Delivering projects in a
challenging and uncertain
environment
Wednesday 3 June 2015,
GSK, Brentford, UK
www.pipmg.org
[email protected]
Kindly hosted by:
980 Great West Road, Brentford
Middlesex TW8 9GS
Dinner details
Introduction and Overview
Background
The pharmaceutical development pathway is
rarely smooth and critics are sometimes quick to
lay blame at the feet of the project manager.
More objective observers, however, are well
aware of the many hazards lying in wait. This
workshop will look at some of these hazards and
suggest ways to identify and avoid them. They
include failure to identify the customers’ real
requirements as opposed to their stated
requirements and the distractions encountered by
sponsors and stakeholders. Also to be considered
are the strains put upon a functional expert asked
– or told – to assume the role of project manager,
what happens when risk is not managed in real
time and what happens when we forget the
infernal triangle of time, cost and quality in our
drive for performance standards whilst keeping
within project scope.
In short, how do we Keep
Calm and Carry on?
Networking Dinner
Evening before the event – Tuesday 2nd June, at the Weir Bar,
Lion Road, Brentford
Reception 19:00 , then Dinner at 19:30
followed by guest speaker –
Fraser MacFarlane, VP R&D Portfolio
Management and PIB Secretary,
Novartis Integration Planning,
Glaxosmithkline
Full Programme - morning
09.00
Introductions
Pauline Stewart-Long, Kim Brown and Ralph White – PIPMG
Executive Committee
09.15
Will anyone want this when it’s finished?
Speaker: Chris Shilling, Volt Pharma Associates
Keep Calm and Carry On

10.00
Who is looking after the customers’ interest?
The Project with a secret life of its own
Workshop

What do our sponsors and stakeholders really want?
Reconciling varying views and requirements
11.00
Break
11:30
Are we leading – or managing?
Speaker: Ben Chambers, Global Leadership Development; GSK
 Flexing style to suit the occasion
 Which team are they all playing for?
 Getting project team members fully engaged
12.15
Lunch
(Cont’d….)
Full Programme - afternoon
13:30
Time, cost and quality – controlling scope in the early stage Project
Speaker: Alexandra Adams, Chiltern
14:30
Identifying risk, minimising impact?
Workshop
Keep Calm and Carry On
 Do we really take it seriously?
 What, if anything, can we do?
15.15
Break
15.45
The part-time Project manager – competing priorities
Speaker: Margaret McNaull - AstraZeneca
 What is the day job?
 Serving two masters
16:15
Reviving the dying project – what is to be done?
Speaker: Tim Harris, Turnstone Business Solutions
 How to identify a failing project and do something about it
16.45
Panel summary and final questions
 Are we really learning our lessons?
 How can we continuously increase our ability to cope?
17.15
Next meeting
17.30
Close
Event Booking and Pricing
Event prices
There are three packages available:
Package
Price (ex VAT)
Full package including Networking dinner at the Weir
Bar on the evening of Tuesday 2 June, and all-day
meeting at GSK Brentford on Wednesday 3 June 2015
All-day meeting at GSK Brentford on Wednesday 3
June 2015
Networking Dinner only
£385.00
£350.00
£35.00
Note
These packages do not include accommodation, which if required can be
separately purchased. PIPMG will not book accommodation but offers
suggestions locally -– within walking distance of GSK and the Weir Bar:
Novotel Brentford
Premier Inn Brentford
Holiday Inn Express Brentford
Book now on www.pipmg.org
Main sponsor:
Our collaboration partners:
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and networking forum for those in Senior and Project Management roles in the
Pharmaceutical , Biotechnology, CRO and Academic Life Sciences sectors in
the UK and Europe. Membership is free and our events are great value.
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