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As a part of our company's strategic direction and improving our disaster recovery posture our company spent 2 years defining requirements, researching cloud hosting and cloud deployment partners and identifying key staff.  Once we settled on those important decisions, we moved forward with a trial deployment.  Upon completing the trial deployment we then developed a long-range strategic plan for migrating applications that fit our cloud strategy.

This presentation covers the planning, execution and roll-out of this 3-year effort, as well as the multitude of new projects it spawned. I will cover the good, the bad and the “it could have gone better” aspects of this 3+ year effort.

The major points to be covered include:

1. How defining Requirements are different with the Cloud
2. How to go about picking key partners
3. How to build a team for Cloud projects
4. Identifying Best Practices, and pitfalls, using a review mirror

This session will use a recent case study on a large multi-year project that changed the fundamental way the company worked, changed the go-forward strategy within multiple IT departments and energized the staff involved.

Bio

Speaker: Joe Perzel

Joe Perzel has been leading projects of all sizes and managing staffs since 1982 in both a corporate and vendor capacity.  He has a background in multiple industries such as healthcare, insurance, finance, government, manufacturing, non-profit and education.  Presently Joe is Partner JPerzel Inc. as well as Program Manager at Surescripts LLC.  Previously he has held leadership positions at Cargill, Thomson Reuters, MN Workers Compensation Bureau and International Multifoods.

Joe has been speaking since 2002 on topics ranging from project leadership, management, strategy, negotiations/sales.  He has presented keynotes, chapter meetings and workshops internationally to multiple corporate, government and non-profit organizations, over 20 PMI chapters, PMBA Conferences, PMI Global and Region 2, BBC (Building Business Capability) conference, International Institute of Business Analysts (IIBA) chapters, local and global Society for Quality (ASQ), Project Summit*BusinessAnalyst World (PMBA),  International Project Management Assoc. (IPMA) and the PMO Impact Summit.