Author: Petros Rigas

President Barack Obama Signs the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act

WASHINGTON D.C. – 16 DECEMBER 2016 Legislation to improve program management practices and bolster workforce development becomes law President Barack Obama has signed into law S.1550, the Program Management Improvement and Accountability Act of 2015 (PMIAA), which will enhance accountability and best practices in project and program management throughout the federal government. The legislation, strongly […]

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‘Must Haves’ When You Plan To Set-Up A PMO

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Project Management standards help us making projects efficient and their deliverables reliable. This leads to measurable savings for a company. Those savings materialize in a real cooperation – no matter if it is big or small – by building up a Project Management Office (PMO). This speech focuses on the main deliverable one [...] Read More

The Life Project – Running Your Life Like a Project

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details If a project is important enough to use a structured Project Management approach to identify goals, make the right decisions, understand and influence stakeholders, and plan for and manage performance to achieve success, isn’t our life as important to apply a similar structure in managing it better? Would it be beneficial [...] Read More

Ethical Challenges for Project Managers

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details What do Values & Ethics mean for you as  project managers? Why is it important for you and your project team to follow PMI’s Code of Business Ethics? What are the basics of working with third parties? Why should you be careful while sharing the company’s or clients’ proprietary and confidential information [...] Read More

Opportunity and Feasibility Studies for Project Managers

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details An opportunity and feasibility study will help the stakeholders better understand the project and the expected return on investment and will help identify the flaws, business challenges, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats and unforeseen circumstances that might affect the success and sustainability of the project. In addition, these studies will assist with [...] Read More

Agile Project Management: A Case Study in the E-Commerce Industry

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details For the past 10 years Agile Project Management has been renowned, and recently a lot of companies in Thailand have been interested in transforming themselves from Traditional Project Management to Agile Project Management. However, only a few companies were successful in transforming themselves and even less that can make it [...] Read More

Challenges in Managing Infrastructure Projects in South East Asia

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details FIDIC’s “State of the World Report” published in 2009 identified that globalisation, information technology and urbanisation are the three mega-trends that dominate today’s world.  The increasing trends in urbanisation and increases in population continue to place increasing pressure on infrastructure. It has been estimated that USD65 billion needs to be invested [...] Read More

Information Security in Project Management

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Information Security is one important issue all project managers should appreciate, understand, and plan for during the early stages of any project. Information security is not only limited to IT projects but it also applies to projects in various types of applications and industries. For example, as a company considers building major and critical infrastructure or study and plan new [...] Read More

SHE Contracts, Tenders, and Proposal Awareness

Lecture DetailsSpeaker ProfileRegister HerePDUsLecture Details Is business development a Project Manager’s duty?  It is if they want to move forward to the next project.  Are Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) issues a Project Manager’s concern?  They are if the project is to be completed on-time and under budget.  Can SHE be a driver in business [...] Read More
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