localgovcamp for Project and programme management!

[Jon]

Does anyone know if a project management focused localgovcamp type
thing exists...?

i'd really like to get localgov project/programme managers together
for a day of fun discussions about the challenges of delivering public
sector transformation projects and programmes... and also the
possibility of making Prince2 and MSP and bit more agile...

do you think anyone would be up for this?

Cheers,
Jon.

[Michele Ide-smith]

Hi Jon,

This definitely sounds like a good plan. I manage a team of web
project managers (who are Prince2 practitioners), but we also have a
separate team of business anlaysts and more generalist project
managers. We are about to undergo some changes internally which will
bring the two teams together, so that we are better able to tackle
service transformation. Our web development process is agile in
approach, but not any particular flavour of agile. We are also
embarking on a project to embed a user centred design process
(possibly ISO 13407) at the moment and it will be interesting (!) to
see how user centred design fits with agile and Prince2.

I would be happy to share some insights on embedding a user centred
design process into the mix.

Michele

[Harper, Jan]

Count me in!

Regards

jan harper
Lancashire County Council, ICT Business Support (& PRINCE2 Practitioner)

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[Jon]

excellent - well 3 is a good start... would i be right in thinking
that you'd bring some of your team members along Michele?

I've started to think about a venue... we have some lovely facilities
here at Cheltenham, so i suppose the requirements are wi-fi, lots of
chairs and open space, some table, some flip charts, a buffet lunch.
I dont think it will be quite as flash as the last webby focussed
camp, (unless i can get some sponsorship :) ), but i'm mostly just
interested in getting a really lively bunch of enthusiastic people
together who are passionate about improving the way we do projects and
programmes in local government.

I think its also important to say that this isnt limited to IT/web
projects... i'd like this to cover all of the diverse stuff that local
government does... in fact why just local government, why not the
whole of the public sector :)

anyone else coming?

Cheers,
Jon.

On Jul 9, 12:30 pm, Jon <jon.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Helen Williams]

If it's in Cheltenham I'd love to come!

Helen

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[Dave Briggs]

This is a great idea, and depending when it is I'd like to come along
- as an ex-project manager and also as someone who still has to deal
with this kind of thing now and again!

I've copied in Kunal from Huddle, who do online project management
software. Nothing that is tied into any one methodology, but rather an
online platform for collaborating on and sharing documents, setting
tasks, arranging meetings and having discussions. They may well be
interested in helping support an event like this.

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

Dave

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[Michele Ide-smith]

Yes I will hopefully be able to persuade some (or all) of my team to
attend. I think they would find it really useful and have some good
experiences to share. I can also inform our centralised project team
who are currently investigating Lean/Six Sigma. They do a wide range
of projects, but most have an element of IT within them.

Thanks for offering to host it at Cheltenham. That's probably do-able
in a day trip for us - about 3 hrs door to door.

I'm a bit of a newbie to barcamps so not sure what we need to do for
set up although everything you mention sounds good. I'm sure
sponsorship would be possible if we can drum up enough interest from
local gov project and programme managers to attend. We might need a
site set up to help organise it and promote it. I think Dave used
Ning.com for localgovcamp.

Michele

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[Jon]

Michele, Dave, I'm a complete newbie to barcamps - i couldn't make the
seminal Birmingham gig, but having seen the many write-ups was
completely inspired! Dave, many thanks for offering your support, i'm
def going to need it - maybe we could have a chat this week and start
firming up some plans?

Cheers,
Jon.

[Dave Briggs]

Hi Jon

I'd love to help in any way I can - just let me know. I am off on
Wednesday afternoon to Portugal for a week, so do bear that in mind!

Cheers

Dave

[Jon]

ok just in case you havent spotted it, things are progressing with the
cheltenham pm localgovcamp.

intro article now here:
http://localgovcamp.com/2009/07/15/cheltenham-project-management-localgovcamp-sept-09-pmlgc/

i'm hoping to attract some interesting people like the lead author on
the re-write of prince2 from the OGC, and maybe keith richards
http://www.keithrichardsconsulting.co.uk/ - any other interesting folk
you think we should invite?

also will be talking to huddle re: potential sponsorship.

oh and we have an official twitter tag http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23pmlgc

Cheers,
Jon.

On Jul 9, 12:30 pm, Jon <jon.h...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Ingrid Koehler]

Hi Jon,

You may have already...but you might want to contact Tim Ellis and Richard Caton who are managing the Project and Programme management CoP on the IDeA's Community of Practice platform and it's action learning sets.

Richard Caton: richard...@hackney.gov.uk

tim....@rkbc.gov.uk

I'm not a member of that community, so you may have already advertised the #pmlgc within that CoP.

Ingrid

[Jon]

thanks Ingrid - yes i definitely need to speak to tim and richard,
will drop them a line,

cheers,
Jon.

On Jul 16, 12:11 pm, Ingrid Koehler <ingrid.l.koeh...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> You may have already...but you might want to contact Tim Ellis and Richard
> Caton who are managing the Project and Programme management CoP on the
> IDeA's Community of Practice platform and it's action learning sets.
>

> Richard Caton: richard.cat...@hackney.gov.uk
>
> tim.el...@rkbc.gov.uk

>
> I'm not a member of that community, so you may have already advertised the
> #pmlgc within that CoP.
>
> Ingrid
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Jon <jon.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ok just in case you havent spotted it, things are progressing with the
> > cheltenham pm localgovcamp.
>
> > intro article now here:
>

> >http://localgovcamp.com/2009/07/15/cheltenham-project-management-loca...

>
> > i'm hoping to attract some interesting people like the lead author on
> > the re-write of prince2 from the OGC, and maybe keith richards

> >http://www.keithrichardsconsulting.co.uk/- any other interesting folk

[Jon]

Hi all,

well there def seems to be an appetite for this, so i've set up
http://pmlgcamp.ning.com/ as a focal point for the forthcoming
september event... please join up there if interested, thanks :)

Jon.

On Jul 16, 2:12 pm, Jon <jon.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks Ingrid - yes i definitely need to speak to tim and richard,
> will drop them a line,
>
> cheers,
> Jon.
>
> On Jul 16, 12:11 pm, Ingrid Koehler <ingrid.l.koeh...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Jon,
>
> > You may have already...but you might want to contact Tim Ellis and Richard
> > Caton who are managing the Project and Programme management CoP on the
> > IDeA's Community of Practice platform and it's action learning sets.
>
> > Richard Caton: richard.cat...@hackney.gov.uk
>
> > tim.el...@rkbc.gov.uk
>
> > I'm not a member of that community, so you may have already advertised the
> > #pmlgc within that CoP.
>
> > Ingrid
>
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Jon <jon.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > ok just in case you havent spotted it, things are progressing with the
> > > cheltenham pm localgovcamp.
>
> > > intro article now here:
>
> > >http://localgovcamp.com/2009/07/15/cheltenham-project-management-loca...
>
> > > i'm hoping to attract some interesting people like the lead author on
> > > the re-write of prince2 from the OGC, and maybe keith richards

> > >http://www.keithrichardsconsulting.co.uk/-any other interesting folk