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Report from happy projects 2008 in Vienna
Reported by Martina Huemann in Austria
From May 29th to 30th 2008 Vienna hosted happy project's 08 (former pm days) - the annual international conference organized by ROLAND GAREIS CONSULTING (RGC) and PROJECT MANAGEMENT GROUP (PMG), WU-Wien. About 300 PM experts and students were present when Roland Gareis (A) opened the conference with a presentation on Sales Processes and Sales Projects. His presentation and the keynote of the marketing expert, Barbara Stöttinger (A), professor for international marketing at WU-Wien provided the framework for happy projects'08: PROJECTS & SALES.
Speakers from well-known national and international organizations and universities delivered presentations, case studies, workshops, and panel discussions about this year’s topics:
As a plenary keynote the international student paper award winner Barry Rodgers (F), ESC Lille gave a presentation on his winning paper "Selling a PMO to Management as a Centralized Repository of Project Expertise".
During the two conference days there were many very interesting presentations, split into two practitioners streams and a researcher stream. To just briefly mention a few presenters in the practitioners stream: Francis Hartman, Quality Enhanced Decisions,(CAN) showed how project success should be sold with mind and heart. Mary McKinlay, Mary Mc Kinlay Projects Ltd. (UK) talked about the sales tasks of the project owner and the project manager. Mark Engelhardt, PMI Chapter Austria (A) presented the challenges of selling projects overseas. Pau Lian Staal-Ong, (NL) a project and quality manager from AT Osborne reported on the project marketing of the new north south metro line in historic Amsterdam and gave insights in marketing tools and techniques applied in this amazing case study. In the research stream Pernille Eskerod, South Denmark Business School (DK) gave insights on the project manager as a project marketer, and Dov Dvir, Ben Gurion University (Israel) talked about the future of project management research.
In parallel to the presentations, several workshops took place. In the workshop held by Dagmar Zuchi, RGC and Brigitte Sachs-Schaffer (A) the workshop participants tried out a systemic constellation to analyze a project team conflict. One traditional highlight of happy projects conference is the panel discussion of four well known professors on an interesting topic. This year Roland Gareis invited Rodney Turner, University of Limerick (IR), Christophe Bredillet, ESC Lille (F), and Lynn Crawford, Bond University (AUS) to report on their sales success and sales flops. As usual the audience was listing with a lot of smiles to the professor's panel.
At the evening of the first conference day the audience enjoyed a clubbing event in the Tech Gate sky scarper with good music and a wonderful view on Vienna.
The next day Franz Vieböck, the former Austrian cosmonaut, and now CEO of Berndorf AG gave a keynote about, how he sold project management to his organization and supported the change to a project-oriented company.
The final keynote was held by the very enthusiastic project manager Heinz Palme who provided an insight in the organization and the selling of the UEFA EURO 2008, organized in Austria and Switzerland (www.euro2008.uefa.com).
We had some wonderful days here in Vienna, a high quality program and lots of fun! The next happy projects'09 will be held on June 4th – 5th, 2009 on the topic "PROJECTS & CHANGE (again)".
Further information soon on www.happyprojects.at.
From May 29th to 30th 2008 Vienna hosted happy project's 08 (former pm days) - the annual international conference organized by ROLAND GAREIS CONSULTING (RGC) and PROJECT MANAGEMENT GROUP (PMG), WU-Wien. About 300 PM experts and students were present when Roland Gareis (A) opened the conference with a presentation on Sales Processes and Sales Projects. His presentation and the keynote of the marketing expert, Barbara Stöttinger (A), professor for international marketing at WU-Wien provided the framework for happy projects'08: PROJECTS & SALES.
Speakers from well-known national and international organizations and universities delivered presentations, case studies, workshops, and panel discussions about this year’s topics:
- Sales processes and methods
- Sales projects and programs
- Sales tasks of project owner teams and project managers
- "Selling" project, program and project portfolio management
As a plenary keynote the international student paper award winner Barry Rodgers (F), ESC Lille gave a presentation on his winning paper "Selling a PMO to Management as a Centralized Repository of Project Expertise".
During the two conference days there were many very interesting presentations, split into two practitioners streams and a researcher stream. To just briefly mention a few presenters in the practitioners stream: Francis Hartman, Quality Enhanced Decisions,(CAN) showed how project success should be sold with mind and heart. Mary McKinlay, Mary Mc Kinlay Projects Ltd. (UK) talked about the sales tasks of the project owner and the project manager. Mark Engelhardt, PMI Chapter Austria (A) presented the challenges of selling projects overseas. Pau Lian Staal-Ong, (NL) a project and quality manager from AT Osborne reported on the project marketing of the new north south metro line in historic Amsterdam and gave insights in marketing tools and techniques applied in this amazing case study. In the research stream Pernille Eskerod, South Denmark Business School (DK) gave insights on the project manager as a project marketer, and Dov Dvir, Ben Gurion University (Israel) talked about the future of project management research.
In parallel to the presentations, several workshops took place. In the workshop held by Dagmar Zuchi, RGC and Brigitte Sachs-Schaffer (A) the workshop participants tried out a systemic constellation to analyze a project team conflict. One traditional highlight of happy projects conference is the panel discussion of four well known professors on an interesting topic. This year Roland Gareis invited Rodney Turner, University of Limerick (IR), Christophe Bredillet, ESC Lille (F), and Lynn Crawford, Bond University (AUS) to report on their sales success and sales flops. As usual the audience was listing with a lot of smiles to the professor's panel.
At the evening of the first conference day the audience enjoyed a clubbing event in the Tech Gate sky scarper with good music and a wonderful view on Vienna.
The next day Franz Vieböck, the former Austrian cosmonaut, and now CEO of Berndorf AG gave a keynote about, how he sold project management to his organization and supported the change to a project-oriented company.
The final keynote was held by the very enthusiastic project manager Heinz Palme who provided an insight in the organization and the selling of the UEFA EURO 2008, organized in Austria and Switzerland (www.euro2008.uefa.com).
We had some wonderful days here in Vienna, a high quality program and lots of fun! The next happy projects'09 will be held on June 4th – 5th, 2009 on the topic "PROJECTS & CHANGE (again)".
Further information soon on www.happyprojects.at.
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