PMI Sydney Chapter : Evening Event 20 August 2020
Listening to the unstated : why it is critical for project managers to look beyond the obvious
The difference between a good project manager and a not so good one is the ability to look at the space between the obvious RAG rules and status and interpret what is really going on. It can be called intuition, instinct, a gut feeling, a hunch, a sixth sense, proactive foresight, or anticipatory futures literacy.
This active workshop will introduce PMI Sydney members and guests to a number of approaches that come from Anticipatory Futures Research. Tools and mindsets that can be used to increase your personal level of anticipation and responsiveness in projects as well as tools that generate participatory and collective input. There will be an opportunity for participants to share their own approaches to ‘looking beyond the obvious’ and how this can be applied to bringing richer project status intelligence and better value to the business and the community.
Your presenter: Elissa Farrow https://www.linkedin.com/in/efarrow/
Elissa Farrow from About Your Transition is a dynamic facilitator, keynote speaker, and coach. She has extensive experience in organizational strategy design, creation, and adaptation. Elissa is passionate about keeping human agency at the centre of organizational adaptation considerations. She has led and supported organization, leaders, and teams to successfully deliver change that has brought lasting benefit in a range of industries including transport, government, resources, construction, technology, legal and community services. Elissa has held global and national board roles including the Global Development Lead for the Change Management Institute, the Director of Ethics for the International Institute of Project Coaching and the Chair of DVConnect an organization supporting people to be free from domestic and family violence.
Elissa is currently exploring the implications on organizational adaptation as a result of Artificial Intelligence Futures as part of doctoral research with the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She is Master’s qualified in social science, policy and planning fields and has a number of other project, program, portfolio, benefits and change management Association of Professional Futurists as well as a former award winner with the Project Management Institute award for her ‘Contribution to Women in Project Management’. For fun, Elissa has a growing selection of popular youtube clips, articles and blogs on various change and delivery topics via www.aboutyourtransition.com.au
Date: 20 August 2020
Engineering & Construction Management Meetup 27 August 2020
Planning for Major Construction Projects
About the Topic:
Using the Sydney Fish Market project as a case study, Peter Hawkings will examine a selection of the tools that can be used to help mitigate the cost and program risk through the planning, procurement, and delivery stages of major construction projects.
PMI Sydney Chapter Evening Event: 27 August 2020
Leading in this project called LIFE ...
Life is unpredictable. We set goals, we make plans, we assess risks – and then LIFE happens!
These are the times where we need leadership and leaders. In our projects and teams, in our organisations, in our lives. 2020 has shown all too clearly that nothing in life can be taken for granted. But how do we deal with the uncertainties and complexities of life and get back on track with what’s really important? How do we lead ourselves and those around us?
Join Act Knowledge director Jürgen Oschadleus as he takes a look at life in the post-Covid-19 world, and considers the implications for you, your teams and your organisation. This presentation will:
Drawing on incidents in his own life, Jürgen points out the correlations between everyday life and project management and illustrates how simple yet easily overlooked project principles can help you retain focus and live a life that has meaning and adds value to those around you.
Whether considering the requirements of a particular initiative, your project pipeline, or simply trying to work out where to develop your own skills and capabilities, this presentation will provide you with valuable insights and tools, and pose some critical questions to help you function well in the uncertainty of the post-Covid-19 era.
Your presenter: Jurgen Oschadleus https://www.linkedin.com/in/oschadleus/
Jürgen is an international speaker, educator and consultant with a passion to see people and teams maximise their effectiveness through developing their influence and communication skills. With 25+ years of education, strategic consulting, systems deployment and leadership development projects in Africa, Europe, the USA and the Asia Pacific region, Jürgen has been exposed to a broad range of industries in both the commercial and public sector. Read more at
Date: 27 August 2020
Monthly Meetup: Project Managers Movement - (Community Q&A) with Leo Coco
Topic: Managing Teams: What’s Working and what’s NOT working for you!
This session will be used as an open forum for the community to talk about anything which YOU are needing feedback on for a REAL situation at work, in a project, at home, or even about your next career move...... Basically any situation which you may have hit a crossroads with and need some guidance from the collective experience and insights of the PMM Community who are on the Zoom session.
Register Via this link: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Project-Managers-Movement-Meetup/events/dcvgtrybcmbdb/
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Date: 02 September 2020
Event Start: 7:00 PM
Event Finish & optional networking: 8:00 - 8:30PM
Cost: Free
Register: Online Link above unless notification of Face to Face & location on the Meetup website
How to Present Online. 3rd September 2020 - FREE EVENT
Live Online Webinar
Successful professionals today must communicate quickly and effectively across geographic boundaries. Presenting online is often the best solution to get information and training to the people who need it most, when they need it. Dale Carnegie outlined four ways that people evaluate us: what we say, how we say it, what we do, and how we do it.
An online presentation delights its audience only when voice, visuals and technology come together to deliver a high impact engaging experience. Distractions are the norm; interactive and powerfully simple presentations are the solution.
Join us for this session where you will learn how to break the mold of boring webinars and set the standard for Online Presentations.
Learn How To:
Your Webinar Facilitator: Graham Dobbin
www.linkedin.com/in/grahamdobbin
Work Experience
• 25+ years’ experience in senior executive positions, working across Europe & USA
• Clients ranging from small businesses to multi-national corporate C suite
• 10 years’ experience as a multi-course certified Senior Trainer and Executive Coach
• Key focus areas – Leadership & team development, Strategic sales, High Impact Presentation & Business growth
• Public Speaker/Keynote Speaker
• Dale Carnegie Corporate Trainer in NYC & UK
Education Experience & Certifications
• Napier University – Accounting
• Bangor University – Post Graduate in Advanced Leadership (Adjunct Lecturer)
• PRINCE2 Practitioner – Project Management
• D.I.S.C. Certified Facilitator
Contracts should not live in the ‘bottom drawer’ PART 1
17 September 2020
Live Online Webinar
Contracts should not live in the ‘bottom drawer’. They should:
• be fit for purpose;
• drafted in plain unambiguous language; and
• provide – to the extent that time permits – a plan to address for all likely issues that will arise.
A much better contract results from a collaborative effort between the lawyers and those instructing them.
In this two-part presentation Mark and Ashley will (i) survey issues that commonly arise when contracts are being drafted and (ii) look at the contractual issues when things go wrong. The presentation will be presented on-line which will limit audience interaction but audience participation is very much encouraged - either through questions posed during the presentation or, better still, before the presentation starts. The presentation will be very practical with observations and tips drawn from case studies and Mark and Ashley’s own experiences.
Event outline
All you wanted to know about contracts but were afraid to ask!
Session 1: Getting to a signed contract
Your Presenters
Mark Allen Ashley Cheng
Mark Allen
Mark is a corporate, commercial and IP lawyer. Before founding Aperion Law five years ago, Mark had been a partner of two leading Sydney law firms.
He has over 35 years’ experience representing companies engaged in a wide variety of business enterprises all which have needed contracts, often for novel activities. Mark has worked on both managed service agreements and large scale hardware supply/software development contracts.
Ashley Cheng
Ashley is a corporate and commercial lawyer, holding degrees from UNSW and a Master in Law and Finance from Oxford.
He has experience in providing legal advice to local and international clients on mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting and negotiation, litigation and dispute resolution.
Event virtual link to be sent to registrants
Monthly Meetup: Project Managers Movement - (COMMIT & GROW)
Topic: Resilience during a Pandemic – The VISION Domain with Leo Coco
**MAKE 2020 ALL ABOUT YOU!!**
In each Meetup, you will learn different concepts to start making you think "Outside The Box"...and have plenty of fun too, while also NETWORKING.
PMM is a safe, non-judgemental community which helps Project Delivery Professionals, Leader’s & Corporate Employees to embrace Self-Mastery & Focus on Personal & Professional Development. In these formal Meetup sessions, we bring the community to learn different concepts to make you think "Outside the Box"...while also having plenty of fun too.
Register Via this link: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Project-Managers-Movement-Meetup/events/dxvvwrybcmbcc/
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Date: 21 September 2020
Event Start: 06:30 PM
Event Finish: 08:30 PM
Cost: Free
Register: Online Link above unless notification of Face to Face & location on the Meetup website
Contracts should not live in the ‘bottom drawer’ PART 2
24 September 2020
Live Online Webinar
Contracts should not live in the ‘bottom drawer’. They should:
• be fit for purpose;
• drafted in plain unambiguous language; and
• provide – to the extent that time permits – a plan to address for all likely issues that will arise.
A much better contract results from a collaborative effort between the lawyers and those instructing them.
In this two-part presentation Mark and Ashley will (i) survey issues that commonly arise when contracts are being drafted and (ii) look at the contractual issues when things go wrong. The presentation will be presented on-line which will limit audience interaction but audience participation is very much encouraged - either through questions posed during the presentation or, better still, before the presentation starts. The presentation will be very practical with observations and tips drawn from case studies and Mark and Ashley’s own experiences.
Event outline
All you wanted to know about contracts but were afraid to ask!
Session 2: Dealing with a contract that is going or has gone off the tracks
• Where are the signed contracts?
• What is the contract management structure?
• What was cause of contract failure?
• Are there any contract interpretation issues?
• What rights do the parties have on breach:
• Termination
• Suspension
• Step In
• Damages?
• Can insurance help?
• What more of dispute resolution to use:• Litigation
• Arbitration
• Mediation?
Your Presenters
Mark Allen Ashley Cheng
Mark Allen
Mark is a corporate, commercial and IP lawyer. Before founding Aperion Law five years ago, Mark had been a partner of two leading Sydney law firms.
He has over 35 years’ experience representing companies engaged in a wide variety of business enterprises all which have needed contracts, often for novel activities. Mark has worked on both managed service agreements and large scale hardware supply/software development contracts.
Ashley Cheng
Ashley is a corporate and commercial lawyer, holding degrees from UNSW and a Master in Law and Finance from Oxford.
He has experience in providing legal advice to local and international clients on mergers and acquisitions, contract drafting and negotiation, litigation and dispute resolution.
PMO Sydney Meetup 30 September 2020
What does Digital Transformation mean for PMO’s?
What we'll do
Digital transformation is nothing new, consumer requirements are constantly evolving, and companies are keeping up with varying degrees of success. Delivery methods are adapting and being customised as the pace of development is accelerating. Shareholders and Board members maintain more traditional requirements within these disruptive landscapes. ROI and sensible decision making around strategic synergy, risk exposure and asset utilisation still need to be demonstrated. Internal/external audit and governing body requirements continue. We need to plan to support this creativity in our own creative way. As PMO professionals how do we bring this together?
Join Fatimah https://www.linkedin.com/in/fatimahabbouchi/ as she shares:
• How we synergise varying governance requirements across a business,
• How we evolve our capabilities to better support digital transformation and;
• What does bringing it together in a creative way look like.
Engineering & Construction Management Meetup 30 September 2020
Is traditional contracting dead? How data and machine learning can transform major projects
About the Topic:
Major projects in Australia and around the world consistently run over budget, over time, and under the promised benefits. Is the way we contract and share risks dead?
In this interactive session, we will explore the future of contracting for project delivery, covering the core challenges we are experiencing today and more importantly, what actions can be taken to improve the way owners and contractors enter into a relationship to deliver projects. We’ll unpack the logic behind the use of data to level the playing field, introduce incentive mechanisms and drive efficient outcomes. We recommend this webinar to project delivery executives, project managers, and professionals in project services like planning and procurement.
We want you to leave with a sense of how you can begin making changes in your organisation to realise the future of contracting.
Toby Buchanan
General Manager at nPlan https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobybuchanan12/
Toby is the General Manager of nPlan, a technology company, which uses machine learning and big data to forecast the time outcomes of projects. nPlan is bringing forth a new paradigm in managing risk and uncertainty on major projects. Toby has felt the pain of delivering projects first hand, having worked for 7 years on major urban regeneration schemes as a Project Manager at Lendlease, in Australia and the UK. Toby holds an MBA from London Business School, and Bachelor of Engineering from University of Sydney.
As practices in the industry change under the pressure of innovation after decades of low productivity growth, and as venture capital funding flows rapidly to unlock new opportunities to solve these challenges, Toby is excited by the opportunity he has at nPlan to make an impact at an organisational and industry level.
Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/Engineering-Construction-Management-Meetup-Group/events/272771573/
Date: 30 September 2020
Agenda:
6:00 pm Session starts & housekeeping
6:05 pm - 6:10 pm Networking via room breaking
6:10 pm - 6:15 pm About this meet-up & Sponsors
6:15 pm - 7:00 pm Main Session
7:00 pm - 7:15 pm Q&A
7:15 pm - 7:30 pm Lucky Draw & Presents
8:00 pm Session ends
To Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvde6grT0tEtW7zhlqBm1bl5u74uVOagk5
