Crispin ("Kik") Piney

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

B.Sc. (Hons) Mathematics, Imperial College, London

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Project Management
Program Management
Portfolio Management
Performance Management
Risk Management

Personal Interests

Running, tennis, reading about science

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