A seminar by Tom Gilb
for Senior Management, Middle Management & Programme Directors

Why you should attend

Tom Gilb is best known as a teacher, consultant and author of what is increasingly recognised as the most powerful and effective set of management techniques in the systems and software engineering worlds. The systems and software engineering management methods he advocates are practiced within corporations such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Nokia and IBM.

However, Tom argues that the rigorous thinking methods he advocates and teaches in systems engineering has much to offer and is urgently needed in the management of commercial companies and governmental organisations. The evidence appears to support him.

The CEO of a large British computer company adopted Tom's methods and succeeded in achieving profitability for 14 years while the company’s competitors struggled. The same company, unfortunately, fared somewhat less well when the CEO left and his successor took a different approach. In fact, the company slid back into the troubles it experienced before Tom's help.

On separate occasions at Siemens and Ericsson, top management requested Tom’s help with two major failed projects in engineering - each of several years duration and one thousand engineers.

Using Priority Management methods, the projects were rescued and delivered successfully.

The technical directors of a major US aircraft corporation were sufficiently impressed with the rapid, measurable improvements achieved by their five thousand-strong engineering force using Tom’s methods, they were themselves trained in Priority Management techniques and mandated these methods as the norm for their aircraft engineering.

Other cases from many examples between 1997 and 2002 include: assistance to a team planning for a 300% productivity improvement  across their one thousand development engineers; private half-day sessions with the CEO and top technical directors of a major telecommunications corporation which led to corporate-wide adoption of methods from Priority Management; help to a General and his staff in the UK Ministry of Defence to improve the planning methods for a major logistics acquisition.

What you will learn

The Priority Management methods bring clarity, rigour and quantification to management processes. Clarity, rigour and quantification bring the benefits of improved communication of objectives, improved risk management and greater control over the delivery of better organisational results.

In this seminar, you will be given the overview of how Priority Management can reduce your costs, reduce delivery times and improve organizational results and discussion on: -

• why many planning failures are due to unclear, oversimplified, incorrect objectives
   

• how to translate your organisation’s values into quantified, clearly stated objectives
   

• how you can plan and deliver better organisational results earlier and faster, now
   

• how to ensure the critical interests of key stakeholders are recognized, defined and satisfied
   

• how to evaluate the capabilities of proposals and strategies to meet objectives and constraints
   

• how to use metrics to measure, control and keep plans on target to meet objectives
   

• how Priority Management methods compare with, and out-perform popular management ideas

Free with this seminar

Delegates to this seminar will be provided, free-of-charge, with a CD-ROM containing substantial documentation including the draft manuscript for Tom’s forthcoming book “Priority Management”. The CD also includes a documented wealth of accumulated experience and knowledge from the application of these methods to real-life management planning situations.

Who should attend

Those who find this seminar particularly beneficial include:

• Managers who send people to our technical courses and want to see how the Planning methods address their own concerns.

• Senior and middle managers of commercial and governmental organisations

• Programme Directors/Managers, Project Managers, Project Planners

• Consultants and teachers of management planning methods

• Academics researching and working in the field of management planning techniques