PMIGLC Dinner Meeting

Location: Southfield Marriott

Title: Is your Product Development Process Performing to the Competitive Time to Market Trends?

By: Ted Barth, managing partner of BNW Manufacturing Associates LLC

Time:

Check-in ~ 6:00pm

Dinner ~ 6:30pm

Presentation ~ 7:30pm

	PDU Code C011-021108
	Presentation materials

PMIGLC Forum

Title: PMBOK Review

By: Steve Bruni, MBA, PMP

Forum Time: 5:30-6:30 - Before the Dinner Meeting and/or
Tuesday-Thursday, February 12-14 online

Fees: $20 (Member), $25 (Non-member) for Monday Forum; $20 (Member), $25 (Non-member) for Online forum

PDUs: Earn 2.5 PDUs by attending the dinner meeting and the forum; forum only…1 PDU; Monday forum plus online forum February 12-14, 2 PDUs.

	PDU Code for Face to Face Forum C011-021108F
	PDU Code for Online Forum C011-021108F2

Dinner Meeting Presentation Abstract

A case study of Tier One company’s new product development program with $ 10 million capital investment of their transformation from poor time to market to best launch in company history. This Tier One company developed a four continent new product launch encompassing HQ/ Product Engineering & Technical Center and four outlying manufacturing plants requiring an accelerated launch cycle. Previous experience had produced unacceptable time to market of 42 to 60 months using the company Stage Gate process with the quality APQP milestones to deliver major product launches.

Presentation will focus on a work management/ project management solution that encompassed six cross functional areas: program management, product engineering, test engineering, manufacturing engineering and plant production launch. A work management capability integrating resources and schedule and quality milestones in an ease of use manner allowing project manager to successfully target and deliver 100% on time 31 months launch. The resulting 26% new product time to market improvement produced the best product launch in company history and the work management/ project management capability was accomplished in five elapsed months at the initiation phase of the product development life cycle.

Speaker Biography

Ted Barth is considered one of the foremost subject matter experts in the Ohio – Michigan region in the development of work management project capabilities that provide significant time to market results. As Managing Partner of BNW Manufacturing Associates, Mr. Barth has served as President of PMI Great Lakes Chapter in year 2000, was the Founding Director of the Michigan Huron Valley Chapter, and was certified as New Product Development Professional (NPDP) with Product Development Management Association.

Mr. Barth’s company, as a 3rd party Project Management Solution Provider and a Microsoft supplier and partner has an impressive record in improving schedule and budget performance of client OEM, Tier ones and Tier twos--- the presentation case study is one of those engagements. Mr. Barth understands the needs of PMI Chapter and PMP certified members who seek to discover best practices that allow them to leverage their experience and PMBOK knowledge with their companies Product Development and project management processes.

FORUM INFORMATION

Presentation Abstract:

The participant will...

• Review best practices of PMBOK 3rd edition and other major PMI standards
  
  
• Members may register for the Monday forum, the Monday forum and the online forum, or the online forum only.
  
  
• The online session will include the power point presentation shown in the Monday session and extensive discussions on the PMBOK best practices. The discussions will focus on the application of best practices.
  
  
• Online participants will receive the entry code for entering the forum and the URL on Monday, February 11, by e-mail.
  
  
• To receive a PDU for the online session, the participant must be prepared to access the forum Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday and participate in the discussions all three days.
  
  
• Access is available at your convenience, 24 hours per day. Participants are not required to access at any specific time.
  

Presenters:

Steve Bruni, MBA, PMP

Steve has over 25 years of experience in the Audit and Information Technology Industry. He has worked as a Project Manager, Business Analyst, Financial and EDP Auditor, and Programmer Analyst in the finance and manufacturing industries. Steven has extensive experience with SAP, is proficient in many software applications including various audit software and has obtained several specialized certifications.

Steve is also a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Information Systems Auditor, and received his PMP certification in 2004. He holds an MBA in finance from the University of Michigan.
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