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SEPTEMBER 30TH - Sept. Chapter Meeting - Professional Development Meeting - Leveraging the Early Warning Signs of IT Project Failure (and Success)

Title: Leveraging the Early Warning Signs of IT Project Failure (and Success) Abstract: 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 and delivered business value, how to monitor them continuously and how to leverage strategic project intelligence to implement a systemic approach to effective project management, and success. About John Bowen: John Bowen is a Senior Consultant and Executive Speaker to CXOs, executive organizations and professional groups for Computer Aid, Inc.(CAI).He 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. John is also president of Management Envision LLC, a research and consulting company focused on innovative presentation of complex issues in process, portfolio, project and program management. He provides management consulting services to IT organizations in global expansion. Before joining CAI, John served for ten years as CIO of PPL Global, the international division of PPL Corporation. In that role, he was responsible for IT management and operations in Latin America and lived for several years in Argentina and Chile. He has managed multi-national projects involving teams in more than 25 countries. He authored an acclaimed project management methodology and established project management offices (PMOs) in multiple companies in the US and Latin America. John is a Rector Scholar and magna cum laude graduate of DePauw University with degrees in mathematics, computer science and symbolic logic. He has taught international business, information engineering and project management for MBA programs at fifteen universities and is currently 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 an audience of over 12,000 executives, business professionals and graduate 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. Date & Time Thursday September 30th, 2021 6:30pm EST End Date & Time Thursday September 30th, 2021 7:45pm EST Venue: Virtual via Zoom