IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT; AN OXYMORON?

Distinguished Professor from UWO: Michael Bennett

19 Mar 2003, 6:30 pm - refreshments - for 7:00 pm presentation

Air Force Officers Mess, 162 Gloucester St, Ottawa

For decades, engineers have been using the tools and techniques of Project Management to bring their projects in on time, cost and quality. However, people in the Information Technology (IT) field, software engineers, computer programmers, network professionals, have been slow to take advantage of them. For good reasons! This talk will explain why this is so and talk about the revolution that Project Management is about to bring to all aspects of IT. The talk will be peppered with dramatic examples of massive IT failures caused by practitioners not using standard PM procedures. He will stress the importance of basic engineering principles in managing IT projects in conjunction with PM principles. With the widespread adoption of distributed software and internetted devices, the importance of this becomes startlingly clear.

Dr. Michael Bennett, P.Eng, has been working in the software engineering/networking field for over 40 years. He has taught, consulted and managed IT projects for the private sector, the Federal Government and of course the University of Western Ontario. He also leads the IT PM course for software engineers at the University of Ottawa Software engineering as well as for the Government Institute of Informatics. Currently, he is the Program Director of Software Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Bennett is a member of the PEO, PMI, ASQ, IEEE and the ACM.

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