Context of Filip's favourite project:
In what was probably my favourite project, I worked on the design and construction of an Energy Management Dispatching control room, full SCADA and data historian facilities, the monitoring and control of power stations throughout Germany, and installation of administrative, operational and data communications systems with the grid operator.
Filip's Project Challenges:
The main challenge of this project was to deliver within a strict timeframe. If the milestones were not kept, the European Commission was going to penalise our client severely. A project that would usually take at least a year to deliver had to be delivered in less than 6 months, with multiple stakeholders and several unspecified business requirements at play.
Filip's Project Solution:
We applied strict scope control to make sure all available resources were assigned to the delivery of the essential items required in the functionalities that needed to be in place before the mandatory go-live date. All non-essential scope items were listed to be taken up in a follow-up project (Phase 2) to start after the first project had been fully delivered.
Filip's Project Results:
The project successfully delivered the essential scope items, allowing the Energy Dispatching services of the client to go live within the set timeframe. Furthermore, the project was delivered within budget.
Who is Filip
Filip Van Bourgognie is a Sociologist and Medical Demographer. After 5 years of research at the universities of Ghent and Antwerp and scientific support to the European Commission, Filip started a career in IT and Business Consulting. He took his first steps in Project Management by setting up and running a Project Management Office (for large clients in the Automotive and the Financial sector).
Filip has gathered almost ten years of experience in Project, Program and Portfolio management (3PM) and has been the 3PM Practice Leader for Altran CIS Belgium for the last 4 years. Filip is certified in Prince2 (Foundation and Practitioner) and PMP.
He is assigned as IT Project Leader to a large Utilities client company where he leads international projects in the field of industrial solutions and real-time applications for energy management and trading.
Key Dates
2007-present: Altran CIS 3PM Practice Leader; Poject Leader in Utilities sector
2001-2006: Capgemini Program/Project Management Office in Automotive and Financial sectors
1996-2001: University of Antwerp Data mining the European Community Household Panel data. Maintaining and redesigning a Belgian national longitudinal panel study on income redistribution
1996-1997: European Commission Freelance consultant providing scientific support (demography) and networking services
1994-1995: University of London MSc Medical Demography
1990-1994 : University of Ghent MSc Sociology
