April 2014 Volume 44 Issue 4
Contents President’s Column ................................................................................................................................................ 2 Welcome to the April Edition .................................................................................................................................. 3 Our Sponsors ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 Events Calendar....................................................................................................................................................... 5 Take our PMP Exam Coaching Class! Autumn 2014 edition .................................................................................. 5 From the desk of the Director Events ..................................................................................................................... 6 A fabulous evening at our new Partner INSynQ...................................................................................................... 7 rd
PMI Netherlands Summit 3 Edition ...................................................................................................................... 8 Planet Agile BPUG (in Dutch) .................................................................................................................................. 9 The Agile PMO and Winning Project Teams workshops ......................................................................................... 9 Welcome to our 850th member of PMI Netherlands ........................................................................................... 10 Call for Volunteers: Assistance in development of a Serious Game on Project Management ............................. 10 PMBOK Guide Pocket companion ......................................................................................................................... 11 Recently certified PMI Netherlands members ...................................................................................................... 12 Learn more about PMI’s newest practice guide, Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide ................................. 12 Your Expertise is Needed to Create Valuable Content! ........................................................................................ 12 PMI Journals .......................................................................................................................................................... 13 PMI's Communities of Practice Webinars March ................................................................................................. 13 Let’s stay in touch ................................................................................................................................................. 14 Project Management Humor ................................................................................................................................ 15
President’s Column Last month was an awfully busy month but it was fun as well as I needed a lot of my project management skills and experience to rescue what we had worked on for month. Managing projects for me still is a synonym for fun as it means that you are working on making a difference, facilitating your customer or principal to accelerate their ambition. That’s what motivates me to do everything possible to deliver. Why than did we need severe action to rescue this project? I think it has to do with the lack of understanding at a supplier in this case what really matter to the customer, what the project is all about. Cees Pijs Project success for sure is much more than delivering agreed scope, on time and within President budget. To a certain extent, with lots of comments, that is precisely what the supplier did. Nevertheless supplier frustrated, customer frustrated. Project Manager the only happy guy as in situations like this he can use the full wealth of his skills and experience? We are on track again but why is this happening so often? Why did we hear similar experiences from the Greenery at our latest chapter event at the premises of our new partner INSynQ. Why are we very interested in real stories about real projects? As in my example and in many examples you can think of, project success and failure are very close so we decided to have this as our Summit 2014 theme (see www.pmi-netherlands-summit.com). We compiled a program worthwhile at least considering of attending. Seats are still available! Besides I could do with a bit of help in preparing myself for the Summit, a kind crowd thinking so to speak. I need to provide a 10 minutes talk to introduce the Summit. I would like to use this opportunity to share your thoughts on project success and failure. What is project success to you, it that something we can measure or alternatively can we define when we consider a project a failure? So I need your input on this. Join me on linkedin. Help me to define the thin line between project failure and success. Looking forward to you crowd thought and hope to see you at our Summit or at our chapter meeting that is hosted by Kembit on May 21st. Details in this newsletter and of course at www.pmi-netherlands-chapter.org That’s it for now. Let’s keep up to good work. Enjoy being a project manager, enjoy being part of the PMI community in the Netherlands.
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Welcome to the April Edition I have the pleasure to welcome you to the April PMI Netherlands Chapter Newsletter. This time the issue contains few invitations to events organized by our friends. We also welcome our 850 member and looking for volunteers to assist creation of PM game. We encourage you to take a look at upcoming events: chapter meetings, Summit and PMP exam Coaching Class. We have also some news from PMI.org and as always PM Humor.
Małgorzata Krakowian Director Marketing and Communications
Cover: Koningsdag 2014 by Paula Abrahao
Editorial Office: Małgorzata Krakowian Karen Obi Contact: communication@pmi-netherlands-chapter.org
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Events Calendar PMI Netherlands Chapter
Other May 2014
May 2014 6
Program Management LIWg Revival
More info
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Chapter Meeting: Decision making in political sensitive environments
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PMI Netherlands Summit
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22-23
10
Northern Star Consulting - Certified ScrumMaster class at Zeist
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Threon - CAPM Certification Prep
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Synergy 2014 – PMI UK Conference (London, UK) Threon - Project Portfolio Management
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September 2014
October 2014 11
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June 2014
June 2014 12
- New trends in Project Management - Agile and Lean Development (Sopot, Poland)
PMP Exam Coaching Class 1/4
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1
PMP Exam Coaching Class 2/4
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PMP Exam Coaching Class 3/4
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PMP Exam Coaching Class 4/4
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10 November 2014
November 2014
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Take our PMP Exam Coaching Class! Autumn 2014 edition We are happy to announce that next PMP Exam Coaching Class will take place on:  11 October, 1 November, 15 November, 29 November
Registration for the next PMP Exam Coaching Class is now open.
Deadline for registration: 24th September 14:00 Already certified? Please forward this information to your colleagues.
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More info
From the desk of the Director Events Dear all, I would like to start this monthly update from the Events desk by informing you once again, about the upcoming May events: · The Program Management LIWg Revival in Utrecht on May 6. · The Chapter meeting with this time as topic Decision-making processes in political sensitive environments on May 21 in Eindhoven.
Henk-Jan Molenkamp
Please take a look at our website to find more details and to register
Director Events
Results World Café discussions at the annual meeting Our annual meeting combined with a world café, in which we were asking for your input, was received very well and today we have a summary of the outcomes for you (thanks to Ben Bolland who volunteered to write these down). What did we do? We asked several question which were answered in groups. The groups then switched members to re-evaluate and sharpen the answers and recommendations. After a few table switches the chairmen of the different tables were asked to present the results from their tables. A summary in key words: Question 1: What is happening in the current world of Project Management? Increasing attention for environment, health, safety More demand for more standard solutions More requirements for (big) data (also for managing KPI’s) and reporting We see more PMO’s coming up (to support the demand for reporting, measurement and admin work) There were also some concerns that there is some devaluation of the PMP value, but there is still an increased need for more accreditation. The team felt that Project Management is increasing to be seen as a ‘real’ profession, which is asking for more certification. Question 2: What do these TRENDS mean to our profession? Bringing Professional PM experience to the business (IT perspective). Shift from PM to value management (focus on results, more self-steering teams). More selling the project than doing PM. Position the Chief Project Officer in the board to get also better recognition for project management as a profession and standardization Need to keep change the way to execute projects: Agile, restrictions, webbased training, lean-mean companies, etc. Question 3: What could the PMI-NL Chapter do to support you even better? Capture trends and provide info via PMI, so to make sure we are frontrunners of the profession Offer / Volunteering PM-services to communities (for good causes, bv. Roparun, Alpdu6,…) Facilitate broader events incl. CUSTOMERS (i.e. not only internal attention, but involving line management more) More World Cafe-like, interactive session: is positive, inspiring and refreshing Facilitate webmeetings on interesting topics and for sharing experiences (modern, easy access, no travel) Promote PM in the board rooms Promoting PM as profession, bring it to high-schools and university, Student membership
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I expect that you can see many of this recommended improvement coming back in our 2014 / 2015 program to bring you the best value possible for your PMI membership! PMI Speaker at Oil & Gas Conference I have been asked, as Director Events of the PMI Netherlands Chapter, to be one of the speakers on the Global Forum on Project Management for the Oil and Gas industry on June 2 and 3 in Amsterdam. This is great news because it will allow us to bring the importance of the certification and accreditation of project management and the job of project management as a whole to the attention of senior managers in the industry (see also outcome of the World Café session!). It’s my intention to give the attendees a view into the current challenges of project management in oil and gas. In addition it would be nice to provide them with an overview of trends. Trends that we, PMI Netherlands Chapter, see in the market and which we will support to take shape. Trends that can happen due to further collaboration, increased expertise and great cooperation within teams of project management professionals. And for this, I need help! If you’re working in the Oil & Gas industry, please fill in our survey to present the latest and greatest to the senior managers attending the conference. Go to: http://tinyurl.com/pmi-oil-gas and fill in the survey. By doing this you help us, as your chapter, to improve how we should support you, but more importantly we can make leaders in your industry aware on how they should improve, facilitate or change their projects for the better! Thanks in advance for helping out! Let me end this article by asking for YOUR HELP once more: we are always very much interested in interesting speakers for coming chapter meeting. Feel free to drop me an email when you have an interesting topic or an gifted presenter/ speaker at events@pmi-netherlands-chapter.org.
A fabulous evening at our new Partner INSynQ. Our latest chapter meeting was hosted by our new partner INSynQ. In parallel to the focus area of INSynQ the meeting was all about SAP. After a short introduction of INSynQ by Peter Ouëndag, Wim van de Wiel and Huub Janssen discussed their project approach at the Greenery. They were able to turn a rather disastrous project into a success. How? What I learned are a few simple lessons like practice what you preach, turn it from push into pull, don’t forget about your users, eventually they are all that matters and keep it stupid simple! In a very honest and open dialogue Wim and Huub took us into the real world of mushroom logistics. From that understanding and their passion for delivering success they start building a very successful SAP implementation. Simple thing, nothing fancy. Two feet in the mud.
Cees Pijs President
After the break Jens Broetzmann explained why SAP embraced Agile adding specific flavours to align it to the SAP needs. Why? Because Agile is all about creating a dialogue with all parties involved, is about short iterations to ensure constant touch basing with business representatives, is about flexibility towards the deliverables, is about prioritizing. Is Agile then the solution for everything. Absolutely not but is fits in nicely into the SAP best practices when comes to software development and process integration. Add a splendid buffet and enjoyable drinks at the end to this recipe and the only conclusion can be that we had a great evening at our new partner INSynQ. Thank you speakers, thank you partner!
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PMI Netherlands Summit 3rd Edition Silver Sponsors
After the very successful and well-received first two editions, the PMI Netherlands Chapter and CKC rd th Seminars organize the 3 Edition of PMI Netherlands Summit on June 12 , 2014 at FIGI in Zeist. The PMI Netherlands Summit is the platform for ambitious Project, Program and Portfolio professionals. To inspire and to be inspired! The program provides high quality content to the project management community, presented by national and international thought leaders and experts. Central theme of the third edition is: The thin line between project success & failure.
An inspiring program of the PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 is guaranteed with keynote speakers such as:
Visitors of PMI Netherlands Summit 2014 receive a free copy of “Taming Tigers. Do things you never thought you could” by Jim Lawless
Jim Lawless, One of the World's leading inspirational speakers, author of Taming Tigers and CEO of the Velocity Corporation Dr. Thomas Juli, Managing Director, Thomas Juli Empowerment Partners Martijn Jong, Partner & Director, AMI Consultancy
Members of the PMI Netherlands Chapter receive a special discount. Sign up with your membership code and pay only € 195,- excl. VAT!
Check PMI Netherlands Summit webpage for more information.
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Planet Agile BPUG (in Dutch)
Find more http://www.bpug.nl/seminar-2014.html
The Agile PMO and Winning Project Teams workshops The Winning Project Teams is a highly practical workshop, which enables you to use the latest developments in business psychology to create winning working relationships within the project teams and with all project stakeholders. During this workshop you will learn about feedback, communication and motivation as the key factors of successful collaboration. Join the training in Amsterdam on May 22-23! For more details, visit: http://wpt.stamfordglobal.com As a PMI Netherlands chapter member you can save 10% on the tickets if membership is indicated on sign-up During this workshop you will learn how to avoid common pitfalls of PMO implementations, recognize new opportunities for PMO and Agile project management and discover better ways of leading and sustaining change through a strategic PMO. The course is for you if you wish to increase your effectiveness, learn how to become more Agile and what use a PMO brings to an organization. Join the training in Amsterdam on June 16-17 or in Munich on December 1-2! For more details, visit: http://agilepmo.stamfordglobal.com/ As a PMI Netherlands chapter member you can save 10% on the tickets if membership is indicated in the sign-up
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Welcome to our 850th member of PMI Netherlands My name is Annet Rozema; I work at Astellas Pharma Europe BV in Leiden. Astellas is a midsize global pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Tokyo. In over 14 years working for Astellas, I have had several positions in various departments. Since September 2012 I am a member of the Global Project Management Department where I am one of the Project Managers of drug development projects. The ultimate goal of the drug development process is to submit a regulatory dossier to the authorities (e.g. FDA, EMA) to obtain marketing approval of our new medicines and contribute to patients’ medical need.
My development project team is multifunctional as well as multicultural. There is a physician in my team, a statistician, a toxicologist, project managers, clinical pharmacologists, drug development specialists; the team of 14 colleagues consists of no less than 8 nationalities. That is why Astellas is for me “a great place to work”. As Project Manager, my main responsibilities are to manage timelines and budget of the project(s), as well as to coordinate project team meetings. Drug development projects usually have a global focus, and can last up to 10 years after the start of testing of the medicine in humans. At this moment one of the ongoing clinical studies in my project cover 45 countries worldwide. Total development costs for new medicines exceed a billion Euro, and these costs are increasing every year.
Astellas supports me in my intention to become PMI certified. In the past months I participated in a PMP coaching class, which I found worthwhile. It is my aim to take the exam somewhere this summer. Other Project Managers of our department are also PMP certified, that is nice, since it stimulates discussions about PMI, about the PMBOK principles, and how these relate to our day to day work at Astellas.
Call for Volunteers: Assistance in development of a Serious Game on Project Management Will you participate in creating a cutting edge serious game for training soft skills for project managers? We are looking for project managers, junior and senior, to assist in putting PMI’s project management knowledge into the game. Together with you, we will design ways to implement project management knowledge into the game in line with PMI’s PMBOK Guide®. PMI Netherlands Chapter has partnered with Grendel Games (www.grendel-games.com) and M-engaged (www.mengaged.com) to create a serious game for (project) managers. The purpose is to train soft skills like leadership, communication, conflict handling, negotiations etc. The project goal is to deliver a working demo version before the end of this year. The game is aimed at (junior) project managers. To create a successful game, from PMI’s perspective, project management knowledge from the PMBOK Guide® and experience based upon this knowledge is needed.
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The project includes the use of cutting edge motion capture techniques and facial expressions in a space laboratory setting. The study work has been done. The first studio activities have taken place and game design is underway. Now it is time to include project management knowledge in the scripts and the gameplay. You’re help is needed! We want to discuss with you, create scripts and game situations and finally like you to test the prototype. The research on this project has taken quite some time but it has now come to the final stage where development and project management knowledge needs to be combined. Look at the images to get an impression where your project colleagues can train soft skills in the future. In the project we (and maybe you) work together with experienced game designers and developers. Also part of the project is a skilled psychologist. If you’re interested or have additional questions please contact René Vielvoije (operations@pmi-netherlandschapter.org).
Bertrand Weegenaar / René Vielvoije M-engaged / PMI Netherlands Chapter
PMBOK Guide Pocket companion We are proud to let you know that Spanish speaking Chapters have joined our PMBOK Guide Pocket companion initiative!
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Recently certified PMI Netherlands members The PMI Netherlands Chapter Board congratulates the following members with achieving their credential in April: Name,
Credential
Mr. Anton L Osinga Mr. Laurens Johan Odekerken Mr. Roel van Teeseling Sander van Oosterhout Veronika Ekstrand Rene Wolbers
PMP PMP PMP PMP PMP PMP Great job!
Learn more about PMI’s newest practice guide, Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide The PMI Standards area recently completed an informational webinar for CoP leaders on the new practice guide, Navigating Complexity: A Practice Guide. This is a new PMI practice guide providing guidance to organizations and practitioners on how to manage programs and projects that are impacted by complexity. It is currently available free online for a limited time. If you would like to learn more about PMI’s newest practice guide, you may listen to the recorded webinar here.
Your Expertise is Needed to Create Valuable Content! PMI is looking for individuals with expertise or experience in Requirements Management to help us create much needed content! Requirements Management touches on all disciplines and spans every industry across the profession and the globe. ® The PMI 2013 Pulse of the Profession study reported that, “poor requirements management is a major cause of project failure, second only to changing organization priorities.” As a result, this has become a priority topic for the Institute, generating high interest and great conversation. We need your contributions to create content that will be valuable to your peers and PM stakeholders, and help improve project success globally: • Write articles or case studies • Review and edit content • Translate templates into another language • Present webinars If you are interested in participating in this effort, please apply through the Volunteer Relationship Management System (VRMS) and search for opportunities under Communities of Practice. Please send all questions and comments to the Communities of Practice department.
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PMI Journals
PMI's Communities of Practice Webinars March PMI Community of Practice webinars are available exclusively to PMI members, and at no additional cost. Participants may claim 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) per one hour webinar. 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 16 20 20 21 22 22 26 27 29
Benchmarking your HR Technology Roadmap Cloud Computing: An Overview for Project Managers Building Information Modelling Roundtable Stakeholders – Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice Project Management: An Essential Ingredient for Innovation Developing a PM Standard for your Organization Revisiting resistance to change PM for Paradigm Shift in Business Management Key Trends + Findings in New Product Development Processes Project Risk Mgmt from a Financial Risk Mgmt Perspective A framework for Strategy Execution integrating PMO and OCM 'Just Enough' LPM: 5 Simple Ways to Get the Benefits Seven Ways to Build Trust Lean Scope Project Management Building a 21st Century Diversity & Inclusion Business Case Ethics and Sustainability
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Project Management Humor
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