Leading and Managing Teams
Date: March 25, 2011 9:00 am – 10:00 am PDT
Members (of PMI-SFBAC and sister chapters) Free. Non Members $5 PDUs: 1

This webinar seeks to build on the last Project Management presentation on Multi-Generational Teams providing concepts and theories about how Project Managers can consider their roles within the framework of the Project Management Body of Knowledge.

The webinar will focus on the Project Manager’s “GRAY” areas when leadership and management are conflated adding ambiguity and difficulty to the Project Manager’s role. The webinar will describe:

• What is leading?
• What is managing?
• How to lead and manage change in projects
• Understand the dynamics of work teams
• Improve and sustain group performance

Members of the following chapters are free to join.

• PMI-WDC
• PMI-Lima Peru Chapter
• PMI-Mumbai Chapter
• PMI-Islamabad chapter
• PMI-Japan chapter

Instructors Bio: Roger Lewis

Roger Lewis is a skilled Human Resources (HR) Effectiveness Consultant. Functioning as a project manager or work stream lead for organization strategic initiatives, Roger successfully works in concert with management teams to develop initial recommendations and develops supporting documentation for end-product solutions including assessing and evaluating employee engagement strategies. Roger is known has a competent HR Business Partner instrumental in initiating and driving HR initiatives within those organizations, placing considerable focus on retention, scaling, and culture issues. Roger has assumed key leadership in the areas of Corporate Compensation, Corporate Compliance (Employee Relations), Organization Design, and Human Resource Information Systems in the manufacturing, semi-conductor, technology, education, biotech, and academic industries.

PMI San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Speaker Exchange Program

The speaker exchange is a webinar based program, which provides members with a convenient opportunity for professional development, and earns PDU without cost to maintain their PMI credential. We encourage our members to attend upcoming PMI-SFBAC webinar event under Sister Chapter Program. After attending webinar participants will be eligible to earn 1 PDU. PDU claim procedure will be mailed you after your participation verification. Speaker will give their presentation live and answer attendees questions at the end of each presentation. We encourage our members to provide constant feedback so we can continuously offer satisfactory results.

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PMI® distinguishes two categories of Professional Development Units ( PDUs ):

• Learning PDUs
• Service PDUs that contribute to the profession of Project Management.

Learning PDUs are Frequently acquired by taking a course from:

1. PMI® Registered Education Partner ( REP® ) Category A
2. Another education provider Category B or
3. Through Self Directed Learning activities Category C

Future articles will describe other ways to earn PDU credits from the ‘Service Categories’ and have them recorded with PMI® in CCRS ( Course Completion and Recording System ).

This article focuses on Category C SDL ( self directed learning ).

With the change to the New PDU Category listings March 1 2011 there was an increase in the limit of SDL PDUs to 30 in a certification cycle. The previous limit of 15 allowed for only 15 hours of self directed planned learning.

You may wish to review our article where we discussed creating a PDU plan to run your Project Management Professional Development as you would a project with a definitive scope and timeline for completion.

Click here to read the “PDU Planning” article

We believe that as a Professional YOUR educational development is as important as any project you are working on. Projects come and go but building YOUR skill and YOUR competencies will add value to YOUR Projects and YOUR SUCCESSES!!

In this article we want to give you a glimpse of things to come and ask for your input to help us meet your needs.

Creating a Self Directed Learning Plan can be time consuming – exploring topics, finding resources and setting learning goals. We want to make it easy for you to earn up to the 30 PDUs available to you for self directed learning.

Especially for Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

We appreciate the support and encouragement of our readers. We are working on developing activities and learning primers to be able to provide direction that can assist you in getting started on your self directed learning journey to discover new information and hone your skills.

These Self Directed Learning Primers for our members will assist you in easily getting started learning about different topics in Project Management, Business Analysis, and Agile / Lean Practices. In order to focus these initiatives we would love more input from our audience.

We Want your feedback!!

1. Comment on our articles
2. Assist us by sending information about courses to Opportunity@pduOTD
3. Let us know about your Chapter or meet-up events by emailing Events@pduOTD.com
4. We always need international PMs to assist with finding and translating other opportunities offered in other languages. We service an international community and as of March 2011 we have been seen in 72 countries and more than 500 cities worldwide. We want to highlight more courses and opportunities in a variety of languages spoken by our audience. Contact us at Opportunity@pduOTD.com for more information on Volunteering (supporting your professional community earns you service PDUs).

What information would you like to see?

Email us as Hello@pduOTD.com and let us know about the topics and skills that you would like us to explore.

What topics do you want to explore more in depth?

• PMBOK & Key Process Areas ( KPAs )
  • Communications Management
  • Cost Management
  • General Project Management
  • Human Resources Management
  • Integration Management
  • Procurement Management
  • Quality Management
  • Risk Management
  • Scope Management
  • Time Management
  • Other Topics
• Other Topics
  • Agile Practices
  • Business Analysis
  • Career Development PM / BA / Agile
  • Certification
  • Change Management
  • Project Management Software
  • Information Technology
  • Management
  • Project Management Office (PMO)
  • Social Media
  • Work Breakdown Schedule – Scope
  • Other Topics

What type of resources are you comfortable with or prefer using when using in a learning plan?

• Web Resources
  • Linked and Hyper-linked pages
  • White Papers (pdf Format)
  • Videos
  • Audio Files / Podcasts
• Hard Copy Resources
  • Books
  • Magazines
  • Mind Maps
• A combination Of Methods

We want to provide you with a quality start to your individualized learning plan with topics and activities that will help you grow and hone your skills.

Please help us help you – Keep in touch 😉

Online Webinar
Offered by ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU – 1 Cat A Free

This informative Webinar will demonstrate how ESI’s integrated, personalized approach to PPM addresses the knowledge and skills required to support even your most challenging PPM tool implementation from day one.

You will learn:

• The key foundational element of PPM success
• Best practices in building the proper foundation and identifying the right tool
• The three keys to successful implementation of PPM

Presented by:
J. LeRoy Ward, (LinkedIn profile) PMP®, PgMP®, Executive Vice President of Product Strategy & Management, ESI International

Click here to view this opportunity.

The Live Session Is Free But…

You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an
ITMPI Membership

Premium Memberships are only $199 USD per year
An Excellent Value!!

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Memberships Include all PDU Codes

Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar March 29 2011 – 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Cat A
Presented by :Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar with Scott Fabel, you will learn how to create Decision Tables and Decision Trees to assess the true impact of risks on your projects. You will also be able to determine how to best respond to these risks.

Presenter : Scott Fabel (LinkedIn profile) is a senior corporate training consultant with Computer Aid, Inc. He has nearly 18 years of experience working with various Fortune 1000 companies on Help Desk Implementations, Microsoft Technologies, Business Analysis, and Project Management. He is HDI certified, PMP certified, CBAP certified, and a MCT. Scott has been teaching others business skills, professional skills, and technical skills for more than 12 years. His communication skills, combined with his martial art skills, provide him with a unique combination for keeping his sessions informative, lively, and interactive.

Click here to register for Using Decision Tables and Decision Trees for Quantitative Risk Analysis

Live Webinar – March 29, 2011 2:00 – 2:30 PM CDT
Presented: by Journyx
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Cat B FREE

This is a live webinar – A previously recorded version of this presentation is available. Click here to view our description and follow the link to the recorded version of this seminar.

Planning a project is only the first step in getting things done.

The right project manager knows how to take these plans and make them a reality. While Microsoft Project is an important project planning tool, it does not enable project execution without a little help.

This webinar gives attendees a chance to:

• Explore how to get even more out of Microsoft® Projectâ„¢ and Project Serverâ„¢
• Integrate project plans with a lightweight, user-friendly time and resource management system
• Track project and non-project time with rates and expenses
• Understand complete direct costs and allocate indirect costs
• Achieve new levels of productivity

Attendees will receive 1/2 PDU for attendance at this 30-min webinar. You will have to register to view this webinar.

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Bonus White Paper:
Extending Microsoft ProjectTM for Successful Project Execution