Thu. 26th May, 2011 / 6:30pm

“Kanban” for IT Project Management

Speaker: Mark Beresford

Program Director, GLOBALINX

“Kanban” is the Japanese term for a whiteboard used in scheduling production-line work-in-progress and Just-In-Time delivery of necessary parts, to minimize inventory. “Kanban” systems are excellent visual communication and management tools—flagging bottlenecks like upstream delays or supply-chain shortages, and allowing everyone to see scheduled, in-progress, and just-completed jobs—so help stakeholders to forecast realistically. “Kanban” systems are also used as personal or development project management tools—focusing on prioritizing schedules and limiting current work-in-progress.

Mark Beresford is a cross-cultural coach and facilitator who delivers high-level project management learning solutions in English to companies with a global outlook. Mark studied Business Administration at McMaster University, is PMP certified, and is doing a McGill MBA. He has previous project manager experience in architecture & construction, and has been a project management consultant in Japan for over ten years, mainly in construction & telecoms. He was previously a telecom consultant in Canada, specializing in PBX business phone system design and implementation.

Date: Thursday, 26th May
Time: 18:30 open, 19:00 start, 20:30 end.
Venue: Foreign Correspondents' Club (20F) Map
Cost*: ¥4,000 ICA members,
¥6,000 non-members. Open to all; RSVP, pay at door.

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