TOPIC:   A Lessons Learned and Trending System for Projects

The planning and execution of Projects are conducted against controls that include processes, standards, practices and expected behaviours that should either prevent and protect against errors or hazards; or mitigate the consequence of incidents and performance deviations.  A lessons learned and trending system has been developed based on PMBOK® and ISO 9001 criteria to provide practical prevention and improvement in project risks.  The trending results identify and analyse the top ten risks with important human and organisational performance gaps, and serve as a basis for decision-making on future corrective and prevention action.  The database makes provision for the identification of the lesson learned, including the finding, the causal factor/s, the corrective action and the persons responsible for implementing the lesson and corrective action.  

The findings are ranked either by the number of occurrences or by associated costs.  A dashboard of the results can be customized from over 50 graphs that update automatically with input data and user-defined filter settings.  The dashboard can provide high-level oversight of the project performance for Executive Management; and detailed information for Project and Middle Managers.  Results from trending analyses and corrective action plans are utilised to prioritise and address the most important and costly project risks to be resolved.  

The presentation will provide an overview of the lessons learned and trending system, with practical application to Projects.

PRESENTER:   Albert E. Marquardt, Professional Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineer

Albert obtained a B. Eng. (Mechanical) and a Hons. B. Eng. (Aeronautical) degree from the University of Stellenbosch.  His professional career started as a research and development engineer at the Bureau for Mechanical Engineering and part-time lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch.  Albert has gained 30 years practical engineering experience from diversified projects across a wide client base, which included the military as well as aerospace, automotive, medical technology and heavy engineering industries.  

Whilst working as Chief Engineer (civilian) at the South African Air Force, he was exposed to the EFQM and SAEF models and became increasingly involved in Quality Management, including FMECAs, incident investigations and lessons learned systems.  In his later role as Quality Assurance manager at a Denel affiliate he was responsible for aligning the quality assurance functions with international aerospace requirements, which included the compilation of detailed quality assurance plans and the strict control of special processes.  Albert is a registered professional engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa.

DATE:   Thursday, 23 March 2017

TIME
17h30 - 18h00 Registration, Snacks, Networking
18h00 - 19h00 Presentation

VENUE
Varsity College
12 Radar Drive
Durban North 
Durban
4016

COST:
Members: Free
Non-Members: R50

Register before 22 March 2017

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