Article / Exercise : Stakeholder Management
Five Page Article with Exercise By: Susanne Madsen
Category C PDU 0.5 (article) to 2 (follow exercise with your project)

“In order for you and your project to be successful, you need the support of as many of your stakeholders as possible. You need their buy-in to effectively progress the project.” – @Susanne Madsen

Susanne provides a four step to exercise to help you uncover “who your stakeholders are, how influential and supportive they each are and what you can do to optimize the way you interact with them”

Category C Learning Primer for this activity: Choose a project you are working on and go through this exercise to create a strong and trustworthy relationship with all of your key stakeholders.

Process Groups: Initiating & Executing

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communication ( PMBOK Reference)

• 10.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.4 Manage Stakeholders Expectations

Presenter: Susanne Madsen (LinkedIn) is a sought after project manager, mentor and coach with over 15 years experience in managing and rolling out large change management programs. A PRINCE2 practitioner and a qualified corporate & executive coach, she works as a Program Director for one of the world’s largest financial institutions.

Susanne is dedicated to helping organizations deliver better change management programs and is passionate about coaching and mentoring project managers to improve their leadership capabilities, performance and well being.

Here at pduOTD.com we are looking forward to Susanne’s newest venture. We love Susanne’s writing/mentoring style and we know others will too. She is currently writing a practical workbook filled with tips, tools and techniques for everyone who wants to coach themselves and others to become highly valued and truly successful project managers and leaders. Way to go Susanne! – EdmontonPM

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

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

Unrealistic. Unwritten. Unapproved. Undelivered.

For many organizations, these words describe too many of their major projects. Simply put, poorly written business requirements for projects are guaranteed to deliver poor results and is unacceptable.

Now, more than ever, organizations need to implement a comprehensive approach to business analysis to ensure all projects are built on a foundation of solid, clear business requirements.

There is no silver bullet to accomplish this, it is a journey that requires a clear understanding of it’s destination and the roads that must be navigated to reach that destination.

This presentation will provide attendees a map and a compass that will help them to realize the structure and discipline necessary to consider their approach to Requirements Development and Management. It will address workable solutions for implementing proven business analysis practices in your organization and will demonstrate how the business analysis function impacts project and organizational performance and will include specific examples of how organizations like yours have successfully implemented business analysis.

Participants will learn:

• The critical role a business analyst plays & project manager must play on development projects
• The structure and discipline necessary to support the growth and development of a BA Center of Excellence
• How business analysis improves customer satisfaction
• The risks of not practicing a discipline approach to requirements development and management.

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Live Webinar April 21 2011 – 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Presented by: PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU Category A Free

This webinar explains the origin of projects, and how a project portfolio is created in alignment with an organizational vision. The portfolio should also created in relation to the future state of the organization and the corresponding organizational strategy.

This talk will also discuss the various reasons for doing projects and effective portfolio techniques to help ensure the right projects are selected. This webinar will also provide you with key questions that should be asked when starting a new project.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP®, PE, CCE

Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile) is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA.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.

Registration to the PMCentersUSA site is required.

Click here to register for this live opportunity.

Online Webinar
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free

This session provides attendees with hands on techniques for determining the outcome of their projects before the project really gets rolling.

This session is about facts, and presents extensive research from IAG’s new Business Analysis Benchmark Study to help project managers build a predictive risk assessment model.This session puts the intake and requirements gathering process of the project lifecycle under the microscope to determine what actions Project Managers can take to more consistently achieve a successful outcome on their projects.

3 Learning Objectives:

1. Quantifying the impact of requirements quality on project time and cost
2. Assessment tool to identify the high risk projects
3. Proactive strategies for driving success when faced with odds stacked against you

You will have to register – press the register link on the page and enter your information into the next screen. Please be patient this may take a min or two to load.

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Online Webinar: Managing Stakeholder Expectations
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B Free
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

What does it really mean to manage expectations?

Stakeholders are demanding people and many times do not always have the same objectives.

How do you identify their needs and build communication mechanisms within Project Insight project management software for increased communication?

In this webinar we will identify ways for you to identify the expectations of each project and portfolio stakeholder and provide tools for you to manage differing expectations among stakeholders.

In order to claim a Category B PDU after watching this presentation contact PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc) and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

Click here to view this opportunity – recorded 5/26/2010.