Online Webinar – Offered by: Cadence Management Corp. ( REP 1101 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU or 1 CDU Category A
Presentation Date: May 19, 2010

Negotiating can be a fun and productive endeavor. Discover the power of simply asking for something. Get something in exchange for every concession. Complete project managers owe it to themselves and their partners to engage in negotiations. Now is the right time to view everything as negotiable.

The results delivered by projects usually depend upon what you NEGOTIATE

Successful project leaders explore a perspective, principles, tools, and recommendations to achieve better results through the power of negotiations. They avoid being set up for failure by recognizing and developing skills that lead to greater success.

Everything is negotiable, both at work and in everyday lives. It is in our best interests, and for your team and organization, that you embrace negotiating as a requisite skill…and implement it dutifully.

Learn:

• The power of negotiation in every day interactions — from problem solving to requirements, to resources and more
• How you can improve your negotiating skill by ten percent, and what you can achieve by making tiny changes for big effect
• The 10 Basic Rules to developing your own negotiating skills, and how you can reap the benefits in your project work immediately

I first took a weekend negotiating course over 20 years ago. The course changed my life. I learned it is only necessary to get a 5 to 10 percent improvement in the outcome of each negotiation for improved negotiating skills to prove their merit.

The objective is not to win every negotiation; the objective is to consistently achieve better outcomes for both parties in the negotiation.

I learned the ten rules of negotiating in that course and have applied them ever since. The project world includes all kinds of personalities, who have various styles and approaches to relationships. The rules help me get through all interactions, whether I am inside or outside my comfort zone. – Randy Englund

Presenter: Randall L. Englund, is an executive consultant for the Englund Project Management Consultancy, and has spent most of his career in Silicon Valley. He’s co-author of three best selling business books, Creating The Project Office, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects, 2nd Edition, and his latest book Project Sponsorship: Achieving Management Commitment for Project Success. Randall teaches project management at California universities. While Randy has an MBA in management and a BS in electrical engineering, his real education came from 22 years at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he was a senior project manager, new product developer, and internal consultant at the corporate Project Management Initiative. Randy now delights in sharing his passion for project management, and the environment in which people do project-based work, with clients around the world.

Note: To qualify for the Category A PDU – Ensure that you register on the page with Cadence prior to watching the presentation on their site.

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Online Webinar – International Project Management Day 2011
This Session Presented by: George Bridges PMP – Senior Trainer IIL
This session Duration 15 Min Credits: 0.25 PDU Category A
IPM Day 2011 Sponsored by: IIL and Partners (Rep# 1003)

The On-Demand Viewing Period Has Begun!
The free viewing period extends through:
5:00 p.m. ET on Friday, February 3, 2012.

In this presentation, George (LinkedIn profile) will introduce you to how the Business Analysis (BA) discipline can contribute to strategic, project and organizational success. In other words, how does BA add value to the organization?

In addressing and answering this question, he will cover the following topics:

• Growth of interest in Business Analysis,
• The International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA®),
• The role of the Business Analyst, required skills of a Business Analyst, and …..
• How the Business Analyst works with the Project Manager and the business community.

Attend the virtual conference organized by IIL and its partners for International Project Management Day.

To Register the PDUs with PMI® ENSURE YOU RECORD the date you began viewing the webinars. You will need the start date & end date of your attendance to these presentations.

It is also a good idea to keep information on the dates that you watched each of the different presentations in your PMI® audit folder. For more information see our article on Building a PDU Plan – Running your re-certification as a documented process.

Registration for IIL’s Virtual Event gives you a chance to explore IIL’s virtual conference center, visit sponsor booths, view presentations and download collateral. Enjoy 21 different speakers’ programs and earn up to 12 free Category A PDUs for your participation until Feb 3rd 2011. For more information see our full article about the conference. The DVD of the conference is also available for sale for $375.00 USD.

Note: In order to view the webinars you must register with an account. Sign in on the left hand side or if you need to register with an account the Event Registration Link is located at the bottom of the middle column after the descriptive copy.

Click to enter the IPM Day 2011 site to view Think You Can Do Without a Business Analyst? Think Again! . Once you have signed in Choose the “Video Presentations” sign then Click on the word Presentations on the left hand side. You will now be able to choose your presentation.

To purchase your copy of the DVD send an email to learning@iil.com.

Online Webinar – International Project Management Day 2011
This Session Presented by: Frank Ryle PMP – Author, Trainer & Consultant, IIL
This session Duration 22 Min Credits: 0.25 PDU Category A
IPM Day 2011 Sponsored by: IIL and Partners (Rep# 1003)

The On-Demand Viewing Period Has Begun!
The free viewing period extends through:
5:00 p.m. ET on Friday, February 3, 2012.

This presentation is a quick and amusing look at the interesting books and other sources of information that influenced the writing of Frank Ryle (LinkedIn profile). Frank wrote the book Keeping Score: Project Management for the Pros and accompanying video.

From the amazing assessment of risk in Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Peter L. Bernstein) to the interesting decision making techniques assessed in Decisive Moment and Blink; from the rigidity of the 42 steps in the PMBOK® Guide to the chaos and changing project environment in The World Is Flat and from the latest advances in The 21st Century Brain to the better understanding of team members in The Essential Difference and Human Instinct.

Each of these authors has added something important to the discussion on how to get something done in a modern, cross-functional, cross-cultural environment. Humor and music add to the flow of this 30-minute presentation, which also includes previously unseen snippets of the actors in the movie “Keeping Score.”

Attend the virtual conference organized by IIL and its partners for International Project Management Day.

To Register the PDUs with PMI® ENSURE YOU RECORD the date you began viewing the webinars. You will need the start date & end date of your attendance to these presentations.

It is also a good idea to keep information on the dates that you watched each of the different presentations in your PMI® audit folder. For more information see our article on Building a PDU Plan – Running your re-certification as a documented process.

Registration for IIL’s Virtual Event gives you a chance to explore IIL’s virtual conference center, visit sponsor booths, view presentations and download collateral. Enjoy 21 different speakers’ programs and earn up to 12 free Category A PDUs for your participation until Feb 3rd 2011. For more information see our full article about the conference. The DVD of the conference is also available for sale for $375.00 USD.

Note: In order to view the webinars you must register with an account. Sign in on the left hand side or if you need to register with an account the Event Registration Link is located at the bottom of the middle column after the descriptive copy.

Click to enter the IPM Day 2011 site to view Keeping Score – Behind the Pages. Once you have signed in Choose the “Video Presentations” sign then Click on the word Presentations on the left hand side. You will now be able to choose your presentation.

To purchase your copy of the DVD send an email to learning@iil.com.

Online Webinar Presented by: NetObjectives (REP 3045)
Duration: 45 Min Credits: 0.75 PDU Category C- Free PDU
Given 12:00pm-1:00pm PST. Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Note: Although the NetObjectives is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact them for further information.

What does LEAN mean to you?

Lean-thinking is the combination of applying known software development principles with lean-management and lean-learning work in order to speed time-to-market while improving quality and lowering costs. It provides insights from project initiation through development, deployment and consumption by the customer (internal in IT and external in product companies). Lean focuses on helping people improve the environment and systems in which they work.

Introduction to Kanban:

Kanban has been called a set of tools by many people. Kanban, however, is much more than that. Kanban is more a mindset and approach than the tools it is known for such as limiting WIP, explicit policies and including management. This webinar is a brief introduction to the lean-thinking behind the Kanban practices.

Kanban is the next generation of Agile methods, built on a lean foundation. This method is now applied to knowledge work such as software development — domains in which “inventory” isn’t visible but its effect is still felt. If your organization struggles with the inventory of unfinished work, bugs and other quality issues, while you are under pressure to deliver faster and more frequently, you may benefit from applying the Kanban method.

Kanban is based on Lean Product Development flow and provides insights into how to solve many software development challenges while being inclusive of management. It can be implemented at a pace of the development organization’s choosing. making it much more flexible than other agile systems. Kanban is meant to be adapted to the particular needs of each organization.

For more information visit Janice’s website Kanban 101 It is a compedium of her own quest to learn about Kanban in order to assist people in getting started.

NOTE: In order to view the NetObjectives presentation you must register and sign in to the NetObjectives website.

Presenter: Janice Linden-Reed (LinkedIn & @JLindenReed twitter) has been in the computer software industry for 20-years, co-founding and acting as VP of Content for a Computer Gaming company, becoming Director of Creative Development for an online video website, serving as a ScrumMaster for product development teams, as a liaison to sales and marketing, and becoming a Process Guru for Agile Development using Kanban and Lean methods. At Net Objectives she manages projects involving websites, marketing materials, and other collateral and events to grow the market for Lean-Kanban initiatives, and to improve efficiency in operations to allow fast company growth.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 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’

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