Live Webinar – September 1, 12:00-12:30 PM EDT
Duration: 0.5 Hour Credits: 0.5 PDU Cat A Free
Presented by: PM Centers USA (Rep 1016)

Note: A previously recorded version of this session is also available

• Do you have clients that constantly ask for minor extras at no additional cost?
• Do you have problems getting the right resources for your projects?
• Do your team members consistently miss schedule dates or exceed budgets?

Maybe the problem is that you are not an effective negotiator!

Most experienced Project Managers typically have good ‘hard skills’ in project management, such as defining scope, budgeting or scheduling, but come up short in some soft skills areas such as negotiating.

The top ten mistakes made in conducting project negotiations, along with techniques that can be utilized to avoid these mistakes will be presented.The talk will then describe a recommended procedure to follow when preparing for a negotiation.

This webinar should be of interest for experienced Project Managers looking for pointers on how to be more effective in negotiation situations.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP®, PE, CCE
Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile) is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA, and leads a team of instructors and consultants in delivering project management and business analysis training and consulting to clients across the country.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs. His project management experience spans information systems, product development, capital construction and manufacturing projects. He is a registered Professional Engineer, Project Management Professional and Certified Cost Engineer.

You will need to register for a PM Centers USA account to download this opportunity.

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Live IIL Webinar – September 1, 2011, 6:00 – 7:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Cat A $10.95 USD
Presented by : IIL (Rep 1003) – Course No: MP0010
You will need to register with IIL to access the site

Overcome limited budgets and time constraints by learning how to optimize the project schedule using Microsoft Project 2010. Learn how to get your projects back on track!

You will gain insight on how to apply practical techniques for reducing time and cost in projects and learn how to save time with “fast-tracking” and “crashing” schedule compression techniques. Compare task and resource costs against the project budget and apply expense-reducing techniques while evaluating project trade-offs. The new Task Inspector will help you recognize budget and time issues so you can take action early, solving problems by managing effectively early on.

With the new Microsoft Fluentâ„¢ User Interface, you can view the critical path or see how Project 2010 highlights lag in your schedule. Compare project versions using the Gantt bars and additional features to help you see more clearly how one version of a project differs from another. Use the Timeline View to see highlighted changes and graphically recognize essential optimization differences.

Benefits
In this webinar, you will learn how to apply practical techniques to reduce time and cost in your projects with Project 2010. Discover how to compare task and resource costs against the project budget, apply expense-reducing techniques while evaluating project trade-offs and make optimal use of the new Task Inspector. A simple click on the Ribbon will now show the critical path for project progress, or click on “compare projects” to quickly identify changes between two project versions.

In this webinar, you will learn about:

• Optimizing for time, budget and cost
• Applying the new Task Inspector
• How to use the one-click Critical Path
• How to easily compare project versions

Who Should Attend
This webinar is designed for individuals who use Microsoft Project regularly, including those who use it on a day-to-day basis: project schedulers, project team members, project managers, project controllers, project control officers, and project engineers.

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Click to register for OVERCOME BUDGET AND TIME CONSTRAINTS! Optimizing the Project Schedule with Microsoft® Project 2010

This course has 2 sessions, each offering a specific perspective:

• For Project Managers, CIOs, and CTOs
• For Testers, Developers, IT Managers

Presented by: PushToTest

August 31, 2011, 11:00 am – 12:30 pmEDT
Duration: 1.5 Hours For PMs CIOs and CTOs
Credits: 1.5 PDU Category C Free

September 1, 2011, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 2 Hours For Testers Developers & IT Managers
Credits: 2 PDU Category C Free

Medium and large organizations are challenged to rapidly build, test, and operate always-on services. Our teams are feeling the effort when schedules are short, budgets are tight, standards are few, and much of this is new technology!

Find out how Franklin American Mortgage, Emma, Velos, Sportsbet, Sprint, Tribal DDB, PepsiCo, AMD, and NTT Verio succeed with open source test technology and methodology as a more affordable and flexible option to the proprietary test vendor.

Special focus on the presentation for
PMs CIOs and CTOs

• How to mitigate the expense of running a QA lab.
• Learn our expert insight on the latest initiatives, including Cloud Computing, Application Monitoring, Application Development Using Ajax, and Continuous Integration.
• How to reduce the risk of service interruptions.
• Avoid Unplanned Downtime, reduce downtime costs, and increase your developer and tester productivity.
• How to orchestrate your team’s resources into a test that delivers actionable knowledge.
• How to get your developers, testers, and IT managers to work together towards service reliability.
• How to use a single approach to quality in Web applications, Rich Internet Applications (RIA, using Ajax, Flash, Flex) Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM)
• Make smart decisions that put your team in a position to rapidly respond to service interruptions and functional and performance issues.
• How to add integrated project, demand and portfolio management to managing your organization’s projects across their lifecycles

(Click for the a deep technical dive Workshop for Selenium,soapUI, Sahi, HTMLUnit,JUnit,TestMaker,dynaTrace)

Click to register for the August 31st presentation of Ajax,SOA, WebService Applications Free Open Source Build and Test Workshop

Special focus on the presentation for
Testers, Developers, IT Managers

Online Webinar
Presented byConstrux Software (REP 1424)
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 Category C PDU Free

Although Construx is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Construx Software for further information.

Congratulations. You’ve earned a job as a software executive. Now what? Do you know what it takes to keep it? More important, do you know what it takes to excel? After more than 10 years of working with top software executives across a full spectrum of software-intensive industries, noted author and software engineer Steve McConnell has found a method for predicting which technical executives will be successful in their organizations and which will end up looking for different positions. In this one-hour webinar, McConnell describes the seven crucial rules that lead software executives first to satisfactory performance and ultimately to superior performance and superior results.

Presenter: Steve McConnell

Steve McConnell (LinkedIn profile) is CEO and Chief Software Engineer atConstrux Software where he writes books and articles, teaches classes, and oversees Construx’s software engineering practices.

Steve is the author ofCode Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (1993, 2004, 2010) andRapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules (1996), both winners ofSoftware Development magazine’s Jolt award for outstanding software development books of their respective years. In 1998, he publishedSoftware Project Survival Guide (Pro — Best Practices), in 2004 he published Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Enhanced Careers (2004), and in 2006 he publishedSoftware Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Best Practices (Microsoft).

PDU Category C documentation details for Webinar:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 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 view/download Seven Unbreakable Rules of Software Leadership