Guide to topics and subject champions

Adrian Dooley – Success through projects, How PM can support business success
• The project management mid-life crisis
• Corporate saviours or corporate scapegoats – objectives for project managers
• Practical agile project delivery
• Iterative practices are easier than agile methods
• Project management for business start-ups
• Directing change – a model for business improvement

Peter Simon - Right projects right people
• Keeping up – aligning project management with real business
• Tomorrow’s project and programme management leaders
• Using professionalism to ensure you have the right people
• Janet Smart, Said Business School
• Building project professionalism across ~DWP
• Assessing potential in project managers

David Bright - Stakeholders and sponsors
• Boost the benefits delivered from complex projects – some practical frameworks that enhance the value delivered
• How blank is the paper?
• Project success through stakeholder management – Rail defects management system
• Project manager as diplomat
• Hpw well do project sponsors operate
• Managing up the organisation

Mary McKinlay - Managing in a complex world
• Approaches to complex project management
• Reduction of complexity by system oriented management
• Delivering complex projects – it’s not just about the project manager
• Step back from chaos
• What do complex projects tell us about project management?
• ID cards programme

Tom Taylor – Local projects, global consequence
• Project management and transformational change
• Old destinations or new directions for programmes
• Why should project managers be ethical? And other moral questions.
• Ethical success and failure
• Properly effective conference calling
• Disparate projects disparate sustainability opportunities

APM Project Management Conference 2008

Summaries of the presentations delivered at the APM Project Management Conference 2008 held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London on 29th and 30th October 2008.

These summaries should be updated soon after each presentation ends and will include any polls and votes taken.

APM Project Management Conference 2008

This blog contains summaries of the presentations delivered at the APM Project Management Conference 2008 held at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London on 29th and 30th October 2008.

These summaries should be updated soon after each presentation ends and will include any polls and votes taken.

The presentations will be available from the APM website (www.apm.org.uk) from Friday 31st October.