Author :   Stefan Vesenmeier, PMP ;    VP Event  -  PMI Switzerland Chapter

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” Confucius

I am very happy and proud to present our new event format "Virtual Workshops" today.

Usual virtual events and webinars are good ways to convey and pass on theoretical knowledge and experiences, but as Confucius teaches us in his quote, only when we do something hands-on, we do understand it.

And this is exactly what we target with our new virtual workshop series. Despite the fact that social distancing restricts in-person interactions, we would like to offer practical and interactive home learning experiences.

So we develop our workshop series with the following four cornerstones in mind:

• All workshops are led by professional and experienced trainers.
• Due to the personal interaction between the participants among themselves and/or with the trainer / facilitator, only a limited number of participants are allowed.
• Offer the workshops for our members at very reasonable and fair conditions.
• And - the workshops are supposed to be fun.

The kick-off of our Virtual Workshop series will be on August 26th with an interactive "LEGO Serious Play" workshop. Two experienced trainers Jens Dröge and Rolf Bielser will guide the participants to think and solve problems with the LEGO bricks in a professional environment. Two actual issues will serve as exemplary scenarios:

1. The working environment after Covid-19

2. What’s required by today’s virtual leader

Are you curious? Please find here the details of the workshop:  https://lego-online.eventbrite.ch

For the second Virtual Workshop on 15^th of September we are happy to win over again Peter Taylor, who will introduce us to the paradigm shift from traditional Project Management to ‘Social Project Management’. Social Project Management is about people; it empowers people to engage in the project management process. Peter will show what the benefits are, as well as the challenges and opportunities.

Please find more about the workshop here:  https://social-project-management.eventbrite.ch 

We hope our new workshop offering meets the interest and needs of our members and all people who are working in Project Management. As we believe to continues improvement, we are grateful for all feedback you might have to understand not only what we are doing well - but also what we could improve. So please tell us what you think.

Finally, I would like to thank our Virtual Events Team for making the Virtual Workshop Series happen

Regards,

Stefan Vesenmeier

VP Events, PMI Switzerland

Author: Adi Muslic, PMP

Disciplined Agile (DA) has been fairly unknown so far in Switzerland. Just the fact that this is now PMI’s Disciplined Agile made it much better known. Sometime in April, I decided to look into it a bit deeper.
There have been many online events introducing DA to the wider public. I attended several of them and started digging into available online resources. Day by day, I have been more and more convinced that DA aligns well with my experience, especially with complex, cross-functional projects and projects delivering solutions to customers.

I see business agility as the flexibility to react quickly to changes affecting the business results. So the level of business agility may determine whether a company survives or not a sudden unpredictable change.

PMI recognizes that traditional structures and working practices may not always offer the level of flexibility now needed. PMI believes The Disciplined Agile Toolkit should enable businesses to find their way to overcome the new challenges.

To start with, The Disciplined Agile Toolkit is not a framework. It combines the world’s leading agile and lean practices and strategies (e.g. DevOps, Scrum, XP, SAFe, Kanban) and provides advice for when and how to apply them together. It gives you an opportunity to select the most appropriate way of working for you, your team and your organisation.

Another difference between the Disciplined Agile toolkit, and other frameworks, is that DA has always recognized fully distributed teams as one of the options that may be chosen from, or a reality of, how organizations are arranged.

It’s also about continuous improvement, and in DA there is a technique called guided continuous improvement (GCI). Running small, “safe to fail” experiments technique will work well in many situations and business effectiveness will rise faster due to more successful experiments.

Clearly, there are many similarities with existing agile frameworks. However, DA is not competing with them. It is a complimentary toolkit. It presents a bigger picture of all agile practices and strategies because it combines all the good practices and puts it into the toolkit for our benefit. So from a content perspective, DA certainly has a positive future.

WIth PMI, and everybody knows PMI, there is going to be a significant investment in promoting and improving further DA. So there will definitely be a much bigger presence in the project management industry in coming years. It is time to get on board and make the future agile.

Best regards,

Adi

 Author: Geetanjali Bhat PMP

Dear members and newsletter subscribers,

Beautiful Sunshine and Bright Skies this month, has a special message for all of us giving us more hope and courage to face the challenging times. We are able to se a great sign through hopes and smiles spread across the country. People working hard to bring back the cheerful times that we have cherished and rejoiced so far. I am certain about challenging times transforming into good times soon.

PMI Switzerland Chapter is actively working towards ground-breaking changes and setting new paths.  Online Events launched in March2020, continue to make it a successful breakthrough through varied subjects like “Achieving Discipline in Agile”, “Open Spaces”. With great subject matter expertise, PMI has been ensuring latest contents in tough times through insightful events.

Members or Non-Members participating Online events had insightful takeaways from those sessions. It’s great to see that we were able to put PMI’s structures and processes today in these challenging times into practice. With successful PMI online coffee meets and online events, I am sure there is no stopping us into learning and growing more. Change has definitely brought a newer paths and goals in all our lives.

I would like to ask you all to Stay Safe and Healthy. Let’s all think positive and keep learning ensuring for better tomorrow.

Wishing all of you Stay Safe and Healthy!

Cheers!

Geetanjali Bhat

Dear Project Management enthusiasts,

Do you want to learn more about Social Project Management? Are you wondering what exactly Social Project Management is? In this case, please register for the following 3h online workshop with Peter Taylor on 15th September which is published on our webpage www.pmi-switzerland.ch/events.

Social Project Management 

A project is a temporary endeavour where people come together to work towards a common

goal and purpose; it is therefore a temporary endeavour that must rely on a social system of

communication and collaboration in order to succeed.

Social project management is a non-traditional way of organising projects and managing

project performance and progress aimed at delivering, at the enterprise level, a common

goal for the business but harnessing the performance advantages of a collaborative Community.

There is a paradigm shift ongoing in many organisations that is about finding a practical

balance between the challenges to traditional project management made by Project

Management 2.0 - which encouraged a move away from centralised control of projects and

instead promoted the value of team collaboration – and the practical recognition that large

scale projects do require a stronger form of centralised control and governance.

Who should attend?

The remote workshop is directed at anyone leading projects or leads a community of project

managers, and who are keen to understand, and be prepared for, the transformation

towards Social Project Management.

Benefits

You will learn about the paradigm shift to ‘Social Project Management’ and what the benefits

are, as well as the challenges and opportunities.

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Clearly describe the Project Management 2.0 world and the progression towards Social Project Management
• Understand the benefits of a decentralised and collaborative project world
• Appreciate what a project manager needs to understand about harnessing this social world and what the obstacles can potentially be, and how to overcome them
• To have ‘top ten’ list of things to do and to avoid when taking your project team ‘social’

About the speaker - Peter Taylor

An experienced Change and Transformation Specialist who has operated at a global scale within many industries, for organisations ranging from small to enterprise.

Peter is the author of the number 1 bestselling project management book ‘The Lazy Project Manager’, along with many other books on Project Management, PMO development, Executive Sponsorship, Transformation Leadership, and Speaking Skills.

He has delivered over 380 lectures around the world in over 25 countries and has been described as ‘perhaps the most entertaining and inspiring speaker in the project management world today’.

www.thelazyprojectmanager.com

www.thepmtribe.com