Online interview
Available: this broadcast is available online ONLY UNTIL April 22nd.
This is a replay from the VirtualWorkingSummit 2010.
Hosted by: Penny Pullan (@PennyPullan)
Duration: 41 minutes. Claim 0.75 Category C PDU

Negotiating Internationally: Lothar Katz

In formal contract negotiations and informal team discussions, international collaboration frequently requires negotiating and influencing across distances, time zones, language barriers, and cultural differences.

The challenges are considerable. How do you reach agreement with a foreign client without giving away too much value? How do you steer your faraway project team’s decisions without burning bridges and losing allies? How can you overcome emotional barriers and pushback from a foreign colleague? And most importantly, how is any of this done when you cannot meet the person face to face?

In this call, author and international negotiation expert Lothar Katz (LinkedIn profile) explores conceptual, cultural, ethical, and practical aspects of remote business negotiations. He also discusses the limitations of negotiating virtually, which with some cultures can be hard and even impossible to do successfully.

Mr Katz is the author of Leadershipcrossroads.com and the book Negotiating International Business: The Negotiator’s Reference Guide to 50 Countries Around the World.

Information for recording Category C Activities:

Process Groups: Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: Integration, Scope, Human Resources, Communications (PMBOK Reference)

• 4.3 Direct & Manage Project Execution / 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope / 5.5 Control Scope
• 9.1 Develop Human Resource Plan / 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.4Manage Stakeholder Expectations

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Virtual Working Summit – June 2011

Do you need to work effectively when you can’t be face to face?

Do you want to have the satisfaction of working in a way that massively reduces your travel costs and helps the environment? What about slashing the time you waste in planes, cars and airports (and the associated frustrations?) Do you want to avoid misunderstandings with your team and stop wasting time on ineffective conference calls?

Click here to register for the Virtual Working Summit 2011.

The Virtual Working summit is hosted by Penny Pullan , who also hosted the Worth Working Summit earlier this year. You can read our comments on the WorthWorking Summit here on pduOTD.com.

Curso en línea
Fecha de inscripción: Lun Abril 25
Fecha de inicio: Mié Abril 27
Presentado por: Scrum Manager
Tutor: Gregorio Mena Rodríguez
Precio: Gratuito.
Idioma: Español
PDUs: Una PDU se otorga por cada hora de aprendizaje – Como una ‘Actividad de aprendizaje autodirigido’ (‘Self Directed Learning Activity’) recuerde documentar su experiencia de aprendizaje y su relación con la gestión de proyectos para su ‘Carpeta de Seguimiento de Auditoría de PDUs’ (‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’).
Categoría de PDUs: C
Nombre del curso: Curso de Introducción Scrum Manager (CU_INTRO)

Objetivo: Conocer los principios de los modelos de procesos y las prácticas ágiles, enmarcados en el mapa o marco de situación que les da sentido, y revela las fortalezas y debilidades de cada estrategia: ingeniería, procesos, gestión predictiva y gestión ágil.
Conocer las razones y fortalezas de Scrum Manager:

• Flexibilidad
• Globalidad

Es una introducción necesaria para comprender la agilidad de forma objetiva, y adquirir principios para construir un criterio profesional propio para guiar las decisiones de gestión diseño y mejora del entorno de trabajo.

Biografía del tutor: Ing. Técnico en Informática de sistemas. Tengo más de seis años de experiencia como programador, pasando los dos últimos años estudiando y llevando a la práctica las metodologías ágiles.

Clic aquí para registrarse en este curso

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

Most project managers know about the ‘triple’ constraint of Time-Cost-Quality.

This webinar addresses the reasons why most projects still fail, and what you can do as a Project Manager to improve your odds of success.

We discuss where quality should be defined, how to plan to ensure quality, and what to implement in your project to determine if quality is reached.

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 a previously recorded version of this session from 5/12/2010.

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Live Webinar April 26th 2011 – 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

This webinar with Tandy Gold will define a model of applied ethics in the context of offshore outsourcing, and explore the current best practices as represented by certifications and other sources.

Click here to register for Ethics in IT Outsourcing.

Live Webinar April 26th 2011 – 2:00 pm EST
Offered by ESI International (REP 1038)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU – 1 Cat A Free

In order to ensure project value and financial responsibility, organizations are looking to improvement programs that involve the creation of a Project Management Office (PMO). But, before you embark on this mission there are many things to consider. Is your organization ready to manage a PMO? Does your organization have the infrastructure to support a PMO? What are the risks associated with the development of a PMO? And how do you ensure that the PMO becomes valued as the governing entity for projects within your organization?

Using client real-world experiences, research and case studies, the presenter will identify what it takes to establish a PMO, the pitfalls to avoid and how to ensure that the PMO contributes to the organization’s success.

Learning points:

1. Understand organizational readiness
2. Identify potential risks
3. Develop an evolutionary plan for the PMO

Speaker: James H. Foreman, PMP, Senior Consultant

Click here to register for this opportunity.

RMS Titanic was a passenger liner that struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, and sank on 15 April 1912. She struck the iceberg four days into the crossing, at 23:40 on 14 April 1912, and sank at 2:20 the following morning, resulting in the deaths of 1,517 people in one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history.
-Wikipedia

The Sinking of the Titanic on April 14/15, 1912 offers many valuable lessons for the Project Manager, from both a popular perspective and from a more serious academic perspective.

The Sinking of RMS Titanic – a Popular Perspective

Various authors have used the sinking of the Titanic to illustrate popular lessons, such as Icebergs are only 1/7th above water (hence the expression “tip of the iceberg“). Blog entry “Management Lessons from Titanic” on the Taming the Software Dragon blog lists 10 such lessons learned.

The Titanic story is well known to many people from the various movies that have been made over the past century. Wikipedia has a list of films featuring RMS Titanic, beginning in 1912 and including the 1997 film by James Cameron.

The 1997 film Titanic focused on the characters of Jack Dawson (Leondaro DiCaprio) and Rose DeWitt Bakater (Kate Winslet). The making of the movie was a massive project, with an estimated budget of $200 million. This included the building of a reconstruction of the Titanic at Playas de Rosarito, Baja California. This set, as well as the scale models and computer-generated imagery are shown in the Making of the Titanic, featured on YouTube.

Academic Studies of the Lessons Learned from RMS Titanic

If you’re willing to spend the time for a more in-depth study of the disaster, these links provide a deeper study of the Titanic disaster, from the perspectives of the design and construction of the ship, the design of the White Star ocean-crossing service, through her maiden voyage to the discovery of the wreck in 1985.

For an in-depth study of White Star and the design and construction design and construction decisions, Mark Kozak-Holland has written two books. These books are available on the Lessons From History website – Titanic Lessons for IT Projects (the first and second chapters are available for download), 160 pages and Avoiding Project Disasters, 312 pages.

Mark Kozak-Holland serialized much of the material on gantthead.com in a 16 part series IT Project Lessons from Titanic.

In “Project Management of the RMS Titanic and the Olympic Ships“, Alan Scott Miller examines the Titanic as a service, particularly a ferry service, to its end customers.

In “Project Management and the Discovery of the Titanic,” James Peter Murphy discusses the 1980’s project to find the wreck on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

Category C Activity: Lessons Learned from The Sinking of the Titanic

You can make these articles part of your PDU Plan and earn Category C PDUs. We have provided you with the educational references in this article, if you choose you can create your own Category C learning activity keep track of the Project Management lessons you have learned and the educational time you spent on the activity. For more information see our article which describes Category C Self-Directed Learning (SDL), the Three Learning Questions and SMART goal setting.