This document appears to be a presentation given by Sheilina Somani at the RICS & APM Project Leadership Conference on February 25th, 2014. The presentation discusses achieving objectives through leveraging people and technology on projects. It covers topics such as leadership in context, challenges of teamwork, using technology enablers, and providing a case study of migrating users to a new system while managing change. The presentation emphasizes that project management is about people management and engaging stakeholders to help ensure project success.

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Achieving objectives through people,
leveraging technology
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Leadership in context
Challenges of teamwork
Project Success
Technology enablers
Closing comments
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Project Management is People Management
Engagement
Communication
Risk management
Change management
Cost efficiencies
Adding value
Change control
Acceptance/usage
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Legacy System to replace
Fear of change
Existing user resistance
New way of working
Potential for upto 600 immediate users
EMEA wide requirement
External Development Company
Time zones to navigate (-6 to +6 GMT)
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Planning
Communication
Managing change
Resolving issues
Migration to Business as Usual (BAU)
Continual improvement
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Sponsorship of business need
Stakeholder engagement/involvement
Leverage of technology
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Forage for requirements
Select those you feel may be
valuable
Confirm which are most
compelling to your stakeholders
Create an appetite for success
Inspire a willingness to work
towards the shared goal
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Collect the stories
Understand the pain points
Dream of solutions
Identify life savers
Comfort items
Build with them (don’t wait for them to follow)
Actively manage change
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Corporate standards
Intellectual Property Rights
Data Protection Act
Secure storage/retrieval
Non Disclosure
agreements
Consistent use of
technology
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WWW
Email
WebEx (and similar)
Microsoft Office
JIRA
Skype (especially Video)
Cloud storage
Mobile devices
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Increased employee productivity and satisfaction
Reduced management complexity and costs
Simplified device ordering
Support for nonstandard requests with BYOD
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Benefits include:
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to
operate the familiar and that of the leader to
transcend it.
Henry A Kissinger
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collect and share the stories that have shaped your
community
bring your group's past, present and future to life
through storytelling
store and share text, audio files and videos
tag and organise the stories of your community, so
community members can easily search the collection
encourage community members to comment on
stories and engage with each other through them
collect new stories from anyone in the community, no
matter their location
control who has access to your community's story
collection.
http://www.zahmoo.com/
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Identify what a good sponsor
looks like
Agree behaviours
Meet before meetings
Meet after meetings
Share language/goals/vision
Use technology widely
Train and support users
Honesty/Integrity (… and Luck!)
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Over 600 concurrent users
Over 2 million page hits
Evolution of usage
Increased work satisfaction
New Requests
Existing teams in the UK
Canada
South America
Europe
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“It must be remembered that there is nothing
more difficult to plan, more doubtful of
success, nor more dangerous to manage than a
new system. For the initiator has the enmity of
all who would profit by the preservation of the
old institution and merely lukewarm defenders
in those who gain by the new ones. ”
Niccolò Machiavelli
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SheilinaSomani@gmail.com
+44 7897 333090
www.SheilinaSomani.com
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