APM South Wales and West of England branch 13th BCAG meeting

Branch Corporate Advisory Group
Meeting No 13
25 March 2015
BAWA, Bristol
Association for
Project Management
South Wales and West of England Branch

Welcome and Introductions
Welcome
 Introductions
 Feedback Form
 CPD certificate

Housekeeping
 Fire Alarm
 No smoking
 Toilets
 Mobiles
 Lunch

Today’s Objectives
 Enable BCAG members to work together for mutual
benefit
 Enhance collaboration between Corporates and HEIs

Agenda
09:00 Coffee and registration
09:30 Introductions
09:35 Review of previous notes and actions including corporate company liaison officers
10:15 Presentation 1 APM SWWE PM Challenge Update – Gary Mainwaring
10:45 Presentation 2 Discussion Session
11:15 Refreshment break
11:30 Presentation 3 Project Organisation P3M3 - Trevor Band
12:00 Presentation 4 APM HQ Update - Martin Gosden
12:30 Various Corporate initiatives and developments
13:00 Next Steps
13:30 Lunch

Review of Actions
 BCAG minutes from September 2014
 Acceptance of notes
 Actions
 Action 12.1 All. It was noted that this presentation would be ideal for an evening event for members.
Action 12.1 MG.
 PMN: Action Closed the event was arranged for 5 March
 Action 12.2 He provided a challenge for the corporate members in the form of a job description for a
‘corporate liaison officer’ which described what corporates could do to engage with APM and promote the
profession. It was agreed to put this on the agenda for the next BCAG Meeting. Action 12.2 BE
 PMN: Action Closed as this topic is an agenda item today

APM Membership by Industrial Sector

Membership - APM SWWE
2400
2450
2500
2550
2600
2650
2700
2750
2800
2850
2900
2950
Apr-13May-13Jun-13Jul-13Aug-13Sep-13Oct-13Nov-13Dec-13Jan-14Feb-14Mar-14Apr-14May-14Jun-14Jul-14Aug-14Sep-14Oct-14Nov-14Dec-14Jan-15Feb-15Mar-15
Dates
Members

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Corporate Membership - APM SWWE

Forthcoming Events
 31 March – Contracts and Procurement SIG event -
NEC, Bristol
 14 April – SWWE PM Challenge Finals Night, BAWA,
Bristol
 23 April – PM: Not just for work! Airbus, Bristol
 6 May – Hinkley Point C – Taunton
 20 May – Branch AGM and Swansea Bay Tidal
Energy Project, Newport (TBC)
 3 June – Managing Successful Change – Martin
Samphire, Governance SIG Chair, Bristol

Presentation 1
APM SWWE PM Challenge
Update
Gary Mainwaring:
General Dynamics and Branch PM
Challenge

APM SWWE
PM Challenge Update
Gary Mainwaring
General Dynamics and Branch
Project Management Challenge

The Challenge Objectives
 Develop and practice project management theory in a realistic environment
 Opportunity to be mentored and work alongside experienced project professionals
 Gain real-life experience and practice a wide range of key project management competences and
skills to deliver a project
 Develop knowledge of the success criteria required to deliver a project
 Develop a better understanding of the personal qualities and professional competences required
to become an effective project manager and leader
 An opportunity to compete and gauge the performance of other aspiring project professionals in the
South Wales and the West of England domain
 An opportunity to enhance the learning experience within the corporate and further education
environments
 A high-visibility example of successful project management delivery and implementation which
provides beneficial publicity for the corporate team sponsors
 Corporate investment in PMs of the future

PM Challenge Theme
Output(s) and benefit(s) to a charitable organisation
or community project
– Airbus: St Peter’s Hospice
– Bristol Water: Helping Hands One25 Drop In Shelter
– Bristol Water: Project Rescue (ASSAR)
– General Dynamics: IT for School in Newport

Level 1 Plan
7 weeks
3 weeks
11 weeks
3 weeks

Mentors
 Provided in-house by each corporate team
 Can be provided by external corporates if required
 Guidance, advice and approach…but not the answer! 

Business Case
 Justification for your chosen project
– Requirements: capturing and assessing stakeholder needs
– Benefits to the stakeholder(s)
– Costs to deliver
– Risks of delivery
– Rationale
 By 15 December 2014

Final Report
 Justification for your chosen project
– How the project, as described in the business case, was
delivered
– Competence focused
– By 27 March 2015

Presentation
 Finals Night
– How does the presentation match up with the Final Report?
– Confidence
– Connection
– Convincing story
– 14 April 2015

Assessment Criteria
Business Case
(30%)
Final Report
(60%)
APM SWWE
PM Challenge
Assessment Criteria
Presentation
(10%)
Smart Outputs and
Outcomes
Clear Relation to
Theme
Meets Challenge
Objectives
Clear Achievable
Project Outline and PMP
Consideration of Risk
Management and
Dependencies
Effective Stakeholder
Engagement and User
Benefits Identification
SettingGovernance
ProfessionalismInterpersonal Skills
Scope ManagementIntegrative management
Financial and Cost
Management
Schedule Management
Quality ManagementRisk Management
Quality of ReportResource Management
Quality of Presentation
Confidence of Delivery

Project Board
APM SWWE
PM Challenge
Bruce
Phillips (APM
SWWE)
Allan Reid
(APM SWWE)
Alan
Watson
(Lloyds Banking
Group)
Abi
Williams
(Burges
Salmon)
Martin
Gosden
(APM SWWE)
 Supervise the competition
 Review reporting
 Sounding board between mentors and teams
 Assess and mark business case, final report and
presentations
 Announce the winner and runners-up
 Provide feedback

Benefits and Prizes
 SWWE PM Challenge Trophy
 Individual engraved trophies
 Individual engraved medals to runners-up
 CPD Certificates
 Free student membership
 APM literature
 Publicity
 Kudos
 Enhanced confidence and professionalism
 Experience in your future (potential) career! 

Discussion: The APM Liaison
Person Role Within a Corporate Member
Martin Gosden
Chairman of the SWWE Branch

Project Organisation P3M3
Trevor Band:
Director of Montydog Consulting
Limited

ORGANISATIONAL PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
Trevor Band FAPM

Copyright © 2015 Montydog Consulting Limited www.montydogconsulting.co.uk
Building organisations that
create project success
(preferably soulful ones)
About this Presentation

An Age of Chaos
50% of current jobs will be automated out of existence
1 in 7 of the global population are on the move
Traditional companies struggling. More complexity for less.
25 billion internet connected devices by 2020 (Garnter)
On-demand economic forces – altering the nature of work
Instability – Euro deflation risk, nuclear weapons proliferation,….

Organisations – mankind's journey
Tribal Age
Agrarian Age
Scientific/Industrial Age
Information Age
Violent - crude
Organised - stable
Innovation - markets
Globalisation - internet

$3 trillion lost annually due to project underperformance 1
13% engaged, 63% not engaged, 24% actively disengaged (Gallop)
“Many people sense that the current way we run organisations
has been stretched to its limits. We are increasingly disillusioned
with organisational life” F. Laloux
PM – urgency and opportunity
1 Prof Rodney Turner et al, Perspectives on Projects (Routledge, 2010)

Large proportion of contractor staff
Inexperienced leadership (esp at board level)
C-level/staff disengagement
Project management not strategically developed
Inadequate systems for PM improvement and learning
Organisations designed for BAU, not projects
Methods obesity
Preoccupation with individual rather team capability
Current State of Projects-Organisations

Neuroscience – for leadership
The brain’s primary function is to
keep us safe
People’s brains have developed
the need to be in good
relationships
The brain operates efficiently by
making patterns/maps
We are much less rational than
we think

The Teal Organisations – living entity
New Age
Laloux F., Reinventing Organizations,
Nelson Parker, 2014
Self-organising teams
No management authority
No job titles – fluid roles – no competition
Radically simplified PM – no project managers
Peer-based performance appraisal

INDIVIDUAL HUMAN ENTERPRISE
INITIATIVES ORANISATION DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT MULTI-DISCIPLINE ENGAGEMENT
COMMAND & CONTROL SELF-MANAGED TEAMS
PROCESS PRINCIPLES
MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP (brain tuned)
The PM Shift – fresh perspectives, beyond PM
Over 90% of defects belong to the system, not the individual
(Dr W. Edward Deming)

Building Enterprises for People

P3M Performance – a leadership issue

“Outside-In” Project Management
Project-aligned
BUSINESS MODEL
PM CODE OF
PRACTICE
AGILE TEAM
COACHING
SPECIALISED
LEADERSHIP
COACHING

Initiate a PM Shift in your organisation
Adopt an Organisational Project Management approach
Put down PM manuals – engage with new thinking and science
Start with Leadership
Conclusion

Trevor Band
Montydog Consulting: www.montydogconsulting.co.uk
Mobile 07752 482896
Email: tband@montydogconsulting.co.uk
OPM Blogsite: www.whereprojectsthrive.uk
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APM Updates
Martin Gosden:
Chairman of the SWWE Branch

Why is Project Management
Important?
 Projects continue to fail for the same
‘boringly repetitive reasons’
 Lower tolerance of failure,
 greater demand for transparency
and accountability
 Time for professionals to stand up
and be counted

Engage with
300,000 people
21567
members and
growing
567 corporate
members
Leading
member of the
IPMA
78,000 APM
qualified and
growing
250 events
nationally every
year
Educational
charity
Turnover
£7.0m
Preparing to
become a
chartered body
About APM

PM: a pan-sector international discipline

Achievement – Qualifications
Organisational
capability
Introductory
APMP (IPMA Level D)
Practitioner (IPMA Level C)
Certificated (IPMA Level B)
Knowledge
Competence
0 years 8 – 10 years
Registered Project Professional
Higher Apprenticeship in
project management

Accountability – membership
Project
management
professional
Student
Associate
Full member: MAPM
Fellow member: FAPM
Knowledge
Competence
0 years 8 – 10 years
Registered Project Professional

The benefits of PM professionalism
 Individually
– Recognition & Status
– Higher Salary
 Corporately
– Improved project delivery
– Improvement on bottom line
– Shareholder / tax payer confidence
 Socially
– Responsible use of public funds

21,567
individual
members
567 corporate
members
c.15,000 APM
qualifications
takers year to
date
Application for
Chartered
Status ongoing
Project
magazine re-
launched March
2015
Refreshed APM
Competence
Framework
Revised
Practitioner
Qualification
Award winning
association
Annual
conference held
on March 19th
APM Update

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