Program for the 9th Australian International Performance Management Symposium

 

Updated 23/02/2006

TUESDAY EVENING - 28 FEBRUARY 2006

5:00pm - 7:30pm

Registration

DAY 1 - WEDNESDAY 1 March 2006

8:00am

Morning Tea & Registration

9:00am

Introduction – Executive Perspectives – Neil Albert

President PMI - CPM, USA

9:10am

Welcome & Opening Remarks – Hon Justice Michael Kirby

 AC CMG, High Court of Australia

9:40am

Executive Perspectives – Neil Albert

President PMI - CPM, USA

The Globalization of Earned Value Management

10:00am

Executive Perspectives – Dr Patricia Galloway

Chairman of the Board, PMI College of Scheduling

10:45am

Break

11:15am

Executive Perspectives – Norm Gray

Deputy CEO – Australian Defence Materiel Organisation

12:00pm

Executive Perspectives – Susan Dart

Head of Project Management Coaching, Defence Materiel Organisation

12:45pm

Luncheon

 

Huron Room (Controls)

Michigan Room (Measures)

Nyanza-Geneva Room (Leadership/Governance)

2:00pm

Lakshminarayana Kompella

Snr Project Manager,

 Wipro Technologies,

India

Project Management Methodology for Knowledge Transfer Projects

John Howarth

MD Tanner James

Australia

Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) programme management structure.

Julie Smith

Manager Leadership and Management Development Airservices Australia

Embedding Managerial Leadership - The Requisite Organisation

2:45pm

Dr Paul Walsh

Senior Lecturer, Australian Graduate School of Management

Strategy-Led Reporting: The Last Frontier

Susan Wood

PMI-CPM Vice President of Conferences & Events

USA

EVM is Everywhere

Stephanie Dawson

Assistant Director, Office of Chief Operating Officer, Port Authority of NY and NJ

Aligning Capital Planning To Core Businesses

3:30pm

Break

4:00pm

Gordon Comins

Managing Director, Primavera

Australia

A realistic approach to Earned Value Management

 

Debbie Richardson

Wing Commander

&

Andrew Jacopino

Squadron Leader

Australian DMO

Use of R&M Measures in Australian defense Aerospace Performance based contracts

Alan Abrahams

Supervising Consultant

Object Consulting,

Australia

Productivity accounting; Enhance the productivity of your software projects

4:45pm

Patrick Weaver

Director,

Mosaic Project Services, Australia

Float - What is it; Who owns it…..

 

Cdr Mat Williams

of Navy Excellence (DNx)

Royal New Zealand Navy

&

Lloyd Evans

Nx Internal Consultant

Royal New Zealand Navy

The Royal New Zealand Navy’s performance Measurement framework

Janet Hunter

Managing Partner,

Etvia, Australia

Insights into the use of compliance to improve organizational behaviour

5:30pm

Break

6:00pm

Reception (Cocktail Party)

 

 

DAY 2 - THURSDAY 2 March 2006

Special Interest Session:

8:00am  - 8:45am

Open Forum/Workshop; Chairperson -James Thomson; SAI Global, Australia

Standard Australia’s Business Performance Tool Project-A Facilitated Work Shop

8:00am

Morning Tea & Registration

 

Lake Michigan Room

9:00am

Executive Perspectives – Gül Izmir

Deputy Director-General, Research, Funding and Business Analysis,

NSW Department of Community Services, Australia

9:45am

Executive Perspectives - Debbie Tomsic

Office of Under Secretary of Defence, USA

10:30am

Break

11:00am

Executive Perspectives – Peter Madsen

Director, Business Improvement & Project Management, BAE Systems Australia

11:45pm

Executive Perspectives – Richard Hartley

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Air Force, USA  

Cost Analysis in the United States Air Force

12:30pm

Luncheon Speaker - Jim McDowell

CEO BAE Systems Australia

 

Huron Room (Controls)

Michigan Room (Measures)

Nyanza-Geneva Room (Leadership/Governance)

2:00pm

Neil Miller

CEO TASKey,

Australia

Software for Corporate Governance; Increasing productivity and improving corporate governance at the same time

Quentin Redman

Snr Dept Manager / Engineer Fellow

&

 George Stratton

Engineer Fellow

Raytheon Missile Systems,USA

Design to Cost

David Hodes

Managing Director, The TOC Centre of Australia Pty Ltd

Australia

TOC - Toward an Operations Maturity Model

 

2:45pm

Annette Garcia

Project Manager Performance Improvement Team 

Sealord Group,

 New Zealand

Business benefits from a PI programme

Craig Terrey

Project Analyst

Thales Training & Simulation Pty Ltd,

Australia

Earned Value Performance in Fixed Price project environment

Michael Bennett

Senior Consultant

SMS Management & Technology, Australia.

Becoming a high performance Organisation through effective Corporate Governance programs

3:30pm

Break

4:00pm

Pradip Mehta

Manager of Project Controls, Office of the Director, Project Management Department , Port Authority of NY and NJ

USA

&

Melanie Lok

CEO MLOK

Case Study on Implementing a Web-based Integrated Capital Planning and Project Management System

Jim Muir

EVMS Manager, Raytheon

Australia

Effective Planning – Integrating Scope Definition, Scheduling,

Cost Estimating, Risk Management and Earned Value

Val Jonas

Managing Director

Risk Decisions Pty Ltd, UK

Practical Corporate Governance Life beyond compliance

4:45pm

Dr Lynn Crawford

MD, Human Systems International, Australia

Project & Program Governance through effective Benchmarking

Rammohan Subramanian
Senior Director,
Convasys Corporation, USA
Approach to yield measurements in software modeling factory

Steve Garfein

President

RPM Systems, USA

Strategic Portfolio Management

5:30pm

Break

Special Interest Session (See Below)

7:00pm

Conference Dinner Speaker - Neil Albert

President PMI - CPM, USA 

Special Interest Session:

5:30pm  - 6:15pm

Open Forum/Workshop; Chairperson - Paul Harris

Communications Director PMI Melbourne Chapter

Current status and discussion on direction of PMI in Australia

 

 

DAY 3 - FRIDAY 3 March 2006

8:00am

Morning Tea & Registration

 

Huron Room (Controls)

Michigan Room (Measures)

Nyanza-Geneva Room (Leadership/Governance)

9:00am

Alistair Bowden

Senior Associate,

Nielsen-Wurster Asia Pacific, Australia

EPC(M) risk transfer; fact or fiction?

A V Ramam

Vice President,

SSA Global, India

Enterprise Process Change Management – Embracing cross cultures and contemporary performance management practices

Lloyd Carter

Managing Director,

MTC AustralAsia

Do principles of Performance based Contracting really exist?

9:45am

Jamie Forgan

General Manager,

WST Pacific, Australia

Earned Value Software: Making the Right Choice

 

Cecily MacDougall

Managing Director,

Building4Business Pty Ltd,

Australia

Quantifying Business benefits to demonstrate organizational achievements

Madhavan Rao

Asst Vice President

Satyam Computer Services, India

&

Sanjiv Varma

Vice President,

Satyam Computer Services, India

Change management initiatives – Innovations in implementing enterprise wide performance

10:30pm

Break

11:00pm

 

Vladimir Liberzon

General Director Spider Management Technologies,

Russia

Managing project success

Adam McInnes

CEO, Open Windows,

Australia

Contract Management; Essential tools to good Governance

11:45pm

 

Catherine O’Gorman

Director,

EDS Service Excellence

Asia Pacificc

Rob John

Working Party Chair AS4817-2006 Update
Recent changes and initiatives relating to AS 4817 Project Performance Management using Earned Value
 

12:30pm

Luncheon
Post Lunch Speaker - Steve Garfein,
USA

Howard Hughes beyond “The Aviator”

2:30pm

Wrap up and Farewell