Author: Petros Rigas

Culture and its Impact on Project Managers in Thailand

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details “Culture becomes a critical factor in defining project success, and multi-cultural competence becomes critical for the project manager.”(Source: PMBOK Guide, 5th Edition, Page 21). If you are an expat project manager working, living, or doing projects in Thailand, this presentation should address areas of knowledge that may assist you in working [...] Read More

Project Management Soft Skills

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details This presentation will look at the skills that can help us in our day to day relationships at work with our colleagues, staff and manager’s. We will look at some of the tools and techniques that are available to make sense of people and how to manage them with integrity [...] Read More

Decision Tree Analysis for Project Managers

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details This presentation will examine an analytical and systematic approach for making complex business decisions. Participants will learn how to make good decisions based on logic after considering all available data and the possible alternatives. Decision tables and decision trees will be used to understand the expected risk and benefits of [...] Read More

Contract Management: A Case Study

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Building an effective and transparent contract management system to support a project should be considered as a core value and a must. Utilizing a strict contract management process protects organizations from disputes and also provides administrative comfort. It also helps shield and protect organizations and can also be used as [...] Read More

Safety, Health, and Environmental Metrics and Risk Management

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details "Traditional Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) metrics in relation to the overall Risk Management Plan as defined in PMBOK"  Safety and Health are tracked through leading and lagging indicators and US-OSHA has specific quantification requirements that can be used in your risk management planning.  Environmental risks can lead to catastrophic [...] Read More

Strategies for Managing Construction Contracts

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details A construction project of any significance involves contracts. A team member or manager's understanding of how construction contracts define work responsibilities is crucial to any successful project. Topics shared in this lecture include: Understanding the truth and nature of construction contracts Key terms in the conditions of contract Strategies for managing [...] Read More

Requirements Elicitation Techniques

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details "If you don’t get the requirement right, it doesn’t matter how well you execute the rest of project". Many projects still fail to meet goals, and poor requirements elicitation accounts to 37% of project failure. There are various requirement elicitation standards and techniques, but will fancy techniques increase the chance [...] Read More

Project Benefits Realization in the Flux of Changes

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Textbooks used to say that project success is to finish the project on time, within budget and with defined quality. This is no longer the case. Today focus is on creating benefits. The project should bring value to their initiators, their stakeholders, and maybe to the society. However, it is [...] Read More

Project Management: A Cash Management Case Study

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Cash is undeniably regarded as the lifeblood of any company. An appropriate amount of cash on hand reflects a healthy business with an adequate liquidity level, which is attractive to investors. Cash management involves a wide area of corporate processes in managing cash, ranging from payables, receivables, and liquidity management, [...] Read More
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