Integrating Quality into Project Management

• Curtis Highet, PMP
      Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

About the Presentation:

Project Management processes, Systems Development Life Cycles, and Methodologies define processes that, by themselves, address only one portion of projects. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota recognized the need to integrate these processes (and others) in order to deliver quality solutions to their customers. The mechanism for delivery is an intranet and has been named ‘ATLAS’.

Curtis Highet will talk about how quality techniques and methods have been integrated into the processes at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and how they have been communicated to the organization. He will:

1. Introduce ATLAS
2. Define attributes of process
3. Show how Blue Cross Minnesota integrated processes with a project life cycle
4. Communicate their integrated solution

This presentation will be valuable to you if you are a development manager, QA manager, or are otherwise involved in helping organizations incorporate good processes in everyday development work.

About the Presenter:

Curt Highet manages a team that supports the project processes, techniques, and standards for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota. He teaches internal staff about the processes, how to use them, and why they are important. Currently he is working with a project team to attain CMM level 2.

Curt is a certified project manager with the Project Management Institute. He developed the internal process integration framework called ‘ATLAS’.

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