Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saulius Šimkonis
Associate Professor Dr. Saulius Šimkonis is Project, Programme and Portfolio Management (PPM) practitioner, consultant, trainer with 20+ years of experience. He has IPMA-A, Project Management Professional (PMP) and PRINCE2 Practitioner certificates and is recognized as IPMA Assessor in Lithuania.
Currently Saulius is Project Portfolio Manager at Swedbank. He was having Project Management Process Manager and Department Manager positions in the same company earlier. Previously he worked at Oracle as Principle Project Manager. Through his career Saulius was leading major projects, programmes and improvement initiatives, consulting and delivering training in the field of Project, Programme and Portfolio Management, process maturity improvement, risk management, and facilitating individual lessons learned sessions.
Saulius graduated from ISM University of Management and Economics. Later he defended his dissertation “Factors influencing lessons learned processes in innovative projects” in Vilnius University. Before joining as a Head of Project Management Program at ISM Executive School, he was leading International Project Management programme at Vilnius University Business School and was a lecturer at Vilnius University and ISM University of Management and Economics.
Saulius is a member of Project Management Institute and Lithuanian Project Management Association (LPVA).
Research areas
- Project, program and Portfolio Management
- Lessons learned in projects
- Balanced leadership
- Horizontal and vertical leadership in projects
Teaching areas
- Project, program and portfolio management
- Risk management
- Lessons learned
Publications
Alonderienė, R., Müller, R., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., & Chmieliauskas, A. (2020). Transitions in balanced leadership in projects: The case of horizontal leaders. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 69(6), 3339-3351. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2020.3041609
Alonderienė, R., Müller, R., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., & Chmieliauskas, A. (2022). Transitions in balanced leadership in projects: The case of horizontal leaders. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 69(6), 3339-3351. http://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2020.3041609
Chmieliauskas, A., Grigorjevaitė, K., & Šimkonis, S. (2020). New role of systems analysts in Agile requirements engineering. In V. Škudienė, J. Li-Yang, & F. Bernhard (Eds.), Innovation Management: perspectives from strategy, product, process and human resources research (pp. 114-138). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909814.00019
Mumgaudis, J., Chmieliauskas, A., & Šimkonis, S. (2023). On dynamics of collaboration patterns in globally distributed scrum teams. In Book of Abstracts of the 3rd Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – Technology and Engineering Management Society International Conference, October 9-11 (pp. 63-63). Kaunas: Kaunas University of Technology
Müller, R., Alix-Séguin, C., Alonderienė, R., Bourgault, M., Chmieliauskas, A., Drouin, N., Ke, Y., Minelgaite, I., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., Unterhitzenberger, C., Vaagaasar, A. L., Wang, L., & Zhu, F. (2022). A (meta)governance framework for multi-level governance of inter-organizational project networks. Production Planning & Control, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2022.2146018
Müller, R., Alonderienė, R., Chmieliauskas, A., Drouin, N., Ke, Y., Minelgaitė, I., Mongeon, M., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., Unterhitzenberger, C., Vaagaasar, A. L., Wang, L., & Zhu, F. (2022). Governance of interorganizational project networks. Newtown Square, Pennsylvania: Project Management Institute.
Pilkienė, M., Alonderienė, R., Chmieliauskas, A., Šimkonis, S., & Müller, R. (2018). The governance of horizontal leadership in projects. International Journal of Project Management, 36(7), 913-924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.06.002
Unterhitzenberger, C., Müller, R., Vaagaasar, A. L., Ke, Y., Alonderienė, R., Minelgaite, I., Pilkienė, M., Wang, L., Zhu, F., Drouin, N., Chmieliauskas, A., Šimkonis, S., & Mongeon, M. (2023). A multilevel governance model for interorganizational project networks. Project Management Journal, 54(1), 88-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/87569728221131254
Wang, L., Müller, R., Chmieliauskas, A., Alonderienė, R., Drouin, N., Ke, Y., Minelgaitė, I., Mongeon, M., Pilkienė, M., Šimkonis, S., Unterhitzenberger, C., Vaagaasar, A. L., & Zhu, F. (2022). Balancing hierarchy and network: Governance of inter-organizational networks for projects. In European Academy of Management Conference, 15-17 June (pp. 1-40). Zurich: EURAM
Šimkonis, S., & Chmieliauskas, A. (2023). 2023 m. Lietuvos projektų valdymo aplinkos tyrimas: Baigiamoji ataskaita. Vilnius: Autoriai; ISM Vadybos ir ekonomikos universitetas
Šimkonis, S., Müller, R., Alonderienė, R., Chmieliauskas, A., & Pilkienė, M. (2021). Multi-level governance in interorganizational project settings. In British Academy of Management Conference Proceedings 2021, 31 August – 3 September (Online) (pp. 1-20). British Academy of Management
Šimkonis, S., Müller, R., Alonderienė, R., Chmieliauskas, A., & Pilkienė, M. (2021). Multi-level governance in interorganizational project settings. In British Academy of Management Conference, 31st August – 3rd September, 1-25
Lareim, J., Müller, R., Chmieliauskas, A., Alonderienė, R., Šuminskienė, R., Šimkonis, S., & Drouin, N. (2024). Governance of ESG implementations: a literature review. In International Research Network on Organizing by Projects Conference,11-14 June (pp. 1-1). KTH Royal Institute of Technology