February Meeting

DATE: Thursday, 2/18/16

TIME:  5:30PM  Check-In & Networking | 6:00PM Meeting Begins

 Organizing the Chaos

Utilizing JIRA & Confluence to bring clarity to your projects and teams

Description:

Do you have a difficult time keeping your teams organized?  Do you struggle with providing real time reporting on your projects?  Do you feel like your project tracking system is difficult to customize?

We will show you how we have used JIRA and Confluence to organize and increase the visibility of not only our IT projects, but also our non-IT projects.  We will also show you how these tools allowed us to improve client communication and satisfaction for a variety of our service lines.

SPEAKER

Josh Dicharry 

Project Management & Business Process Consulting Manager,Postlethwaite & Netterville 

Professional Bio:

10+ years of Project Management experience for IT projects, Non-profit campaigns, & Non-IT projects

Specializing in project set-up, team management, resource planning, business process improvement, project monitoring & controls, and project triage.

Education:

PMP

MBA from LSU, Baton Rouge, LA

SPEAKER 

Brian Ham 

Application Development & System Integration Manager, Postlethwaite & Netterville

Professional Bio:

15+ years of web programming experience for electronic document management systems (EDMS), project management solutions, and transaction processing systems.

Specializing in custom development, large software implementations, system integration, and process automation.

Education:

MS in Computer Science from Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

 MEETING SPONSOR

LANTEC is a provider of computer software and professional development training to corporate and government clients across Louisiana and throughout the country.

They facilitate hands-on training for various business types - from small two-employee shops to Fortune 500 organizations with thousands of employees.

LANTEC is home to Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft Office Specialists and Adobe Certified Experts who continually provide top-quality technical, applications and professional development training.

BATION ROUGE OFFICE

11512 Lake Sherwood Ave. North | Baton Rouge, LA  70816 | (225) 293-0656

LAFAYETTE OFFICE

900 E. St. Mary Blvd. - Suite #209 | Lafayette, LA  70503 | (337) 233-2016

As always, guests, students and instructors are welcome!

For PMP-credentialed members, you will receive 1.5 PDUs for your attendance at this event. 

PMI Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) Program and PMI Talent Triangle category for this presentation = "Technical Project Management"