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717 W 3rd Ave 

Anchorage, AK 99501

Barrel Room East (downstairs)

Agenda (Dinner Schedule)

5:30 pm                     Doors Open

6:15 pm                     Chapter business and overview by Chapter President

6:30 pm                     Dinner is served

7:00 pm                     Presentation (by guest Speaker Mike Harvey)

8:00 pm                     Adjourn

 

Bio: Mike Harvey has supported projects and operations in Alaska’s Oil & Gas Industry his whole career.  His family moved to Alaska from Wyoming in 1974, so Mike graduated from Dimond High and earned a 2-year Petroleum Technology degree in Fairbanks before earning his Bachelor degree in Petroleum Engineering at the Montana School of Mines in 1984.  Mike started formally managing projects in 2000 and earned his PMP in 2003. He and his wife Melissa enjoy travelling and many different outdoor activities, and are proudly watching their two sons begin their own professional technical careers. 

Topic: Using Decision Quality to Improve Business Value 

PDU Category: Strategic=0.5   plus   Technical=0.5 

It can be argued that the most value-leveraging project deliverable to a business is the Project Charter.  This is the document that a business uses to formalize the start of a project and while it’s often-times a relatively short document, the amount of value of each piece of information in that document is huge.  In the past 5 years or so, PMI has acknowledged the importance and value of the Project Charter by adding the PMI-PBA certification.  Different industries call these part of the project process names like Front End Engineering, Project Appraisal, pre-project planning, Seed, Formative Stage, and Project Requirement Setting.  Tonight I’ll introduce the fundamentals of the Business Analyst process, and take a deeper look into increasing the quality of the decisions that can provide a higher level of alignment between the business and the project execution team.