Event registration

Project, Programme and Portfolio Management Previous Conference held in Abu Dhabi, 11th January 2010 sponsors:

Tier 1 Sponsors

BOT MENA is a Boutique PMO Setup and Management Consulting firm. We are the Middle East and North Africa operation arm of BOT International, which is a pioneer of the PMO Architecture concept and the market leader of PMO Content Asset solution. We bring:

· Hands-on industry experience of more than 1,000 PMO Architecture and Content Assets implementations world-wide

· Senior consultants who are operational people (not your traditional consultants), as they bring years of frontline operational experience having held senior and executive positions

· Business driven approach to setting up, restructuring, and/or managing your Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office (PMO)

· PMO services tailored to your specific business needs in order to come up with a solution that is not theoretical or textbook driven

BOT MENA is focused only on Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office (PMO) in order to give our customers the fastest implementation time, highest quality, and best value of any PMO implementation or consulting options that they might have. We believe we have the best value proposition in the market for PMO consulting, Content Asset toolkit, and in-house training.

Our Service Offerings are:

· PMO Consulting

· PMO Content Asset Product

· PMO related in-house training

BOT MENA guiding principles are Honesty, Integrity, and Customer interest - HIC. We believe that honesty is the best principle for communicating with our clients. We believe integrity is the best business practice character. We believe the customer interest, not our interest, should always come first and is the pillar of our practice.

BOT MENA believes success is achieved through PMO strategies tempered with good business, technology, and financial judgment as opposed to pursuing theoretical models. Our consulting services are designed to help you achieve the business objectives for which your PMO exists to serve. Our solutions work because your tools and technologies are integrated into your processes and not the other way around.

Our PMO consulting experience ranges from:

· Helping PMO managers rapidly set up project management processes, best practices and policies

· Helping project management executives deploy best practices for enterprise project management

· Helping line of business executives set up project and program office best practices

· Maturing your PMO from Projects to Program and to Portfolio Management Office

Customer Testimonial

"While we value PMO processes and policies for project management and solutions delivery, we don't have the resources or time to develop these things from scratch. BOT's unique services offerings enables us to focus on project management and delivery while BOT, a valued member of our PMO team, handles the administrative side of developing and maintaining our PMO processes, applying lessons learned suggestions, and incorporating new tools and techniques."

- PMO Manager, Mid-sized Manufacturing Industry Firm

"We thought we had a portfolio management process since we purchased a portfolio management system. We were wrong. We still had quite a bit of work to do. The Processes On Demand portfolio management process provided us with an easy to use process that works with our PPM system that we can all access and abide by."

-- PMO Manager

gantthead - the online community for IT project managers

What is gantthead.com?

With over 400,000 members from over 80 countries, gantthead.com is the world’s largest community of IT project managers. Being an IT Project Manager can be a lonely job. You are responsible for a project that business people in your organization care a lot about. Someone may have over-committed you, and is now asking you why you're not done yet. You and your staff are working together to find solutions as best you can - but within your organization there is no one you can lean on for the answers you need. No one is doing exactly what you are doing now within your company. This is why we built gantthead. Our mission is simple: To make IT project managers more successful. gantthead is the experience bridge that fills in the gaps - providing help to project managers in a number of ways. It is a community, your community, for IT project managers.

What does gantthead.com give you?

Connections - to others who are managing projects like yours. A place to get started - processes that you can customize for your needs. Instant productivity boosts - deliverable templates & examples. Access to experts - real people who understand what you are going through. News that matters - stories that relate to what you are trying to accomplish. Advice you need - tips on the art of managing your effort. 'Just-in-time' consulting - providing services ranging from answering questions, reviewing deliverables, and participating in meetings remotely. These services can be an hour on the phone with an expert or live consulting on your site, whichever is best for you. Come visit us. Grab whatever you need - that's why we're here. If you don't find what you are looking for, drop us a line. We think you'll be surprised by our response.

Tier 2 Sponsors

Outperform helps organisations improve performance through embedding project, programme and portfolio management best practices.

At Outperform we pride ourselves on our pragmatic balance between a can-do will-do approach and a deep rooted respect for quality processes. Our services range from ‘light-touch’ guidance (e.g. publications) through to comprehensive implementations (e.g. embedding methods) all delivered by qualified consultants recognised as leaders in their field of expertise.

Outperform is an Accredited Consulting Organisation (ACO) assessed in accordance with BS EN 45011 and licensed to consult in the use of OGC best practice products: PRINCE2® (projects), MSP™ (programmes), M_o_R® (risk), P3O™ (project, programme and portfolio offices), P2MM/P3M3™ (maturity models). Outperform is a corporate member of the Association for Project Management, a founding member of the Middle East PPM community of practice and is ISO 9001 certified.

Outperform has an ongoing commitment to the development of ‘best practice’ as evident in providing authors for various best practice publications (for example Outperform Director Andy Murray was the PRINCE2 2009 lead author).

More information including white-papers, newsletters and vodcasts can be found on the Outperform website www.outperform.co.uk

PMCTQuest is a Registered Northern American Project Management Consulting and Training Company based in Toronto, CANADA. We have been doing business for more than 15 years in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Canada, USA, United Arab Emirates, and Sultanate of Oman, Arabian Gulf Area.

Our business is very wide spread and includes Several Project Management and Portfolio Management Consultations, Specialized Project Management Training & Certifications, PMIS Implementations, Business Management, Organization Processes Improvement, Enterprise Applications Management System implementations, in addition to specialized resources augmentations.

PMCTQuest approach is simple and straight, though is very efficient. That is to make significant impacts by understanding customer requirements, communicating short and yet detailed proposals, executing as planned and agreed, delivering on time properly and successfully and hence gaining customer's acceptance and satisfaction.

The Quality Assurance Insitutue (QAI) is a vender independent consulting, training, and education organization. QAI was established in Dubai Internet City, UAE in 2001. Our mission is to assist our clients to achieve IT Governance and resiliency through continuous process improvement and innovation.

As a Transition Partner for Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) we provide Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) training and appraisals for Development, Acquisition, and Services models. In addition to the Middle East market, we are now fully engaged in China.

Complementary to our CMMI practice, QAI provides a full range of services for the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) for both Version 2 and Version 3. Our instructors are certified Version 2/3 Service Managers and certified Instructors for Foundation, Intermediate, Service Manager courses.

In addition to our ITIL Services, QAI provides training and consulting for CobiT, ISO 9000, ISO 20000, ISO 27000, ISO 38500 and BS 25999.