asked to ‘vote’ for papers they would like to hear in full on the following day. 

(If you are not able to come on the Monday the entire proceedings will be videod).

CDs of the full papers will be available after the event.
The afternoon will include debate topics in which the delegates will be encouraged to get involved...

• Contemporary issues facing project managers.
• What‘s ‘strategy’ got to do with it!
• The trouble with people!
• The future of project management.

The conference will have voting devices so all will have a chance to engage and ‘cast a vote’.
The day will end with a plenary session.

This event is worth up to 6 hours of CPD. To see details of the APM CPD scheme please click here.

To see details of future events in your area please click here.