Tuesday, October 08, 2013

UniPhi Managing Director to present at Project Challenge Expo in the UK on the delusion of control

Last year, UniPhi’s managing director, Mark Heath wrote a paper for the Australian Institute of Project Management entitled, ‘The Delusion of Control’. As life so often does, it threw a curve-ball his way- and his son into hospital- and sadly, he was not able to present. At the last minute, +Sarah Quinton stepped up to the plate with a fantastic, last minute presentation.

The presentation, rather than focusing on proving that most project managers and the PMBoK itself delude themselves into thinking that a project environment can be controlled, used a case study that concentrated on a real-life example to get its point across. This real-life example centred itself greatly on not trying too much to control, rather focusing on fostering a complex adaptive environment.

This year, in order to assist in the launch of UniPhi’s project management software in the UK, and to demonstrate his belief in the ability of complex adaptive systems to achieve greater results than those achieved through control-based systems, +Mark Heath will be presenting at the exhibition on the delusion of control.

The presentation will case study experiences had in rolling out UniPhi for the enterprise on a global scale to in excess of 1,500 users located on every continent bar Antarctica. In true eat your own dog food style, Uniphi for major projects was utilised to deploy five Enterprise applications. It was also used to manage the key global unite piece of technology custom built for AECOM by UniPhi’s software development team.

You can find the blurb of the presentation, as well as the time slot at the project challenge website.


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