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

Recorded: Thursday May 19th, 2011

SharePoint is a fantastic tool for collaboration and information sharing, but it can also be enhanced and extended for work and project management using templates.

Projects can vary in size and complexity, meaning there is no “one size fits all” approach to project management, even within the same organization.

Different projects require different amounts of management and structure, making SharePoint templates the perfect solution for collaborative project management.

SharePoint templates are a fast yet practical starting point and can be customized to meet your needs. The templates can be used to manage work, single projects, or across many projects.

Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) of BrightWork will walk through our template driven approach to project management on SharePoint. We will fully explain this model and demonstrate the approach.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution

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 download the Collaborative Project Management EBOOK

Click to view A Template Driven Model for Work & Project Management on SharePoint

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Live IIL Webinar – July 19, 2011 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A Free
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: MP0012
(Note this will be offered again Sept 7 2011 at a cost of $10.95 USD)

You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity. This session may fill up quickly so sign up today.

Use Microsoft Project 2010 to track and report on projects more effectively. Learn best practices for collecting the data, preparing the views, setting the appropriate options, updating the tasks and evaluating the schedule.

Use the new Timeline View to get a clearer view of tasks, milestones and phases. Timelines make it easy to see and share key dates and deadlines – simply copy a timeline into Word, PowerPoint, Excel, or Outlook to communicate effectively.

Publish your project plans to Microsoft SharePoint® Foundation 2010 so team members can update task status. Automatic synchronization enables you to receive updates directly in your project plan to track changes more effectively. Display project variances and evaluate differences with the Compare Projects functionality and learn how to quickly report project data in Excel and Visio using Visual Reports. Find out how easy it is to manipulate Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts in the Visual Reports and enhance team collaboration by sharing information more efficiently.

Benefits:
In this webinar, you will learn how to optimize the way you track and report on projects. Learn best practices for collecting data, preparing views, setting appropriate options, updating tasks and evaluating the schedule using Project 2010. Display project variances and evaluate differences with the Compare Projects functionality and learn how to quickly report project data in Excel and Visio using Visual Reports. Easily synchronize your project task list to SharePoint 2010 and quickly share it with your team.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

  • Use the Intuitive Timeline View
  • Synchronize to a SharePoint Foundation 2010 task list
  • Manipulate Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts
  • Track and report using Standard and Visual Reports
  • Save to XPS or PDF

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You can get the recorded version of this session & over 500+ other Quality Category A PDU Sessions with an
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Live Webinar July 19, 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)

We highly recommend this webinar with Shawn Kent Hayashi – pduOTD.com has always valued your professional development but Shawn offers more. The information in this session can be applied to your projects and stakeholders. Creating better lines of communication will increase the success of any project. Sign up for this session today! – EdmontonPM

  • Do you wonder how to make the most of your career?
  • Would you like to experience momentum in your ability to create meaningful conversations with mentors, role models and people in your network?
  • Are you ready to Own Your Own Career Development?

In this webinar, Shawn Kent Hayashi (LinkedIn profile) – Executive Coach with The Professional Development Group – will offer tips for building relationships that will be immediately applicable in your career.

, Shawn discusses her book Conversations for Change: 12 Ways to Say it Right When It Matters Most Earn Up To 10 Category C PDUs for reading her book. (235 pages) 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’

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

  • 9.3 Develop Project Team
  • 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’

Click to register for Mentors, Networks & Role Models: Owning Your Career Development

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Live Webinar July 13, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B Free
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

Communication is the most important skill a project manager can develop.

Every project team environment brings with it unique communication challenges.

In this webinar, we discuss what ‘good’ communication is, how to communicate to a variety of stakeholders, and what to do when everyone wants different information.

Click here to register for Project Communication Management: Avoiding Pitfalls Keeping Everyone in the Loop.

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Online Webinars Earn Up To 5 Category C PDUs Free

How it works: Register with the summit. They will send you details of how to join the interview each day – a new recording is available for a 24 hour period. You must listen each day to hear each one of the presentations (at some point during that day). Each recording is available for only the 24 Hour period.

Buy the book and Upgrade your access to the recordings. Once you have ordered A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management, Penny Pullan & Ruth Murray-Webster, just fill in your details and they will upgrade your registration. Once registered you can upgrade your registration to give access to receive recordings of each and every call. If you are registered and bought the book – Sign up for the upgrade

The Making Risk Work Summit

The Making Risk Work Summit features short interviews with world-class experts and real world risk facilitators each day, along with chances to interact with questions and via a forum.

This is an excellent chance for you to develop your skills without traveling. A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management
There is no charge to register to listen in to each speaker via the web each day.
The talks will bring to life the author’s motivation for writing their new book – A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management, Penny Pullan & Ruth Murray-Webster,
that was published on 1st July 2011.

Hosts:
The Virtual Working summit is hosted by Penny Pullan(@PennyPullan), of Making Projects Work Ltd and Ruth Murray-Webster, of Lucidus Consulting Ltd

Information for recording Category C Activities:

Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling

Knowledge Areas: Risk (PMBOK Reference)

  • 11.1 Plan Risk Management
  • 11.2 Identify Risks
  • 11.5 Plan Risk Responses
  • 11.6 Monitor and Control Risks

Click here to register for the

Making Risk Work Summit

The Sessions

July 11th – Ruth Murray Webster: Making Risk Management Work

She will highlight which aspects are crucial to understand with Risk Management how it’s important to use a wide range of techniques at various stages throughout the process. ‘The last thing risk management needs are more formulae!’ says Ruth

July 12th – Penny Pullan: Facilitating Risk Management

Penny will reveal just how she found out how necessary facilitation skills are for successful risk management! The majority of Penny’s work is with people in multinational organisations who are grappling with tricky projects and programmes of change. With this context, she brings order clarity, provids support and brings tools to cut through the problems.

July 13th – David Hillson: Developing Sustainable and Renewable Risk Management through Facilitation

Dr David Hillson (the Risk Doctor) will talk about how to make risk work in a way that is both sustainable and renewable. David is recognised internationally as a leading thinker and practitioner in the risk field, and has made several innovative contributions to improving risk management. David received the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award for his work in developing risk management over many years. David will give his view on the importance of facilitation skills for those involved in managing risk.

July 14th – Anna and Maya: Risk Facilitators in the Real World

Ruth will talk to Anna and Maya about their differing workplaces and what makes it clear to them that facilitation of the risk management process is important. They discuss the sorts of things they’ve done to get people engaged so they can identify, own and manage risks and the barriers they’ve encountered. They will share their top-tips for other risk practitioners. Anna works for a major IT company. Maya works for a water utility. Different organizations, with the same need to make risk management work.

July 15th – Jonathan Norman, Publisher of A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management (Short Guides to Business Risk)

Jonathan believes that risk management is a fundamentally human process. His Short Guide to Risk Series for Gower is designed to be part of the talking cure for risk; to provide people (risk specialists, functional managers and senior decision makers) with a shared vocabulary and a set of perspectives for looking at, discussing and addressing risk – in whatever form; effective risk management is a learned skill … the more we practice, the better we become at handing not only the risks that are familiar but also those for which we may have no existing frames of reference. Jonathan is Publisher at Gower Publishing, responsible for a program of around 80 new titles a year that span a wide subject area within business and management.

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Making Risk Work Summit

 

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Live IIL Webinar – July 12, 2011 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A Free
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: SS0005
(Note this will be offered again Sept 13 2011 at a cost of $19.95 USD)

You will need to register with IIL and sign into the site to register for this opportunity.

Every business needs to improve results whether they are reducing costs or defects, improving productivity, or increasing sales. The best way to improve is through disciplined and continuous process improvement.

Lean Six Sigma Black Belts are the de facto experts in the area of process improvement.

This webinar will demonstrate how a Black Belt adds value to an organization through leadership and expertise in the area of improving results.

It will also show how Green Belts can go to the next level, in terms of expertise and ability, by learning how the application of advanced tools and techniques can help analyze processes to reduce defects and inefficiency by:

  • Illustrate how the DMAIC process improvement methodology is the roadmap for improving results
  • Demonstrate how to analyze differences between samples using Hypothesis Tests
  • Determine how to predict future process results using Time Series Analysis techniques
  • Establish how to apply Regression Analysis to analyze variables and improve customer satisfaction
  • Determine how powerful Designed Experiments can be used to achieving breakthrough results and gain buy-in for sustainable change

Upon completion of this webinar, the participants will be able to:

  • Become familiar with a few key components of Six Sigma
  • Have an understanding of how a Six Sigma Black Belt can positively influence businesses
  • Understand the differences between a Green Belt and a Black Belt certification
  • See how the application of advanced analysis techniques can help with decision making

Click to Sign in to the IIL Website – Choose the Lean Six Sigma Tab on the Left and then Choose “The Benefits of Becoming an IIL Lean Six Sigma Black Belt”.