New Challenges and Opportunities for Project Managers: A Conversation with Industry Leaders

In the past 5 years, the nature of project management has changed drastically, and it will continue to do so over the next 5 years. What this means for today’s project managers is that the standards, methodologies and tools that have worked up until now might not be effective going forward. Also, competing models, practices (such as predictive, agile, and hybrid) and tools are making the project manager’s job increasingly demanding when it comes to the knowledge and skills required to effectively turn ideas into results.

As a project manager, how can you prepare for the changes to come?

Join us for a live interactive webinar with experts from across sectors to discuss current and future trends impacting the role and effectiveness of project managers now and in the future. During the event, we will explore questions such as:

• What are the differences between standards, methodologies and tools?
• Will various types of Agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, DSDM, etc. replace traditional predictive project management (Waterfall)?
• How is the new 7th Edition of the PMBOK® Guide recently released by the Project Management Institute going to affect project managers?
• What is the hybrid model? And when can project managers apply it?
• What competencies and skills project managers should acquire to effectively work in a mixed environment of predictive, agile and hybrid?
• Do project managers need to learn new tools to be effective in the constantly evolving environment

Our Panelists:

• Lloyd Bartlett, McGill Course Lecturer & Project Management Consultant
• Sylvain Gauthier, McGill Faculty Lecturer and Executive Producer
• Michael Delis, McGill Course Lecturer and Executive Vice-President at PMC
• Thomas Scott, Senior Director, Agile project Management Office, Radio Canada
• Magali Henrion, Conseillère principale, Performance portefeuilles de projets TI. Desjardins
• Sara Rankohi, Project Manager, CANAM MANAC

Moderator:

• David Kynan, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications, McGill School of Continuing Studies