“Why We Chose IIL”
Diane Taylor-Cummings, Head of Thomson Reuters’ Global Project Office
Osmo Härkönen, V.P. Group Quality at Wärtsilä Corporation
Frédéric Gourmet, Head of Tractebel Engineering School
Frank Ryle
Trainer
International Institute for Learning (IIL)
Giants’ Shoulders – Making Project Connections
All projects are a journey to towards a goal. All projects share the characteristics of being a temporary endeavor with a uniqueness of scope or environment that makes them very different from operations type work.
The temporariness of the project requires that we manage time – that valuable resource that will consume and surprise us if we don’t manage it well.
A project schedule is our representation of future time – or future memories – that we build together to provide us with confidence, guidance and measuring points along the journey.
A well-built schedule requires three key ingredients:
i) An agreed scope representing the requirements of the stakeholders
ii) Estimates of task durations by the performers
iii) Solid connections between the tasks – Dependencies and sequencing
This session and exercise will focus on that third element – the connections. It is no more or less important than the other two. However it does often provide an opportunity for conversations that can be referred to as ‘storming’ – in the Tuckman/Jensen model of Team Development (Forming/Storming/Norming/Performing/Adjourning).
The game is designed to provide an opportunity to practice and improve our ability to identify connections/ associations/links between famous individuals from the Arts, Science and
Craft worlds. We can use the same skill and ability to identify connections/ dependencies/ sequences between our project tasks.
BIO:
Frank has almost 20 years of experience in the construction and manufacturing industries, as well as ten years of practical project / program managementexperience throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, on projectsvarying from five people to 400 people and from $5 million to $1.2 billion. Since 2002, Frank has trained hundreds of project leaders on project management best practices
