APM East of England branch
29/03/2012
Richard Pound from Grahame Robb Associates gave an excellent talk to the APM Group in Norwich about how to influence change by identifying the behaviours that need to be altered in order for change to happen.
22/02/2012
Nigel Bell of HP gave an interesting and insightful talk on Portfolio Management (PfM) to the East of England branch.
PfM has been around for several years particularly in the Pharma, Oil exploration, Finance and IT sectors, but is now also being used by most large companies and Government. It’s about ensuring that the organisation gets the maximum benefit from its investment in new projects and programmes.
13/02/2012
On Thursday 26th January 2012, Susannah Howard, Head of Enable East presented to the East of England membership on their successful bid for £4 million to the UK Big Lottery fund.
03/02/2012
The APM group in Norwich met on 24 January to hear Peter Taylor speak about PMO’s - Benefit or Burden.
After explaining why we should and then why we shouldn’t listen to him (a slightly risky strategy but one the Peter carried off well!) Peter led the group through the aims and objectives of the majority of PMOs. Drawing in useful statistics from a range of reputable surveys, he reinforced his thinking with facts, allowing the group to consider which type or types of PMO structures they had experienced and to weigh up the pros and cons of each structure.
06/12/2011
The November meeting of the APM East of England Group in Norwich was hosted by the Theatre Royal in Norwich. Fuelled by some seasonal goodies, we heard an excellent talk, delivered by Peter Wilson, Chief Executive of Norwich's Theatre Royal since 1992.
20/09/2011
Paul Erricker gave an excellent presentation entitled “Is your project management career path on track?” to the APM meeting held in Norwich on Tuesday 6th September.
He gave the attendees an opportunity to reflect on how and why they became a project professional which got the evening off to a good start as people spoke to each other and learned a bit more about the back ground of other local project professionals.
28/06/2011
The East of England branch enjoyed a useful talk on managing risk at portfolio, programme and project levels, given by Peter Campbell, a highly experienced risk management consultant and recent Chairman of the APM Risk Specific Interest Group.
17/06/2011
On Tuesday 14th June the East of England branch enjoyed a useful talk on Managing risk at portfolio, programme and project levels, given by Peter Campbell, a highly experienced risk management consultant and recent chairman of the Risk SIG.
Peter highlighted that often risk management is not done very well within organisations, and that risks should be considered at an early stage (business case) of all projects. There should be a risk management plan at all levels of an organisation (the portfolio level equates to the strategic or board level) and there should be clear escalation and communication processes in place between the levels.
24/05/2011
Lean and Six Sigma are key process improvement methodologies and, like project management, focus on the triangle of time, cost and quality. Although the origins of Lean and Six Sigma are in the design and improvement of manufacturing processes, could the principles and tools play a part in achieving successful projects in any sector? Could effective project management enhance the implementation, embedding and sustaining of continuous improvement initiatives? Does project management enable Lean Six Sigma or does Lean Six Sigma enable project management? Which comes first?
Elisabeth Goodman and John Riddell of RiverRhee Consulting led a highly interactive session in Stevenage for the East of England Branch to consider these questions and to look at delegates’ and speakers’ experiences of Lean and Six Sigma and Project Management.
24/05/2011
Peter Taylor, formerly of Siemens and now with Infor, gave a passionate and insightful talk on modern Project Management Offices [PMOs] to the East of England branch recently.
He described the many roles of good PMOs and highlighted that over 80% of companies now use PMOs, which normally report to EVP level in successful organisations, and are hence very influential.
PMOs can be supportive, controlling or directive, or even a blend of these 3 models, and need to be designed specifically for the organisation’s particular requirements.
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With over 1,000 members dispersed over a large geographical area, free monthly evening meetings and occasional conferences are held in various towns to give all members of the branch the opportunity to benefit from both networking and continuing professional development (CPD). Our meetings are designed to provide coverage of the APM Body of Knowledge and further develop the material contained therein.
The branch used specialist mapping software to target the location of its talks to benefit the most members and is now setting up groups to serve local concentrations of membership. Ipswich is now well advanced, Norwich has held its first meeting and Stevenage is under discussion. Please contact us if you would like to help with any of these.
Contact the East of England branch.
Committee
- Paul Erricker: Chairman
- Helen Sweeney: Treasurer
- Annabel Wiley: Committee member
- Barry Jones: Corporate representative
- Bob Bones: Norwich rep.
- Colin Bradley: Membership co-ordinator
- David Claydon: Committee member
- John Bridges IPPM Ltd.: Development co-ordinator
- Kevin Free: Individual membership
- neilgee67: Study tour co-ordinator
- Nick Hickman: Stevenage rep.
- Patrick James Devitt: Committee member
- Tony Stanway: Education network
Group members
David West
Adrian Bates
Andrew Rylah
Andy Tough
Annabel Wiley
Anne-Marie Byrne
anniroc
Barry Shambrook
ben33cox
Bernadette Hurd
