Live Webinar – May 12, 2011 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A Free

Bad estimates are almost always the result of incomplete information and/or lack of communication.

This webinar will discuss the common barriers to the preparation of accurate estimates, and provide timely tips that can be used for preparing more accurate estimates.

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.

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

Project managers and business analysts fear scope creep more than any risk presented.

What is traceability in the context of a project and why it is important to the success of the project? Requirements traceability facilitates the tracking of project scope delivery.

Learn how to define requirements in such a way that traceability is simple and manageable during project execution and validation of the requirements is simple and objective, leading to project acceptance by the customer, whether an internal or external customer.

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 6/23/2010.

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

Regardless of whether it is small and localized or spread across an entire enterprise, change can impact every level of an organization—and every project. This webinar will cover a topic of particular relevance in today’s workplace: organizational change.

You will learn:

• A framework for taking charge of organizational change
• How to become a change leader in your organization
• How to leverage organizational change for positive outcomes

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

Using results from ESI’s PPM survey, and considering the economic environment, this Webinar will address how PPM improvement can help tackle current portfolio management challenges – from the selection of appropriate projects to effective portfolio monitoring and ways to further mature your PPM.

Download this informative Webinar for valuable insight into the state of affairs of PPM in both the public and private sectors.

Presented by:
Mario Arlt, PMP®, VP Client Engagements, ESI International

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Live Webinar May 11 2011 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by: Metavis

In this session looks at sample migration from SharePoint Server 2007 to Server 2010.

Included in the session will be items of consideration when upgrading your SharePoint environment including concerns such as the information architecture, information classification and security.

Upgrades provide a great opportunity to optimize your SharePoint investment, and this session we will show you how.

As a ‘self-directed learning activity’ (‘Self Directed Learning Activity’), remember to document their learning experience and its relation to the management of projects for ‘Folder Monitoring PDUs Audit’ (‘PDU Folder Audit Trail’).

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Live Webinar – May 11th, 2011 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free
There is also a previously recorded version of this webinar available.

Why should it take months to determine project scope and gather requirements?

In this live webinar, participants will get new data from IAG’s Business Analyst Benchmark to:

• Quantify the impact of business requirements on project outcome;and,
• Describe a path for successful projects and requirements as documented in research and proven out on engagements.

To show how to optimize requirements discovery, we’ll look at the source of typical failures in the requirements discovery process, and describe some of the techniques IAG has proven effective in over 1,000 engagements.In requirements, the devil is in the details.We’ll describe strategies used by IAG in the field to get to the right level of detail for clear, accurate and complete requirements.

Finally, making quantum organization improvement in requirements discovery and management is our specialty.We’ll review the proven levers of change used for successful transforming of requirements discovery capabilities at organizations.

Register now to look at the underlying problems that impede the collection of business requirements, and take away an action list that is proven to improve performance.

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Click here to view a previously recorded version of this opportunity.