One of the great challenges in organizations today is to find the right balance between projects and programs to deliver benefits and execute strategies. This requires agility and a good understanding of how to create synergy from their differences. This presentation intends to demonstrate how to combine projects, programs and operations in an agile way to make a difference and create value for the stakeholders. It also aims to demonstrate how projects and programs have different objectives and require different approaches, but also how they need to be harmoniously combined to generate benefits and stakeholder value.The presentation will be illustrated with real-life stories and anecdotes.

You might have smart and skilled members within your team, but it you want them to excel and make a difference, their self-confidence must be encouraged. “I´ve been given this big new project and my manager says he knows I can do it, but I’m not sure if I am the right guy. I might look for help but it would probably worry my boss of me not being ready” “My boss told me that he expects for me to bring solutions, no the problems… but if I don’t know how to come up a solution, how or when do I tell him that the project is in troubles?” Some of us has been in this position several times, in either side being the manager or the confused employee or team member. There have been times when we had a problem and came up to our manager asking for help and received the solutions/problem speech. With very good intentions trying to be a good leader and make our team members work their brains for solutions we might be just leading them to feel anxious or not telling us things what is happening in their projects. Building confidence requires communication not just compliments. It starts by making them feel that there is a commitment of trust within each other and that you have their backs. It requires to build upon their competences by sharing of knowledge and lessons learned of their peers. Confident teams are more likely to try new approaches bringing new ideas and success. The conversation will guide us through building trust and respect within our team, connecting personally to listen what the unspoken conversations are telling us about our peers. The purpose is to help them realize and accept that failure is a common thing and is a step to success. Then it will be explored the solutions/problems phenomenon where it will be presented a practice implemented in a company to promote team collaboration and problem solving in order to come up not with “the solution” but with alternatives to explore and build upon them to increase not only with better project results but with better equipped individuals to face new challenges. Finally, the talk will try to bring some inspiration by leading them to share their ideas, experiences and competences by a practice of having them teach other their lessons learned.

He will introduce 5 most common challenges for requirements management and how to address them. In particular I will discuss these challenges through the use of a case study of medical device maker and their need for continuing innovations of new products.

Project and process are known to be opposite versions of organisation. Each requires different management approach. Unfortunately, processes and projects coexist in any company, so the real challenge is to make the most of both worlds. Let’s imagine an example of such challenge. Custom production could be one, where there is always some part of project and some part of participating processes. Another example could be a start-up, where R&D projects and their resulting procesess diffuse extensively in very first years ... if there were any. Take into consideration that 9 out of 10 of start-ups are expected to be dead in 3 years. Sounds interesting? So let’s get familiar with the story of Elektrometal Energetyka SA, the former start-up company that makes its living on custom production. We’ll review how some best practices, including a very good PPM tool, has been turned into thriving business while making some slip-ups as well.

- Where are we in terms of technology development for business? (some facts, data, curiosities) - How do they affect our daily work? (where these technologies appear in everyday life, and not everyone knows that they are there or will soon appear) - How do new technologies help in managing the company and projects in it? - How should managers (and also women - from her point of view) use these technologies to be effective in business or professional work?

Gala concert (workshop) under the baton of Professor Piotr Sutt.

PMI Project of the year - winners of the competition PMI Volunteer of the year - winners of the competition

One of the great challenges in organizations today is to find the right balance between projects and programs to deliver benefits and execute strategies. This requires agility and a good understanding of how to create synergy from their differences. This presentation intends to demonstrate how to combine projects, programs and operations in an agile way to make a difference and create value for the stakeholders. It also aims to demonstrate how projects and programs have different objectives and require different approaches, but also how they need to be harmoniously combined to generate benefits and stakeholder value.The presentation will be illustrated with real-life stories and anecdotes.

It’s an obvious statement that the world is changing, and we are in the middle of the Revolution 4.0. The interesting part is how the role of Project Manager will change within the next years. Already a part of a daily Project Manager’s routine can be done by a robot. How long will Project Managers will be needed? What skills will be required to deliver a successful AI based projects? How to manage the change that AI introduces to the organization and how to overcome fear of Artificial Intelligence? In my presentation I will show how AI is shaping today’s world of Project Management and what shift is upon us.

The presentation will show advantages and disadvantages of leading muli-national, cross-border virtual squads in Agile methodology. On specific use case there will be shown main risks related with that matter - both as chances as well as dangers. Various tools will be discussed and how they can be used to maintain such a team.

Project and process are known to be opposite versions of organisation. Each requires different management approach. Unfortunately, processes and projects coexist in any company, so the real challenge is to make the most of both worlds. Let’s imagine an example of such challenge. Custom production could be one, where there is always some part of project and some part of participating processes. Another example could be a start-up, where R&D projects and their resulting procesess diffuse extensively in very first years ... if there were any. Take into consideration that 9 out of 10 of start-ups are expected to be dead in 3 years. Sounds interesting? So let’s get familiar with the story of Elektrometal Energetyka SA, the former start-up company that makes its living on custom production. We’ll review how some best practices, including a very good PPM tool, has been turned into thriving business while making some slip-ups as well.

- Where are we in terms of technology development for business? (some facts, data, curiosities) - How do they affect our daily work? (where these technologies appear in everyday life, and not everyone knows that they are there or will soon appear) - How do new technologies help in managing the company and projects in it? - How should managers (and also women - from her point of view) use these technologies to be effective in business or professional work?

Gala concert (workshop) under the baton of Professor Piotr Sutt.

PMI Project of the year - winners of the competition PMI Volunteer of the year - winners of the competition

One of the great challenges in organizations today is to find the right balance between projects and programs to deliver benefits and execute strategies. This requires agility and a good understanding of how to create synergy from their differences. This presentation intends to demonstrate how to combine projects, programs and operations in an agile way to make a difference and create value for the stakeholders. It also aims to demonstrate how projects and programs have different objectives and require different approaches, but also how they need to be harmoniously combined to generate benefits and stakeholder value.The presentation will be illustrated with real-life stories and anecdotes.

Project and process are known to be opposite versions of organisation. Each requires different management approach. Unfortunately, processes and projects coexist in any company, so the real challenge is to make the most of both worlds. Let’s imagine an example of such challenge. Custom production could be one, where there is always some part of project and some part of participating processes. Another example could be a start-up, where R&D projects and their resulting procesess diffuse extensively in very first years ... if there were any. Take into consideration that 9 out of 10 of start-ups are expected to be dead in 3 years. Sounds interesting? So let’s get familiar with the story of Elektrometal Energetyka SA, the former start-up company that makes its living on custom production. We’ll review how some best practices, including a very good PPM tool, has been turned into thriving business while making some slip-ups as well.

- Where are we in terms of technology development for business? (some facts, data, curiosities) - How do they affect our daily work? (where these technologies appear in everyday life, and not everyone knows that they are there or will soon appear) - How do new technologies help in managing the company and projects in it? - How should managers (and also women - from her point of view) use these technologies to be effective in business or professional work?

Gala concert (workshop) under the baton of Professor Piotr Sutt.

PMI Project of the year - winners of the competition PMI Volunteer of the year - winners of the competition