Workshop Overview - Margaretha Eriksson

Workshop Content

This workshop is for everybody who wants to use Project Management to accomplish, in IEEE, at work, home, or in the community. You learn basic project management techniques, and how to apply them in real life!

In this workshop you will learn about the basic success factors of project, to create a vision, boil it down and express the vision into a project plan and a preliminary budget. We will define the characteristics of a good Project Manager, where to find this person and how to gather a good, strong project team of dedicated members.

During the project the Project Manager needs to create trust and delegate work, check performance according to the goals, prepare and run meetings and report to the project sponsors, as well as to the project members. Project members and meeting attendees need to do their job too, to advance the project.
Risk assessment and risk management is essential in working in projects. If things go terribly wrong, how to handle the situation? When the project is finished, how do we recover the knowledge we have gained? Project evaluations are important and saves time and money in future projects.

More about the Workshop Presenter

Margaretha Eriksson graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1988 from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), in Stockholm, Sweden. She founded Irbis Konsult AB 1989, a company consulting in Content Management, Configuration Management and Business Modelling for companies in telecom and defence.
Since 1995 she is actively involved in IEEE as Chair of IEEE Sweden Section 2000-
2002. Currently she is a member of the Engineering Management Society BoG, a
member of Women in Engineering and member of the Region 8 Educational Activities Committee. Since 2001 she is trainer in the IEEE Region 8 Leadership Training Program conducting several workshops in Europe, as well as in Egypt, Kenya and South Africa.