Live Webinar – July 28 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Registration Ends July 27th 2011
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Free

WebnLearn: Project Talk – The Live Web-Radio Talk Show from MPUG “All Projects are Unique – Except When They Aren’t!” – Using Templates for Effective Project Planning

Well, actually it’s the project’s resulting product, service, or result that will be unique. But the process, methodology, and project control deliverables are often the same across projects!

That’s why using project templates makes sense. The ability to maintain consistency and ensure project scope and resource requirements are complete, project plan templates can be a tremendous asset for effective planning.

Come explore the ins and outs of Microsoft Project templates and how to deploy them to get the most out of your historical project data, heuristics, and lessons learned, with the ProjectTalk guys!

Project Talk is an interactive ‘radio show’ and web-session with real-time demonstrations of common project management and scheduling issues and how to address them using Microsoft Project and other tools.

If you’d like to participate in the show, ask a question or offer a comment, simply type it into the Q&A Tool, then raise your hand using the ‘raise your hand’ tool, and un-mute your microphone so you can join the conversation! Anyone who participates live on the show will receive a stylish MPUG T-Shirt or other great prize!

Note: Remember to answer to the question in the registration “Are you requesting a PDU for this event”

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Live Webinar July 27, 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)

Software and IT systems can provide a positive Return On Investment (ROI) and contribute significantly to business value.

Unfortunately, many systems never achieve this, due to over-optimistic benefit assumptions and the underestimation of costs.

This webinar with Dan Galorath (LinkedIn profile) explores how to more accurately estimate total ownership costs and benefits so that portfolio decisions can be optimized and IT can be transformed into a profit center.

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Live Webinar July 27 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Sponsored by American Management Association (REP 1294)
Presented by: Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie
Although the AMA is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact the AMA for further information.

How Thinking Like a Designer Can Solve Business Challenges

Leaders are always wondering what steps they need to take in their organization, department or business unit to actually deliver innovation.

The essence of this challenge is turning abstract ideas into tangible applications that can drive business growth.

This Webcast offers insight into “design thinking”that provides a different way to analyze and solve complex growth challenges.

What you’ll discover is a systematic approach to problem solving built upon four questions:

1. What is?
2. What if?
3. What wows?
4. What works?

What You Will Learn: You will discover how to innovate quickly for business growth when you have to create new products or implement projects. This includes tips on the mindset, techniques, and vocabulary of design thinking, including:

• Telling a human-centered story to arouse passions
• Making the words “by when?” part of every conversation
• Agreeing on a fast decision-making model: who decides and when do they decide, using what criteria?
• Sharing your ideas when they are just “good enough” and have the courage to look foolish
• Letting others validate your ideas
• Speaking the truth about failures and what was learned

Join us as we unlock the mysterious connection between design and growth, exploring how to exploit design’s exciting potential. While attending this program is free, reservations are required.

Jeanne Liedtka is a professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia. Formerly the executive director of its Batten Institute, a foundation established to develop thought leadership in the fields of entrepreneurship and corporate innovation, she has also served as chief learning officer for the United Technologies Corporation (UTC) and as associate dean of the MBA program at Darden. She is the coauthor of The Catalyst: How You Can Become an Extraordinary Growth Leader and her latest, Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers (Columbia Business School Publishing).

Tim Ogilvie is cofounder and CEO of Peer Insight, an innovation strategy consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. In the mid-1990s, he founded and led the global benchmarking practice for Price Waterhouse and subsequently became a partner of Kaiser Associates, the global strategy consultancy, and cofounder of Brivo Systems, a Web-based security and access control provider. He is a coauthor ofDesigning for Growth: A Design Thinking Toolkit for Managers (Columbia Business School Publishing).

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Live Webinar July 27 2011 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Cat A Free

Tired of having tools that slow your requirements discovery and management?

When tools get implemented, time is of the essence! What is the total time needed to get clear, accurate and complete requirements – and – how much time are your stakeholders spending in requirements discovery sessions.

Many tools cannot support highly accelerated requirements elicitation – IBM Rational® Requirements Composer® can. We’re going to show you how – and – we’re going to change your thinking on how to configure tools and analyst teams to get greater performance and efficiency.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the benefits of using a Rapid Requirements elicitation approach.
2. Know the IBM Rational® products and the way of using these products for Rapid Requirements gathering.
3. Identify the artifacts and deliverables that result from this elicitation process

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