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Vol. XII Issue III - March 2010
Project Management eJournal
REGIONAL REPORT:
Project Management Update from East Midlands
By Philip Smelt
International Correspondent for PMForum
& PM World Today
Lincolnshire, UK
Introduction
Welcome to this my second PM update for PM World Today, with your help I intend to provide details of Project Management news and events around the East Midlands of interest to all. So please get in touch with any Project related information.
Someone once said ‘we live in exciting times’; well they don’t get more ‘exciting’ than when the purse strings are constantly being drawn in. What this has meant for projects regionally is a re-focus, a re-prioritization, with some tough decisions having to have be made. i.e. Just what is it we can’t not afford to do? The impact of this re-prioritization has yet to be fully understood as the region’s public sector senior management teams re-assess the hundreds of programmes and projects that make up their business plans. Inevitably the private sector will be impacted upon too, as the region’s IT companies, constructors and consultancies in turn have found programme and project work harder to find.
However, all is not doom and gloom and at the end of the day there is a certain rationale here that perhaps should always have been in play. Why are we really doing this project? Does this represent the best use of (public) funding? Are these identified benefits real? For some of us this is leading to a new way of working, new reporting approaches, tighter controls, greater transparency. Exciting times indeed; and I believe that times like these can only lead to one end, a greater level of professionalism within programme and project management. Thank you Darwin.
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About the Author Philip Smelt International Correspondent - UK
Philip Smelt, B.Sc.(Hons.), M.Phil., MAPM works at Lincolnshire County Council (England’s 4th largest County) as a Project Manager within their new Programme Centre. Philip began his career as a research chemist for the Ministry of Defence at the Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down; studying gas adsorption on novel polymeric materials, research that resulted in an M.Phil. Philip has traveled the globe whilst working on projects in the scientific instrumentation industry, including 5 years in the Former Soviet Union at the time of Perestroika and Glasnost. His work involved the commissioning of multi-million pound state of the art Surface Science Instrumentation. Philip also held the post of Innovation & Technology Counsellor for Humberside's new Business Links where he managed a portfolio of 200 companies, providing solutions and advice utilizing schemes and initiatives delivered through the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry and European Commission. For a Westland Helicopters Computer Based Training sub-contractor, he led a team of courseware designers, authors, graphics artists and application software engineers in the production of multi-screen Computer Aided Instruction and Emulation Systems. He has also worked for several overseas Navies and delivered multi-million pound control room projects for a ‘bluelight’ company specializing in Integrated Communications Control Systems. As a Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner and Management of Risk (M_O_R) Practitioner, Philip has broad private and public sector exposure. Philip also possesses a Post-graduate Certificate in Systems Thinking and a Post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies, both from the University of Lincoln. He has been a member of the Association for Project Management (APM) since 2005 and Chairman of APM’s Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire branch since 2008. Philip is also an Associate Consultant for Cogenic Ltd., www.cogenic.co.uk a UK consultancy that specializes in helping organizations implement strategy, reduce wasted resources and effort, and increase return on investments. Philip can be contacted at project_prince@hotmail.com. |
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