Vican Consulting provides project management and interim management services. It was founded in 2009 by Karl Fabry and has expertise in areas such as project management, IT security, crisis management, and audit. Vican takes a pragmatic approach to managing different types of projects across industries. It owns certifications in project management frameworks like PMI and PRINCE2 as well as ITIL. Vican has experience managing projects for clients in sectors including banking, telecom, and technology.

1. YOU ARE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS,
BUT ARE YOU DOING THESE THINGS RIGHT ?

2. E X P E R T I S E
- Program/project Management Services.
- People Management, Team-Development (multi-cultural)
- Reorganisations and Closures.
- IT security and risk assessment.
- Crisis management
- Audit

3. Vican Consulting is founded in 2009 by Karl Fabry, PMP, who has 10+
years experience in Project and Interim management.
A pragmatic approach, combined with an adequate level of people
management- and project management skills enables Vican Consulting to
manage different kind of projects at a country, European and Global
level: infrastructure-, application- and process related in different
Industries.
The key values of the company are integrity, healthy team-spirit, respect
for diversity and high level of customer service attitude.
Vican Consulting owns a Project Management Certification for PMI and
PRINCE II + ITIL certification.

4. Project Management

5. How the customer explained it How the Project Leader
understood it
How the Analyst designed it How the Programmer wrote
it
How the Business Consultant
described it
How the project was
documented
What operations installed How the customer was billed How it was supported What the customer really
needed

6. Why Project Management
• Project management is an in-demand skill set and
one of the fastest growing professional disciplines.
• Project management breaks down the chaos of an
overwhelming workload into manageable
elements-scope, time, cost, quality, human-resources,
communication, risk, procurement and
integration of projects.
• Project Management is the discipline of organizing
and managing resources in such a way that a
project is completed within defined scope,
quality, time and cost constraints.

7. Project Manager Skills
Soft Skills
• Leadership
• Team building
• Negotiation
• Conflict management
• Organization for self and
others
• Communication both oral and
written to both technical and
non-technical audiences
• Change management
• Active Listening
Technical Skills
• Project Management
Software
• Level of understanding of
the technology being used in
the project (software,
hardware, network, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of the
business
• Cost estimating and
budgeting

8. The 5 P’s: Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance

9. Risk Management
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
― Mike Tyson
Identifica
tion
Qualificat
ion Response

10. Are you an “Accidental” Project
Manager??
• = a business professional where project
management is a secondary responsibility, but
who is asked to manage important corporate
projects nonetheless.

11. Interim Management &
Consulting

12. What is Interim Management

13. Interim Management and Consulting

14. CASE EXAMPLES
• ISO 27001 certification.
• Implement Social Media platform for 150k+ people.
• Implementation of different Web Content Management Systems (Drupal,
FatWire, Joomla).
• Relocation and centralization of Global Application Service Centre.
• Cash efficiency project for ATM’s (BNP Paribas).
• Global Service Centre Manager a.i. for Deloitte in Prague.
• Quality assurance manager for Physical Payments department (BNP Paribas).
• Impact analysis of Telecom in multinational.
• Implementation in the cloud ACD solution.
• Coaching Project Managers “in the field”.
• Improve team efficiency for several small and mid-sized companies.