Crispin ("Kik") Piney
Kik Piney has been involved in the project world since joining the IT Group at CERN in 1970. He later moved to the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and left in 2000 to work as an independent project management trainer and consultant. He has also invested enthusiasm, time, and effort working as a volunteer with the Project Management Institute on most of their standardization efforts. On the way he has acquired the PMP®, PgMP® and PfMP® certifications.
Subjects: Business & Management
Biography
I am fluent in English and French and live in the South of France.The following provides more details on my more recent professional background:
Contribution as Volunteer for the Project Management Institute
• Design Cell Leader for the “Organizational Project Management Maturity Model”,
• Preparation for the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (recognized as a “significant contributor”)
• Translation of the Guide (3rd Edition) into French for PMI – Vice-chair of the French Translation Verification Committee
• Coordination architect to ensure consistency between the Portfolio and the Programme standards of PMI [first Edition] (recognized in both standards as a “significant contributor”)
• Co-author of the development of PMI’s “Practice Standard for Project Risk Management”
• Member of PMI’s Standards Consensus Body
• Review and input for:
o the Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures,
o PMI’s Code of Professional Ethics,
o the Competency Development Framework,
o the Practice Standard for Project Configuration Management
o the Practice Standard for Project Estimating
o the Practice Standard for Earned Value Management
• Translation of the PMBOK Guide® (5th Edition) into French for PMI – Vice-chair of the French Translation Verification Committee
• SME for PMI’s Standard for Program Management – Second Edition
• SME for PMI’s Standard for Portfolio Management – Third Edition
• Reviewer for the PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition (reviewed both the Standard and the Guide)
Conferences and Publications
• Chapter in “Program Management – A Life Cycle Approach”, edited by Ginger Levin
• Handbook – Supporting Editor for “The American Management Association Handbook of Project Management” , 2nd Edition Amacom, NY 2006
• PM Network – 2001: Critical Path or Critical Chain – Using the Best of Both
• PM Journal 2003: Applying Utility Theory to Risk Management
• PMI Conferences
o 2002 (Cannes): Risk Response Planning – Selecting the Right Strategy
o 2003: (The Hague) Risk Identification – Combining the Tools to deliver the Goods
o 2004: (Prague): Skating on Thin Ice – Organizing a 200Km Skating Race [with Kees Vonk]
o 2004: (US): Project Management Maturity Case Study: What you can do before OPM3™
o 2005: (Edinburgh): A Project Manager Analyzes the Scottish Parliament Building Project ,
o 2006: (Madrid): Being a Project Manager: what Don Quixote de la Mancha can teach us about Behaviours1
o 2007: (Budapest): Integrated Portfolio and Program Management: Discovering Organizational Project Management
o 2008: (Malta): Probernetics: The Science of Successful Organizational Project Management
o 2009: (Amsterdam): Understanding and Overcoming Resistance to Change: Newton’s Laws for Stakeholder Management
o 2010: Managing Risks in Public Sector Projects. I represented PMI at a European Commission seminar on the subject.
o 2011: (Dublin): The Earned Benefit Method for Controlling Program Performance
o 2012: (Marseille): Integrated Project Risk and Issue Management
o 2013: (Istanbul ): (with Werner Reiser) From Total Project Scope to Total Project Control
o 2014: (Dubai): A Matter of Life and Death. Risk Management Helps Search and Rescue.
• SeminarsWorld
o 2007: Scope and Change Management (Budapest)
o 2012: Best Practices in Program Management (Marseille)
o 2015: Agile Business-Aligned Program and Portfolio Management (Orlando)
• Original Project Standards Related Blogs
o Proposal for a Performance Management Knowledge Area
o Resource Capacity Planning
o Proposal for an Integrated Risk and Issue Management Approach
o Proposal for an Approach to Eliminate the Confusion Between Phases and Process Groups
• Other Project-Related Involvement
o Volunteer work for GAPPS on project, programs and performance standards
MAIN SKILLS
Project Management :
Project Planning
Project Risk Management
Risk reviews and audits
Project Earned Value Management
Project Management Maturity
Methodology Development
PMP® Preparation
Program Management :
Program Definition
Innovative method for creating quantified benefits realization model
Program Risk Management
Benefits Management
Earned Benefit Management
PgMP® Preparation
Portfolio Management :
Portfolio definition, analysis and balancing
PfMP® Preparation
Project Risk Management
Innovative approach for integrated risk and issue management
Risk assessment workshops
Development of organizational risk management policies
Enterprise Project Management
An innovative model for combining projects, programs and portfolio management into an integrated set of organizational processes.
Methodology development
Organizational project management planning
Methodology development
Project governance organizational development
Project reviews and audit definition (financial and procedural)
Coaching :
Project Planning Workshops
Project Review Workshops
Strategy
portfolio top-down analysis (business cases, etc.)
Interpersonal skills effectiveness training:
Project and Program Manager competency development frameworks
Leadership
Project and program awareness workshops for senior sponsors
Cultural awareness and analysis
Inventor of the “Cultural Radar” approach
WORK EXPERIENCE
Since 2000: Freelance trainer and consultant (PROject-beneFITS.com) (Valbonne, France)
Adaptation (as required) and Delivery of Program and Project Management courses, in English and in French, for large and small companies
HP, Motorola, Eurocontrol, Givaudan, Lexmark, a large consulting firm [the identity is confidential], a security company, CGG, EADS, Equant, Rio-Tinto, Pöyry, ArcelorMittal, etc.
Course creation, development and translation from English to French
• “Best Practices in Project Management” (3 days),
• “Project Risk Management” (3 days),
• “Project Scope and Change Management” (2 days),
• “Advanced Topics in Project Management”(3 days)
• “Effective Project Sponsorship” (for senior management, 1 day)
• “Understanding Projects” (for “occasional” project team members, 1 day)
• MBA Project Management Course (8 days),
• Business-oriented Portfolio and Program Management (2 or 3 days)
Consultancy product development
• Project Management Consultancy and Coaching package
• Organizational Project Management Maturity Assessment and Enhancement Planning, based on PMI’s OPM3™
o This was successfully delivered to the Nestlé Research Centre in Switzerland.
Coaching et mentoring in Project Management
1990 – 2000 Compaq (formerly Digital Equipment) , Valbonne, France
Year 2000 Compliance Program Manager
Program Manager, Voice Telecoms Infrastructure
Network Solutions Consulting Group Manager
1987 – 1990 Digital Equipment Company Newbury, England
Manager, Networks & Communications reporting to the CFO.
Deputy Manager, Network Services Group
1970 – 1987 CERN
(European Particle Physics Research Laboratory) Geneva, Switzerland
Section Leader – Data Networks
Network Interface Development
Network Design
Library Mechanisation
Education
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B.Sc. (Hons) Mathematics, Imperial College, London
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Project Management
Program Management
Portfolio Management
Performance Management
Risk Management
Personal Interests
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Running, tennis, reading about science
Books
Articles
Series on Earned Benefits Program Management
Published: Feb 11, 2018 by PM World Journal
Authors: Kik Piney
Subjects:
Business & Management
This article introduces the series
The Devil's Dictionary of Project Management Terms
Published: Aug 02, 2017 by PM World Journal
Authors: Kik Piney
Subjects:
Business & Management
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce offered cynical definitions of terms of the “political” language of the period. This posting attempts to provide similar “helpful” definitions of project management-related terms.
News
PMI UK Webinar - Earned Benefit Programme Management - 27 March 2018
By: Crispin ("Kik") Piney
Subjects: Business & Management
PMI UK Webinar
Earned Benefit Program Management
27th March 2018 at 12pm
Main Speaker: Kik Piney
Modern project management has been developing its formal concepts, tools and techniques for seventy years or so. However, as organizations have realized the business and strategic value that projects can deliver, the project space has expanded to include programmes and portfolios of projects. We can all understand that when you progress from cooking meals to running a restaurant, the concepts, tools and techniques as well as the mindset that worked so well in your previous environment are no longer adequate or even applicable in your new environment. Programme and portfolio management deliver a similar culture shock in the field of project management.
The need to address this situation has led to a growing focus on benefits management – how to quantify, track and deliver value-added results from the outputs of the component projects.
This presentation will introduce a technique that is central to effective benefits management – benefits mapping. The power of this tool for integrating project planning with business forecasting will be explained. A case study example will show how this technique can help strategic planners avoid the sort of extremely costly false assumptions that the media take pleasure in exposing – but only after the event!
The main topics covered are
- Where do programmes fit in?
- How to model a programme
- Roles and accountability in programme justification
- Analyzing the programme model
- The danger of simplistic assumptions
- Benefit-related programme performance management
- Next steps