Workshops
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Pre-conference workshops offer in-depth, skill-building tools and focus on the topics that you will require for career advancement and professional development. Enhance your learning experience and maximize your networking opportunities by attending one of our pre-conference workshops.
- Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and Professional Development Hours (PDHs) are available.
- You must register for the full conference to participate in a pre-conference workshop.
- Advance registration accompanied by the additional registration fee is required to reserve a pre-conference workshop seat.
Introduction to Health Systems Engineering – Industrial Engineering Tools Applied to Healthcare
2 Day Pre-conference Workshop
Junell Scheeres, LS2 Performance Solutions
8 a.m.-5 p.m., May 21-22, 2011
The healthcare service industry of the 21st century is poised for reform. Healthcare performance debates are raging across every sector in healthcare including: clinical research and development; product manufacturing; supply chain and distribution; patient care service delivery and the transactional sectors reimbursing healthcare’s revenue cycle.
This two-day course offers a hands-on learning experience to introduce the modern industrial engineer; system engineer; performance engineer; and management engineer with ways to apply their comprehensive technical toolkit to optimize the healthcare environment.
Participants will apply their analytical skills to case studies and take part in interactive exercises to learn what tools are relevant and easily applied and what adaptations are required to address this complex industry. Attendees will practice some of the soft skills needed to succeed as a healthcare performance improvement change agent and build effective healthcare relationships. Participants will gain a basic understanding of some of the contemporary industrial engineering performance improvement tools and techniques that offer real solutions to meet consumer needs and optimize the healthcare delivery system.
Some of the topics covered will include:
Day 1
Health Systems Overview
Personnel, Patients, Payers and Partners
The Environment of Care
The Revenue Cycle - Healthcare’s Financial Engine
High Tech - High Touch
Day 2
Supply Chain & Inventory Management
Care Delivery Performance Management
Safety and Risk Management
Pursuit of Excellence
Emerging Trends & Opportunities
Making a difference in healthcare means making a difference for ourselves and those we care about. Being a part of the solution is what we do. Here’s a chance to learn to do it for healthcare!
Measurement of Software Productivity – Role of IE
Murali Chemuturi, Chemuturi Consultants
8 a.m.-5 p.m., May 22, 2011
Presently the software development industry equates the term "productivity" with "capacity." Another misunderstanding is to set productivity norms using past records of similar activity. While this practice provides "what was achieved" it does not certify that it is the "right" achievement. Some in the industry even go to the extent of continuously adjusting the norms based on the subsequent project achievements. Software industry places emphasis on "size" estimation – that is measuring the "quantity" of software to be developed/delivered. Another misnomer in software size estimation is that it uses "complexity" to increase the size of the size. "Complexity" certainly affects the rate of achievement but not the size. While the whole world uses industrial engineers to set productivity norms, software development industry has so far did not make use of well-proven IE techniques to help it set right productivity norms and thereby improve its performance.
There is urgent and pressing need for involvement of IE in software development industry to effect improvement in its activities. Why is this necessary? Software development is the most outsourced activity. It is outsourced without any credible productivity norms resulting in excess payouts. With right productivity norms, significant amount of savings can be realized for USA.
This course acquaints the IEs with software estimation and the role they can play in improving the efficiency of the software development industry.
Course outline
Background information about software estimation
- Present scenario in software development industry with special focus on software estimation and software project management and other opportunities for efficiency improvement
- Perspective of software development industry
Present practices of software estimation in the industry
- Present practices of Software Estimation in the software development industry
- Introduction to software size measures Function Points, Use Case Points, FPA Mark II, SSU (Software Size Units), STU (Software Test Units), Story Points and COCOMO (Constructive Cost Model)
- Setting norms for productivity in software development industry
Understanding about productivity in software development industry
- Present scenario of understanding about productivity and setting productivity norms in the software development industry
- IE perspective on productivity for setting standard times and estimation norms
Proposed methodology for productivity measurement for software development activities
- Possible techniques for setting productivity norms in software development industry
Course objectives
- Explain the present scenario of software estimation in software development industry including setting software productivity norms, use of complexity to increase software size as well as misunderstanding prevalent in software development industry about productivity and estimation
- Propose a methodology for measurement of software productivity using IE techniques
- Prepare Industrial Engineers for carrying our productivity studies in software development industry
Course benefits
- Understand software development industry practices with focus on software productivity, estimation and project management
- Understand that IE techniques have a place in software development industry and be prepared to render service to that industry
Project Risk Management™
Greg Hutchins, Quality Plus Engineering
8 a.m.-5 p.m., May 22, 2011
The workshop focuses on how to manage project risks. The workshop follows the Project Risk Management principles and practices adopted by the Project Management Institute (PMBoK), ISO 31,000, along with examples of public and private risk management frameworks. The workshop explains how to implement of project risk management frameworks, principles, practices and tools. The goal for participants is to be able to minimize risks and maximize opportunities during a project’s life cycle.
Participants will take home a risk management toolbox. The toolbox is a collection of several articles (written by Q+E), risk checklists and forms that can be used with any of the major risk management standards or frameworks.
Workshop Outline
- Introduction to Risk and Risk Management
- PMBOK Project Risk Framework
- Risk Frameworks including: ISO 31000 Framework
- How to Establish the Risk Context
- How to Identify Project Risks
- How to Analyze Project Risks
- How to Mitigate and Treat Project Risks
Learning Objectives
- Learn and develop a risk management plan to guide project risk management activities.
- Learn how to identify risk tolerance for project scope, schedule, cost, and quality risks.
- Learn how to develop a risk register.
- Learn how to quantify project risks.
- Learn how to apply cost, schedule, scope, and quality project controls.
- Learn how to prepare risk response (treatment) strategies to mitigate risks, control risks and maximize opportunities.
Who Should Attend
- Industrial Engineers
- Design Engineers
- Manufacturing Engineers
- Project Managers
- Supply Managers
- Logistics Professionals
- Quality Engineers