Thursday February 3, 2011 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM EST
Live Webinar 0.5 PDU
Presented by: PMCentersUSA (REP 1016) Free

What are the consequences to your project if the schedule is incorrect? How confident in the completion date would you be, given that well over 90% of project schedules contain errors that greatly reduced the schedule accuracy and value? This statistic is based on countless schedules reviewed and critiqued for clients by Joe Lukas, Vice-President of PMCentersUSA.

Improve your scheduling ability by participating in our 30 minute webinar, Common Scheduling Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, which is intended for Project Managers, IT Managers, Business Analysts and anybody else who prepares project schedules. The webinar will cover the ten most common mistakes people make when preparing schedules, and will also discuss techniques that should be utilized to avoid these scheduling mistakes.

This presentation will be 30 minutes long with a live question and answer session following the presentation.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile) is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering solutions in project management, business analysis and business process improvement.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

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Live Webinar – Tuesday, Feb 1, 2011 @ Noon EST
Repeated Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 @ Noon EST
Repeated Tuesday, March 1, 2011 @ Noon EST

Social Media is only valuable if it can be monetized and used to contribute directly to the growth of your business. By leveraging social media, you are able to efficiently find and target new people at the point when they are most interested in the information you offer.

I believe that PMs will have an increasing role in Planning and Executing social media projects. Stakeholders will begin to expect due diligence and quantitative measures of success for these projects. Metrics that indicate the success of social media projects were discussed in the ASPE presentation on Building an Electronic Marketing Department. ASPE used both Return On Time (ROT) and Return On Investment (ROI) with their electronic marketing department. These metrics can be difficult to quantify and social media projects will require the skills of a Project Management Professional. – EdmontonPM

Presenter:
John Luginbill, the CEO and Chief Strategist of THE HEAVYWEIGHTS, specializes in increasing the sales, profits and reputation for high growth companies.

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This provider is not an REP and this seminar is not Category 3. It may not qualify under Category 4. PMPs should consider using Category 2-SDL or excluding this seminar from their PDU planning.

Live Webinar – Tuesday February 1, 2011 11:00 AM EST
Presenter: Michael O’Brochta, MPM, PMP, Journyx Inc.
Duration: 1 hour 1 CAT 4 FREE

What does it take in project management to be thebest-of-the-best, the top dog, a superstar, or world-class? What doesit taketo practice project management at the high-end? What does it take to be a greatproject manager? Thanks to recentstudies and research the answers to thesequestions are closer now then they have ever been before.

This is a how-to presentation. It will describe how to become a great project manager and it identify a list of topfactors associated with great project managers. Michael will draw on recentlypublished results of studies and research by PMIâand others about what top project managersknow and do, about why theirprojects succeed or fail, and about their projectmanager competencies. During this webinar he will also explore how great project managers aresuccessfully dealing with theevolving and expanding definition of projectsuccess, with the expanding complexity of projects, and with their increasingdependency on executives andothers for their success. A central theme is thatgreat project managers have mastered the basics, and have the discipline toadhere to them.

This webinar gives attendees a chance to:

• Identify common characteristics of great project managers
• Draw upon studies and research for insight into what it take to be a great project manager
• Understand the importance of having the discipline to stick to the basics to become a great project manager

This webinar is 1 hour long and attendees are eligible for 1 PDU Credit.

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Live Webinar – Tuesday, February 1, 2011 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Offered by CAI’s IT Metrics and Productivity Institute – Nick Spanos
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU Cat 4 Free

This webinar will discuss how we can apply Lean concepts to project management to reduce costs while improving quality and value to the business.

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Additonal Resources:
Principles of Lean Project Management:Eliminating Waste
Lean Six Sigma – four key elements and DMAIC (Define Measure Analyze Improve Control)

Live Webinar – Wednesday February 2, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST
Offered by CAI’s IT Metrics and Productivity Institute – Rick Brenner
Duration 1 hour 30 minutes 1 PDU1 Cat 4 Free

In 1911, Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole. 35 days later, Robert Scott followed. Amundsen’s party returned to base but Scott’s party perished.

In this webinar, Rick Brenner uses the history of this event to explore important lessons about managing risk.

This style of webinar showing Project Management principles in “Real World” situations help reinforce the practical nature of project management practices. I attended a workshop at the PMI Northern Alberta Chapter conference that used the Sinking of the Titanic to illustrate IT PM issues. Tying these practices from the PMBOK to practical situations helps me explain the value of Project Management to Management and other stakeholders. EdmontonPM

This webinar is produced by CAI’s IT Metrics and Productivity Institute. For the Institute’s full webinar schedule, please visit itmpi.org/webinars. For Institute events, please visit itmpi.org/events

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Live Webinar Friday January 28, 2011 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM, EST
1 PDU Cat 3 $15

The creation of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for a project is often a misunderstood if not a daunting project activity. Project teams often misunderstand the purpose and uses of the WBS confusing it with the Project Plan or Project Schedule. The WBS and the Project Schedule do have a relationship, but they are not interchangeable deliverables.

During this 1 hour Solutions Cube Group webinar: ABC Basics Of The WBS, attendees will acquire an understanding on the characteristics and components of a well defined WBS that is used as blueprint for the product or service being produced as well as fully describes all the project deliverables required to produce the project outcome.

Solutions Cube Group’s live Webinars address many relevant project issues. Join us for this 1 hour in depth presentation to learn about the components of project’s Work Breakdown Structure and how to use it to reduce project failures by closing the gap on missed or misunderstood project requirements.

I attended the De-Mystifying the WBS seminar hosted by Solutions Group last Friday. Many Project Management tools, such as MS Project, blur the line between the WBS and the Project Schedule. In this seminar, Paul Burek reminded us of the differences and of the value of creating a well defined WBS as part of our Project Plan. EdmontonPM

In this 1 hour live in-depth Webinar participants learn about:

• Characteristics of well defined Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• Establishing the project boundaries and foundation required to create a WBS
• Recognizing and using the different types of WBS that can be created
• Steps for building a project WBS

This is the first of 3 webinars hosted by Solutions Cube Group in their WBS Series, presented over the next 3 Fridays

1. The ABC Basics of WBS – January 28, 2011
2. Influence of the Scope Statement on the WBS – February 4, 2011
3. Transitioning from WBS to Project Schedule – February 11, 2011

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