Following last year's success of his seminar at the PMI® Global Congress 2010-EMEA in Milan, Italy; Omar Zein, partner at Projectize, has been re-invited by the Project Management Institute to speak at their Global Congress 2011-EMEA to be held in Dublin, Ireland between the 9th and 11 of May this year.

The congress is an annual event organised by the PMI® to address the latest developments in the project management field.

Omar's presentation will be titled "Business Change within Programmes: It's Not About Transition!" and addresses the various type of change that exist in programmes and in particular the "business change" that is a side-effect rather than a deliberate outcome and how it is best managed to ensure the programme's success.

For further details about the seminar, please visit the congress website

Projectize has published a White Paper of its research titled "Optimising R&D Performance in the Italian Automotive Components Industry".

The White Paper provides a statistical overview and recent trends in the sector and identifies some of the key challenges faced by the Italian automotive parts and components manufacturers. Namely, the complex global resource management coupled with need for flexibility to change schedule at short notice on the basis of changes to their clients' related vehicle delivery milestones.

To find out more about the implications of Projectize’s R&D Automotive study on your business, please contact:

Roberto Villa

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To download the full white paper, follow the link: Optimising R&D Performance in the Italian Automotive Components Industry

Following an interview by “PM Network”, the PMI official magazine; Omar Zein of Projectize was quoted and referenced in the article: “Inside Track” which addresses career progression from project to program management.

The article illustrates various opinions and suggestions from established professionals in the field. It also argues the pros and cons of promoting an internal project manager to the position of program manager rather that recruit externally.

Omar who has previously written and lectured on the roles and responsibilities of the program manager, states in the article:

 “Whereas a project manager must be competent in various technical skills— managing and coordinating resources to achieve a product or service—a program manager must go further to understand how the outcome of the program will benefit the organizational strategy, and manage it from that very perspective” Mr. Zein says.

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Matteo Coscia, partner Projectize, continued his contribution within the PMI-NIC's Italian PMO Observatory partecipating as speaker in the event “Guidelines for the set-up and continuous improvement of corporate PMOs: from theory to practice”, leading jointly with Mrs. Anna Maria Caccia the session 'Realising the PMO' where tools and forms to support the setup phase were shared with the audience and feedback gathered.

Projectize is proud to contribute to such important initiatives hosted and organised by the PMI-NIC and looks forward to continuing the activities on the PMO Observatory team.