Explore PRINCE2 flexibility, tackling “impossible” constraints, and why principles matter more than templates and procedures.
Speaker
Donald Southy
Agenda
6:30pm - Refreshments and networking.
7:00pm – Presentation: Donald Southy.
8:00pm - Questions and answers.
9:00pm - Close.
Synopsis
What will this presentation cover?
- PRINCE-2 is more flexible than many organisations realise.
- How might you deliver a project with 'impossible' constraints?
- How principles matter much more than templates and procedures.
Who is this event aimed at?
The general public, BCS members, university, college and school students, local businesspeople and anyone interested in understanding project management.
About the speaker
Donald Southey is a Chartered Engineer and EURING with the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Early in his career he specialised in IT systems, providing business change consultancy within Rank Xerox as well as leading quality improvement projects. Later he was Quality Manager for two small engineering firms, and an IT standards consultant at BNFL Sellafield. He went on to serve in Computacenter and then Fujitsu UK - for 16 years in total - as an IT Project Manager (and once as a Quality Manager) for customers across nearly all commercial, industrial and government sectors. Until retirement he was a PRINCE-2 Registered Practitioner, bringing proven project-management discipline to complex ICT and business change projects.
For several years Donald was active as a schools’ STEM Ambassador - appearing as Sir Isaac Newton in classrooms and Science Fairs - helping to encourage young people into a technical career; and towards the end of his own career took up fiction writing as a hobby. He has written and published fifteen books to date, several of them drawing inspiration from his own experiences.
Donald has delivered talks on project management to professional audiences from BCS Young Members in London to Caixa Bank, Brazil, to the IITPSA and Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. His profile combines dedication to professionalism, competence and ethics in IT and related fields, with continued personal development, structured IT project management, quality assurance, business continuity, creative writing, internationalism, and a desire to encourage the next generation of technologists.
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