Online Webinar
Presented by: PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU Cat 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.

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Live Webinar June 8 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by: Cutter Consortium
Speaker : Israel Gat, Director, Agile Product & Project Management practice

Technical debt reduction initiative brings business issues, organizational considerations and methodical questions to the fore. Moreover, when a technical debt reduction initiative is expanded from reduction to prevention of downstream effects, performance measures, governance issues and cultural aspects need to be addressed.

Unless all these issues are addressed in a holistic manner, their combined effect will likely stall the technical debt initiative, frustrating the efforts to wrestle technical debt to the ground at the enterprise level.

The Cutter Technical Debt Framework enables an organization to move onward and upward from assessing technical debt to reducing it and preventing its propagation.

The framework ties the measurement of technical debt to the fabric of the software process at six levels:

• Technical Practices
• Iteration Management
• Project Management
• Release Management
• Product Planning
• Portfolio Governance

By so doing, the framework ensures sustainability of the technical debt initiative.

In this webinar, Dr. Israel Gat will present the Cutter Technical Debt Framework. Dr. Gat will put special emphasis on critical success factors for making the technical debt initiative work for you, your company, its partners and its customers.

The second part of the webinar is dedicated to your questions. Don’t miss your chance to get specific advice from Israel Gat on how you can get a handle on reducing technical debt in your organization.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 11 – Risk

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 11.2 Identify Risks

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Live Webinar June 15 2011 – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B Free
Presented by: PDUs For Lunch – The Project Whisperer
Speaker : Bernardo Tirado – The Project box
Certificate of attendance will be provided to attendees upon request.

Topic: What’s Industrial Psychology Got To Do With Project Management?

“There was a time where hiring companies believed that having someone with a PMP©, Six Sigma Blackbelt/Master Blackbelt, Prince2, etc. meant that the individual would be a great project leader. Companies have realized that this is not the case and are now starting to develop ways to separate the leadership effectiveness amongst PM candidates.” – Bernardo Tirado (@thePMObox)

Project Management is often regarded as a tactical, logical pursuit. But anyone who’s managed a project knows that tools and methodology only take you so far. The rest, well, comes down to human behavior.

In this session, Bernardo Tirado will discuss how marrying right and left brain strategies will help you increase project productivity. He will also share some industrial psychology techniques that you can use right after the webcast.

Speaker: Bernardo Tirado (LinkedIn) is CEO and Founder of The Project Box, LLC. He is an industrial psychology practitioner and project management executive with extensive experience in building global shared services, transforming organizations through process improvement, and developing new business capabilities.

He’s worked in Fortune 50 companies over the last 15 years, marrying Industrial Psychology and Project Management. Until recently, he was living in the London and is now based in New York City where he works as VP for a top Financial Services Company. He is a Certified Six Sigma Blackbelt and has taught Industrial Psychology at the Metropolitan College of NY as an adjunct professor.

Leveraging Industrial Psychology, Six Sigma, PMP, and Body Language methodologies, Bernardo created The Project Box as a premium resource that provides Project Managers with right-and left-brain strategies.

Check out Bernardo’s website on:
Industrial Psychology And Project Management

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What’s Industrial Psychology Got To Do With Project Management?

This webinar brought to you by Pam Stanton’s “The Project Whisperer”
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IMPACT 2011 – Sponsored by ESI International

Duration: June 14, 2011 8:00 AM EDT for 24 hours

By attending IMPACT 2011 you’ll have the opportunity to:
* Access new, never-before-seen presentations and thought-provoking literature
* Use your keyboard to chat in real time with subject matter experts
* Network with peers and discuss industry issues
* Earn free PDUs to help maintain professional certifications

3 Keynote presentations:

• The Global State of the PMO: It’s Value, Effectiveness and Role as the Hub of Training
  Presented by J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP
• Supermodeling: The Value of Modeling Techniques
  Presented by Glenn R. Brûlé, CBAP, CSM
• Winning the War For Talent – Developing And Maximising Your Project Managers’ Competencies
  Presented by Ravi Sahi, PMP

8 topic tracks:

• Project Management Competency (3 sessions, 2 PDUs)
• Advanced Project Management (9 sessions, 9 PDUs)
• Leadership & Communication (4 sessions, 4 PDUs)
• BA/Requirements Management (7 sessions, 5 PDUs)
• U.S. Government (4 sessions, 0 PDUs)
• Commercial Contract Management (2 sessions, 2 PDUs)
• Organizational Improvement (7 sessions, 5 PDUs)
• Certification (3 sessions, 2 PDUs)

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About the Sessions

These are the sessions and speakers for the IMPACT 2011 Virtual Conference June 14, 2011

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3 Keynote presentations:

• The Global State of the PMO: It’s Value, Effectiveness and Role as the Hub of Training
  Presented by J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP 

  In March 2011, ESI International undertook an investigation into the global state of the PMO to determine its current perceived value, effectiveness and role as a hub of training. This presentation will share the findings, including answers to questions like: Do organizations even know whether their PMO is effective? Is it deemed valuable to the enterprise as a whole? Is the PMO really Centre of Excellence in which best practices are identified and made available to their project managers?
  * First showing: 9am US ET, 2pm UK, 6:30pm India, 9pm Singapore
  * Second showing: 4am US ET, 9am UK, 1:30pm India, 4pm Singapore

• Supermodeling: The Value of Modeling Techniques
  Presented by Glenn R. Brûlé, CBAP, CSM 

  The value that modeling brings to organizational initiatives is often overlooked. When used consistently with a structured and disciplined approach, modeling can prove to be critical to reaching organizational goals and objectives. During this presentation you will see a demonstration of how modeling can prove to be the nucleus of all other requirements activities including traceability, business rules and processes. You will also learn the hierarchal use of modeling throughout the project life cycle, quantify the benefits of modeling and why it’s critical to a project’s success and understand the risks if you do not implement modeling techniques.
  * First showing: 11am US ET, 4pm UK, 8:30pm India, 11pm Singapore
  * Second showing: 1am US ET, 6am UK, 10:30am India, 1pm Singapore

• Winning the War For Talent – Developing And Maximising Your Project Managers’ Competencies
  Presented by Ravi Sahi, PMP 

  It is absolutely necessary to consider the ongoing development of the project managers. Instead of asking “What if we train them and they leave?”, the more pertinent question is, “What if we don’t train them and they stay?” This presentation will help you develop a deeper understanding of what “competency” means, understand 5 easy-to-adopt steps to success and learn the benefits your organisation can achieve through PM competencies development.
  * First showing: 1pm US ET, 6pm UK, 10:30pm India, 1am Singapore
  * Second showing: 11pm US ET, 4am UK, 8:30am India, 11am Singapore

8 topic tracks:

• Project Management Competency (3 sessions, 2 PDUs)
  • Establishing a PMO: Readiness, Risk and Retention – James Foreman, PMP
  • An Introduction to Managing Projects – Planning for Success – John Humphries, MBA, PMP
  • Top 10 Project Management Trends for 2011 – J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP
• Advanced Project Management (9 sessions, 9 PDUs)
  • A Passion for Project Managers – Making Good Project Managers Great! – Joe Czarnecki, PMP & Matts Larsson, Tetrapak
  • Untangling the Web of Complex projects -webinar – James Foreman, PMP
  • PMO in Hard Times – Adding Value or Adding Cost – J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP
  • The Path to Project Manager Excellence – Luciano Garagna & Ben Johnson
  • Leading Successful PMO’s – Peter Taylor, PMP
  • Program Auditing – Ian Templeton, Orange
  • Enterprise Risk Management – The ability to deal with uncertainty while enhancing the capacity to build value (webinar) – Kik Piney
  • Selling the PMO to the CFO – James Foreman, PMP
  • First Things First: 5 Steps to Achieving Successful PPM Outcomes – Mario Arlt, PMP
• Leadership & Communication (4 sessions, 4 PDUs)
  • Leadership & Communication at Infrabel – A Continuous Process – Patrick Dossche, Infrabel
  • The Method to the Madness of Effective Leadership – Nancy Nee, PMP, CBAP, CSM
  • Leading Across Emerging Markets webinar – Tommy Weir, Kenexa Dubai
  • High Impact Communication – Discovering the Value of Persuasive Communications – Angela Pinnington
• BA/Requirements Management (7 sessions, 5 PDUs)
  • Evolution of a Profession: Why the world woke up and realized they couldn’t live without BAs – Kathleen Barrett
  • Product Requirements Modelling for Business Analysts – Manoj Phatak
  • Disarming the CBAP® Jitters: Expert Tips for Exam Preparation – Nancy Nee, PMP, CBAP, CSM
  • Top 10 Business Analysis Trends for 2011 – Glenn R. Brûlé, CSM, CBAP
  • Five monkeys, a banana and a flight of stairs – Peeling away the fear that complicates change – Glenn R. Brûlé, CSM, CBAP
  • Introduction to Business Analysis: A Journey to Excellence – Glenn R. Brûlé, CSM, CBAP
  • Maintaining the Center of Gravity: Establishing Balance Between a PM and a BA – Nancy Nee, PMP, CBAP, CSM
• U.S. Government (4 sessions, 0 PDUs)
  • Creating High-Performing Federal Integrated Program Teams – Bill Damaré
  • Knowledge Assessment: FPM StartPoint – Dennis Ward
  • Performance-Based Acquisitions: Acquiring the Right Outcomes – Rowena Prentice
  • Best Practices in the Implementation of FAC-P/PM – Bill Damaré
• Commercial Contract Management (2 sessions, 2 PDUs)
  • Communication is Key: How to Achieve Contract Management Success – Kathleen Dawn
  • The Key Components for Successful Contract Management – Phillip Holt
• Organizational Improvement (7 sessions, 5 PDUs)
  • The Right Tools for the Agile Job – Nancy Nee, PMP, CBAP, CSM
  • There’s a Signpost Up Ahead – Recognizing and Dealing With Project Warning Signs – J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP
  • Agile or PMBOK®? Can You Have Both? – Nancy Nee, PMP, CBAP, CSM
  • Five Ways to Reduce Risk in Outsourcing – J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP
  • A Discussion on the Agile Project Approach – Nancy Nee, PMP, CBAP, CSM
  • Justify the Business and Project Impact of Your Learning Programs – Raed Haddad
  • Determining Value of Investment: The Pragmatic ROI for Measuring Learning Impact – Raed Haddad
• Certification (3 sessions, 2 PDUs)
  • Disarming the CBAP® Jitters: Expert Tips for Exam Preparation – Nancy Nee, PMP, CBAP, CSM
  • Preparing for the PMP® Exam–Some Tips to Get you Started – J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP
  • PgMP – What You Need to Know! – J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, PgMP

Most of the sessions are worth 1 PDU – that’s 34 PDUs to choose from – plus the keynote presentations

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On Demand Podcast
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A Free
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: PM0146
You will need to register with IIL to access the site: Virtual Classroom Delivery

This podcast introduces us to the first step in going to true paperless project management, namely the use of project metrics. Good metrics will allow us to make informed decisions rather than just guesses.

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Click Tor Register for Metrics Come of Age by Dr. Harold Kerzner (Podcast) (00003753, IIL-EN-0-v1.0)