Conference Day Two: Tuesday, 31 August 2017
8:30 am - 9:00 am Conference Registration and Welcome Coffee
9:00 am - 9:10 am Opening Remarks by the Conference Chair
9:10 am - 9:50 am AUSTRAC’s Draft Privacy Impact Assessment – Data Matching Program and Fintel Alliance
- Understanding the security challenges and strategies to overcome digital disruption and transformation
- Learn the strategies to achieve good governance for your business strategy within the planning, implementation phases of delivering your IT project
- Overcome the challenges of change management though strategies of support and training for all stakeholders
Kamel Jogia
Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, Director, Performance and AssuranceAUSTRAC
9:50 am - 10:20 am Thought Leadership Session –
10:20 am - 10:30 am Overcoming Skills Gap and Workforce Capability around Digital Transformation
- An overview of the challenges and strategies around digital transformation concerning the replacement of legacy systems
- Understanding the challenge of sourcing the right people, in relation to communication and leadership
- Insights into the strategies to overcome skills gap, the choice between outsourcing and insourcing
10:30 am - 11:00 am MORNING TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK
11:00 am - 11:40 am The Success of Agile and Global Experience Framework (language) Portals: A Case Study from the Department of Education (NSW)
- Understanding how delivering global experience framework (language) portals changes the focus for IT project management
- Utilising a user centric approach to Project management
- Implementing Agile methodology to overcome digital transformation
Peter Buckmaster
Director of Digital ServicesDepartment of Education NSW
11:40 am - 12:20 pm Expert Panel Discussion: Skills Gap & Workforce Capability – How Do We Get It Right?
With the current digital transformation, the traditional organisational structure has changed.
No longer are IT projects delivered solely by the IT department. This new whole of organisational approach has brought about the need for new skills and a functional approach to project management.
Discussion on:
- What are the correct skills needed – soft and hard skills
- How can you acquire the correct people
- The debate of insourcing (developing your team) verses outsourcing (paying for outside help)
Panel Members:
Monica Ritz
Business Transformation ManagerDepartment of the Premier and Cabinet
Amanda Gildea
ICT ManagerAustralian Antarctic Division
Michael Young
DirectorAustralian Institute of Project Management
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm NETWORKING LUNCH
1:20 pm - 2:00 pm Learning How to be Under Cost and Within Budget Through Proper Benefits Realisation & change Management Strategies
- Identifying and measuring accurately for proper benefits realisation – a project management case study
- Understanding the challenge of scope limitation and maintaining budget as managed through the strategies of documentation and accountability
- Insights into providing a realistic estimation in IT Project management as achieved through diverse strategies
- Overcoming the challenge of change management by bringing the end user in from the beginning and going beyond the just training aspect for change management
Amy Phillips
Strategic Business DirectorACT Government
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm Setting up a PMO: Lessons Learned from a Functional Approach
- Learn the strategies for overcoming the challenges of setting up a Project Management Office
- An overview of the importance of a functional approach to a PMO with inspiration from Agile
- Insights into challenges and strategies behind the case study of a network integration system for bringing two hospitals together with the same workflows and processes
- Perspective from a PMO Community Group (E-Health) with lessons and challenges from a PMO health viewpoint
Kathleen Gray
PMO ManagerThe Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING BREAK
3:10 pm - 3:50 pm Does it Pay to be Mature? The Relationship between Organisational Maturity & Project Success
Based on a paper that has recently been submitted to the International Journal of Project Management, It reports on the efforts to overcome project failure at the federal level and presents case studies of the organisations that have realised the highest levels of project program and portfolio management maturity.
- The persistent problem of project failure – recent insights from VIC & NSW
- Increasing project, program and portfolio maturity to improve success rates and an overview of P3M3 assessments in the public sector
- Case study of organisations with the highest maturity levels – ComSuper (and ATO)
- How to choose the right projects and get the right results, and questioning if we are we achieving the mission statement and the Implications for practice
Raymond Young
Senior LecturerUNSW-CANBERRA
3:50 pm - 4:30 pm A Functional Approach: Workability to Training - Achieving Flexibility & Adaptability
- Understanding the successes learned from an Investment approach focusing in terms of cost with a priority on workability with incremental checks for reasons to continue or fail
- Insights into a functional approach for training in virtual environments and experimenting with the composition of project teams to ensure project flexibility and adaptability