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Lunch and Learn Series for the Advanced Project Manager - Session 3
Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM EDT
Category: Forum Events

The Project Management Workgroup presents
Lunch and Learn Series for the Advanced Project Manager
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm

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Session 3:  Leveraging the Early Warning Signs of Project Failure (and Success)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm

Project metrics are of four kinds: 1) trailing indicators that reveal where we are today, 2) leading indicators that extrapolate into the future in an attempt to tell us where we will end up, 3) Early Warning Signs (EWS) that provide a forewarning of impending project challenges or failure, and 4) delivered business value.  Traditional project management methodologies emphasize trailing indicators (such as actual cost, schedule variance, cost variance, utilization rate, and others) and leading indicators (such as Earned Value and Planned Value).  Unfortunately, numerous studies reveal that traditional project management often fails to deliver expected business value.  It is apparent we are not measuring the right things.  In this presentation we will explain why the key to project success is tracking the Early Warning Signs of project disfunction, how to monitor them continuously and how to leverage strategic project intelligence to implement a systemic approach to effective project management, and success. 

Who should attend:
Experienced senior project managers
PMO directors
Senior executives

About John Bowen:
John Bowen, president of Management Envision, LLC, is an executive speaker to CXOs, executive organizations, and professional groups.
John has more than 35 years of IT management experience including executive leadership, technology management, IT integration, IT due diligence, strategic planning, and large-scale system implementation.  Before founding Management Envision, John served for ten years as a Chief Information Officer (CIO), responsible for IT management and operations.  He has managed many multi-national projects and established project management offices (PMOs) in multiple companies.  He has taught international business, information engineering, and project management for MBA programs at fifteen universities and is currently a visiting instructor of international business and project management at Lehigh University’s Iacocca Institute and adjunct professor of project management in the Lehigh University College of Business and Economics Executive Education Program.  John has taught international business and project leadership to more than 800 professionals from 100 countries at the Iacocca Institute´s Global Village program.  Since 2015, John has presented at more than 150 events to a combined audience of over 12,000 executives, business professionals, and students in over 50 cities in 13 countries on four continents.  John's industry knowledge spans software development, higher education, power generation, energy distribution, telecommunications and health care.   
John is generous with his time as a featured speaker, and has presented to the NYC Project Management Institute (PMI) chapter five times, to the PMI chapter in Albany three times, and to the NYC Society for Information Management chapter.