PMI Aberdeen - Tuesday 14th March 18:30hrs
Summary:
After Forty years implementing computerised Project Controls, why is everything still the same?
Nearing the end of his career, David muses on a lifetime of trying to help people manage projects better. From mainframe to iPhone, the float is still negative. Has any of it helped?
Where did this all start, how far have we got and where should we go? What have we succeeded in doing and what are the failures that we must address. An overview of project controls software, and some explanation of Primavera’s dominance in its core marketplaces. How and why have people adopted it. What does it do best? What doesn’t it do? What’s next? Bio
David Kelly has been working with computerised project management systems since 1976. Designing, writing, configuring, implementing, integrating, and training in the software that is used to do this has occupied most of his business life for forty years. There cannot be any aspect of this landscape David has not been involved in.
For the last twenty years that has meant systems based on Primavera software. Working primarily in the Oil and Gas industry, all of the largest companies in that industry have utilised David’s skills. The challenges associated with the integration of P6 with Asset Integrity and Finance systems has been a constant theme during that time. In the last fifteen years over eight hundred engineers have been trained in P6 by David.
