Archive for June, 2011

Changes to PMBOK’s Fourth Edition

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Live Webinar June 23, 2011, 11:00 – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this webinar, you will learn about key changes to PMI’s new edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).

In addition to learning about the changes to the Project Management processes, you will learn how to distinguish between what is in the Project Management Plan and what Project Documents are.

You will gain a clearer picture of how the Project Charter differs from the Scope Statement and you will learn a new Earned Value calculation: the To-Complete Performance Index (TCPI).

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Live Webinar – June 23, 2011 3:00 -3:30 PM EDT
Presenter: Journyx Inc.
Duration: 30 minutes 0.5 CAT B FREE

Planning a project is only the first step in getting things done. The right project manager knows how to take these plans and make them a reality.

While Microsoft Project is an important project planning tool, it does not enable project execution without a little help.

This webinar gives attendees a chance to:

  • Explore how to get even more out of Microsoft® Projectâ„¢ and Project Serverâ„¢
  • Integrate project plans with a lightweight, user-friendly time and resource management system
  • Track project and non-project time with rates and expenses
  • Understand complete direct costs and allocate indirect costs
  • Achieve new levels of productivity

This Webinar will give you that help.

Attendees will receive 1/2 PDU for attendance at this 30-min webinar.

Click to register for Extending Microsoft Project & Project Server

Delegation: The Art of the Handover

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Live Webinar June 22, 2011 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group (REP 1011)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU Free Course ID: MDW1266

Effective delegation is at the heart of good management, yet many managers hesitate to entrust work to their employees for any number of reasons:

  • They don’t know how to delegate;
  • They don’t want to burden their staff;
  • They believe they can do it better than their employees;
  • They fear an employee may make a mistake;
  • Or worse, they fear that an employee may outperform them.

The result? – Managers suffer burnout, employees’ skills remain untapped, and morale suffers. The good news is that you can acquire the art of the handover!

This webinar will help you:

  • •Explore your own mindset about delegating work
  • Identify what work can be delegated (and what should not)
  • Choose the right person for the task
  • Develop a plan and a process for delegating effectively
  • Add a critical skill to your manager’s tool kit

About the presenter: Casey Mitchell (LinkedIn profile), is founder and principal of Waybridge Associates, Inc., a consulting practice devoted to helping people achieve peak performance. Her primary focus is on management learning and development. She works with new managers who want to make a successful transition, and with existing managers who want to move into leadership roles. She has eighteen years experience in the training field and a wealth of management experience, which helps her relate to her clients’ needs.

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The Live Session Is Free But…

You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an
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Premium Memberships are only $199 USD per year
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Memberships Include all PDU Codes

Note: ITMPI charges a fee to obtain individual PDU codes. This fee ONLY needs to be paid if you ask the provider for the code – This code should be able to be obtained from the PMI.ORG site for free. An ITMPI Membership entitles you to receive all ITMPI PDU Codes and recordings.

Live Webinar June 22, 2011, 11:00 – 12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

You are a hardworking software project manager. You have your requirements, design, testing plans, even a risk response plan, communications plan, resource histogram, schedule with 5,000 tasks, and a critical path.

  • So how do you determine if it is you or your client that’s blocking progress?
  • How can you really achieve project management excellence?
  • How do you measure it?
  • If you can’t, are you at risk of becoming irrelevant?

This webinar with Jack Ferraro examines these questions as well as current methods for developing the kind of competency that really matters. It presents bold ideas for what practitioners of project management must focus on to raise the performance bar and to avoid the risk of becoming extinct!

Click to register for 3 Leadership Competencies Every Project Manager Needs

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Duration: Blog article & Webinar 0.5 Hr
Credits: 0.5 PDU Category C
Posted On: SagePoint Software

Richard Wilner (LinkedIn profile) started SagePoint Software in 2008 and is currently Sr. Project Manager with Genzyme. In his blog article from August 2010, Richard highlights a TED Talk presented by Bill Gates. He says “In this TED Talk, Bill Gates provides a glimpse into his project management practice and approach. Bill’s “project” is to make the world a habitable and sustainable place for as many humans as possible.”

About the TED Talks

At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he’s backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050.

About Bill Gates

Bill Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. After retiring from Microsoft, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

  • 4.1 Develop Project Charter
  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 5.2 Define Scope
  • 10.1 Identify Stakeholders

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.’

Click to read Richard Wilner’s article Project Management Lessons from Bill Gates [TED Thursday]

Click to view the TED Talk Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

Requirements Traceability

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Live Webinar June 22 2011 – 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
Duration 1 Hr Credits: 1 PDU Category B Free

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.

Click to register for Requirements Traceability.