Project Management Update from France

Emmanuel Laffineur
Author
International Correspondent
Lille, France

Emmanuel Laffineur is an International Correspondent for PMForum and PM World Today in France. He also holds a management position at ISTYA, a Belgian Project Management Consultancy and Training Company. A graduate from the Msc. in Project and Programme Management at ESC Lille, Emmanuel LAFFINEUR is also a PRINCE2™ Approved Trainer, an MSP™ Registered Practitioner, and is P2M certified. A former lawyer, Emmanuel began his career as the manager of a litigation department in a French loan company in the 1990’s. Quickly he was involved in project management (activity development, IT,…) as a project board team member and as a project manager. Definitely attracted by the world of projects and its various points of interests, he finally left the legal field for project management as his main activity. Emmanuel is a senior trainer and consultant, and has contributed for more than ten years to the success of various projects in different sectors, including IT, Investment Banking and Logistics. Thus, he was involved in a major French investment bank on IT projects as a lead planner, to create and implement an earned value analysis tool, and development of a risk management process along with the supporting tools. More recently Mr. Laffineur has trained a team of project managers of the French Ministry of Budget, Public Accounts and Civil Service, to the first use of PRINCE2™ in French public services. He has also assisted its Methodology department to deploy PRINCE2™ as the standard PM method of the General Directorate for State Modernization. He is actively involved with companies of both public and private sector in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Slovakia. Emmanuel Laffineur lives in Lille, France and can be contacted at emmanuel.laffineur@istya.fr..