Recorded Webinar
Presented by the Project Management Bookstore
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category B PDU

Scrappy Project Managers don’t settle for hysterics and management by crisis, and they certainly don’t let anything limit them. They find a way to seize success no matter the obstacles.

The concepts presented in this webinar will help you get results when the odds are against you, when precedence says it can’t be done, and when everyone believes your project is impossible.

Kimberly Wiefling will touch on a few of the 12 common project pitfalls, or dirty dozen, as addressed in her book, Scrappy Project Management. Conversely, she will shed light on proven practices to overcome these pitfalls, including a Scrappy Project Management checklist. This common sense approach has been proven to enable leaders the ability to steer their teams clear of avoidable disaster and as much as double their chances of project success.

Attend this webinar and learn to create your own scrappy project management checklist for success.

Kimberly Wiefling, Bio:

Kimberly Wiefling (LinkedIn profile) is the Founder and President of Wiefling Consulting, a global leadership and business management consulting firm. She is also Executive Editor of the Scrappy About Series, and is a globally recognized author and business leadership consultant specializing in helping people achieve what seems impossible.

Kimberly currently spends about half of her time working with high-potential leaders in Japanese companies, facilitating leadership, innovation and execution excellence workshops to enable Japanese companies to solve global problems profitably. One of the keys to her success is a focus on not only a winning strategy, but a winning culture. Business culture transformation lies at the heart of all of her work. Kimberly’s book, Scrappy Project Management: The 12 Predictable and Avoidable Pitfalls Every Project Faces, was published in 2007 and is the focus of this webinar.

In order to claim a Category B PDU after watching this presentation contact Project Management Bookstore and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

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Online or Portable Webinar (downloadable .wmv file)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C
Presented by : Modern Analyst

Health care providers and administrators are constantly searching for ways to improve patient care and clinical outcomes while at the same time driving more efficiency in their operations. This can be especially challenging when rolling out new technology to clinicians, who may have only minutes to review and provide feedback on systems.

When applied in the right process, visualization can be a very effective strategy for achieving amazing results, as we see in this Webinar highlighting a specific case study with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Using iRise to visualize an electronic health record system used by doctors, nurses and administrators, the experts at consulting firm Business Intelligence were able to identify high value improvements in work flow and user interaction that resulted in an estimated savings of 28 minutes per day for clinicians and other workers at the VHA.

The lessons learned from this project can be applied to many other industries, so this Webinar is must-see for all business analysts, designers and project managers who want to deliver better business software faster and with less cost.

Topics covered will include:

• Setting the right goals for your project
• How to approach visualizing a complex application set
• Getting the right user feedback – fast
• Lessons learned in user involvement, process & visualization techniques
• Measuring results

Presenter:
Rick Verrill, PMP (LinkedIn profile) Sr. Project Manager,
Business Intelligence Inc.

Nicolette Driggers Senior Analyst/User Interface Designer,
Business Intelligence Inc.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 5.3 Create WBS
• 5.4 Verify Scope

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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Live Webinar June 29, 2011 – 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by the The Agilista PM
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category B PDU Free
Certificate Provided Upon Request

Highly effective leaders have discovered the secret is to manage commitments rather than people. Do YOU know the difference?

• Do you frequently hear excuses from under-performing team members or contractors instead of getting results?
• Are you frustrated because people say one thing, but do another?
• Do you feel powerless when people make promises and don’t follow through?
• Would you like others to take responsibility and get things done in a timely manner?

Experience real-time coaching on issues that matter to you most. This is a unique opportunity to not just talk about accountability and integrity but to experience it on a deeper level. You will see how language, mood and mindful action are the essential tools. How to deal with the “real life” part of project management. Get instantly actionable tools that can make your life easier the moment you hear them.

Real Project Management – Involves Real People

Project management looks sooo easy… on paper. You’ve studied endless flow charts and checklists that on how to manage projects. Whenfootball coaches design a play on paper, they make sure every defensive player is blocked or accounted for. So why doesn’t every play go for a touchdown?

Because in real life the play isn’t run by X’s and O’s… its run by real people!

People don’t come to your project as blank slates ready to eagerly do your bidding. They come fully loaded with biases, grudges, bad (and good) past experiences, trust issues, anger issues, resentment, fatigue, foolishness, duplicity, and countless selfish motives.

(Newsflash: you come in that way too!)

Put this System to Work for You and You’ll Discover in this Webinar …

• How to manage commitments instead of people (this little ninja move puts the power in YOUR hands)
• The secret language of requests (hey, it’s a secret if you don’t know and use it!)
• How to identify the person you must get on board for your project to succeed (hint: it’s not the highest ranking or most outspoken person on the team)
• The 3 step system for restoring integrity when someone (or you) drops the ball
• How to hold people accountable gracefully (that is, so that they don’t hate you)
• Secrets to managing resistance and other negative emotions like fear, anger, and frustration that put the brakes on your project
• How to have difficult conversations and coach people into action

SPEAKERS: Best-selling authors of Who Will Do What By When? How to Improve Performance, Accountability and Trust with Integrity, Birgit Zacher-Hanson, MCC and Tom Hanson, PhD will lead the discussion on how project managers can double the efficiency and effectiveness of their projects.

*** all who register will get a link to the recording ***

In order to claim a Category B PDU certificate after watching the recorded version of this webinar please contact donna@AgilistaPM.com and advise them of the Date and Time you watched this prerecorded event along with your information and request a Category B PDU Certificate.

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Get Projects Done with Half the Effort & Hassle:
Knowing What to Say & How to Say It

Donna (@AgilistaPM) happily promotes these agile user groups:

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Get Projects Done with Half the Effort & Hassle:
Knowing What to Say & How to Say It

Online Webinar
Presented by: Sogeti Ireland
Duration 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free

On 22 June 2010, Colm O’hEocha (LinkedIn profile) and John McArdle (LinkedIn profile) presented the webinar Agile Adoption: Patterns of Success and Failure. They looked at how agile and lean software development methods have been successfully implemented and scaled and also outlined some common symptoms and causes of failure in adoption

Agile methods are becoming increasingly mainstream, with recent research indicating up to 35% of software development now uses a method such as Scrum or eXtreme Programming. However, many organisations are struggling to realise the promised benefits. Success requires far reaching changes in the organisation, beyond the software development process itself.

This webinar will discuss the fundamental changes required for a transition to agile, the benefits promised, approaches to business justification, and common symptoms of issues and their underlying causes.

For organisations either considering or in the early stages of adopting agile, this webinar will provide useful insights from the practical experiences of early adopters.

Agenda
This webinar covered the following:

• Business Justification and Agile Adoption in Industry
• The Agile Adoption Curve
• Common Problems and Solutions
• A Strategy for Successful Adoption

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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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Live Webinar June 23, 2011 – 12:00 – 12:30 pm EST
Offered by PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU or 0.5 CDU Cat A Free

This webinar will provide an overview of Lean Six Sigma.

The PDCA and DMAIC methodologies will be explained, along with process and value stream mapping and the basic tools used for process and data management.

Attend this webinar and learn how it can Lean Six Sigma concepts can be used by Project Managers.

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Live Webinar – June 23, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating

It is here. Applications for the PMI Agile Certification pilot started in May and full-blown testing will begin in September 2011. PMI estimates that more than 5,000 people have asked them for more information on the pilot program.

ASPE-SDLC, with our leadership position in both Agile and Project Management training, fell uniquely qualified in providing this primer session to help you prepare yourself to obtain this certification.
Primer Overview:

• Application Requirements
• Fees
• Exam content overview
• Domains and tasks for Agile Certification
• Training options
• Where this certification fits with the Scrum Alliance certifications
• Q & A

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, covering topics in the software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

Click to register for The PMI Agile Certification