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PROJECT MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP 2023

The 2023 Project Management Workshop aims to be a day of knowledge sharing on Project Management.

It is organised by the steering committee of the Master’s Degree in Engineering Project Management (MGPE) and will take place at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, in Guimarães, on 20 January 2023. It will be attended by students, lecturers and invited project management professionals from various national and international organisations.

The programme includes two sessions restricted to MGPE students and one session open to the public.

PROGRAMME

Morning session | Restricted to MPGE students | Room E2-0.37

09:00/09:05 – Opening of proceedings

Anabela Tereso –Head of the Research Methodologies in Engineering Project Management (MIGPE) Unit

09:05/12:00 – Presentation of Dissertation Proposals by 2nd-year MGPE Students

Moderator: Susana Gabriel – Lecturer at UC MIGPE

Alexandre Fernandes de Castro
Alexandre Oliveira Fontes
Ana Cláudia da Silva Pereira
Ana Rita Faria Gomes
André Mendes Freitas
Bruno Mário Ribeiro de Carvalho
Bruno Miguel Faria Marques
Cleonícia Andrea Quiluange Dombo
Daisy de Moraes Tuhy
Fábio Torres Ferreira
Francisca Moreira Silva
Hugo Miguel Afonso Lopes
José Miguel da Silva Ferreira
Luís Henrique Vieira Fernandes
Maria Clara Ferreira dos Reis
Maria Helena Barros Araújo
Pedro Alexandre Ferreira Machado
Ricardo Avelino Alves Morais
Ricardo Emanuel Antunes Noversa
Rui Miguel Lameiras Braga Fernandes
Sofia Gonçalves da Costa

Lunch Break

Afternoon session 1 | Restricted to MPGE students | Room E2-0.24

13:30 – Opening of the session

Anabela Tereso –MGPE Management / Production and Systems Department

13:30/17:30 – Scheduling game by | Stefan Creemers,  Proove, Belgium

The scheduling game was developed by Prof. Dr. Stefan Creemers and Prof. Dr. Stijn Van de Vonder. It has been played by professionals and students alike. The goal of the scheduling game is to provide insights in the complex business of project scheduling in a fun and interactive way. Stefan Creemers is a Professor at IESEG (Paris, France) and a visiting Professor at KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). He is also a member of the board of directors of PICS Belgium (the Belgium chapter of APICS). Stijn Van de Vonder is the final boss in the scheduling game, and is also the managing director of Proove.

Afternoon session 2 | Open to the entire community | Room E2-0.24

18:00/18:10 – Opening of the session / Presentation of the MGPE

João Pedro Couto –Director of MGPE / Civil Engineering Department

18:10/18:15  – APOGEP Presentation

Paulo Sousa – President of APOGEP

18:15/20:00 – How data is changing the way projects are being managed

Niels Ligtvoet – Managing director of Proove in Lisbon

Cases from the field (EVM, Enterprise resource management, quantitative risk analysis, lean sheduling)
Niels Ligtvoet (EMBA, PMP®️) is the managing director of Proove in Lisbon. Proove is a project controls consulting company originally from Belgium. He was involved in projects across various industries ranging from nuclear waste storage, infrastructure, pharmaceuticals, and offshore wind, to (renewable) energy. At Proove, he is the Expert Service Lead, which holds all the advanced techniques in Project Controls like the implementation of integrated Project Controls systems like Earned Value Management, Quantitative Cost/Schedule Risk Analysis, and Planning Visualization techniques. Great topics to break the ice!

20:00 – Closure

Pedro Ribeiro –MGPE Management / Information Systems Department

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