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Project Management Conferences in the UK 2023/2024

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Attending a project management conference is an excellent way to network with other project managers, build your skills, and improve your career. We have compiled a list of project management conferences in the UK so that you can stay close to home. I’ve spoken at a previous conference about Stakeholder Engagification.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. And will make the decision to close the project down early if it can no longer meet its objectives.

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Enterprise Agility in Financial Services: Learnings from the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference

Planview

We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. Agile teams are largely self-governing. Read the Lean Portfolio Management: Lean-Agile Governance Blog. Making the Shift to Continuous Improvement.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

First came PRINCE in 1989 as the UK government standard for IT project management. In PRINCE2 you start with pre-project, then the initiation stage, then the subsequent delivery stages (you might want several if the project is long) then the final delivery stage which includes closing a project. There are also seven values.

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Discovering the Diverse Sources Behind Innovation

Scrum.org

Sometimes new ideas can come directly from them and sometimes they learn about original ideas during certain industry summits, conferences or golf games (this is not an exaggeration). Companies can leverage such programs to innovate in areas aligning with government priorities, often reflecting emerging market needs and societal challenges.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

and Cynthia Snyder Dionisio, MBA, PMP We have all attended project management workshops, conferences, and symposiums. In the 1970s, I presented a paper at a technical conference. At a PMI® conference I attended later in the 1970s, almost 80% of the papers were presented by engineers or people working for engineering companies.

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Meeting Management Techniques for Project Managers

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Instead, the ECO talks about communication, knowledge transfer, engaging the team, governance and a whole lot more that you would often use meetings to accomplish. People join conference calls from cars. I work from home a lot so I use webinars, Skype, conference calls, video: all kinds of things to keep in touch with my team.