Headline:  OSLO BRANCH - Lean Project Management - Crouch, Touch, Pause, ENGAGE!

Excerpt:  A Pracademic’s Reflections over Lean Thinking and Practice and its Application to Project Planning and Execution.

Description:

Crouch, Touch, Pause, ENGAGE! A Pracademic’s Reflections over Lean Thinking and Practice and its Application to Project Planning and Execution.

Welcome to PMI PUB in co-operation with WEBSTEP. This evening’s PUB-seminar will be in English.

Our speaker is Dr Daryl John Powell, Ph.D, who is an expert in lean thinking and practice. Daryl has almost two decades of experience from working in industry, including more than ten years involvement in developing and deploying company-specific lean programmes. He has both an MSc and a PhD in Lean. In 2016, Powell was recognized in The-LMJ.com’s Lean Top 25 as one of Europe’s leading lean practitioners. In 2017, he received the Shingo Research Award as co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Lean Management. On behalf of Kongsberg Maritime, he also received Lean Forum Norway’s Lean Company of the Year Award 2017 for efforts in establishing The KONGSBERG Way Corporate Lean Programme throughout the organization’s Subsea Division.

Lean thinking and practice has arguably become one of the most successful approaches to business improvement of our generation. It has outlasted many other improvement approaches and has been taken up by organizations in all kinds of industries across the world. In this engaging PMI pub session, Dr. Daryl Powell presents his reflections from over a decade of working with lean thinking and practice in a variety of industrial settings – as both a practitioner and academic. Drawing on his experiences from Lean Production and Lean Construction, and taking insight into Lean Software Development, Daryl will encourage participants to think and reflect over how Lean Thinking and Practice applies to Project Planning and Execution as an enabler of improved project delivery across many industries, in the IT as well as the traditional industry disciplines.

Webstep is our sponsor for this event. Section Director Hans Sigvart Hansen is responsible for their project management and test management departments. He will open the seminar with an introduction to the Webstep Group and give us an insight into the projects they are involved in. Webstep ASA and its subsidiaries in the Webstep Group are a high-end provider of IT consultancy services in Norway and Sweden. Since its incorporation in 2000, the Group has provided IT services designed to address its customers' software needs by creating functional custom-made digital tools and applications optimizing the customers' business strategies. Webstep aims to be at the forefront of the technological development and to assist its customers in their digitisation through the offering of cutting-edge IT expertise. Lean thinking in this setting is a forceful enabler to a competitive environment. Their core offering covers digitisation, cloud implementation, migration and integration, in addition to its other core focus areas Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning and analytics. The 400 employees are skilled senior consultants within IT and related disciplines. (http://www.webstep.com ).

The venue is WEBSTEPs office, Lilleakerveien 8, 0283 Oslo (buss no 23 or rail connection to Lysaker).

Refreshments will be served at 16.30.

PMI members, all project managers, and partner company employees are welcome. Registration via www.pmi-no.org. There is no charge for this event.

PDU: The seminar earns 2 PDUs to PMP maintenance, 2 for leadership in the talent triangle.