Does a score of Net Zero pass the test?

The second in our new series of amazing conversations, Thursday 15th February 2024 at 4pm, will feature Eddie Obeng who will be discussing the challenging questions we are all asking about Net Zero. 

As “sense maker in a bat$crazy world” and guru in the field of project management, Professor Eddie Obeng will assess the UK Government’s “Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener” through the eyes of a programme or project manager.  Human actions alter habitats globally: no one doubts this, and it has always been so.  Projects are the collective actions of humans that create the future and, again, no one doubts this, it has always been so.  So, if the strategy is Net Zero, how should we approach the programmes and projects required to build back greener?  What does “greener” mean for managing projects?  How do we avoid destruction of the habitats, flora, fungi, and fauna upon which all life on Earth (including humans) depends?  What responsibility do we project professionals have to enable solutions that are proximally the greatest good?

Big questions, even bigger answers needed.  Join us for what will be a thought-provoking session on Thursday 15th February.

We regularly host the RPM Café online at 4pm (UK time) on the first Monday in the month with the aim of having an inspiring and uplifting conversation to set us up for the month ahead.

Bring along your coffee for an informal chat, share stories, seek support and collaborate on new ideas. All those who are aiming to live, work and play more responsibly and sustainably are welcome to join us for conversation and to exchange insights.

Bookings are managed on Meet-up, so please visit the RPM Meet-up Group and book your place now.

For 2024 we are starting a new series of regular online events.

The first of these conversation-style events is “Put up or Shut up”. For details and to book, please visit Meet-up.

We regularly host the RPM Café online at 4pm (UK time) on the first Monday in the month with the aim of having an inspiring and uplifting conversation to set us up for the month ahead.

Bring along your coffee for an informal chat, share stories, seek support and collaborate on new ideas. All those who are aiming to live, work and play more responsibly and sustainably are welcome to join us for conversation and to exchange insights.

Bookings are managed on Meet-up, so please visit the RPM Meet-up Group and book your place now.

On International Project Management Day, and to coincide with COP26 in Glasgow, the project community will gather in London to take on the challenge of climate change.  Demonstrate your commitment to tackling climate change by participating in this event. 

DRAFT Schedule

9:30 Welcome and introductions

9:50 The world we live in

Emerging focus on building back better, carbon net zero and the challenges in our day-to-day lives and projects

10:30 Coffee

11:15 Places: Humans and our relationships with the planet. 

Discussions focussing on lived experiences of the impact of climate change and actions being taken related to where we live, eat, travel, work, study, relax 

12:15 Lunch

13:45 People: Smart citizens

Identifying and developing responsible consciousness for yourself and your projects.  From surviving to thriving.  Mindset, skills, and competencies to deliver better results, more effectively and be a better human being.  Practitioner earners/learners, well-being, Fusion skills and problem-solving competencies

14:45 Making your ideas real: Planning, Pitching, Practicalities, Pressures

A session that uses role play, sharing, performance, coaching and debate to explore how you will turn your ideas into practice

15:45 Tea and Task

Drawing on the previous sessions to develop your own learning and action plan for the part you can play

16:30 Stand-up and be counted

Share your ambitions, ask for help/support, offer support to others, talk about your personal commitments 

17:00 Close

To discuss your participation in the event with a stand, presentation, interview or to book delegates, please email Steve Wake: steve@swprojects.onmicrosoft.com

Ahead of COP26, we will be taking the opportunity of catching up with RPM Ambassador Reinhard Wagner to discuss his recent paper for the October issue of PM World Journal on the social impact of projects. The session will include a Q&A with the audience.

Reinhard Wagner has been active for more than 35 years in the field of project-related leadership, in such diverse sectors as Automotive, Engineering, and Consultancy, as well as various not-for-profit organizations. As Managing Director of Tiba Managementberatung GmbH, a leading PM Consultancy in Munich/Germany, he supports executives of industrial clients in transforming their companies towards a project-oriented, adaptive and sustainably successful organization. Reinhard Wagner has published 36 books as well as several hundred articles and blogposts in the field of project, program and project portfolio management. In more than 20 years of voluntary engagement he served the German Project Management Association (GPM) as well as the International Project Management Association (IPMA) in a range of leadership roles (including President and Chairman) and was granted for his international commitment with the Honorary Fellowship of IPMA and several of IPMA´s Member Associations. Reinhard is Senior Lecturer at the Alma Mater Europaea and is currently finishing his doctoral thesis on the topic of Project Society.

Bournemouth University has regularly hosted a project management event in January that brings together practitioners, educators, researchers and students of project management. The events include a showcase of student work, guest presentation and networking.

In 2021 the event will take place online and is therefore an opportunity for project professionals to join us from around the world for what is always an exciting and stimulating event.

2021 will be a landmark year as International Year of Responsible Project Management and we are pleased to host the first RPM event of the year.

The showcase of student work will be available at https://www.responsiblepm.com/rpmbu-2021 from 6 January 2021

Guest speaker Yohan Abrahams is the Project Director at Transport for London.

13 January 2021

17:05 Welcome by Karen Thompson & Nigel Williams
- Introduction to International Year of Responsible Project Management
- Discussion: Competencies for Responsible PM

17:30 Instructions for Exhibition and Q&A
17:45 Q&A in Breakout Rooms
- With MSc Project Teams in 9 Breakout Rooms
- With BABS students in other Breakout Rooms

18:30 Presentation by Yohan Abrahams, Project Director, TfL
- “Smartcities: What do we do for London?”

19:00 Announce Winners
- Closing remarks, informal discussion & networking

19:15 Close

Responsible Project Management as a Catalyst for Organisational Recovery.

This event will focus on Project Sponsorship. How project professionals engage with sponsors has emerged from our work to date as key to being able to manage responsibly. As we move into the recovery phase of the COVID-19 crisis, the role of the sponsor will be essential in ensuring projects contribute to organisational recovery. Further information can be found on Meetup.

Details to follow.

Organisational Disruption

This meetup will pick up a key theme - team & organisational disruption - from our Summit on the The Impact of COVID-19 on the Project Profession. Details to follow.

Personal Disruption

This meetup will pick up a key theme - personal disruption - from our Summit on the The Impact of COVID-19 on the Project Profession. Details to follow.

An initial briefing on RPM will be followed by an invitation to share the barriers you have encountered in acting responsibly on your projects. Further details will follow.

The Impact of COVID-19 on the PM Profession. Details on Meetup.

A Practical Guide to Benefits Management

Guest speaker is Mark Crisp. See full details on Meetup.

Details on Meetup.