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Seminar
Project Management Excellence - The Pursuit of Success.
Case Study: Applying the Project Excellence Model (IPMA) in
an IT Infrastructure Project.
Speaker: Dr. Harald Wehnes.
Institute: Department of Distributed Systems, University of Wurzburg, Germany.
Time/Place: 3:10pm, Friday, 12 March 2010, in Room 031, Erskine Building.
All are welcome.
Abstract
How can projects be realised in extraordinary successful way? How can you improve the performance of your projects? How does the Project Excellence Model (IPMA) support this?
These questions stand in the centre of a practical project management. The IT infrastructure and organisational change project NIMBUS was the prize winner of the "German Project Excellence Award 2008" and the finalist of the "International Project Management Award 2009" (IPMA).
The Project Excellence Model (IPMA) was applied strictly when realizing this project. Object orientation, leadership and project performance are only three criteria of the model that focus on the quality of the project processes and on the quality of the project results.
The talk begins with an introduction of the model. The usage and benefits of the model are shown then, using examples from the project NIMBUS.
Biography
Dr Harald Wehnes lives in Munich, where he is responsible for in the management of Kubus IT, an IT supplier of the German public health system. Since 2000 he has lectured on "professional project management" at the University of Wurzburg, in the Department of Distributed Systems and the Department of Marketing.
Dr Harald Wehnes received a doctoral degree from University of Giessen, Germany, in numerical mathematics in 1978. Until 1982, he worked at the computer centre of the University of Wuppertal. From 1982 until 1985, he worked at the Institute for Medical Informatics and System Research (Medis) at the Helmholtz Zentrum (German Research Centre for Environmental Health). From 1985 to 2007 he had several leading positions health insurance industry: at the AOK Association Bayern and the AOK Bayern. Since 2008 he has been a Division Manager, responsible for controlling, financials, procurement, and human resources at Kubus IT, Munich.
He has given courses on IT and project management at the University of Wuppertal, the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and the University of Wurzburg. The courses combine the theory with practise. In 2007 his project management courses were rewarded with the certificate of "Competence of Excellence (CoE) by the German Project Management Association (GPM).
As a project manager of a big IT infrastructure project (NIMBUS) he was the prize winner of the German "Project Excellence Award 2008" (GPM’2008) and a finalist of the "International Project Excellence Award 2009" (IPMA’2009).
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