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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