New Planning Approach for Complex Concurrent Product Development Unvailed to International Gathering of Project Managers
Bristol, UK, Monday November 5, 2007
A groundbreaking paper entitled “Project Failure; the Planning Paradox” by Dr. James Scanlan (Professor Jim Scanlan, Director of Design, University of Southampton, and President of ACSIAN, Ltd.), Dr. Robert E. Smith (Senior Research Fellow, University College London and Chief Consulting Scientist for ACSIAN Ltd.) and Professor Philip Lawrence (University of West of England) was presented at the Program Management International North American Congress, in Atlanta, Georgia (October 6-13, 2007).
The paper, presented by Dr. Smith in a session entitled “A Revolutionary Tool for the Management of Complex Programs”, examined the all-to-frequent failures of project management, exemplified by grand cost overruns and drastically slipping schedules. Dr. Smith cited inadequacies in extracting and representing knowledge from project stakeholders as the likely source of these failures.
Dr. Smith then demonstrated ACSIAN’s Plexus™ collaborative planning, optimization, and project management tool as a means of addressing these difficulties. The presentation was heard by over 100 PMI attendees, including representatives from a broad range of industries and international governments. Three attendees (a project manager from a European government, an active consultant in international project management, and a industrial project manager from a major US Aerospace firm) agreed afterwards that Plexus™ was the first real innovation they had observed at PMI in years.
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