Auckland Seminar 2003

To PMI Members and Project Managers

PMINZ has now arranged the Seminar 2003 series, with a seminar in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch by renowned international speaker and Project Management Professional Arnie Finklestein.

The seminar will be about "Managing risk in IT projects" with special emphasis on runaway projects, and what we can do to stop them happening. Due to the nature of the seminar i.e. very hands on we can only provide places for 25 attendees in each location. What are the details?

Date: Thursday 13 Feb 2003 - 7:30 am to 5:00 pm
Venue: Waipuna Lodge,.Mount Wellington, Auckland
Cost: $320+ GST PMI members, $360+GST Non PMI members
Complete the Auckland Registration Form (pdf) and return it by 9 Feb 2003.

Remember there are only 25 places available in each location – so first come first served

Registration forms for all locations must be posted to

"Seminar Series 2003"
Project Conference Innovators
PO Boxes 13 494
Christchurch

About the Seminar
This is not your typical PM seminar!

Although the senior project management/directors of a company are an important audience the seminar is geared to project managers, line management executives and marketing executives involved in either marketing hardware, software and telecom projects (including contract development activities), managing the business or IT clients or in selecting a project management or systems integration vendor. Theseminar is designed to present to Executives, Marketing Reps & Project Managers/Directors a global perspective of the runaway project problem and provide practical solutions for preventing the situation.

This seminar evolved from a major reality: that many projects are lost because the project RFP, contract, implementation strategy, organization structure, etc., was flawed right from the beginning. The result is that the Project Manager is handicapped and or the project is headed for failure before it starts. The Project Manager needs to educate executives and be involved before this situation happens.

By educating the audience and sharing their own experiences the seminar is designed to assist in preventing runaway projects and increasing the chances for success. During the seminar we present and discuss real life situations, not theory.

As Arnie says "My success with presenting to project managers, corporate execs and vendor execs has demonstrated that this seminar can assist tremendously with acquiring manageable business, preventing runaway projects, saving businesses millions of dollars and leveraging scarce business/IT resources".

Regards

Phil Heaphy PMP
secretary@pmi.org.nz