Live Webinar – April 29th 2019 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – April 29th 2019 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

Note:  This webinar is an introduction to the Assurance SIG publication Measures for Assurance; the recently established user group and sharing of one or more examples of user experience.

The Matt Bruce-Kingsmill ChPP FAPM MCMI  & Tim Podesta will share the experiences behind the development and use of the recently launched Measures for Assurance toolkit – a set of criteria published by the APM Assurance Specific Interest Group (SIG) to help project professionals deliver assurance in a more consistent way.

The tool blends expertise from project professionals with several years’ experience in a range of industries, including: IT, construction, infrastructure, railways, manufacturing, petrochemicals and oil and gas. It provides clear guidance on what healthy projects look like, based on expert judgment and first-hand evidence.

The toolkit’s 10 criteria for assurance cover all aspects of projects – from client and scope to governance – and can be used by independent assurance providers, project teams for self-assessment as well as project teams for the development of their approach to managing and assuring the project.

It attempts to answer the discrepancy in the language and frameworks applied by project assurers. For example, the biggest difference found between sectors is their emphasis on safety – which is key in highly hazardous industries such as oil and gas. Assurance changes the starting order to safety, particularly process safety.

The webinar will support anyone involved with project assurance in reviewing the toolkit. In the compiling stage, the differences in the precise terminology used based on company and industry practices is common – this interactive event will support attendees with their own implementation.

This webinar is suitable for professionals with any level of experience.

Presenters:

Tim Podesta (LinkedIn profile) completed his career with BP in 2016 having celebrated 35 years in a number of technical, commercial and leadership roles including programme management & as the SME in projects.  A previous APM Assurance SIG committee member, he has been active in thought leadership around measures for assurance leading the creation of the tool kit, with a working group of experienced assurance practitioners from a broad cross section of industries.

Matt Bruce-Kingsmill (LinkedIn profile) ChPP FAPM MCMI, Leidos UK, is a chartered project &  programme professional with 15+ years experience in planning, leading and delivering transformational IT business change initiatives. Leidos works in the United Kingdom addressing complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, & transportation.Working across both the public and private sectors Matt’s experience is drawn from both leadership and assurance roles on multi-million pound NHS, 3rd sector, financial services, and local/central government transformation projects and programmes.  Matt is currently the APM Scotland branch Chair, and is an active member and contributor within the Scottish project and programme management community.

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