Live Webinar August 22, 2011 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EDT
Presented by: PMI© Agile Community Of Practice (REP S042)
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category A PDU Free

This webinar was only spotlighted on Friday so if you wish to attend you must register immediately. This session is limited to 500 participants

Agile introduces a number of tools and techniques designed to help the team figure out how much software we can build for the time we have, and the amount of money our customer is willing to spend.

This talk will introduce the fundamental concepts necessary to break down and estimate our product backlog, how to organize delivery of that backlog for early risk reduction and rapid customer feedback, and how to get stable throughput and predictability as you mature your agile practices. This talk is for those looking to understand how (and why) agile methods lead to better business outcomes.

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Live Webinar August 26 2011 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A Free
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Over 68 % of projects fail – their solutions are implemented, but are never used, or they deliver less than expected capabilities.

Missed, or misunderstood, requirements is one of the top 4 reasons associated with project failure.

Creating clear business requirements focused on user needs, or “What’s”, for a project is critical to project success. But, how do you expand these requirements beyond the more obvious functional needs to include the often overlooked requirements for reporting, user experience / interfaces and project acceptance criteria?

Join Solutions Cube for this free 1 hour webinar to learn how to develop a set of project requirements which include the needs associated with the user experience (Use Cases and Screen Design), business questions and the required information to answer these questions (Reporting Requirements).

In this webinar participants will learn about:

• Defining requirements that lead to report design and development to ensure the ongoing business questions can be answered once the solution is implemented.
• Creating user interfaces requirements toclarify the needs for entry and retrieval of information.
• Determining the appropriate user acceptance test objectives to validate that the solution to be developed will address all of the project needs.

Solutions Cube Group webinars are presented by experienced staff members and partners who have over 30 years of experience managing projects and developing and running facilitated project meetings and delivering project management training courses.

Who Should Attend This Webinar:

• General Managers
• Team Members
• Project Managers
• Portfolio Managers
• Project Leads
• Program Managers
• Business Stakeholders
• Business Leads
• Facilitators

For more info contact:

Carly Burek at 972.786.0900 or carly.burek@solutionscubegroup.com

http://SolutionsCubeGroup.com

Earn 1 PDU by attending this Webinar. SPACE IS LIMITED. To secure a seat Register Now.

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Live Webinar August 25, 2011 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Frank Luntz
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU Free

Frank Luntz is well known for working on all sides of political campaigns to work with managing language to persuade and create powerful call to actions. Most recently he has been featured on Stephen Colberts “The Colbert Report” to assist with the Colbert Superpac. (Making a Better Tomorrow Tomorrow)

In a world of virtual presentations, words matter more now than ever. Audiences can be won and lost over the first few words and phrases that we use.

Attend this interactive webinar to learn:

• Words that work and make your presentation sing
• Words that don’t work and drag your presentation down
• The power of visuals
• And more…

Join Dr. Frank Luntz, author of Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear, as he reveals the most powerful and resonant words and techniques based on thousands of surveys, focus groups and ad tests.

Frank also presents the whitepaper 9 Management Practices for Exceptional Webinars

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing Monitoring & Control

Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

• 10.2 Plan Communications
• 10.3 Distribute Information
• 10.4 Manage Stakeholder Expectations
• 10.5 Report Performance

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 August 24, 2011 – 12:00 pm EDT
Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 45 Min Webcast – Up to .75 PDU Free Category C PDUs

Many organizations use SharePoint to share information, but do not realize that it is also the perfect solution for collaborative project management. Out of the box, SharePoint 2010 has a feature set that can be used to mimic the project management structure required for projects of various types and sizes.

Whether you are using SharePoint Sites and Workspaces for project organization or creating informative reports and digital dashboards to keep stakeholders and sponsors informed, you can utilize this features-rich product to work more efficiently and increase project success. We will also show you how SharePoint can be easily enhanced and extended to manage work, single projects or across many projects.

Some project management solutions are quite expensive and complex, in just 45-minutes we’ll show you how to make SharePoint a practical project management solution for any organization.

Join Brightwork on Wednesday August 24th where Éamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) will walk through a simple yet effective way to use SharePoint for Project Management. All attendees at this webinar will receive a copy of the slide deck and webinar recording

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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Live Webinar Tuesday, August 24, 2011 1:00 PM EDT
Presented by the Project Management Bookstore
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU

“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” – Robert Heinlein

Learn about the art of productive laziness with The Lazy Project Manager!

During this webinar, Peter Taylor will help you:

• Understand the definition of productive laziness and the science behind the theory
• Learn and apply the “productive lazy” approach to your projects (and life)
• Become twice as productive and still leave the office early!

In addition, Mr. Taylor will prompt the audience to consider three key project stages:

1. The ‘lazy’ project manager works very hard
2. The Project Manager is in a comfortable position, safe knowing the project is well under control
3. Project closure

Attendees should expect a specific focus on project closure as it can be executed much more effectivelywith minimal effort but significant added value for all ‘would be’ lazy project managers. Peter will also share some personal, real-life learning experiences that led to the creation of The Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early.

The Presenter:

Peter Taylor is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management. His background is in project management across three major business areas over the last 26 years, MRP/ERP systems with various software houses and culminating in his current role with Infor, Business Intelligence (BI) with Cognos, and product lifecycle management (PLM) with Siemens. He has spent the last 7 years leading PMOs and developing project managers and is now focusing on project based services development with Infor.

Peter is also an accomplished communicator and leader and is a professional speaker as well as the author ofThe Lazy Project Manager: How to be twice as productive and still leave the office early (Infinite Ideas) and ‘Leading Successful Pmos: How to Build the Best Project Management Office for Your Business‘ (Gower) to be released November 11 2011.

Check out his terrific website at www.thelazyprojectmanager.com – and listen to his free podcasts in iTunes.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 9.3 Develop 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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