Calendar of Events

Lectures:

1. Balancing technological and organizational challenges
Krešimir Babić from OTP banka has participated in a number of projects that have influenced the way the bank operates in recent years, including the introduction of the euro, digital lending processes, and the implementation of Apple Pay and Google Pay. At the PMI event, he will present his experience from a very specific period in which two major initiatives – technological and organizational – were taking place simultaneously.

The lecture will focus on a situation in which project implementation and internal restructuring took place in parallel, which required careful balancing of the two work rhythms, onboarding new people in both directions, and maintaining a pace that cannot stop because delivery has target dates. The emphasis will be on specific coordination challenges, dependency management, and how projects are kept stable while the organization around them changes.

The audience will gain insight into what everyday work looks like in an environment where two important stories are expected to be successfully completed; without mutual "switching off", without losing focus and with clear communication between all teams involved.

This lecture is not a story about a perfect implementation, but about a real moment in which projects and organization collide in practice and how in such an environment quality delivery is still achieved.

2. Real estate management as project management

Danijela Dujlović, B.Sc. in Civil Engineering with more than 20 years of experience in the construction sector, PMP candidate and certified engineer, has been successfully managing a multi-apartment building in Split since 2024 using standard PMI methodologies and project management tools.

Based on this real project, she developed an approach that proves that real estate management in Croatia - especially co-ownership buildings - is already by law and by its nature real project management, it just needs to be called by its right name and professional standards applied (PMBOK, PRINCE2, hybrid models).

In Croatia, every co-ownership building is by law a multi-stakeholder project – stakeholders with voting rights proportional to ideal parts, which requires a formal Stakeholder Register and a “Management by Exception” approach. The mandatory reserve and annual maintenance plan represent a built-in CapEx program that is planned predictively and executed hybridly (Waterfall for regular work + Agile/Kanban for emergency interventions) – exactly as PMI recommends for facility and property management today. I will show you a real example from Split where I, as a private manager, took over a building, introduced a transparent small-scale PMO, the Eisenhower matrix for crisis management and Earned Value reporting – and all this in full compliance with Croatian laws. The conclusion is clear: real estate management in Croatia is not just “building maintenance” – it is already real project management today, it just needs to be recognized, structured and professionally managed.