The Story of Responsible Project Management (contd.)
January 2023, bedfordshire (online)
For project management students in Bedfordshire UK and the Caribbean we collaborated with Richard Ogston at the University of Bedfordshire to share our thoughts on ‘Re-wiring Project Management for Sustainability’ in an interactive online session.
Southampton MBA students
march 2023, southampton
MBA students at Southampton Business School used the ‘Marshmallow Challenge’ to discover key aspects of collaboration.
Armourers’ Hall, London
march 2023, london
Back at the awesome Armourers’ Hall for RPM Ambassador Steve Wake’s celebration of being awarded the Freedom of the City of London. Great to catch up with Professor Andrew Edkins, who has inspired and supported RPM from the beginning, and Carole Still, International Educator, UN Executive Coach, and member of the Worshipful Company of Educators.
MARCH 2023, UK (ONLINE)
British Computer Society Spring School
We were delighted that BCS selected Responsible Project Management as the theme of their Spring School this year. With sessions led by Karen, RPM Ambassador Brendan D’Cruz, and Nigel, all four workshops were recorded and you can find them on the BCS website here: BCS Spring School
March-April 2023, online
The launch of The RPM Studio and our project partnership with the Schumacher Institute. Our first public course - Re-wiring Project Management Education for Sustainability - was successfully completed over four online evening sessions, yay. There was great engagement and contributions from all our participants and the RPM Ambassadors who were able to join us.
may-june 2023, online
Our second public course successfully completed was Sustainability Mind Shift for Projects and the feedback was uplifting.
“Many thanks for presenting such an energetic course that should be mandatory for all project managers.” (Sandro Quattrocchi MSc, PMP, MPM)
“I loved the small engaged group on this course, so used to attending large courses with minimal engagement, this felt incredibly personally and open!” (Ben Morris, MAPM)
New competency framework for RPM
may 2023, athens
Delighted to be invited to present at “The Upgraded Role of Project Management” conference in Athens, the first in-person project management conference in Greece since the pandemic. With huge thanks to Boussias for organising such a great event that brought together most of the project managers in Greece.
Olympic Park, Athens
june 2023, reading
Wonderful opportunity to host an interactive workshop as part of the APM Volunteers Forum in Reading. We began with a ‘Call to Action’ before supper and the next day engaged volunteers in an exciting interactive session using systems thinking to introduce circularity into their projects.
june 2023, cumbria
The University of Cumbria’s Project Management Summer School focussed on sustainability this year. Karen delivered a keynote and then joined RPM Ambassador Ros Lishman to host a practical workshop using the RPM Project Planning Canvas to help participants uncover sustainability and responsibility issues on their projects.
University of Cumbria
september 2023, edinburgh
Pleased to be invited to present at the APM Scotland Branch Conference: Net Zero Nation and Sustainability, hosted at the historic Playfair Library in Edinburgh.
The Playfair Library, Edinburgh
september 2023, PMI Africa Conference
by Ivan Rincon P.Eng PMP PgMP PMI-RMP CISA
In beautiful Nairobi (Kenya), I was invited to present to the mostly African delegates. I had the chance to speak at a breakout session for 140 people and then had two 45 minutes round tables with 10 delegates each.
Africa is a very special place for project management and more specifically for Responsible Project Management. The practice is quite new, but project managers have a sense of responsibility quite unique in my experience. They really look at the societal and environmental benefits of projects with a different lens. Their questions were very situational and showed genuine interest in the topic.
I was also challenged to explain the difference between the concepts of sustainability in project management and RPM.
My personal assessment is that Africa is a great place to push for adoption of RPM practices and they will be gladly accepted and embraced.
october 2023, Atlanta, PMI Global Summit
by Ivan Rincon P.Eng PMP PgMP PMI-RMP CISA
Taking place in Atlanta, the marquee PMI event attracted over 3,000 delegates from all over the globe. I was scheduled for a 1-hour breakout session.
In this event, you have a typical mixture of people looking for Professional Development Units (PDUs) and people interested in the topic. The session was attended by 120 people.
I received questions about the link between RPM and the best practices presented in the PMBOK. I also had a couple of questions on the concept of sustainability vs RPM. One more attendee wanted to understand the link between RPM and Systems Thinking.
At the end of the session, I was approached by 3 young project managers. We had a interesting chat about the social impact of project management. It leads me to believe that young practitioners are probably more open to the idea of a “new” approach to project outcomes.n this event, you have a typical mixture of people looking for Professional Development Units (PDUs) and people interested in the topic. The session was attended by 120 people.
november 2023, Puerto Rico, PMI Chapter PD Symposium
by Ivan Rincon P.Eng PMP PgMP PMI-RMP CISA
I was invited as a keynote speaker to this event, also a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Chapter. I also made the first presentation in Spanish about the topic. The room had close to 400 delegates from the Island!
It was a very dynamic session with lots of questions at the end, mostly based on the concept of the “new” outcomes. Puerto Rico is particularly sensitive to these topics because they are still recovering from two catastrophic events in the last 7 years that affected the way projects are seen and developed.
september-october 2023, online
Another fantastic online course - RPM for Sustainable Development - this time intended for sustainability practitioners wishing to learn more about project management. More than that though, we met many new people working on great projects - some explicitly aiming to deliver sustainable development, others were community projects, and there were some examples of business projects at an early stage where there was a desire to ‘do better’.
Thank you to everyone who participated; we all increased our understanding of applying tools and techniques for systems thinking and sustainability in practice.