Live IIL Webinar – 3 offerings
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A Free
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: SS0003
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June 22 2011 – 9:00 am – 10:00 am EST or….
June 28 2011 – 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm EST or….
June 29 2011 – 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST

About This Webinar
A Six Sigma Green Belt is not just a role. It is also a highly sought-after competency at top companies around the world. Green Belts learn how to ask data-based questions, secure and interpret useful data, and manage by fact, allowing for immediate and sustainable resolution of high impact business process issues.

Benefits
Utilizing the proven DMAIC Process Improvement Methodology, Green Belts learn how to identify critical customer quality issues and business processes that fail to deliver the expected customer quality at the lowest possible price to the organization. Green Belts learn how to manage project quality teams and lead them through this methodology to:

• Reduce non-value added costs
• Improve customer satisfaction
• Reduce high impact defects
• Increase profit margins
• Encourage a manage by fact mindset

Upon completion of this webinar you will be able to:

• Determine how Six Sigma will benefit your organization
• Describe the roles and responsibilities of Six Sigma Green Belts
• Identify the potential CTQ’s (Critical to Quality Characteristics) of your customers
• Utilize CTQ’s to develop high impact Green Belt projects

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Live IIL Webinar – June 20, 2011, 1:00 – 2:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A Free
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: MP0010
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Overcome limited budgets and time constraints by learning how to optimize the project schedule using Microsoft Project 2010. Learn how to get your projects back on track!

You will gain insight on how to apply practical techniques for reducing time and cost in projects and learn how to save time with “fast-tracking” and “crashing” schedule compression techniques. Compare task and resource costs against the project budget and apply expense-reducing techniques while evaluating project trade-offs. The new Task Inspector will help you recognize budget and time issues so you can take action early, solving problems by managing effectively early on.

With the new Microsoft Fluentâ„¢ User Interface, you can view the critical path or see how Project 2010 highlights lag in your schedule. Compare project versions using the Gantt bars and additional features to help you see more clearly how one version of a project differs from another. Use the Timeline View to see highlighted changes and graphically recognize essential optimization differences.

Benefits
In this webinar, you will learn how to apply practical techniques to reduce time and cost in your projects with Project 2010. Discover how to compare task and resource costs against the project budget, apply expense-reducing techniques while evaluating project trade-offs and make optimal use of the new Task Inspector. A simple click on the Ribbon will now show the critical path for project progress, or click on “compare projects” to quickly identify changes between two project versions.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

• Optimizing for time, budget and cost
• Applying the new Task Inspector
• How to use the one-click Critical Path
• How to easily compare project versions

Who Should Attend
This webinar is designed for individuals who use Microsoft Project regularly, including those who use it on a day-to-day basis: project schedulers, project team members, project managers, project controllers, project control officers, and project engineers.

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Recorded Webcast & Ebook
Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: Up to 1.5 Category C Free (30 Min Webcast 1 hour EBook)

The Webcast: Recorded: February 24 2011

Project management is a discipline, and as such can be quite difficult without the proper training. Some project managers have had formal training (for example PMI’s PMBOK or PRINCE2) and some lucky project managers instinctively know how to initiate, manage and close projects to success. Many project managers however, are thrown into the deep end with little or no training.

At BrightWork we believe we can assist such project managers with a step-by-step, how-to guide. Our Collaborative Project Management Guide is simple and easy to follow, and describes the typical stages, steps and sub-steps involved in starting, setting up, managing and closing a typical project.

The EBook:

BrightWork has authored an easy to follow and simple to use eBook for Project Managers who are not yet formally trained in Collaborative Project Management or who may not have the time or budget to get trained.

The eBook describes the typical stages, steps and sub-steps involved in starting, setting up, managing and closing a typical project. The eBook also has a section on Project Management Leadership style.

Note, whilst experienced project managers may find the eBook to be introductory in nature, they may learn something from it and might find it an especially useful starting point for creating internal training for their new project managers.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 4.6 Close Project or Phase

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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Click here to view the Collaborative Project Management webcast.

Note: In the webcast Brightwork has specifically requested feedback on their Ebook & Webcast. If you would like to provide feedback email cpm@brightwork.com.

Live Webinar June 14, 2011 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C
Presented by: PushToTest and QualityTesting.Info

Learn a new testing approach that will change your world view on ‘How you do testing today’.

The taste is so powerful it can be unpleasant. The same is true about agile software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology and testing. Between Scrum Masters, schedules, specifications, requirements, sprints, test first, and user stories, many forms of testing – including load and performance testing, stress testing, and integration testing – can get lost.

Join Frank Cohen (LinkedIn profile), Keith Cook (LinkedIn profile) and Sanjay Zalavadia (LinkedIn profile) to learn a new testing approach that will change your world view on how you do testing today. Frank will explain how to re-purpose your User Acceptance Testing (UAT) efforts to surface and solve performance bottlenecks and functional issues. These issues are normally caught after you release!

Keith and Sanjay will explain how to apply this new testing approach while managing a distributed team of software developers, testers and IT managers. They will show the best practices for test success and an easier and less costly way to manage your test efforts and enable you to do more testing in the same amount of time.

The results are a delicious chocolate taste and happy customers, partners, and employees!

Who should attend? This event is for CIOs, CTOs, software engineering managers, and operations managers.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Perform Quality Control

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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