PMI® SeminarWorld Copenhagen 2024

AI research describes the problem of aligning AI to human needs as “the alignment problem”. But alignment problems concern human organizations too. Command and control produces alignment but dramatically increases costs of change and adaptation.

Agile and Lean can reduce those costs at a team level but escalate the problem of alignment to groups of teams. "Scaling" frameworks applied command and control to these groups, but has only succeeded in producing an "Agile" bureaucracy. So the growing Descaling movement offers a new paradigm based on results in game-theory, military "mission command", and the Permaculture principles.

Descaling has become relevant at a team level too due to this year's step-change in AI capabilities, which renders popular team-level Agile models like XP and Scrum largely obsolete.

Gain insights into:

• Team-level autonomy pattern language, called “GPTOps”, that combines XSCALE’s “Leadership as a Service” patterns with Mob-Programming and GPT.
• How ESCALE’s “Camelot Model” works to align these autonomous teams with AI driver at all levels of an organization.
• Alignment of multiple AI agents with individuals, teams, organizations, and each other.

Who is the speaker?

Peter Merel was credited in the first agile book and created the first agile training games which he ran as a keynote at the first agile conference (XP2K). He has coached transformations at GMAC and Websense in the US, and Insurance Australia Group, Commonwealth Bank Group, and Ray White Realty in Australia.

In 2015 Peter founded the XSCALE Alliance. Gartner recognized him as XSCALE's methodologist in its Market Guide to Enterprise Agility, and XSCALE coaches in a dozen world capitals are bringing it into banks, insurance, health corps, and telcos.

How can organizations maximise the value of their investment in change?

This presentation will explore the practical aspects of designing, implementing and embedding a benefits driven change approach. It is of interest in business professional with a vested interest in ensuring that their organization delivers the intended value from its change.

Gain insights into: 

• How to maxmise value of investment in change.
• How to ensure the intended value from a organizational change.

Who is the speaker?

Peter Glynne is Director of Consulting for Auxilion, a leading professional services organisation in Ireland with over 25 years experience implementing complex change programmes.He is also the incoming president of the Ireland Chapter of PMI and author of the book “Benefits Driven Change”.

Elevate your Project Management Skills today

By 2030, project management will likely be a fusion of advanced technology and enhanced human-centric approaches. While digital tools will amplify efficiency and foresight, the crux of successful projects will still hinge on effective human collaboration, adaptability, and ethical considerations. The PMs of the future will be visionaries, equally comfortable in navigating the digital realm as they are in fostering genuine human connections.

Join one of our emagine PM thought leaders, Peter Ryan, where he will delve deeper into the prospective landscape of project management in 2030, shedding light on the key skills and trends that may shape its future and every industry.

Gain insights into:

• Understand the immense and exciting project challenges ahead
• Understand the technical disruptors that will cause risk and opportunity
• Equip yourself to be a NextGen PM - value driven and people focused

Who is the speaker?

Peter Ryan – emagine consulting director with 25 years in PM and client business transformation. Peter, a 4-year Director in the PMI, is a regular speaker at PM symposia. Peter is MD of emagine Netherlands.

Learn about agile portfolio management, which is becoming increasingly important as organizations adopt agile working methods.

This session covers the breadth of agile portfolio management, from fully planned to completely discovery-based approaches.

Henny Portman, one of the authors of Agile Portfolio Management – The Bridge to Strategic agility (together with Rini van Solingen), explores ten focus areas to enhance portfolio management agility. By transitioning towards more discovery-based practices, strategic choices can be made in the portfolio more effectively, earlier, and with greater flexibility.

Who is the speaker? 

Henny Portman, owner of Portman PM[O] Consultancy, has 40 years’ experience in the project management domain. He was the project management office (PMO) thought leader within the NN Group and responsible for the introduction and application of the PMO methodologies (for portfolio, programme, and project management) across Europe and Asia.

He trains, coaches, and directs (senior) programme, project, and portfolio managers and project sponsors at all levels, and has created several professional PMO communities.

He is an accredited P3O®, PRINCE2®, MSP®, MoP®, PRINCE2 Agile®, AgilePM®, AgilePgM®, and AgileSHIFT® trainer, as well as an SPC4 SAFe® consultant trainer.

He is a P3M3® trainer and assessor, and a PMO Value Ring certified consultant. On behalf of the International Project Management Association (IPMA), he assesses large and mega projects for the Project Excellence Award.

In addition, Henny is an international speaker, and author of many articles and books in the PM(O) field.

With cyber-crime on the rise and new threats constantly emerging, it can seem difficult or even impossible to manage cyber-risks. ISO/IEC 27001 is the world's best-known standard for information security management systems (ISMS). 

This presentation will guide us through the latest international cybersecurity standards and elucidate their significance in shaping organizational security strategies.

Delving into the intricacies of the ISO/IEC 27001 requirement standard, along with its accompanying guidelines on controls (27002) and risk management (27005), this presentation promises a deep dive into the core of modern security practices.4

Gain insights into: 

• The latest international cybersecurity standards.
• Exploring the vital link between cybersecurity and project management.
• Risks and making informed decisions regarding suitable security measures.

Who is the speaker? 

Anders Linde, owner of the company CISO27, has more than 12 years of experience in advising on information security and privacy considerations within organizations.

Anders is a member of the Cyber and Information Security committee (S-441) at Dansk Standard, participating in the European and international development of standards for Privacy and Information Security.

To enhance the pace of any organization, empowering the workforce to make decisions autonomously is imperative.

In this presentation, Brian Tucker, Principal Consultant at Ivar Jacobson International and SAFe Fellow, looks at the essence of enabling Decentralized Decision Making and its operational dynamics.

In a network-based organization where the teams are fluidly evolving the concepts of center and edge are very different from what people may be traditionally used to, people that previously thought themselves central may now find themselves at the edges.

Gain insights into: 

• Empowering Workforce for Decentralized Decision Making
• Evolving in Center and Edge Dynamics in Network-Based Organizations

Who is the speaker? 

Brian Tucker was the first trainer in Europe outside of the Scaled Agile Academy to qualify as a SAFe® Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) having worked with the framework since its initial inception almost fifteen years ago.

Brian regularly delivers the SAFe Program Consultant training and has delivered it well over a hundred times in the last 9 years; more than anyone else in the world. He has been involved in SAFe implementations at numerous companies across Europe including hybris, PZU, Ford, Nordea, NHS Blood & Transplants, Deutsche Bank, Etihad Airlines, Sony Playstation and LV Insurance.

Brian Tucker is a highly proficient Agile and Scrum coach and trainer with extensive management experience in both corporate and small company situations, backed up with 11 years of software development experience.

Project portfolio management (PPM) has since the 1950s offered principles helping us to act in PPM-related situations.

In this study, the author(s) consolidated the knowledge accumulated over seven decades of PPM research.

By reviewing this extensive body of work, they have identified 17 PPM principles grouped into four distinct categories. These principles have significantly shaped how organizations understand PPM.

To facilitate practical implementation, they developed a framework that allows organizations to evaluate their adherence to these 17 PPM principles. This framework serves as a valuable tool for organizations, enabling them to identify areas where improvements can be made, thereby enhancing their PPM practices.

Additionally, the authors critically examine the limitations of the identified principles and their underlying assumptions.

Recognizing the evolving needs of future organizations, they propose a pathway for the development of new PPM principles. This path aims to ensure that PPM principles remain relevant and effective in meeting the demands of organizations in the future.

As a result of this research, the authors of this PMJ article contributed to the advancement of PPM knowledge and provide practitioners with practical insights that can be applied in real-world contexts. These findings and framework serve as valuable resources for practitioners in their pursuit of successful project portfolio management.

Gain insights into: 

• Defining Project Portfolio Management (PPM).
• Identifying the 17 PPM principles.
• The four categories of PPM principles.
• Assessing their organization's adherence to PPM principles.
• Exploring the underlying assumptions and limitations of current PPM principles.

Who is the speaker? 

Lars Kristian Hansen is an assistant professor in the Department of Management, Aarhus University in Denmark.

Lars is working on rethinking project portfolio management; this involves data collection in multiple organizations and a comprehensive review of the literature.

Lars has more than five years of experience with IT project and project portfolio management in practice. Lars holds a PhD in portfolio management of IT projects from Aalborg University.

Volatile uncertain and often unpredictable Market conditions over the last 2-3 years have demanded unprecedented levels of adaptability within and between organizations.

Especially a more agile collaboration between companies or even new collaborations models such as ecosystems are about to become the next stage of business agility and offer an even bigger impact for our business the environment and society.

Expect a thought-provoking session with 7 leading examples such as Tesla from private and public sector all around the world. Beside Tesla you'll also learn from the world leading - a 70 years old - appliances company with more than 80,000 employees how they went through their 4th big transformation ending up in over 4,000 cross-company micro-enterprises. 

Who is the speaker?  

Mirko Kleiner, a seasoned thought leader and practitioner, initiated a global movement in Lean-Agile Procurement seven years ago.

He's also a serial entrepreneur who founded the Lean-Agile Procurement Alliance - The Global Certification Body, y-o.blue and co-founded flowdays.net, an Agile consultancy in Switzerland and Germany.

Through his dynamic leadership, consulting, and speaking engagements, Mirko continues to inspire professionals and organizations worldwide to embrace agility, innovation, and adaptive practices to help them achieve greater impact, faster together. 

During his session, James will discuss the fundamentals of Generative AI, how it is being used to augment human tasks today, and its expected future use.

We will also dive into what makes a good prompt to elicit the best response from tools like ChatGPT, and deliberate ethical challenges for this rapidly growing technology 

Who is the speaker?  

James Varnham has spent his career in the training and professional certification industry within the IT sector and has filled increasingly senior international roles across the eco-system of training delivery, certification bodies, publishers as well as international standardization of competency frameworks and consultancy of academic driven world bank funded projects. 

 In his current role as Executive Vice President of United States based Logical Operations, he leads the organizations global revenue operations.

His team of Education Consultants support an international channel of over 3000 delivery partners who rely on Logical Operations professional courseware to deliver qualitive, engaging and up to date live or virtual instructor led events for professionals needing to upskill or reskill across a broad portfolio of technologies. 

He is also heavily engaged in sister company, CertNexus; a leading global certification body who provides ANAB/ANSI accredited vendor neutral emerging technology micro-credentials and certifications.” 

Find out how to think differently about your project to increase success as well as contributing to a more sustainable future.

Combined with an introduction to practical techniques for systems thinking on projects, you will discover how to unlock your skills to take a leading role in delivering more sustainable outcomes for people and the environment.  

Gain insights into:  

• How sustainability can increase project success  
• Techniques for systems thinking on projects  
• Developing a mindset for Responsible Project Management  

Who is the speaker? 

Karen Thompson is co-founder of Responsible Project Management and an award-winning project management educator and researcher. 

With Fellowships from the Schumacher Institute, the Association for Project Management, the Higher Education Academy, and a PhD from Bournemouth University, Karen is also a member of the committee developing a new British Standard for Project Controls, and a member of the PMI Curriculum Review Committee. 

Her first career was in information systems and technology. 

In today's digital world almost all modern business processes consist of large amounts of data.

We, therefore, all have an important role in keeping the data of our company, customers and society secure. It is essential that when we drive projects to develop new products, ways of working, or engage with new suppliers, integrate security considerations from the very beginning.

This may sound like a straightforward approach but is easier said than done and many project managers have experienced and understand how difficult it can be to outline requirements for specific, timely and appropriate security measures.  

Join this session to learn more about developing a holistic view on security in project management. 

Gain valuble insights on: 

• Why you should consider security in all your projects 
• How to integrate security in the project lifecycle 
• Key focus areas within security in your project management 

Who is the speaker? 

Trine Øksnebjerg is the Business Unit Director for Security and Resilience at emagine Denmark.

She helps clients improve their risk posture across processes, technology, and personnel.

Prior to her role in consultancy, Trine has had two decades of service in the Danish armed forces and the Danish police. During this time, she held senior positions with extensive portfolios, demonstrating a unique blend of experience across business development and operations and a profound understanding of organizational dynamics.

Her contribution to the industry underlines her position as a key player in driving success and fortifying organizations against potential risks.

Ultimately, Trine is a trusted advisor for anyone seeking to navigate the complex landscape of security and resilience. 

Get inspiration for how the effective Steering committee works, how to ensure progress in projects and the role and responsibilities of the steering committee members.

This is complemented by examples and best practice experiences. In addition, the focus will be on challenges and areas that steering committee members often must deal with. 

Gain insights into: 

• The most important tasks for the members of a Steering Committee 
• The usual challenges and issues in context of a Steering Committee 
• Recommendations on how to create an effective Steering Committee 

Who is the speaker? 

Henrik Timm is Business Unit Director in emagine, and co-author of the Danish book "Projektets styregruppe” (The Steering Committee of the project).

Henrik has worked in projects for more than 25 years as a consultant, senior project manager, program manager, advisor, and coach. Henrik is an assessor within the framework of IPMA and the new hybrid project methodology called Half Double.