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Oct 2005 - 2005 Defence Project Management Conference
Lord Drayson, Minister for Defence Procurement, will open the Conference. The topic of his address will be "Our Defence Acquisition Values - Changing the Mindset".
Conference Objectives
The aim of the conference is to position a theoretical 'gold standard' for project control in the defence environment, based upon extensive research by the NAO and the Ministry of Defence, to debate the challenges to achieving project foresight and to introduce both academic and experiential viewpoints to generate specific outputs that can form the basis of further development of the 'gold standard'.
Participants will leave the event:
- Feeling challenged and be thinking about appropriate solutions, not right or wrong answers
- Able to relate the conference themes to their own projects
- With practical ideas from the shared knowledge and lessons learnt
Conference Theme
The scope of the conference is to explore how theory translates into practice:
- How do we establish common goals, objectives and realistic project targets?
- How can project stakeholders avoid the 'nasty surprises' of schedule slippages, budget overruns and technical failings?
- How do we benchmark what 'acceptable', 'good' and 'outstanding' project management should be?
Further Information
Contact OTC Optima today to find out more information on this year's Defence Project Management conference.
