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Start Date:	Thursday, October 10, 2013
Start Time:	08:00 AM
End Date:	Thursday, October 10, 2013
End Time:	05:00 PM
Location:	Sheraton Providence Airport Hotel - Warwick
Members:	USD 230.00
Non-Members:	USD 250.00
Early Bird Discount:	USD 0.00
Early Bird End Date:
Presenter:	Mark Kozak-Holland

"Managing Projects in a Hostile Environment"

The initiation and execution of a project can be difficult enough but in a hostile
environment, where everyone is trying to close your project down, a project can run
into serious trouble.

This interactive workshop probes the difficulties in
initiating a project without sponsors, and getting it enough support to get it through
early the stage gates. Using the Great Escape case study the workshop looks at the
at one of the most audacious and daring escape attempts of the 20th century from
the prison camp Stalag Luft III. But as an event in March 1944, set in dire
circumstances, what actually happened? How was the escape planned and
executed as a project? How did it get around numerous obstacles in a habitat
designed to be escape proof? How was the project tracked? If you were faced with
similar circumstances, what would you do? In today’s world business people are
grappling with numerous obstacles in planning and executing projects in a climate of
hostility. Many of these challenges are not unlike those faced by the brave men of
Stalag Luft III. If you had gone through such an experience, what would you learn
that could serve you in your work today?

Workshop participants will be given a chance to use just their skills to tackle some of
the most daunting project management problems ever faced by a team. They will
analyze the escape as a project through the modern lens of the PMBoK nine
knowledge areas. Everything in Stalag Luft III was set up to prevent escape. The
project planning and preparation were hindered everyday by new risks. The hostile
environment was ripe for a project failure. Yet the escape committee (project team)
was able to organize itself and mitigate the risks. Ideas and solutions were tested
continuously and refined in a determined atmosphere where everything was thought
possible. They overcame continuous difficulties and ran the project in an agile way
to keep it on schedule, and within the budget and resources available to them.

Participants will receive Mark Kozak-Holland's book:  "Project Lessons from the Great Escape"

We'll be giving away one free seat to the workshop , so please be sure to answer the question at the bottom of the next page. 

This is an  8 PDU session.

Location:  Sheraton Providence Airport

Address:  1850 Post Road · Warwick, RI 02886 -  Please click here for directions

Date:  Thursday October 10, 2013

Time:  8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Agenda:

• 8:00 AM  - Start morning session with light breakfast (included)
• 12:00 PM  - Lunch (included)
• 1:00  PM  - Start afternoon session
• 3:00  PM  - Snacks (included)
• 5:00  PM  - Conclude workshop

Food details:

• A Light Breakfast - selection of fruit juices, breakfast bakeries (with jam, butter, cream cheese honey, and assorted preserves), Starbucks coffee, and Tazo teas
• Lunch - assorted sandwiches and salads, bottled waters, Starbucks coffee, Tazo teas, and assorted sodas
• Mid-afternoon Break - freshly baked cookies and brownies, bottled waters, Starbucks coffee, Tazo teas, and assorted sodas

Cost:  $230 for OSPMI chapter members and $250 for non-members

If you experience any trouble with registration, please contact our VP of Administration at  VP_Administration@OSPMI.org

Cancellations:

PLEASE NOTE: The event planner and caterer require a head count for planning purposes which OSPMI provides on Monday October 7, 2013 at noon. Once that count is submitted, we are charged for the materials and meals whether or not registered attendees are able to make it to the meeting. For that reason we are unable to honor cancellations after 12:00 noon on October 7, 2013, even though registration will remain open until midnight on Tuesday October 8, 2013. This cancellation policy supersedes the other one that will appear later in the registration process.

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