PROCON Podcast

In this episode 9 of the PROCON podcast, Paul the Managing Director from Primaned gives an Insight Into Internal Vs External Training.

Paul shares experiences and chats about these three key subjects.

• The Internal Vs External Training Providers
• The differences between Open Course, In Company and Remote
• Standard Training or Bespoke Training

Paul shares engaging information for those interested in internal and external training solutions using people, processes, and tools, listen or watch this episode now.

For a deep dive blog overview on this topic, check out this article: Project Planning Training: Your Internal vs External Training Options Explained

November 9th | Virtual
The PMWeb 2021 User Conference will now be held virtually due to COVID-19 concerns. It will feature the latest version of PMWeb, the PMWeb roadmap, learning opportunities, a client case study, and more.

-----------------------------------------

In this episode 8 of the PROCON podcast, Paul is joined by Marc Jaude the President, and Ken Damon the Product Manager from PMWeb where they discuss Project Controls Software.

Paul, Marc, and Ken share experiences and chat around these three key subjects.

• Why do the world's most prestigious owner organizations like United Nations, Art Invest, JP Morgan Chase, Harvard, Marriot Vacation Club, Carl Zeiss, AECOM, and Atlanta International Airport, and other global Fortune 500 organizations consistently choose PMWeb?
• What was the evolution of PMWeb?
• What did Marc see as a market opportunity and how did he go about building PMWeb?

Marc and Ken share fascinating information for those interested in Project Controls Software using people, processes, and tools, listen or watch this episode now.

In this episode 7 of the PROCON podcast, Paul is joined by Lex Brans who is the Project Leader Acceleration Housing program from Metropole Region Amsterdam discussing the topic How people, processes, and tools help with the acceleration of building houses with the MRA.

The MRA has to build 15,000 homes every year to meet the demand from new residents. All municipalities of the MRA are committed to this goal. With a lean and mean team and external parties in area development and housing production, they form an inspiring collaboration.

Paul and Lex share experiences and chat around these three key subjects.

• How an integrated approach can help the MRA with its challenge
• Why uniform processes and data gives insight into the production of building new houses
• How MRA is solving the challenge to build 170.000 houses in the next 10 years (and further)

Lex shares valuable information for those interested in accelerating house building using people, processes, and tools, listen or watch this episode now.

In this episode 6 of the PROCON podcast, Paul is joined by Senior Consultant of Primaned Michel Molenaar where they discuss the topic It's An Opportunity To Be Aware Of Project Risk Management.

Paul and Michel share experiences and chat around these three key subjects.

• Qualitative Vs Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Can Risk Management Tools Support The Risk Analytics
• The Evolution and Maturity Of Risk Analysis

Michel shares some amazing insights to help you increase awareness of Project Risk Management, listen or watch this episode now.

In this episode 5 of the PROCON podcast, Paul is joined by Richard Wood the CEO at Safran Software Solutions where they discuss Project Controls Software.

From initial planning through to execution, Safran Project delivers peace of mind. For large, complex projects there is no better choice than Safran. Paul and Richard open up the discussions around

• Controlling scope
• Analysing the impact of risk
• Capturing progress and,
• Generating high-value reports are all integral components of the Safran Project.

Safran Project is the ideal solution for complex project and portfolio management. 

Elevate project delivery confidence through Safran’s integrated project reporting, risk, and change management capabilities.

Get started by listening to the show and leave us a comment with your feedback below. 

In this episode 4 of the PROCON podcast, Paul is joined by Ron Hochstenbach the Business & Finance Manager, and Gabriel Garcia Aparicio the Project Manager at Forze Hydrogen Racing where they discuss How To Drive Your Project On Hydrogen.

Like any racing team, there are high risks in every area, and learn how project controls in reducing these risks for the team.

The team discusses how project controls positively impact the team to address some of the challenges it faces including:

• Having to onboard a new team each year
• Having a relatively large team of students working full-time on the projects
• How it addresses the steep learning curve of the new management board that is also new every year 

The Forze cars utilize a different and far more efficient concept including using a fuel cell onboard the vehicles that convert the energy stored in its hydrogen fuel, to electric energy. 

This means that the hydrogen fuel cell system can be used to power an electric drivetrain like a battery.

Forze Hydrogen Racing is setting a great example on how to be efficient, use the data and drive new initiatives using projects, listen to the podcast to learn more about this exciting business.

In this episode of the PROCON podcast, Paul is joined by Stefan Hollak the Manager Academy at Primaned Academy where they discuss the Head of Project Planning Series: How to effectively train your project planners.

So what’s the best approach? 

The podcast discussion centres around the importance of focusing on your people. By hiring talented graduates with unlimited potential, developing internal processes that meet their needs, providing the tools they need to plan with efficiency, and training them in project controls, businesses can successfully boost their project planning efforts to drive great results. 

As the Head of Project Planning, committing to build a strong, resilient, and skilled team is what’s going to make the difference, make the mark, and elevate your project management department from an ‘administration office’ to a 'centre of excellence', putting you in control of every project now, and in the future.

To read the full blog article on this subject to complement this podcast check this out here

In this episode of the PROCON podcast, Paul is joined by Jan Cardol the CEO at PMI Netherlands, and Stefan Hollak the Manager Academy at Primaned Academy where they discuss The Marriage between Project Management and Project Controls.

The reality is one cannot live without the other.  

Project management in many cases is more difficult than chemistry, when you are duplicating an experiment you can influence all the permitted parameters, however with project management and project controls you can never duplicate the project. Every project is unique as you have different kinds of variables and risks.

In this first episode of the PROCON podcast Paul, Mark and Sjef discuss their experiences, the idea behind the launch, and the objectives of the show. 

The team here at Primaned are avid listeners of podcasts, we identified that there was a gap in the podcast world around Project Controls.

We respect there are other shows around this topic, however, we wanted to ramp this up to hopefully become ‘THE’ reliable source of information that people can trust, we understand we have to earn that trust and we have ambitious plans for the show, are fully committed to the PROCON podcast to ensure we provide significant value and insights to our listeners. 

We are focused on building a show where industry professionals can eventually call it home, their number one listen….somewhat like how we as a global community trust Google to find search queries on the internet.

Here at Primaned, we believe Project Controls is a profession, it's not just something you do as part of project management, and we are committed to developing through this podcast the gold standard of project controls information with informative shows, case studies, insights, resources around topics and expert guest interviews.

PROCON’s mission is to build and serve a community of professionals and be recognised as the show that is ‘Leading the Project Controls Conversation’ in our industry.

Meet the team and subscribe to the show on your favourite app channels, plus subscribe to regular email updates to be notified of new releases each month through the form to the right of this episode.

Thank you for joining us and please leave a comment below, let us know what you think, and please follow us on social media.

Regards,

Paul, Mark, Sjef

PROCON
"Leading the Project Controls Conversations"