Virtual Chapter Meeting

Power Skills

Important Note: If you are a PMI member from another chapter, please register as a non-chapter member for this event and self-report your PDU credit. Also remember to use the same full name and email ID used for PMI membership.

Registration will be closed 3 hours before the event starts. A meeting link will be sent out before start time to the email address entered at the time of registration. 

Virtual Event Price: $10 for members and $15 for non-members.

Program


We will open at 5:45 PM; virtual attendees will have the opportunity to network on the Zoom amongst themselves.

5:45 – 6:15 pm : Virtual Networking

6:15 – 6:30 pm : Message from our Chapter President & Chapter Updates (0.5 PDU Leadership)

6:30 – 7:30 pm : Project Management using Hybrid Project Delivery (1 PDU Technical)

 

Project Management using Hybrid Project Delivery

Hybrid Project Management delivery approaches refer to the use of both conventional (stage gate, plan then execute project delivery) with agile delivery methodologies. The notion is to combine the strengths of each delivery process and match these strengths to the situation or situations.

The situations can occur on a given project. For example, a large and complex project being delivered using stage gate (e.g., plan-driven, waterfall) methodology may have situations wherein a form of agile would be advantageous. M&M has been using Hybrid Project / Construction Management for years. For example, stage gate is appropriate for the project as a whole while agile (typically Incremental Life Cycle – see PMI Agile Practice Guide) can be used for specific situations.

These situations include complex change orders or preparation of a significant construction claim. Hybrid Project / Construction Management is widely forecasted as being a trend for the future. This presentation will address the mixture of delivery approaches with project controls options that are appropriate for the selected delivery. The presenters have stage gate, agile / SCRUM (and similar), Advanced Work Packaging, Lean Construction and other experiences. Examples and case studies will be used for context.

 Learning Objectives:

  • Learn how to mix project delivery methodology in accordaned with PMBOK rev7
  • Learn project controls in hybrid environment
  • Learn situations wherein Predictive and/or Reactive would be appropriate

 

Speakers:

George Mclaughlin

Mr. McLaughlin is a principal in McLaughlin and McLaughlin, an international project planning and management consulting firm. He provides Program and Project Management as well as Dispute Resolution (Claim Preparation, Litigation Support and Testimony) and other similar services. He provides domestic and international clients with project planning and management services and advice. He provides training and workshops on a worldwide basis on topics that include planning and management of large and complex projects.

Mr. McLaughlin has been Program or Project Manager on greater than 20 large and complex projects. These include: Hydrogen Plant, Sulphur Recovery Plant, Data Center Program, Refinery Retrofit and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing. During this same period, he has project managed and technical managed seven major disputes with total value of approximately $600 million. In his career he has testified as an expert 17 times. He has provided services in the following project types: Oil Sands Downstream/Upgrading, Carbon Monoxide Plant, Ethanol Production, LNG Terminal / Production, Desulphurization, Power Generation (gas fired, geothermal, biomass), Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Hot Briquetting Iron, Piping Manufacturing and others.

 

Daniel Meacham (BCompSci, PMP, CSM, CSPO, SAFe RTE)

Daniel is Sr. Engineering Manager for Charles Schwab. In this role, he works in the Artificial Intelligent space focusing on conversational design for Charles Schwab and leads the conversational chatbot engineering teams that launched and develop the Intelligent Assistant.

For the past 15 years, Daniel has been building and developing high performing engineering teams for a variety of company sizes, including corporate, SMBs and startups. His work background and experience has given him the opportunity to work in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa where he learned to become a student of human nature, communication and productivity.

Daniel has a unique perspective on Agile, preferring to take organizations maturity level into consideration using hybrid methodologies to address the growing pains of agile transformation and allow for organic growth. After all, in the same fashion that we iterate and experiment on deliverables in Agile, doesn’t it make sense for us to take a similar approach with our methodology adoption?

He is also a fan of scaled agile frameworks, which can map organizational objectives and value streams to SCRUM, Kanban, water-scrum-fall or other agile methodologies.

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Information

Type of category: Chapter Meeting

Type of activity: Power Skills, Ways of Working

Date: April 26th, 2022

Hour: 17:45 to 19:30

Number of PDUs: 1

Price

Members:$10.00

Non-Members:$15.00

Location