Live Webinar August 25, 2011 – 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A Free

The first suspension bridge was the iron chain bridge at Jacob’s Creek, in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1801. This ‘bridge to the future’ began a period of rapid development of the modern suspension bridge.

This 30 min. webinar will discuss how implementing a standard methodology for business analysis and project management is the ‘suspension bridge’ to successful projects.

Procedures are equivalent to the bridge towers, providing the guidelines on how to do the work of the project; they are the foundation supporting the bridge. The bridge deck is the project process, which is the road to successful projects once the bridge is crossed. The templates and forms are the suspender cables holding up the project process. A suspension bridge, and successful projects, only works if all elements are in place!

This webinar is based on work done by the presenters implementing business analysis and project management methodology at many major companies. This presentation will discuss the lessons learned in implementing a methodology, along with best practices including training of project personnel, typical challenges encountered during implementation and some of the initial benefits normally achieved. Some bridges do fail, and this webinar will end with specific examples of what can happen that leads to an incomplete (and unusable) bridge, or a bridge that is not maintained and quickly fails.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile), is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

Subject Matter Expert: Rick Clare, PMP®, CBAP®, OCP
Rick Clare (LinkedIn profile) is the Business Analysis Practice Director for PMCentersUSA, with over 15 years experience in the Systems/Business Analyst field and over 18 years of experience as a technical lead/trainer. Rick’s career experience has been as a Senior Oracle Database Developer, performing analysis, design, development and documentation on numerous database systems using Oracle and its complete set of development tools.

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