PMI Romania Chapter monthly meeting in Cluj-Napoca – on Quality Assurance

 

Always interested in learning more about quality assurance in projects we attended to PMI Romania Chapter monthly meeting in Cluj-Napoca, on October 24th, 2019, hosted by NTT DATA Romania.

Meeting Topic: The value of quality assurance in IT projects

Agenda:
18:15 – 18:45 Registration/Snacks/Networking
18:45 – 19:00 PMI Presentation – Iustinian Șovrea
19:00 – 19:10 Host company presentation: NTT DATA Romania
19:10 – 19:50 Presentation: The value of quality assurance in IT projects – Rodin Socaciu

Like all other sectors, Management of the Projects in IT industry also needs quality assurance and control in order to create the right framework of procedures and processes for successful implementation. In this context, Rodin described how project management activities are connected with quality assurance processes to ensure healthy projects.

19:50 – 20:00 Break
20:00 – 20:50 Panel Discussion
20:50 – Networking

There was a surprise guest Simona Bonghez from Colors in Projects who talked about Ethics in Projects form PMI Ethics Member Advisory Group perspective.

 

The European Financial Services Conference 2019

 
Held in Brașov, Romania on 21-22th of March 2019 

CINFRA Development is proud to have been a partner-sponsor for ECFS 2019 “European Conference Financial Services”.

Many important Public Authorities, Universities, Insurance Companies, Brokers, …participated to this event.

The European Financial Services Conference (ECFS) aimed, at its third edition to be a forum for debate on digitalization, automation and inovation in financial services, natural disasters management, practical application of the latest legislative news, but also add a economic and managerial perspective of financial realities, bringing together finance professionals, theoreticians and practitioners alike.

CINFRA Development as a Global Consultant in Civil Engineering and Infrastructure Fields, has Expertize in Loss Assessment, Risk Management and Inssurance Recoveries in complex Claims, very important topics in complex projects, natural disasters, … which were also discussed at this Conference. 

The conference was organised by:

• Financial Studies Institute, Bucharest

• The Association „Arbitration and Mediation Centre for Insurances” (ACAMA), Bucharest;

• The Romanian Society of Research for Public and Private Affairs, Tîrgu Mureș

Here you can find the Agenda and more information: https://ecfs.jus.rocs

Design Thinking Marathon / Cluj-Napoca 23-25 of November 2018


Why it is important to test your idea before launching it to market and how you can do that quickly, this is what we learned during the Design Thinking Marathon organized in Cluj-napoca by Homecomers, with the objective to activate civic engagement in the local community of Cluj-Napoca. 


The main steps are:

Step 1 – Empathize

The big challenge is to really understand your clients and design a process to ensure accurate data collection from them.

 

Step 2 – Define

Every cogent work of design requires something of a mission statement to bring clarity and focus to your work. What exactly are you trying to convey? What and who are you addressing? What are you bringing to the table?

Step 3 – Ideate

What separates design thinking from other empirical forms of thinking is the primacy placed on thinking wide, until you arrive at interesting solutions. The first rule of brainstorming dictates that there are no rules; all ideas are welcome and encouraged.  Ideation gives us better answers to our problems, and gives us a better idea of a prototype.

Step 4 – Prototype

The design thinking process, in all it’s stages poses many questions “Will it work?” or “How will they respond?” or even “Will they even get it at all?” The best way to get rid of these fears is to come up with a prototype, a demo or a test model if you will. This can be pretty much anything, as simple as possible with only goal that he user engages with.

Step 5 – Test

Once you have sent out your prototypes, the next natural step is to solicit feedback from you users about their experience interacting with it. The way you choose to do this can even get you closer to your users, making yourself more personable and relatable. It’s all about empathy! 

INOVA TALKS / Cluj-Napoca – 23 – 24th of October 2018

José Alejandro Serrano Cabrera made a commercial visit to Cluj-Napoca and together with Raluca Florea our Project Manager there attended Inova Talks, at Golden Tulip Ana Dome, invited by our friends from Inceptus, a NGO who is managing the project SART UP AIR – Innovative Entrepreneurship in the Nord West region of Romania. 

INOVA TALKS is a conference dedicated to social innovation in business and also a networking, workshop and prototype testing event for the START UP AIR participants.

We were nicely surprised by quality the pitch made by Active Weekends a startup who is organizing guided tours in the Carpathian Mountains starting from Cluj-Napoca.