PMINZ - conference 2003

Wednesday 5 November - Pre-Conference Workshops More...

Workshop 1

1.00 – 2.30 p.m. Kiwi Imagination: Radical Leadership to Transform Ordinary Projects
Peter Goldsbury
BE (Elect) Auckland, Diploma in
Management Studies Portsmouth, Grad Diploma
in Teacher Education AUT

2.30 – 3.00 p.m. Afternoon Tea

3.00 – 5.00 p.m. Kiwi Imagination: Radical Leadership to Transform Ordinary Projects (continued)

Workshop 2

1.00 – 2.30 p.m. Integrating Risk Management
Processes in Project Management
Centre for Advanced Engineering
Dr. Dale Cooper,
Principal, Broadleaf Capital International
CAE Risk Management Programme
Dr. George Hooper
Director CAE

2.30 – 3.00 p.m. Afternoon Tea

3.00 – 5.00 p.m. Integrating Risk Management
Processes in Project Management (continued)
Mike Wood, Strategic Risk Management
Systems Manager, Telecom New Zealand
Kieran Devine, General Manager, Service
Delivery, Transpower
Questions, Answers, Discussion

4.00 – 7.00 p.m. Registration Desk opens

5.30 – 7.00 p.m. Welcome Reception
Dwarfs, hobbits, and elves mingle, tilt a goblet, and share stories from Middle Earth

Thursday 6 November

Contingency

9.00 – 10.00 a.m. Keynote Address: Outside the Square Box - Leadership Kiwi Style
Mike Tamaki
Managing Director, Tamaki Maori Village

10.00 – 10.30 a.m. Morning Tea

Concurrent Sessions

10.30 – 11.15a.m.	Stream A – Leadership Delivering the Lord of the Rings Exhibition Chris Bicknell	Stream B – Managing with Risks Getting Amongst It: Does bigger mean bigger risks? Dale Cooper	Steam C – Gandalf Selects
11.15 - noon	Bringing PMO to Middle Earth Amanda James	Managing Ground Risks in the Shire Jason Le Masurier	Thwarting Orcs with New Tools John Higgins

noon – 1.30 p.m. Lunch and Networking

1.30 – 2.15 p.m.	Understanding Elves, Dwarfs, and Project Owners Warren Howe	Techniques for a Project's Life Span John Wheadon	But Can Frodo and Sam Multitask? Angela Brown
2.15 – 3.00 p.m.	From Project Office to Programme Office Jane Farley and Dorothy Lewsley	Managing Deep Risks at Manapouri Todd Mead and Philip Robson	The PM Quest in R&D Land Michael Hamid

3.00 – 3.30 p.m. Afternoon Tea

3.30 – 4.30 p.m.

Heroic Traits of the Project Manager

Change Agents
Andrew Smith

The Competitive Edge
Kevin McKenzie

Operating in Uncertain
Environments: The Air New Zealand Challenge
Paul Keesing and Roy Lee

New Product Development in Middle Earth

The Kiwi Approach
Frik de Beer

The Fuzzy Front End
Adrian Busch

4.45 – 5.15 p.m. PMINZ Annual General Meeting

7.00 p.m. Transport to Rivendell for bracing libations

8.30 p.m. Conference Dinner
Hearty repast, dancing, and enthusiastic conviviality among Middle Earth denizens
Return transport provided

Friday 7 November

Contingency

9.00 – 10.00 a.m. Keynote Address - The Risk of Talking About Risk
Preston Smith
Principal, New Product Dynamics, USA
Author of Proactive Risk Management: Controlling Uncertainty in Product Development and Developing Products in Half the Time

10.00 – 10.30 a.m. Morning Tea

Concurrent Sessions

10.30 – 11.15a.m.	Stream A – Leadership Three Contracts and the Britomart Transport Centre: A PM Trilogy Eric Hennephof, James MacNeil and Greg Dodd	Stream B – Managing with Risks Charting Frodo's Path: Risk Avoidance John Russell-Hodge	Stream C – Gandalf Selects Behind the Scenes of the Trilogy Milton Ngan
11.15 – noon	Leadership Through Teams: Kiwi Ingenuity Ron Shaw	Forestalling Runaways: Data Warehouse Case Study Sebastian Ziemke	Charting Early Design Stages Dirk Pons

noon – 1.30 p.m. Lunch and Networking

1.30 – 3.00 p.m.

Scripting Successful PM Stories.

Prime Your Organisation
Paul Taylor

Project Directing
Kevin McKenzie

A PMO for Hobbiton
John Bebarfald and
Chris Bowden

Dynamic Risk Management
Diana Thompson

Rapid Product Development Sorcery for the Project Manager
Preston Smith

3.00 – 3.30 p.m. Afternoon Tea

3.30 – 4.30 p.m.

The Mystic Powers of PM

Improving a Complex Process
John Allan and Loraine Milne

Cannot be Late!!
Michael O'Hara

Risk Wizardry

Linking Risk, Leadership & Quality
Grant Avery

Questioning Techniques of Yore
Devin Deen

Rapid Product Development Sorcery
(continued)

4.30 – 4.45 p.m. Closing Remarks
Will Frodo fail or is he a leader worthy of Middle Earth?

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