PMOs’ future in an agile environment

In many debates of agile versus traditional project management the parties design a horror picture of the counterparts. And it does not stop there. The fight reaches the structural cornerstones of what just starts to become an organizational standard. And that is a landscape of PMOs that stabilizes the world of projects in an enterprise environment and links this to the ongoing business and strategic management, i.e. clear governance structures as required by shareholders. Agile approaches migrate into this discussion. With success? Strengthening or weakening the ultimate interests of corporates? Let’s discuss and find a progress in our understanding of this fascinating topic.

• Roland Dumont du Voitel, is Managing Partner of amontis, an international network of entrepreneurial experts, and has a proven experience in the world of project as well as change management. He loves to search and debate for practical and excellent solutions. His background includes many years of strategy and business consulting and turnaround management of companies or larger projects that are in trouble. He enjoys transferring this background in training courses of project as well as change management. Roland has been a managing partner of several companies such as KPMG Management Consultants, Towers Perrin, and a President of companies in France. He studied engineering, business and social psychology and holds a doctoral degree of political sciences.

• Jean-Sébastien Servaye was hired as Chief Operation Officer at Centre Spatial de Liège 8 months ago. He will share with us how he went through the different steps in building a new PMO, from discovering the environment and the organisation’s strategy, to organising the teams, setting-up the priorities and choosing the tools to manage the project portfolio.

Agenda

18:30 - Registration and drink/sandwiches
19:00 - Opening speech. Presentation of HEC Liège, HEC Liège Executive School and Project and process management Academy – Pierre Bufferne
19:10 - Presentation of the PMI content, context and organisation
19:20 - Keynote Speaker: Dr Roland Dumont du Voitel – amontis - PMOs’ future in an agile environment
20:05 - Keynote Speaker : Jean-Sébastien Servaye - Centre Spatial de Liège - Building up a PMO
20:50 - PMI Belgium Chapter messages
21:00 - Networking, drink
22:00 - Closing

Location

HEC Liège Business School
14 rue Louvrex - 4000 Liège
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Access to the parking is Rue Saint-Gille (one way), after n°195. A flag is indicating the HEC Liège Business School

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